Patents by Inventor Patrick Toutain

Patrick Toutain has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 5282512
    Abstract: A drilling tool with rotating conical rollers, such as a bicone, a tricone, etc. wherein each roller is fitted with several circular rows of teeth 22 made of tungsten carbide or the like. Each tooth has at its end, successively in the direction where it rolls on the rock, a rear or impact zone 24, a central zone 28 with a rounded shape, and a forward zone 30 which is last to come into contact with the rock. The teeth are fitted with diamond-charged elements 32, 34 on the forward zone and optionally on the central zone, but not on the rear zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 1992
    Date of Patent: February 1, 1994
    Assignee: Total
    Inventors: Alain Besson, Patrick Toutain