EP2483522B1 - Élément de forage d'un dispositif de sondage - Google Patents

Élément de forage d'un dispositif de sondage Download PDF

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EP2483522B1
EP2483522B1 EP10763607.8A EP10763607A EP2483522B1 EP 2483522 B1 EP2483522 B1 EP 2483522B1 EP 10763607 A EP10763607 A EP 10763607A EP 2483522 B1 EP2483522 B1 EP 2483522B1
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Franz-Josef Püttmann
Peter Grass
Gerhard Völkel
Andreas Riekes
Frank Prutti
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    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E21—EARTH OR ROCK DRILLING; MINING
    • E21B—EARTH OR ROCK DRILLING; OBTAINING OIL, GAS, WATER, SOLUBLE OR MELTABLE MATERIALS OR A SLURRY OF MINERALS FROM WELLS
    • E21B47/00—Survey of boreholes or wells
    • E21B47/01—Devices for supporting measuring instruments on drill bits, pipes, rods or wirelines; Protecting measuring instruments in boreholes against heat, shock, pressure or the like
    • E21B47/017—Protecting measuring instruments
    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E21—EARTH OR ROCK DRILLING; MINING
    • E21B—EARTH OR ROCK DRILLING; OBTAINING OIL, GAS, WATER, SOLUBLE OR MELTABLE MATERIALS OR A SLURRY OF MINERALS FROM WELLS
    • E21B7/00—Special methods or apparatus for drilling
    • E21B7/04—Directional drilling
    • E21B7/046—Directional drilling horizontal drilling

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  • the invention relates to a drilling element of a Erdbohrvorraum with a housing and arranged in a receptacle of the housing transmitter.
  • HorizontalDbohrvoriquesen are known in which a front of a drill pipe arranged drill head is propelled by means of a arranged in a pit, a shaft or on the earth's surface driving and rotating rotating through the soil.
  • a controllability in such a horizontal drilling device is achieved in that the drill head is formed asymmetrically, for example with an oblique face, so that in a purely sliding, i. non-rotating driving of the drill head, a lateral force is generated, which leads to the desired lateral deflection of the drill head.
  • this lateral force is compensated on average by additionally driving the drill head in a uniformly rotating manner.
  • a drill head for such a rod-based horizontal drilling device is for example in the DE 195 34 806 A1 disclosed.
  • This includes a designated as a steering head inclined drilling head and an adjoining housing, in which a receptacle is provided for a transmitter.
  • the housing is provided with an external thread, with which this can be screwed to a first rod section of the drill string.
  • the transmitter is movably mounted within the receptacle of the cylindrical housing in its longitudinal axial direction and abuts with its two ends to a respective buffer, which serve to the generated by the exertion of the blows on the drill string relative movement of the transmitter within the receptacle of the housing dampen. In this way, the amount of force pulses acting on the transmitter, can be significantly reduced, which is necessary insofar as it is regularly in such a transmitter is a sensitive electronic component.
  • a structurally similar integration of a transmitter in an earth rocket is for example from the DE 198 23 629 A1 known. It is intended to retrofit an earth rocket with a drill head, in which the transmitter is integrated. There is also provided to embed the transmitter in the corresponding receptacle in the drill bit of Bohrkopfaufsatzes end between two damping elements.
  • EP 0 759 498 A2 discloses an arrangement of a shock sensitive transmitter in a drilling rig.
  • the transmitter is held by means of at least one shock-absorbing buffer at least in the main direction of impact with distance from the wall of a chamber in the drill.
  • the transmitter occupies a defined position relative to a housing, which does not change during operation.
  • EP 0 361 805 A1 discloses an earth boring device in which a probe is provided for locating the earth boring device. The probe is placed firmly between two shock-absorbing buffers.
  • the ram boring device comprises a device housing, inside which there is a sensor which forms a structural unit with a transmitter.
  • the assembly of sensor and transmitter is fixedly mounted with its front end via a Torsions rejoin with a connecting pin to a damping tube and a damping buffer in the device housing.
  • EP 0 617 193 A1 discloses a ram boring machine with a transmitter that can be protected by suitable damping elements against axial or radial vibrations and shocks.
  • a bore is formed, which serves to receive the transmitter, which can be protected by suitable damping elements both in the axial and in the radial direction against vibrations and shocks.
  • the transmitter is thus embedded in damping elements.
  • WO 02/35049 A1 discloses a steerable ground rocket equipped with a probe and roll sensors, the probe being firmly embedded in a chamber via buffers against the impact of the propulsion unit of the ground rocket.
  • the invention therefore an object of the invention to provide an improved integration of a transmitter in a Erdbohrvorraum.
  • the essence of the invention lies in further reducing the height of the forces transmitted to the transmitter from a housing of the earth boring device into which the transmitter is integrated, in that the latter is suspended in an exclusively elastic-damping manner by pulling.
  • the transmitter is connected within a receptacle of a housing of a drilling element of a Erdbohrvorraum in which it is movably mounted in the longitudinal axial direction (of the drilling element) via a front-side buffer to the housing, that the transmitter in a rear impact on the drilling element undergoes a backward displacement in the receptacle, made possible by a deformation of the buffer, without this striking directly against an element of the drilling element.
  • a "drilling element" of an earth boring device can be any component of an earth boring device into which a transmitter can be integrated.
  • a “buffer” is a component that transforms the kinetic energy of a connected component (in this case the transmitter) by deformation, thereby reducing the amount of transmitted forces.
  • a buffer can be designed exclusively as a spring element and also exclusively as a damping element.
  • a buffer according to the invention is a combined spring-damper element.
  • front side or “forward” is understood according to the invention to mean a location that is different from the respective element in the direction of the drill front and consequently extends the front of the Erdbohrvorraum. Accordingly, “backward” or “backwards” refers to a direction that extends from the drilling front or the front of the earth boring device in the direction of the already created bore.
  • this is designed as a drill head. It can thereby be achieved that the transmitter, which is arranged in a receptacle of the housing of the drilling element, is arranged as far as possible at the front end of the Erdbohrvorraum, whereby the positioning accuracy can be improved.
  • the drilling element according to the invention can be provided to provide an additional back buffer, which is arranged so that the transmitter deforms this only after a defined backward displacement in the receptacle (which can be very small).
  • the back buffer may then be used, for example. act by damping a damping when unexpectedly high impact forces are exerted on the drilling element, which lead to a correspondingly high displacement of the transmitter in the recording.
  • the drilling element according to the invention may further comprise an integrated into the drilling element power supply for the transmitter.
  • This can prevent the transmitter from having to be connected to an external power supply via an electrically conductive connection.
  • Such a connection to an external power supply has frequently been found to be susceptible to interference in the earth boring devices known from the prior art.
  • An integrated power supply for the transmitter can preferably be done via batteries, with other possibilities for power supply are possible.
  • a turbine driven by a drilling fluid or by compressed air may be connected to a generator which generates the corresponding energy for the operation of the transmitter.
  • the receptacle in the housing of the drilling element is accessible from the outside, so that the transmitter and possibly also the power supply can be used and replaced again without having to disassemble the auger itself.
  • the opening required for accessibility in the housing of the drilling element is preferably closable by means of a closure element.
  • the closure element is easily fixable and detachable, whereby maintenance work on the transmitter and the preferably provided integrated power supply can be simplified.
  • a particularly preferred embodiment can be provided to form the receptacle as a front hole in the drilling element. This can be avoided be that an opening in the shell of the drilling element must be introduced.
  • a sealing plug may preferably be provided as a closure element, which is further preferably held by clamping in the bore. This can be done for example by means of a conical sealing plug, which in turn is held in a corresponding conical receiving the bore. The reaction forces of the soil acting on the sealing plug during drilling press on the sealing plug, which is thus pressed into the bore; the clamping fixation of the drilling plug in the bore is thereby supported.
  • At least the closure element, the buffer and the transmitter are connected to each other, so that they can be introduced as a transmitter unit in the drilling element and also removed from this again.
  • the assembly and disassembly of the transmitter unit is considerably simplified during maintenance. If an integrated power supply and / or a back buffer are provided, these may preferably also be integrated in the transmitter unit.
  • FIG. 1 and 2 an inventive drill head is shown in a first embodiment.
  • This drill head is intended to be used as part of an earth rocket, including this with a housing of the Erdrakete (not shown) is screwed.
  • the drill head comprises a cylindrical housing 1, which is designed in two parts, wherein the two housing parts are displaceable in the longitudinal axial direction over a certain distance from each other.
  • a front housing part 2 is displaceably mounted on a rear housing part 3, wherein this bearing is sealed by a sealing ring 4.
  • a piston 5, which is connected via a total of four transverse pins 6, which can be inserted through corresponding openings in the housing, with the front housing part 2 extends.
  • the bearing of the piston 5 within the rear Housing part 3 is also designed to be displaceable in the longitudinal axial direction, wherein the rear housing part 3 and the piston 5 are supported by a cylindrical coil spring 7 against each other.
  • the rear housing part further has an external thread 8, with which the drill head can be screwed into a corresponding internal thread of the Erdraketengephaseuses.
  • the free end of the piston 5 projects into a striking space of the earth rocket, in which a percussion piston driven in a known manner by means of compressed air is driven in a cyclical back-and-forth motion.
  • the forward stroke of the percussion piston is thereby slowed down and terminated, that this impinges on the free end of the piston 5 and accelerates it in the direction forward.
  • This acceleration of the piston 5 is transmitted directly to the front housing part 2 of the drill head, whereby this creates the hole step by step.
  • the front housing part 2 of the drill head consists of a first, designated as a drill mandrel portion 10, which has a substantially constant outer diameter. This is followed by a conical widening section 11 formed in a stepped shape, which serves to widen the borehole 10 predrilled bore to the desired diameter.
  • the drill mandrel 10 is hollow and thus forms a receptacle for a transmitter 12, by means of which the drill head can be located by means of a arranged on the earth surface receiving unit (not shown).
  • the transmitter 12 which likewise has a cylindrical shape, is in principle mounted slidably in the receptacle in the longitudinal axial direction (of the drill head and of the transmitter 12), for which purpose a guide bush 13 is integrated into the drill mandrel 10 whose material is chosen such that it on the one hand causes no or only a small shielding of the signals emitted by the transmitter 12 and on the other hand has only a small coefficient of friction with the material of the transmitter 12.
  • the transmitter 12 is connected via a fixing sleeve 14 with a front buffer 15. This is also movably mounted in a portion of the receptacle within the drill mandrel 10. On the opposite end of the fixing sleeve 14 of the front-side buffer 15, this is connected to a sealing plug 16, which closes the front opening of the drill mandrel 10.
  • the impact forces transmitted by the percussion piston of the rocket to the piston 5, from there to the front housing part 2 of the drill head and from there to the closure plug 16 are transmitted further to the transmitter 12 via the front buffer 16 and the fixing sleeve 14, these being tensile forces to act on this; this is thus pulled pulling.
  • the amount of these tensile forces is reduced by the fact that the front-side buffer 15 is deformed under the action of the forward-acting impact forces and the inertial forces of the transmitter 12 and partially converts these into potential forces and into heat. As a result, force peaks can be prevented, which could lead to damage to the transmitter 12.
  • the drill head according to the invention is further provided with a rear buffer 17, which is arranged in the unloaded state of the drill head in a defined, albeit very small distance from the rear end of the transmitter 12.
  • a rear buffer 17 which is arranged in the unloaded state of the drill head in a defined, albeit very small distance from the rear end of the transmitter 12.
  • a battery 18, which serves as an internal power supply for the transmitter This is on the one hand via a first cylindrical coil spring 19 to the transmitter 12 and on the other hand - also via a second cylindrical coil spring 20 and an additional battery buffer 21 - supported on the existing of an electrically conductive material fixing sleeve 14.
  • the cylindrical coil springs 19, 20 serve as additional buffer elements and also as contact elements, by which a circuit is formed by incorporating the electrically conductive fixing sleeve 14.
  • the sealing plug 16, the front buffer 15, the fixing sleeve 14 and the transmitter 12 are connected to each other so that they can be used as a transmitter unit through the front opening in the receptacle of the drill mandrel 10 and removed again.
  • the integrated between the Fixerhülse 14 and the transmitter 12 power supply is also part of the transmitter unit.
  • the sealing plug 16 is formed with a (in the installed state in the rearward direction) conically tapered portion which is inserted into a correspondingly conically widening portion of the receptacle of the drill mandrel.
  • This connection between the sealing plug 16 and the reaming mandrel 10 leads to a clamping connection between these two elements, by the of the Soil is reinforced on the front side of the stopper 16 acting resistance forces. An unwanted loosening of the sealing plug 16 and the associated elements of the transmitter unit can be avoided.
  • An unintentional loosening of the sealing plug (eg during handling prior to introduction into the soil) can additionally be effected by a (not shown) dowel pin, which is introduced into a transverse bore 22, which passes through the sealing plug 16 and the front portion of the drill mandrel 10 ,
  • a loosening of the sealing plug 16 can be effected by means of a tool which engages in the groove formed between the sealing plug 16 and the annular end face of the drill mandrel 10.
  • the drill mandrel In the area of the transmitter, the drill mandrel is provided with a total of four longitudinal openings 23, which are filled with a plastic, which is characterized in that it does not or only weakly shield the signals emitted by the transmitter. This plastic filling prevents clogging of the longitudinal openings 23 with soil.

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  1. Élément de forage d'un dispositif de forage á tere comportant un boîtier (1) et un émetteur (12) monté dans un logement du boîtier (1), l'émetteur (12) étant disposé dans le logement, mobile dans l'axe longitudinal de l'élément de forage, et relié au boîtier (1) par l'intermédiaire d'un tampon avant (15), caractérisé en ce que l'émetteur (12) est accroché en tirant-amortissant élastiquement par l'intermédiaire du tampon avant (15) de telle sorte que l'émetteur (12), en cas d'une impulsion de choc de l'arrière exercée sur le boîtier (1), effectue un mouvement de recul à l'intérieur du logement, mouvement rendu possible par la déformation du tampon avant (15), sans que ledit émetteur n'entre en contact direct avec un autre élément.
  2. Élément de forage selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce qu'il est formé comme une tête de forage.
  3. Élément de forage selon l'une des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce qu'un tampon arrière (17) est déformé dans le logement par l'émetteur (12) après un mouvement de recul défini de l'émetteur (12).
  4. Élément de forage selon l'une des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce qu'une alimentation en énergie destinée à l'émetteur (12) est intégrée dans l'élément de forage.
  5. Élément de forage selon l'une des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce que le logement est accessible de l'extérieur et peut être fermé avec un élément de fermeture.
  6. Élément de forage selon la revendication 5, caractérisé en ce que le logement est formé comme un trou situé côté avant dans l'élément de forage.
  7. Élément de forage selon la revendication 6, caractérisé en ce que l'élément de fermeture est formé comme un bouchon (16) qui est maintenu serré dans le trou.
  8. Élément de forage selon l'une quelconque des revendications 5 à 7, caractérisé en ce qu'au moins l'élément de fermeture du tampon avant (15) et l'émetteur (12) sont reliés entre eux.
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