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US 9,435,169 B2Granted
Mud sensing hole finder
OwnerGuy Wheater, Stuart Huytoninventors
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Abstract
A mud sensing hole finder comprising: a front steering wheel assembly, a rear wheel assembly, a sensor package, a corrosion package, a ported housing, and a tapered spring joint; wherein the mud sensing hole finder is capable of attachment to a wireline logging tool-string.
Claims18
A mud sensing hole finder comprising:
- a front steering wheel assembly, a rear wheel assembly, a sensor package, a corrosion package, a ported housing, and a tapered spring joint;
- and a mandrel that holds a common axle and a set of profiled and grooved wheels;
- grease ports for wheel lubrication and end slots for location of anti-rotation washers with axle end bolts;
- wherein the mud sensing hole finder is capable of attachment to a wireline logging tool-string.
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A mud sensing hole finder comprising
- a front steering wheel assembly,
- a rear wheel assembly,
- a sensor package,
- a corrosion package,
- a tapered spring joint, and
- a ported housing, wherein the ported housing diverts mud flow passed the sensor package and the corrosion package while the mud sensing hole finder is moving in a borehole;
- wherein the mud sensing hole finder is capable of attachment to a wireline logging tool-string.
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A mud sensing hole finder comprising:
- a front steering wheel assembly,
- a rear wheel assembly,
- a sensor package,
- a corrosion package,
- a ported housing,
- a tapered spring joint, and
- a pressure equalization and angled flow ports, wherein the pressure equalization and angled flow ports are capable of diverting borehole fluids through the ported housing and passed the sensor package and the corrosion package;
- wherein the mud sensing hole finder is capable of attachment to a wireline logging tool-string.
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A mud sensing hole finder comprising:
- a front steering wheel assembly,
- a rear wheel assembly,
- a sensor package,
- a corrosion package,
- a ported housing, and
- a tapered spring joint;
- wherein the ported housing comprises threaded connections to the front steering wheel assembly and the tapered spring joint and also to pressure equalization ports and angled flow ports;
- wherein the front steering wheel assembly comprises a mandrel that holds a common axle and a set of profiled and grooved wheels;
- wherein the rear wheel assembly comprises a mandrel that holds a common axle and a set of profiled and grooved wheels;
- wherein the sensor package comprises a surface acquisition module that performs time-depth conversions of acquired data;
- wherein the corrosion package comprises a carrier holding multiple metallic test coupons;
- wherein the tapered spring joint comprises two halves, a main pin, and a spring, and wherein the main pin connects the two halves and wherein the spring is under compression;
- and
- wherein the mud sensing hole finder is capable of attachment to a wireline logging tool-string.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.