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Patent No.:

US 9217289 B1

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Date of Patent:
Dec. 22, 2015

Filed:

Mar. 12, 2013
Applicant:

Schlumberger Technology Corporation, Sugar Land, TX (US);

Inventors:

Keith A. Moriarty, Houston, TX (US);

Raphael Gadot, Houston, TX (US);

Brian Oliver Clark, Sugar Land, TX (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
E21B 47/12 (2012.01); E21B 7/04 (2006.01); E21B 41/00 (2006.01); E21B 47/18 (2012.01); E21B 7/20 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
E21B 7/04 (2013.01); E21B 7/20 (2013.01); E21B 41/0085 (2013.01); E21B 47/122 (2013.01); E21B 47/182 (2013.01);
Abstract

Various embodiments of methods and systems for wireless power and/or data communications transmissions to a sensor subassembly above a mud motor in a bottom hole assembly are disclosed. Power and/or data are supplied by rotary modulator and power generation system positioned above the mud motor. Wires may connect to an annular coil. Power and/or communications are transmitted through the annular coil to an inductively coupled second, mandrel coil that is attached to the rotor. By leveraging resonantly tuned circuits and impedance matching techniques for the coils, power and/or data can be transmitted efficiently from one coil to the other despite relative movement and misalignment of the two coils.


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