Repeater for wired pipe

An electronic device for coupling within a wired pipe string, comprising:

• a housing having a threaded connection at each end configured to couple to a wired drill pipe having double shoulder threaded connections;
• a chassis disposed inside the housing and configured to define at least one sealed atmospheric chamber between the chassis and the housing, the chassis defining an internal passage therethrough;
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• at least one stress coupling configured to transmit at least one of axial loading and torque loading from both an inner and an outer shoulder of adjacent wired drill pipe segments through the housing;
• wherein a first longitudinal end of the housing includes a double shoulder threaded connection formed therein, the housing defines an internal bore from a second longitudinal end thereof having a larger diameter than a diameter of an inner shoulder of the connection on the first longitudinal end, and wherein the stress coupling comprises a removable inner shoulder assembly disposed in the second longitudinal end, the removable inner shoulder assembly configured to mate to an inner shoulder of an adjacent pipe segment having a double shoulder threaded connection.

An electronic device for coupling within a wired pipe string, comprising:

• a housing having a threaded connection at each end configured to couple to a wired drill pipe having double shoulder threaded connections;
• a chassis disposed inside the housing and configured to define at least one sealed atmospheric chamber between the chassis and the housing, the chassis defining an internal passage therethrough;
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• at least one stress coupling configured to transmit at least one of axial loading and torque loading from both an inner and an outer shoulder of adjacent wired drill pipe segments through the housing;
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• wherein the housing defines an internal bore having a shoulder proximate each longitudinal end, wherein the chassis defines two chassis sections each insertable into the housing through one longitudinal end, wherein the chassis sections each define an external diameter feature configured to engage a respective shoulder in the internal bore in the housing, wherein the chassis sections sealingly, slidably engage each other within the internal bore, and wherein the stress coupling comprises a pony sub configured to threadedly engage both an inner shoulder and an outer shoulder of a double shoulder threaded connection at one longitudinal end, the stress coupling configured to threadedly engage the housing at the other longitudinal end and to axially compress the chassis section engaged on the respective internal shoulder in the housing.