- Patent Title: Earth-boring tools including movable formation-engaging structures
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Application No.: US16740126Application Date: 2020-01-10
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Publication No.: US10689915B2Publication Date: 2020-06-23
- Inventor: Eric Do , Juan Miguel Bilen , Philip Christof Schulte , Jason E. Hoines
- Applicant: Baker Hughes, a GE company, LLC
- 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: TraskBritt
- Main IPC: E21B10/43
- IPC: E21B10/43 ; E21B10/62 ; E21B10/42

Abstract:
Earth-boring tools may have a body, a cutting element attached to the body at a first location, and a formation-engaging structure attached to the body at a second location. The formation-engaging structure may be movable during a drilling operation between a first position and a second position. In the first position, the formation-engaging structure may be located rotationally behind the cutting element at a first radial distance from a longitudinal axis of the body at which the cutting element will at least initially shield the formation-engaging structure from engaging a formation. In the second position, the formation-engaging structure may be located at a different second radial distance from the longitudinal axis of the body at which the formation-engaging structure will engage a formation.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200149351A1 EARTH-BORING TOOLS INCLUDING MOVABLE FORMATION-ENGAGING STRUCTURES Public/Granted day:2020-05-14
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