Impedance-matched drilling telemetry system
| Patent Number: | 7,362,235 |
| Issued: | 4/22/2008 |
| Official Filing: | View the Complete Patent |
| Abstract: | A downhole telemetry system that uses inductance or capacitance as a mode through which signal is communicated across joints between assembled lengths of pipe wherein efficiency of signal propagation through a drill string, for example, over multiple successive pipe segments is enhanced through matching impedances associated with the various telemetry system components. |
| Filed: | 5/15/2003 |
| Application Number: | 10/438,999 |
| Government Interests: | STATEMENT OF GOVERNMENT INTEREST This invention was made with Government support under Contract No. DE-NA0003525 awarded by the United States Department of Energy/National Nuclear Security Administration. The Government has certain rights in the invention. |