Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Auto-adjustable directional drilling apparatus and method
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Application No.: US16477643Application Date: 2018-01-12
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Publication No.: US10995554B2Publication Date: 2021-05-04
- Inventor: Zhiguo Ren , Xu Fu , Stewart Blake Brazil , Chengbao Wang
- Applicant: General Electric Company
- Applicant Address: US NY Schenectady
- Assignee: General Electric Company
- Current Assignee: General Electric Company
- Current Assignee Address: US NY Schenectady
- Agency: Cantor Colburn LLP
- Priority: CN201710023313.2 20170112
- International Application: PCT/US2018/013530 WO 20180112
- International Announcement: WO2018/132681 WO 20180719
- Main IPC: E21B7/06
- IPC: E21B7/06 ; E21B47/00

Abstract:
An auto-adjustable directional drilling apparatus comprises: a drive-shaft housing; a drill collar coupled to the drive-shaft housing; a drive shaft passing through the drive-shaft housing and the drill collar; an active stabilizer fixed to the drive-shaft housing and movably coupled to the drill collar; a sliding assembly comprising a base support fixed to the drill collar and a sliding base coupled to the drive-shaft housing, wherein the base support defines a slide way and the sliding base is slidably disposed in the slide way; and an actuating module coupled to the sliding base to drive the sliding base to slide along the slide way. An auto-adjustable directional drilling method is also disclosed.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190338596A1 AUTO-ADJUSTABLE DIRECTIONAL DRILLING APPARATUS AND METHOD Public/Granted day:2019-11-07
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