Schlumberger Technology Corporation

Jiro Takeda

Tsutomu Yamate

Hiroshi Inoue

Shigeru Sato

Masahiro Kamata

Colin Allan Wilson

William Brian Underhill

Tatsuki Endo

John J Ullo

Emmanuel Desroques

Lionel Beneteau

David Mathison

Satoru Umemoto

Lahcen Garando

Dylan H Davies

Yukio Sudo

Mohamed Naushad Mohamed Zuhair

Jose Gregorio Labanda

Atsushi Kayama

So Suzuki

Certain embodiments disclosed herein are directed to devices for cooling. In certain examples, a thermoelectric device comprising a substrate and a superlattice coupled to the substrate is disclosed. In some examples, the superlattice includes a first semi-conducting material and a second semi-conducting material coupled to the first semi-conducting material to provide an interface between the first and second semi-conducting materials.

Devices for cooling and power

A capacitor based sensor for angular position detection having two fixed plates arranged at an angle and a semicircular rotating plate in between. The sensor can determine any angular position in the full 0-360 degrees range. The sensor may be temperature compensated, and integrated with electronics such that sensor module only has two electrical leads, one for input power and one for input/output digital data. A method for converting capacitance measurements to an angle is also disclosed.

Capacitor based angle sensor

Subterranean devices are provided that are configured or designed for high temperature downhole use. The downhole devices comprise an electronic device configured or designed for downhole use in the well and a heat dissipation system. The heat dissipation may include one or more active coolers and a micro-particulate radiation improving coating applied to the active cooler.

Downhole tool thermal device

A downhole tool, configured to be suspended in a borehole traversing an earth formation, includes a downhole data acquisition system placed in the tool body and electrically connected to an electric power generator at the formation surface. The downhole data acquisition system includes a sensor for detecting local conditions in the borehole, and a transducer for transducing the voltage of an input signal from high to low or low to high. The transducer having a gallium nitride or silicon carbide based discrete semiconductor device.

Downhole tool

Methods and apparatus for creating a velocity profile of a formation surrounding a borehole by checkshot measurements while moving the tool along the borehole. A conveyance and a sensor section are configured to move the sensor section in the borehole. At least one receiver is configured to detect signals generated at or near the surface while the sensor section is moving in the borehole.

Methods and apparatus for performing moving checkshots

The principles described herein relate to methods for soldering electrode terminals, pins or lead-frames of commercial electric components for high temperature reliability. In one embodiment, prior to soldering the electric components, a pre-plated solder layer is removed from the lead frame or pins, and nickel and/or gold films are formed with electroless plating. The removal of the pre-plated solder layer avoids excess pre-plated Sn with high-Pb solder that lowers the melting point to between 180&#xb0; C. and 220&#xb0; C. and weakens solder joints. The nickel layer formed with an electroless plating acts as a barrier to the interdiffusion of tin from solder with copper of the lead frame material, which may otherwise occur at high temperatures. Interdiffusion forms an intermetallic compound layer of copper and tin and degrades solder joint strength. The novel soldering processes improve high temperature reliability of solder joints and extend electronics life-time.

Method and process of manufacturing robust high temperature solder joints

A borehole logging tool system includes a surface system, a logging array, and a logging cable providing power supply and data paths connecting the logging array to the surface system, wherein the logging array includes a series of discrete sondes connected together. The sondes in the logging array, for example a borehole seismic logging array, are connected to their neighbours by means of lengths of logging cable. Such cable can be the same as that connecting the logging array to the surface system. The logging array can also include a master controller module which communicates with the surface system and which includes a first controller module which connects to the surface system and a second controller which controls operation of the sondes in the logging array independently of any other borehole logging tools connected to the surface system. The master controller can include a data buffer for handling data from the array and a clock which can be synchronised with a clock at the surface and which can be used in the control of the sondes in the array. Adopting such an arrangement with a borehole seismic logging array allows the sondes to continue acquiring data continuously under control of the master controller module irrespective of the transmission of data to the surface by the telemetry system.

Methods, systems and tools for borehole logging

Apparatus and method for investigating a borehole casing. The preferred apparatus generally comprises: a housing which is connected to a cable; sets of electrodes, each set being axially spaced from another set, with the electrodes in each set being circumferentially spaced at an axial depth; a positioning device provided in the housing for bringing the electrodes into contact with the casing; a measuring circuit provided inside of the housing and electrically connected to the electrodes for measuring at least the potential difference of the casing between the electrode locations, wherein the potential difference information is amplified by the measuring circuit, and the amplified information is transmitted through the cable for processing; and a control circuit provided in the housing for controlling the operation of the positioning device and the measuring circuit. Preferably, a digitizing circuit is provided so that the amplified information is digitized before it is transmitted to the surface and processed.

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Machida, Japan

Jiro Takeda