Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Apparatus to reduce pressure and thermal sensitivity of high precision optical displacement sensors
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Application No.: US15370767Application Date: 2016-12-06
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Publication No.: US10209057B2Publication Date: 2019-02-19
- Inventor: Carl M. Edwards
- Applicant: BAKER HUGHES INCORPORATED
- Applicant Address: US TX Houston
- Assignee: BAKER HUGHES, A GE COMPANY, LLC
- Current Assignee: BAKER HUGHES, A GE COMPANY, LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US TX Houston
- Agency: Mossman, Kumar & Tyler, PC
- Main IPC: G01B9/02
- IPC: G01B9/02 ; G01D5/34 ; E21B47/01 ; E21B49/00 ; G01D5/26 ; G01V11/00

Abstract:
Methods, systems and devices for estimating a parameter of interest in a borehole. The method may include generating information from an optical displacement device relating to relative motion between two or more reflective surfaces thereof that is indicative of the parameter of interest; and preventing changes in the information resulting from changes at the optical displacement device in at least one of i) temperature, or ii) pressure, by compensating for the changes. Compensating may include adjusting at least one light source generating an electromagnetic beam at least partly received by the optical displacement device responsive to information relating to a control optical displacement device at the optical displacement device. Compensating may include using an optical displacement device and configuring the optical displacement device such that a difference between a first variable gap and a second variable gap is substantially zero while the apparatus is subject to nominal conditions.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170082422A1 APPARATUS TO REDUCE PRESSURE AND THERMAL SENSITIVITY OF HIGH PRECISION OPTICAL DISPLACEMENT SENSORS Public/Granted day:2017-03-23
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