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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 26, 2019
Filed:
Jul. 28, 2017
Baker Hughes, a GE Company, Llc, Houston, TX (US);
Jon David Schroder, The Woodlands, TX (US);
John Abhishek Raj Bomidi, Spring, TX (US);
Alexander Rodney Boehm, Wheat Ridge, CO (US);
Kegan L. Lovelace, Houston, TX (US);
William A. Moss, Jr., Conroe, TX (US);
Baker Hughes, a GE company, LLC, Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A cutting element assembly includes a rotatable cutting element, a sleeve having a cutter receiving aperture extending at least partially through the sleeve and configured to receive at least a portion of the rotatable cutting element within the cutter-receiving aperture, and a retention element rotatably coupling the rotatable cutting element to the sleeve. In some embodiments, the retention element includes a pin extending from a base portion of the sleeve and having at least one resilient portion having at least one protrusion radially extending outward. In additional embodiments, the retention element include a split ring or O-ring disposed within a groove of the rotatable cutting element. Earth-boring tools having rotating cutting elements are also disclosed.