Undercured stator for mud motor
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    公开(公告)号:US12252969B2

    公开(公告)日:2025-03-18

    申请号:US17123169

    申请日:2020-12-16

    Abstract: A stator for a mud motor and methods for manufacturing and using the same, of which one such method includes obtaining a mud motor having a stator made at least partially from a rubber. At least a portion of the rubber is cured by at most about 90%. The method also includes deploying the mud motor into a well as part of a drill string. The rubber is not further cured prior to deploying the mud motor into the well. The method further includes generating torque using the mud motor by pumping a mud through the stator.

    Stator and rotor profile for improved power section performance and reliability

    公开(公告)号:US10895256B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-01-19

    申请号:US16214182

    申请日:2018-12-10

    Abstract: A progressing cavity pump or a positive displacement motor includes an external member having three or more lobes and an internal member extending through the external member and having one less lobe than the external member. One of the internal member and the external member rotates with respect to the other. The curvature of a profile of each of the internal member and external member is finite at all points. A ratio of a lobe volume of the external member to a valley volume of the external member enclosed between a minor external member diameter and a major external member diameter is between 0.9 and 1.2. A lobe height of the external member is related to a ratio of a minor internal member diameter to one less than the number of internal member lobes.

    Determining the life span of an elastomer in a motor

    公开(公告)号:US10139326B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-11-27

    申请号:US15220269

    申请日:2016-07-26

    Abstract: A method for determining a remaining life span of an elastomer in a motor. The method includes running a downhole tool into a wellbore. The downhole tool includes a mud motor having a rotor and a stator. At least one of the rotor or the stator includes, or is at least partially made from, an elastomer. A number of cycles before the elastomer fails may be predicted. A number of cycles during a time period may be determined. A change in a remaining life span of the elastomer over the time period may be determined, based upon the number of cycles before the elastomer fails and the number of cycles during the time period.

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