Abstract:
Cutting elements for use with earth-boring tools include a cutting table having at least two sections where a boundary between the at least two sections is at least partially defined by a discontinuity formed in the cutting table. Earth-boring tools including a tool body and a plurality of cutting elements carried by the tool body. The cutting elements include a cutting table secured to a substrate. The cutting table includes a plurality of adjacent sections, each having a discrete cutting edge where at least one section is configured to be selectively detached from the substrate in order to substantially expose a cutting edge of an adjacent section. Methods for fabricating cutting elements for use with an earth-boring tool including forming a cutting table comprising a plurality of adjacent sections.
Abstract:
Cutting elements for use with earth-boring tools include a cutting table having at least two sections where a boundary between the at least two sections is at least partially defined by a discontinuity formed in the cutting table. Earth-boring tools including a tool body and a plurality of cutting elements carried by the tool body. The cutting elements include a cutting table secured to a substrate. The cutting table includes a plurality of adjacent sections, each having a discrete cutting edge where at least one section is configured to be selectively detached from the substrate in order to substantially expose a cutting edge of an adjacent section. Methods for fabricating cutting elements for use with an earth-boring tool including forming a cutting table comprising a plurality of adjacent sections.
Abstract:
Cutting elements for use with earth-boring tools include a cutting table having at least two sections where a boundary between the at least two sections is at least partially defined by a discontinuity formed in the cutting table. Earth-boring tools including a tool body and a plurality of cutting elements carried by the tool body. The cutting elements include a cutting table secured to a substrate. The cutting table includes a plurality of adjacent sections, each having a discrete cutting edge where at least one section is configured to be selectively detached from the substrate in order to substantially expose a cutting edge of an adjacent section. Methods for fabricating cutting elements for use with an earth-boring tool including forming a cutting table comprising a plurality of adjacent sections.
Abstract:
Cutting elements for use with earth-boring tools include a cutting table having at least two sections where a boundary between the at least two sections is at least partially defined by a discontinuity formed in the cutting table. Earth-boring tools including a tool body and a plurality of cutting elements carried by the tool body. The cutting elements include a cutting table secured to a substrate. The cutting table includes a plurality of adjacent sections, each having a discrete cutting edge where at least one section is configured to be selectively detached from the substrate in order to substantially expose a cutting edge of an adjacent section. Methods for fabricating cutting elements for use with an earth-boring tool including forming a cutting table comprising a plurality of adjacent sections.
Abstract:
A roller cone drill bit 511 has at least one sensor 207 monitoring its behaviour during drilling. A monitoring circuit 529 housed in an electronics bay 530 in the shank 525 of the bit processes data from the sensor. Power may be supplied from a battery (4020, figure 38A) located within a cavity in the bit and connected to the electronics bay by a conduit. The electronics bay may be partially defined by, and protected by, a fluid tight sealing cap. The sensors may identify imminent seal failure by detecting changes in bit lubricant composition using an annular capacitor to measure the dielectric constant of the lubricant.
Abstract:
A roller cone drill bit 511 has at least one sensor 207 monitoring its behaviour during drilling. A monitoring circuit 529 housed in an electronics bay 530 in the shank 525 of the bit processes data from the sensor. Power may be supplied from a battery also located within the bit (figure 38A) and protected by a sealing cap. The monitoring circuit communicates with the surface via a mud pulse actuation system (figure 39) located between two mud flow ports (4083, 4085) in the bit and comprising a piston (4092) and cylinder (4094) connected to a signal nozzle (4088). The sensors may identify imminent seal failure by detecting changes in bit lubricant composition using an annular capacitor to measure the dielectric constant of the lubricant. Also disclosed is an erodible or dissolvable ball (1003, figure 32) that is released by the monitoring system to temporarily block the mud flow, sending a mud pressure pulse signal to the surface.
Abstract:
Elementos de corte para su uso con herramientas de perforación terrestre que incluyen una faceta de corte que tiene al menos dos secciones donde un límite entre al menos dos secciones se define al menos parcialmente por una discontinuidad formada en la faceta de corte. Las herramientas de perforación terrestre que incluyen un cuerpo de herramienta y una pluralidad de elementos de corte llevados por el cuerpo de herramienta. Los elementos de corte incluyen una faceta de corte asegurada a un sustrato. La faceta de corte incluye una pluralidad de secciones adyacentes, cada una tiene un borde de corte discreto donde al menos una sección se configura para separarse selectivamente del sustrato para exponer sustancialmente un borde de corte de una sección adyacente. Métodos para fabricar elementos de corte para su uso con una herramienta de perforación terrestre que incluye formar una faceta de corte que comprende una pluralidad de secciones adyacentes.
Abstract:
A roller cone drill bit 511 has at least one sensor 207 monitoring its behaviour during drilling. A monitoring circuit 529 housed in an electronics bay 530 in the shank 525 of the bit processes data from the sensor. Power may be supplied from a battery (4020, figure 38A) located within a cavity in the bit and connected to the electronics bay by a conduit. The electronics bay may be partially defined by, and protected by, a fluid tight sealing cap. The sensors may identify imminent seal failure by detecting changes in bit lubricant composition using an annular capacitor to measure the dielectric constant of the lubricant.
Abstract:
An improved drill bit for use in drilling operations in a wellbore comprising a bit body including a plurality of bit legs, each supporting a rolling cone cutter, a lubrication system for a rolling cone cutter, at least one lubrication sensor for monitoring at least one condition of said lubricant during drilling operations, and an electronics member in the bit body for recording data obtained form said lubrication sensor.