Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Methods for assessing the reliability of hydraulically-actuated devices and related systems
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Application No.: US15610170Application Date: 2017-05-31
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Publication No.: US10941648B2Publication Date: 2021-03-09
- Inventor: Andrew Leach , Matthew Boike , Luis Rafael Pereira
- Applicant: TRANSOCEAN INNOVATION LABS LTD
- Applicant Address: KY George Town
- Assignee: TRANSOCEAN INNOVATION LABS LTD
- Current Assignee: TRANSOCEAN INNOVATION LABS LTD
- Current Assignee Address: KY George Town
- Main IPC: E21B47/09
- IPC: E21B47/09 ; E21B33/035 ; E21B33/038 ; E21B33/06 ; E21B47/07 ; E21B33/064 ; E21B33/08

Abstract:
This disclosure includes methods for testing hydraulically-actuated devices and related systems. Some hydraulically-actuated devices have a housing defining an interior volume and a piston disposed within the interior volume and dividing the interior volume into a first chamber and a second chamber, where the piston is movable relative to the housing between a maximum first position and a maximum second position in response to pressure differentials between the first and second chambers. Some methods include: (1) moving the piston to the first position by varying pressure within at least one of the first and second chambers such that pressure within the second chamber is higher than pressure within the first chamber; and (2) while the piston remains in the first position: (a) reducing pressure within the second chamber and/or increasing pressure within the first chamber; and (b) increasing pressure within the second chamber and/or decreasing pressure within the first chamber.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170362929A1 Methods for Assessing the Reliability of Hydraulically-Actuated Devices and Related Systems Public/Granted day:2017-12-21
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