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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 03, 1988
Filed:
Jan. 27, 1986
Applicant:
Inventors:
William L Medlin, Dallas, TX (US);
Vasel R Slover, Jr, Irving, TX (US);
Assignee:
Mobil Oil Corporation, New York, NY (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01V / ; G01V / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
367 31 ; 367160 ; 367162 ;
Abstract
An acoustic transmitter for borehole logging includes a flexure disc acoustic source affixed to one end of an open-ended pipe. A rubber boot surrounds the pipe and flexure disc source and fluidly isolates them from the surrounding borehole fluid. Oil fills the rubber boot and pipe, such that the borehole fluid pressure is transmitted through the rubber boot to the oil. The flexure disc source is electrically excited to cause the transmitter to generate acoustic energy tube waves at one of the resonances of the flexure disc source within the seismic frequency range.