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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 29, 2019
Filed:
Oct. 26, 2017
Baker Hughes, a GE Company, Llc, Houston, TX (US);
John Abhishek Raj Bomidi, Spring, TX (US);
Jon David Schroder, The Woodlands, TX (US);
Kegan L. Lovelace, Houston, TX (US);
William A. Moss, Jr., Conroe, TX (US);
Alexander Rodney Boehm, Wheat Ridge, CO (US);
Baker Hughes, a GE company, LLC, Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A cutting element assembly may include a support structure and a pin having a cylindrical exterior bearing surface. Retention elements may couple opposing ends of the pin to the support structure. The cutting element assembly also includes a rotatable cutting element including a table of polycrystalline hard material having an end cutting surface and a supporting substrate. The rotatable cutting element may have an interior sidewall defining a longitudinally extending through hole. The pin may be positioned within the through hole of the rotatable cutting element and may be supported on the opposing ends thereof by the support structure. Methods include drilling a subterranean formation including engaging a formation with one or more of the rotatable cutting elements.