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Adrian Caruana

The present invention relates to a plug assembly arranged in a housing, where the plug assembly comprises a glass assembly comprising a plug; a seat arranged to support the plug, a breaker object and a tensile release mechanism comprising a tensile body and a tensile element, wherein the tensile element is arranged along the tensile body, the tensile release mechanism being arranged to break at the tensile element at an applied threshold tensile force, the plug assembly being arranged to have a first position in which the plug is intact and fluid flow through the plug is blocked and a second position in which the seat has moved, the tensile element has been broken and the plug has been broken by the breaker object.

Tensile release mechanism

A flow tube including: a pin; a seat; and a guide tube, the pin and the seat are arranged at least partially in the guide tube; and wherein: the flow tube is arranged to have a closed position, wherein: the pin is in contact with the seat and fluid flow through the seat is reduced or prevented; the flow tube is arranged to have an open position, wherein: the pin is not in contact with the seat and fluid flow is increased through the seat when compared to the closed position; and the flow tube is arranged to have a forced open position, wherein: the seat is arranged such that when a force above a threshold force is applied to the seat: the seat moves away from the pin, the pin is not in contact with the seat, and the flow tube cannot move to the closed position again.

Fail open valve

A metal bellows for downhole use includes: a bellows capsule with a first end and a second end; an inner diameter side and an outer diameter side arranged between the first end and the second end; where the bellows capsule comprises a first bellows convolution and second bellows convolution and optionally additional bellows convolutions; and each bellows convolution comprises: a root on the inner diameter side of the bellows capsule; a first sidewall extending from the root toward the outer diameter side of the bellows capsule with a first connection point at the distal end; a second sidewall extending from the root toward the outer diameter side of the bellows capsule with a second connection point at the distal end and wherein the second sidewall is on the opposite side of the root as the first sidewall; wherein: the bellows convolutions are formed as a single piece; and the second sidewall connection point of the first bellows convolution is permanently affixed to the first sidewall connection point of the second bellows convolution.

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Fana, Norway

Adrian Caruana