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US 2026/0289758 A1Published application
Systems and methods for dull grading
AssigneesUS Synthetic Corporation, Exo-Field Engineering Solutions PCT Ltd.
InventorsTushar CHOWHAN, Brandon Paul LINFORD, Scott SCHMIDT
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Abstract
Embodiments of the invention relate to automatically dull grading drill bits and portions thereof based on three-dimensional digital models made from one or more images of the drill bits taken at a drilling site by an electronic device with a time-of-flight camera.
Claims21
(canceled)
A system for evaluating cutter wear at a site of a drilling rig, the system comprising:
- a computing device having machine readable and executable instructions for:
- receiving, from a requestor, a plurality of images of a drill bit that has been used in drilling a subterranean formation, at least some of the plurality of images including time-of-flight images that have been captured by an electronic device on-site at or near the drilling rig;
- generating a digital model of the drill bit based on the plurality of images;
- and
- evaluating the digital model with the computing device programmed to:
- identify each cutter of a plurality of cutters carried by the drill bit;
- differentiate between materials on the drill bit or components thereof;
- determine an original shape of at least one cutter of the plurality of cutters using an unworn or substantially unworn portion of the at least one cutter;
- determine a current shape of the at least one cutter;
- analyze the at least one cutter to determine a variation between the original shape of the at least one cutter and the current shape of the at least one cutter;
- and
- determine a wear condition of the at least one cutter of the plurality of cutters.
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A system for evaluating cutter wear at a site of a drilling rig, the system comprising:
- a ranging imaging device configured to generate time-of-flight data;
- a color camera configured to generate one or more color images;
- one or more orientation sensors configured to determine an orientation of at least one of the ranging imaging device or the color camera;
- a computing device including at least one processing element and machine readable and executable instructions, the machine readable and executable instructions for:
- receiving a plurality of images of a drill bit that has been used in drilling a subterranean formation, at least some of the plurality of images including time-of-flight images;
- generating a digital model of the drill bit based on the plurality of images;
- and
- evaluating the digital model with the computing device programmed to:
- identify each cutter of a plurality of cutters carried by the drill bit;
- differentiate between materials on the drill bit or components thereof;
- determine an original shape of at least one cutter of the plurality of cutters using an unworn or substantially unworn portion of the at least one cutter;
- determine a current shape of the at least one cutter;
- analyze the at least one cutter to determine a variation between the original shape of the at least one cutter and the current shape of the at least one cutter;
- and
- determine a wear condition of the at least one cutter of the plurality of cutters.
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A method for evaluating drill bits at a site of a drilling rig, comprising:
- receiving, from a requestor, a plurality of images of a drill bit that has been used in drilling a subterranean formation, at least some of the plurality of images including time-of-flight images that have been captured by an electronic device on-site at or near the drilling rig;
- generating a digital model of the drill bit based on the plurality of images;
- and
- evaluating the digital model with a computing device programmed to:
- identify each cutter of a plurality of cutters carried by the drill bit;
- differentiate between materials on the drill bit or components thereof;
- determine an original shape of at least one cutter of the plurality of cutters using an unworn or substantially unworn portion of the at least one cutter;
- determine a current shape of the at least one cutter;
- analyze the at least one cutter to determine a variation between the original shape of the at least one cutter and the current shape of the at least one cutter;
- and
- determine a wear condition of the at least one cutter of the plurality of cutters.
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A method for evaluating drill bits at a site of a drilling rig, comprising:
- capturing, with an electronic device located on-site at or near the drilling rig, a plurality of images of a drill bit that has been used in drilling a subterranean formation, at least some of the plurality of images including time-of-flight images generated by a ranging imaging device of the electronic device;
- outputting the plurality of images from the electronic device to a computing device for:
- generating a digital model of the drill bit based on the plurality of images;
- and
- evaluating the digital model with a processing element programmed to:
- identify each cutter of a plurality of cutters carried by the drill bit;
- differentiate between materials on the drill bit or components thereof;
- determine an original shape of at least one cutter of the plurality of cutters using an unworn or substantially unworn portion of the at least one cutter;
- determine a current shape of the at least one cutter;
- analyze the at least one cutter to determine a variation between the original shape of the at least one cutter and the current shape of the at least one cutter;
- and
- determine a wear condition of the at least one cutter of the plurality of cutters;
- and
- receiving, at the electronic device, the determined wear condition of the at least one cutter from the computing device.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.