Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Expansible threaded joint and method for making same
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Application No.: US13578947Application Date: 2011-02-11
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Publication No.: US09863560B2Publication Date: 2018-01-09
- Inventor: Jérôme Durivault , Anne-Sophie Bureau-Bayart , Eric Verger
- Applicant: Jérôme Durivault , Anne-Sophie Bureau-Bayart , Eric Verger
- Applicant Address: FR Aulnoye-Aymeries
- Assignee: VALLOUREC OIL AND GAS FRANCE
- Current Assignee: VALLOUREC OIL AND GAS FRANCE
- Current Assignee Address: FR Aulnoye-Aymeries
- Agency: Oblon, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.
- Priority: FR1000664 20100217
- International Application: PCT/FR2011/000084 WO 20110211
- International Announcement: WO2011/101554 WO 20110825
- Main IPC: F16L15/00
- IPC: F16L15/00 ; E21B17/042 ; E21B17/08 ; E21B43/10

Abstract:
An expandable threaded connection includes: first and second tubular components including respective male and female ends including respective first and second and third and fourth threaded zones, insertion regions, first and second annular tongues, prominent abutment faces, and first and second concavities; the first and second tongues are respectively engaged in the second and first concavities in a made up condition, the abutment face of at least one tongue in contact with at least one concavity; the male end including a first surface between the first threaded zone and the first tongue, and the female end including a second surface between the third threaded zone and the second concavity; in the made up condition, the first and second surfaces define an annular space include large and small radial dimension zones which, after expansion, can form a metal-metal contact seal, the first tongue bearing on the second tongue.
Public/Granted literature
- US20120325361A1 EXPANSIBLE THREADED JOINT AND METHOD FOR MAKING SAME Public/Granted day:2012-12-27
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