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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 16, 2008
Filed:
Sep. 13, 2005
Dale Cox, Provo, UT (US);
David R. Hall, Provo, UT (US);
H. Tracy Hall, Jr., Provo, UT (US);
Scott Dahlgren, Provo, UT (US);
David S. Pixton, Provo, UT (US);
Dale Cox, Provo, UT (US);
David R. Hall, Provo, UT (US);
H. Tracy Hall, Jr., Provo, UT (US);
Scott Dahlgren, Provo, UT (US);
David S. Pixton, Provo, UT (US);
Other;
Abstract
A downhole receiver for gathering seismic and sonic data from inside a borehole includes a substantially tubular housing adapted for axial connection to a tool string, and one or more sensors. A damping element is provided to flexibly couple each sensor to the tubular housing. An actuator extends the one or more sensors substantially radially with respect to the tubular housing to clamp the sensors against the wall of the borehole. In selected embodiments, the sensors may be one or multiple component geophones, accelerometers, hydrophones, vibrometers, or the like.