Abstract:
The invention provides a portable display apparatus. The portable display apparatus includes a clipstand that attaches to a barreled device and is used to display information, including holding other metal-backed items. The clipstand surface has a magnet embedded so that different faces can be attached to the clip surface and allow different information to be displayed, and different items to be held. The present invention also includes a clear plastic sleeve, the tag, attached to a metal bar to allow the tag to stick to the magnet. Different cards can be placed into the tag, and the tag may be written on with an erasable marker to allow for different displays. The clipstand may be displayed on a table attached to a barreled instrument or worn on a lanyard.
Abstract:
A seismic wave generator and method of using it, which comprises a vertical array of sources at known spacings, for detonation in a seismic wave propagating medium of known seismic velocity; means to initiate the sources in time sequence in a selected series of known different time intervals and recording the seismic waves at a distant location to provide a first electrical signal; and correlating the first electrical signal with a second electrical signal derived from the pattern of initiation, as modified by the travel times of the waves between the several separate charges.
Abstract:
A seismic method for mapping horizontal fractures in the earth resulting from the application of fluid pressure, at a selected point, at a selected depth, in the earth, comprising the steps of creating a seismic wave in the earth over the expected position of the fracture, and detecting the seismic waves reflected upwardly at a reflecting interface, at or near the fracture, at each of a plurality of seismic sensors, in at least one radial array. The received signals are recorded for each of two conditions: a first case, when the fracture is pressurized, and filled with fluid, and the roof of the fracture is separated from the base of the fracture; and a second case when the fracture is depressurized, and the roof of the fracture rests on the base. Some sensors will show a different character of reflection signal in the two cases. For these sensors the points of reflection are within the outer perimeter of the fracture. For the other sensors, which show relatively no change in character of reflection signal, the points of reflection are outside of the outer perimeter of the fracture. The process is repeated for both compressional and shear seismic sources, and the electrical signals are compared for compressional and shear sources and for pressurized and depressurized fracture.
Abstract:
This invention describes a system for access control, wherein a control card is presented to a control means. If the control card is authenticated, then access is gained. If it is not authenticated, access is not gained, the control card is retained, and an alarm may be sounded.The control card contains at least two means; (1) machine readable indicia identifying the card, and (2) a random pattern of micro spots, which pattern is derived (by direct copying--such as by focussed laser beam) from one of a plurality of different patterns, retained in a bank of such micro patterns, each such micro pattern identified by, and selectable in accordance with, different unique indicia, identical with the machine readable indicia on said cards.In use the control card is introduced into the control means and the indicia are read. Master micro pattern corresponding to the indicia is selected from the bank. The card micro pattern and master micro pattern are compared. If the comparison okay, the card is authenticated.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus for determining the position of the bottom end of a long pipe in a deep water-filled borehole, comprising generating a shock wave in the water at the surface end of the pipe, timing the travel of the shock wave down the pipe to the bottom end thereof, where the shock wave will pass into the liquid in the borehole, generating an expanding seismic wave in the earth. Setting out a plurality of geophones on the earth at the surface to detect the arrival of the seismic wave. Recording the geophone signals and determining the arrival times of the seismic wave. Determining the travel times of the seismic wave to each geophone and determining the position of the end of the pipe.
Abstract:
In the field of the storage and retrieval of information, information records in the form of patterns of microspots of small size and high packing density are formed on a record web by the use of a focussed first laser beam, of a first level of intensity, to evaporate or burn away material to form microperforations in a thin layer of opaque first material on a web of transparent plastic. This invention covers the process of preparing a facsimile record of the pattern of microspots on a master record by exposing a second record web through the microperforations in the first web to a constant intensity focussed second laser beam of less intensity than the first level of intensity. Also means are shown for using an optical pattern on a first layer to control a laser to burn openings into an opaque underlying layer.
Abstract:
In the injection of fluids into subsurface geological formations, such as for the purpose of recovering a mineral in that formation, it is important that the flow progress of that fluid is known at all points in the subsurface. This information is provided by injecting a selected fluid into the formation. This fluid may be a gas, or a liquid, or a mixture of gas and liquid. When this fluid is in the subsurface formation there will be a mixture of gas and liquid in selected proportion in the formation. This mixture in a geologic formation overlain by a shale, for example, will have a much higher reflection coefficient. A source of seismic waves is operated at the surface, and the received reflections are compared between spaced positions on the surface.
Abstract:
This invention describes a system for access control, wherein a control card is presented to a control means. If the control card is authenticated, then access is gained. If it is not authenticated, access is not gained, the control card is retained, and an alarm may be sounded.The control card contains at least two means; (1) machine readable indicia identifying the card, and (2) a random pattern of micro spots, which pattern is derived (by direct copying--such as by focussed laser beam) from one of a plurality of different patterns, retained in a bank of such micro patterns, each such micro pattern identified by, and selectable in accordance with, different unique indicia, identical with the machine readable indicia on said cards.In use the control card is introduced into the control means and the indicia are read. Master micro pattern corresponding to the indicia is selected from the bank. The card micro pattern and master micro pattern are compared. If the comparison okay, the card is authenticated.
Abstract:
A method of fracturing a deep borehole to form a vertical fracture, and of determining the azimuth of the resulting fracture, comprising pumping a pressurized fracture fluid into said well through a pipe from the surface, to provide a bottom hole pressure P which is less than the normal fracturing press (NFP), and generating a series of sharp pressure pulses (SPP) of selected magnitude, such that when added to the pressure P, provide pressure peaks greater than the NFP. By providing arrays of seismic sensors at the surface and determining the direction of propagation of the seismic waves generated by the SPP, the azimuth of the fracture can be determined.
Abstract:
A method of and apparatus for determining the precise position of the drill bit on the bottom of a long drill string in a deep borehole in the earth, during a drilling operation. The method comprises placing a plurality of geophones in a three-dimensional array near the surface of the earth, above the expected position of the drill bit in the earth, causing at least a low energy seismic source to be initiated near the drill bit in the earth, repeating the source a number of times, and determining at the surface of the earth the times of initiation of each of the seismic waves. Responsive to the known times of initiation, stacking each of the repeated geophone signals from each of the geophones, for each of the repetitions of the source, whereby each of the stacked signals will be in-phase with those that resulted from earlier and later repetitions of the source. Several embodiments of an improved downhole seismic source are described, and an improved type of three-dimensional array.