Abstract: A shaped charge having a liner with three frustoconical segments and a bottom portion configured to provide consistent perforating holes over a range of distances from the shaped charge.
Abstract: A method and apparatus for using a plurality of impact dampening discs composed of a closed cell polyurethane foam composite with polyborodimethylsiloxane as a dilatant non-Newtonian fluid dispersed through a foam matrix in a downhole setting tool to absorb the energy released during setting operations.
Abstract: A method and apparatus for detonating a power charge in downhole wellbore using a heating element embedded within the energetic material of the power charge.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 30, 2021
Date of Patent:
September 20, 2022
Assignee:
Hunting Titan, Inc.
Inventors:
Laura Montoya Ashton, Richard Wayne Bradley, Christopher Brian Sokolove, Isaiah Acevedo, Johnny Covalt
Abstract: A box by pin perforating gun system using swaged down gun bodies, a removable cartridge to hold a detonator and switch, and an insulated charge holder as an electrical feed-through.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
August 2, 2017
Date of Patent:
September 20, 2022
Assignee:
Hunting Titan, Inc.
Inventors:
Richard Wayne Bradley, William R. Collins, John W. Jordan, Andy Lane, Dale Langford, Charles Levine, Faraidoon Pundole
Abstract: A method and apparatus for coupling a pre-wired end fitting with a shaped charge loading tube where the end fitting centers and orients the loading tube within a perforating gun and further includes a selective switch, feed through contact and orifices to insert a wireless detonator and detonating cord, the loading tube being pre-wired with insulated wire.
Type:
Application
Filed:
November 8, 2019
Publication date:
September 8, 2022
Applicant:
Hunting Titan, Inc.
Inventors:
Adam Dyess, Christopher Brian Sokolove, Ryan Bradley, Julio Cesar Veliz
Abstract: A method, system, and apparatus for determining the location of a tool traveling down a wellbore by measuring a first borehole magnetic anomaly with respect to time at two known locations on a tool, comparing the time difference between the two measurements, then calculating the velocity of the tool based on the comparison, then further calculating the distance traveled by the tool in the wellbore based on the velocity calculation, then executing a series of commands at a predetermined location in the wellbore.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 6, 2020
Date of Patent:
September 6, 2022
Assignee:
Hunting Titan, Inc.
Inventors:
Gene McBride, Garrett M. Hohmann, David Dobsky, Faraidoon Pundole
Abstract: A method and system for a perforating gun having a box by pin perforating gun system using swaged down gun bodies. The box by pin perforating gun system may include a removable cartridge to hold a detonator with a switch and an insulated charge holder as an electrical feed-through.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 15, 2021
Date of Patent:
August 30, 2022
Assignee:
Hunting Titan, Inc.
Inventors:
Richard Wayne Bradley, William Richard Collins, John W. Jordan, Andy Lane, Dale Langford, Charles Levine, Faraidoon Pundole
Abstract: A method and apparatus for containing one or more shaped charges in a single plane, using a shaped charge housing containing a cluster of one or more shaped charges, with the apex ends facing each other, arrayed about the center axis of a gun body, and detonated from a single initiator located in the middle of the cluster of the one or more shaped charges, the shaped charge housing can be one of many shaped charge housings coupled together to perforate in a plurality of single planes.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
January 25, 2019
Date of Patent:
August 16, 2022
Assignee:
Hunting Titan, Inc.
Inventors:
Christopher Brian Sokolove, Richard Wayne Bradley, Adam Dyess, Shane Matthew Wilson, Dale Langford, Ryan Bradley, Jason Hoang Mai
Abstract: A method, system, and apparatus for determining the location of a tool traveling down a wellbore by measuring a first borehole magnetic anomaly with respect to time at two known locations on a tool, comparing the time difference between the two measurements, then calculating the velocity of the tool based on the comparison, then further calculating the distance traveled by the tool in the wellbore based on the velocity calculation, then executing a series of commands at a predetermined location in the wellbore.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 6, 2020
Date of Patent:
August 9, 2022
Assignee:
Hunting Titan, Inc.
Inventors:
Gene McBride, Garrett M. Hohmann, David Dobsky, Faraidoon Pundole
Abstract: A method and apparatus for inserting a detonator into a door on an end fitting and closing the door into a recess of the end fitting, enabling a quick wireless install of a detonator and resulting in a side-by-side arrangement between the detonator and the detonating cord.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
August 31, 2021
Date of Patent:
July 19, 2022
Assignee:
Hunting Titan, Inc.
Inventors:
Adam Dyess, Christopher Brian Sokolove, Ryan Bradley, Julio Cesar Veliz
Abstract: A method and apparatus for firing a detonator in a perforating gun string into a wellbore to a predetermined location using solid state electronics comprising: raising the voltage on the wireline to signal a solid state dual firing circuit within the perforating gun string to energize a detonator, energize the detonator, opening the detonator, firing a first perforating gun, and lowering the voltage of the wireline.
Abstract: A method and apparatus for containing one or more shaped charges in a single plane, arrayed about the center axis of a gun body, and detonated from a single initiator in a shaped charge cluster assembly.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
May 1, 2020
Date of Patent:
May 31, 2022
Assignee:
Hunting Titan, Inc.
Inventors:
Christopher Brian Sokolove, Richard Wayne Bradley, Adam Dyess, Shane Matthew Wilson, Dale Langford, Ryan Bradley
Abstract: A method and system for a perforating gun having a box by pin perforating gun system using swaged down gun bodies. The box by pin perforating gun system may include a removable cartridge to hold a detonator with a switch and an insulated charge holder as an electrical feed-through.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 3, 2021
Date of Patent:
April 12, 2022
Assignee:
Hunting Titan, Inc.
Inventors:
Richard Wayne Bradley, William Richard Collins, John W. Jordan, Andy Lane, Dale Langford, Charles Levine, Faraidoon Pundole
Abstract: A method, system, and apparatus for determining the location of a tool traveling down a wellbore by measuring a first borehole magnetic anomaly with respect to time at two known locations on a tool, comparing the time difference between the two measurements, then calculating the velocity of the tool based on the comparison and then further calculating the distance traveled by the tool in the wellbore based on the velocity calculation.
Abstract: An electrical connector apparatus for use in a downhole tool comprising a housing, a contact screw within outer threads and inner threads, a contact plunger within the inner bore of the housing and a second cylinder protruding from the first cylinder. The contact spring is located between the contact plunger and the contact screw and pre-loads the contact plunger within the housing.
Abstract: A method, system, and apparatus for determining the location of a tool traveling down a wellbore by measuring a first borehole magnetic anomaly with respect to time at two known locations on a tool, comparing the time difference between the two measurements, then calculating the velocity of the tool based on the comparison, then further calculating the distance traveled by the tool in the wellbore based on the velocity calculation, then executing a series of commands at a predetermined location in the wellbore.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
February 22, 2019
Date of Patent:
March 15, 2022
Assignee:
Hunting Titan, Inc.
Inventors:
Gene McBride, Garrett M. Hohmann, David Dobsky, Faraidoon Pundole
Abstract: A method, system, and apparatus for restraining a firing pin using a bushing for use in a downhole switch that is armed using the explosive energy of a previously detonated shaped charge.