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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:
Oct. 18, 1988
Filed:
Jul. 13, 1987
Cyril R Sumner, Houston, TX (US);
David R Warren, Manvel, TX (US);
Halliburton Company, Duncan, OK (US);
Abstract
For use in a perforating gun assembly which incorporates an explosive for detonation of a string of shaped charges, all the explosive materials forming a significant, violent pressure shock wave propagated up a cased well borehole, a pressure actuated switch includes an enlarged piston having a head exposed to the pressure shock wave, a stem connected to said head, bifurcated fingers capturing a resilient material therebetween to permit flexure, a surrounding sleeve which is made of metal and defined in multiple portions, and a plurality of metal contacts contiguous to said stem and adapted to be selectively contacted by said metal sleeve to either make or break on movement of said piston.