Disintegrable and conformable metallic seal, and method of making the same
AssigneeBaker Hughes Incorporated
InventorsZhiyue Xu, YingQing Xu, Gregory Lee Hern, Bennett M. Richard
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Abstract
A seal includes a metal composite that has a cellular nanomatrix that includes a metallic nanomatrix material, a metal matrix disposed in the cellular nanomatrix, and a disintegration agent; an inner sealing surface; and an outer sealing surface disposed radially from the inner sealing surface. The seal can be prepared by combining a metal matrix powder, a disintegration agent, and metal nanomatrix material to form a composition; compacting the composition to form a compacted composition; sintering the compacted composition; and pressing the sintered composition to form the seal.
Claims32
A seal comprising:
- a metal composite including:
- a cellular nanomatrix comprising a metallic nanomatrix material;
- a metal matrix disposed in the cellular nanomatrix;
- and
- a disintegration agent;
- a first sealing surface;
- and
- a second sealing surface opposingly disposed from the first sealing surface, wherein the seal further comprises a gland in the second sealing surface.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.