Baker Hughes Corporation

Element Six Gmbh

Michael Lester Fish

Danny Eugene Scott

Anthony Albert DiGiovanni

John Hewitt Liversage

Kaveshini Naidoo

Humphrey Samkelo Lungisani Sithebe

Bronwyn Annette Kaiser

Johannes Alexander Engels

A PCD insert comprises a PCD element joined to a cemented carbide substrate at an interface. The PCD element has internal diamond surfaces defining interstices between them. The PCD element comprises a masked or passivated region and an unmasked or unpassivated region, the unmasked or unpassivated region defining a boundary with the substrate, the boundary being the interface. At least some of the internal diamond surfaces of the masked or passivated region contact a mask or passivation medium, and some or all of the interstices of the masked or passivated region and of the unmasked or unpassivated region are at least partially filled with an infiltrant material.

Polycrystalline diamond element

Cutting elements comprise a substrate and an unleached polycrystalline table attached on an end of the substrate. The polycrystalline table comprises a plurality of continuously inter-bonded grains of a superhard material and a quantity of catalyst material disposed in interstitial spaces between grains of the plurality of continuously inter-bonded grains of a superhard material. A mean grain size of the plurality of continuously inter-bonded grains is at least substantially uniform throughout the polycrystalline table and the quantity of catalyst material varies across the polycrystalline table in a direction parallel to a central axis of the polycrystalline table.

Polycrystalline tables having polycrystalline microstructures and cutting elements including polycrystalline tables

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