Dynamic inwardly eccentrically-placed directional drill bit type rotation guidance apparatus

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10233694-B2
Application number	US-201515323104-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 23, 2015
Priority date	Jul 28, 2014
Publication date	Mar 19, 2019
Grant date	Mar 19, 2019

Abstract

A rotation guidance apparatus belonging to the technical field of oil drilling equipment. An end part of a lower connector has a ball-socketed ball-joint rod, and a drill bit is connected to the ball-socketed ball-joint rod. Several circumferentially and evenly distributed piston holes are provided in a side wall of the lower connector, wherein a piston matches each piston hole and a piston rod connected to the piston is movably connected to the ball-socketed ball-joint rod. An eccentrically-placed valve core is connected to a controller provided in an upper connector, wherein a working face of the eccentrically-placed valve core is opposite to the piston holes and rotation of the eccentrically-placed valve core makes the pistons in the piston holes move to control the rotation guidance of the ball-socketed ball-joint rod.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A rotation guidance apparatus, comprising
an upper connector and a lower connector which are connected to each other, wherein an end part of the lower connector has a ball-socketed ball-joint rod,
a drill bit which is connected to the ball-socketed ball-joint rod;
several circumferentially evenly distributed piston holes that are provided in a side wall of the lower connector,
a piston which matches each of the piston holes,
a piston rod connected to the piston being movably connected to the ball-socketed ball-joint rod;
wherein an eccentrically-placed valve core is connected to a controller provided inside the upper connector, a working face of the eccentrically-placed valve core being opposite to the piston holes, wherein rotation of the eccentrically-placed valve core makes the pistons in the piston holes move to control the rotation guidance of the ball-socketed ball-joint rod.

2. The rotation guidance device of claim 1 , wherein the eccentrically-placed valve core is of an analogous conical structure, a cone surface of the eccentrically-placed valve core is provided with a concave part and a convex part, and when the eccentrically-placed valve core rotates, the concave part and the convex part are aligned to the piston holes respectively.

3. The rotation guidance apparatus of claim 2 , wherein one end of the ball-socketed ball-joint rod is configured into a spherical structure which is matched with the end part of the lower connector by adopting a spherical surface to form a ball-joint structure, such that the ball-socketed ball-joint rod rotates relative to the lower connector by taking the ball-joint structure as a center, wherein the ball-socketed ball-joint rod is communicated with a central through hole of the lower connector to each other, a spline disc head is sheathed outside a middle part of the ball-socketed ball-joint rod, and the piston rod which matches each piston hole is movably connected to the spline disc head.

4. The rotation guidance apparatus of claim 2 , wherein an accommodating groove which is communicated with the piston hole is provided in a position, in a middle of each piston hole, of the lower connector, and a hydraulic bag is provided inside the accommodating groove and is sealed in the accommodating groove via a hydraulic bag gland.

5. The rotation guidance apparatus of claim 2 , wherein a central hole for accommodating a controller is provided in a middle of the upper connector, several bypass holes which are located in a same circumference are provided in a side wall of the upper connector, and the bypass holes, a central through hole of the lower connector and a central through hole of the ball-socketed ball-joint rod are communicated correspondingly to form a channel; and the eccentrically-placed valve core is located in a region, where the lower connector and the upper connector are connected, inside the channel.

6. The rotation guidance apparatus of claim 1 , wherein one end of the ball-socketed ball-joint rod is configured into a spherical structure which is matched with the end part of the lower connector by adopting a spherical surface to form a ball-joint structure, such that the ball-socketed ball-joint rod rotates relative to the lower connector by taking the ball-joint structure as a center, wherein the ball-socketed ball-joint rod is communicated with a central through hole of the lower connector to each other, a spline disc head is sheathed outside a middle part of the ball-socketed ball-joint rod, and the piston rod which matches each piston hole is movably connected to the spline disc head.

7. The rotation guidance apparatus of claim 6 , wherein a large ball joint gland connected to the lower connector is sheathed outside the ball-joint structure; a gland nut for limiting the spline disc head is sheathed outside the middle part of the ball-socketed ball-joint rod; an anti-drop connector sheathed outside the ball-socketed ball-joint rod is connected to one end, close to the drill bit, of the lower connector, and the minimum drift diameter of the anti-drop connector is greater than an outer diameter of the spline disc head.

8. The rotation guidance apparatus of claim 7 , wherein an accommodating groove which is communicated with the piston hole is provided in a position, in a middle of each piston hole, of the lower connector, and a hydraulic bag is provided inside the accommodating groove and is sealed in the accommodating groove via a hydraulic bag gland.

9. The rotation guidance apparatus of claim 7 , wherein a central hole for accommodating a controller is provided in a middle of the upper connector, several bypass holes which are located in a same circumference are provided in a side wall of the upper connector, and the bypass holes, a central through hole of the lower connector and a central through hole of the ball-socketed ball-joint rod are communicated correspondingly to form a channel; and the eccentrically-placed valve core is located in a region, where the lower connector and the upper connector are connected, inside the channel.

10. The rotation guidance apparatus of claim 6 , wherein one end of each piston rod is ball-socketed to the spline disc head, a piston rod upper sealing packing is provided at the other end of the piston rod to form the piston, and the piston rod drives the piston rod upper sealing packing to move relative to the piston holes; and a piston rod lower sealing packing which moves in a relative sealing manner is sheathed outside the piston rod, and is fixed to the lower connector.

11. The rotation guidance apparatus of claim 10 , wherein an accommodating groove which is communicated with the piston hole is provided in a position, in a middle of each piston hole, of the lower connector, and a hydraulic bag is provided inside the accommodating groove and is sealed in the accommodating groove via a hydraulic bag gland.

12. The rotation guidance apparatus of claim 10 , wherein a central hole for accommodating a controller is provided in a middle of the upper connector, several bypass holes which are located in a same circumference are provided in a side wall of the upper connector, and the bypass holes, a central through hole of the lower connector and a central through hole of the ball-socketed ball-joint rod are communicated correspondingly to form a channel; and the eccentrically-placed valve core is located in a region, where the lower connector and the upper connector are connected, inside the channel.

13. The rotation guidance apparatus of claim 1 , wherein an accommodating groove which is communicated with the piston hole is provided in a position, in a middle of each piston hole, of the lower connector, and a hydraulic bag is provided inside the accommodating groove and is sealed in the accommodating groove via a hydraulic bag gland.

14. The rotation guidance apparatus of claim 1 , wherein a central hole for accommodating a controller is provided in a middle of the upper connector, several bypass holes which are located in a same circumference are provided in a side wall of the upper connector, and the bypass holes, a central through hole of the lower connector and a central through hole of the ball-socketed ball-joint rod are communicated correspondingly to form a channel; and the eccentrically-placed valve core is located in a region, where the lower connector and the upper connector are connected, inside the channel.

15. The rotation guidance apparatus of claim 14 , wherein the controller comprises a rotating motor and a dragging motor which are located on a same axis inside the center hole; the eccentrically-placed

Assignees

• Univ Southwest Petroleum

Inventors

• Li Wei
• Lei Hongxiang
• Liu Qingyou
• Xiao Shihong
• Si Xu
• Zhang Tieshan
• Tu Qing
• Tan Xiao
• Jin Fanyao
• Wang Xingming
• Zhong Yuan
• Li Hang
• Wu Jianchuan
• Li Dengwei

Classifications

• E21B34/06

  in wells · CPC title

• E21B7/064 Primary

  specially adapted drill bits therefor · CPC title

• E21B7/068

  drilled by a down-hole drilling motor (down-hole drives per se E21B4/00, E21B7/067 takes precedence) · CPC title

• E21B7/04 Primary

  Directional drilling · CPC title

• E21B34/066

  electrically actuated · CPC title