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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.

Date of Patent:
Mar. 20, 2001

Filed:

Nov. 16, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:

Masafumi Fukuhara, Sagamihara, JP;

Mauricio Tejada, Stafford, TX (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01V 1/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01V 1/00 ;
Abstract

A sonic logging method involves the pre-processing of a detection signal by a downhole processing device to determine the arrival time of a sonic signal at a receiver which is then transmitted to the surface. A suitable sonic logging downhole tool includes a control device for controlling generation and reception of the sonic signal, an A-D converter for digitizing the detected signal at a predetermined sampling interval, a first memory for storing the digitized waveform, a second memory for storing a program for processing the digitized waveform, and a microprocessor capable of executing the stored program so as to determine an arrival time of the sonic signal arriving at the receiver.


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