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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 12, 2019
Filed:
Nov. 05, 2014
M-i L.l.c., Houston, TX (US);
Shiva Phani Kapavarapu, Florence, KY (US);
Christopher Nicholson, Florence, KY (US);
Charles Patrick, Livingston, TX (US);
M-I L.L.C., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A fluid choke may include a housing and a shuttle configured to move within an interior chamber of the housing. The housing may have a fluid inlet channel and a fluid outlet channel. The shuttle may have a gate connected to an end of the shuttle and the gate may be configured to mate with a seat located in the housing at the fluid outlet channel. The shuttle may be moved within the interior chamber by a pressurized hydraulic fluid configured to apply a hydraulic pressure to a peripheral portion of the shuttle, an inner portion of the shuttle, and the gate.