Patents by Inventor William Brian Atkins
William Brian Atkins 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).
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Patent number: 11927091Abstract: A drill bit has a plurality of cutters secured to the bit body, including a gauge cutter defining a gauge diameter of the drill bit. A reciprocating gauge assembly on the bit comprises a cavity defined in the bit body, a piston reciprocably disposed in the cavity, a wear element on an outwardly facing end of the piston, a piston retainer for moveably retaining the piston in the cavity, and a spring biasing the piston outwardly to a neutral position of the wear element with respect to the gauge diameter. The wear element and piston may be urged inwardly in response to an applied load at the drill bit gauge pad, increasing the lateral depth of cut and thereby controlling the aggressiveness of the bit in response to the load.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2020Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Van Jordan Brackin, Trung Huynh, Kelley Leigh Plunkett, Kevin Clark, Andrew David Lake, Darien Louis Gurka, Jr., Daniel Brendan Voglewede, Curtis Clifford Lanning, William Brian Atkins
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Patent number: 11680449Abstract: The present disclosure provides a sintering assembly and a polycrystalline diamond compact (PDC) including a acid-labile leach-enhancing material, a PDC including cavities formed by removal of an acid-labile leach-enhancing material, and a method of forming a leached PDC using an acid-labile leach-enhancing material. The present disclosure further includes drill bits using PDCs formed suing an acid-labile leach-enhancing material.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2016Date of Patent: June 20, 2023Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: William Brian Atkins, Gagan Saini, Grant O. Cook, III
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Patent number: 11655681Abstract: A drill bit includes a bit body defining a bit rotational axis and a blade attached to the bit body. The apparatus also includes a cutter comprising a cutting arc on a cutting surface of the cutter, wherein the cutter comprises at least one relief comprising a straight edge and a curved edge having an end that interrupts the cutting arc.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2019Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventor: William Brian Atkins
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Publication number: 20230028472Abstract: In one example, a method of designing a drill bit comprises obtaining a baseline orientation of a shaped cutter with respect to a bit body. The shaped cutter includes a shaped cutting element secured to a substrate. The baseline orientation is defined, at least in part, with respect to an rotational position of the shaped cutting element about a longitudinal axis of the shaped cutter. A wear imbalance is determined between opposing portions of the shaped cutting element at the baseline orientation. An adjusted orientation of the shaped cutter is generated having a different rotational position of the shaped cutting element about the cutter axis expected to reduce the wear imbalance.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 21, 2022Publication date: January 26, 2023Applicant: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: William Brian Atkins, Ryan Joseph Murphy, Carlos Fernando Galarraga Canizares, Jason Kent Bratcher
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Publication number: 20220222401Abstract: A method includes determining a bit design based on a design criterion, determining a cutter design to be mounted on the bit design at a bit design position based on cutter information, wherein the cutter information is based on a historical cutter performance metric of one or more cutters having the cutter design. The method also includes generating a drill bit model based on the bit design and the cutter design and determining that the drill bit model meets the design criterion.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 10, 2019Publication date: July 14, 2022Inventors: William Brian Atkins, Radompon Sungkorn, Michael Stephen Pierce
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Publication number: 20220205356Abstract: A drill bit has a plurality of cutters secured to the bit body, including a gauge cutter defining a gauge diameter of the drill bit. A reciprocating gauge assembly on the bit comprises a cavity defined in the bit body, a piston reciprocably disposed in the cavity, a wear element on an outwardly facing end of the piston, a piston retainer for moveably retaining the piston in the cavity, and a spring biasing the piston outwardly to a neutral position of the wear element with respect to the gauge diameter. The wear element and piston may be urged inwardly in response to an applied load at the drill bit gauge pad, increasing the lateral depth of cut and thereby controlling the aggressiveness of the bit in response to the load.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 30, 2020Publication date: June 30, 2022Applicant: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Van Jordan Brackin, Trung Huynh, Kelley Leigh Plunkett, Kevin Clark, Andrew David Lake, Darien Louis Gurka, JR., Daniel Brendan Voglewede, Curtis Clifford Lanning, William Brian Atkins
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Publication number: 20220168862Abstract: A method includes acquiring an image of a cutter on a drill bit, determining a cutter dull condition based on the image of the cutter using a machine-learning method, wherein the machine-learning method is trained using a set of training images and a set of known cutter dull conditions, wherein each of the set of known cutter dull conditions is associated with one or more of a set of cutters depicted in the set of training images and determining a cutter degradation severity based the image of the cutter. The method also includes generating bit modification instructions based the cutter dull condition and the cutter degradation severity.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 10, 2019Publication date: June 2, 2022Inventors: William Brian Atkins, Jose Nestor Quiroz
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Publication number: 20220172338Abstract: A method comprising identifying a cutter on a drill bit based on a drill bit image, assigning a grading value of the cutter based on a classification model of a machine learning system, wherein the classification model is generated based on a set of training cutter images associated with drill bit characteristics indicators, determining a surface parameter based on a surface of the cutter, generating a comparison value based on the surface parameter, and mapping a set of cutter information to the cutter on the drill bit, wherein the set of cutter information comprises the grading value and the comparison value.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 10, 2019Publication date: June 2, 2022Inventors: William Brian Atkins, Radompon Sungkorn, Michael Stephen Pierce
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Publication number: 20210381317Abstract: A drill bit includes a bit body defining a bit rotational axis and a blade attached to the bit body. The apparatus also includes a cutter comprising a cutting arc on a cutting surface of the cutter, wherein the cutter comprises at least one relief comprising a straight edge and a curved edge having an end that interrupts the cutting arc.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 16, 2019Publication date: December 9, 2021Inventor: William Brian ATKINS
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Patent number: 11105158Abstract: Systems and methods for wellbore drilling may use one or more cutting elements including a cutting face with one or more channels capable of steering chip cuttings into an intended direction off of the cutting face of the cutting element for drilling operations. A method may comprise rotating a drill bit to extend a wellbore into a subterranean formation, flowing a drilling fluid through the drill bit, and directing a plurality of formation cuttings away from one or more cutting elements of the drill bit by moving the cuttings along one or more channels on at least a portion of a cutting face of the one or more cutting elements.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2019Date of Patent: August 31, 2021Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Christopher John Keller, William Brian Atkins
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Patent number: 10899625Abstract: The present disclosure relates a method of purifying diamond by removing carbon contaminants from diamond grains in the diamond by a plasma cleaning process at a temperature at which metal inclusion contaminants in the diamond grains crack the diamond grains from within, and removing metal contaminants from the diamond in a chemical or electrochemical cleaning process.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2015Date of Patent: January 26, 2021Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Qi Liang, William Brian Atkins
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Patent number: 10843975Abstract: The present disclosure relates a spark plasma sintered polycrystalline diamond and methods of spark plasma sintering leached polycrystalline diamond. Spark plasma sintering produces plasma from a reactant gas found in the pores left by catalyst removal from leached polycrystalline diamond. The plasma forms diamond bonds and/or carbide structures in the pores, which may produce polycrystalline diamond that is has a higher impact strength than the leached polycrystalline diamond or other improved properties.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2015Date of Patent: November 24, 2020Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Qi Liang, William Brian Atkins
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Patent number: 10773303Abstract: The present disclosure relates to polycrystalline diamond covalently bonded to a substrate by spark plasma sintering and methods of covalently bonding polycrystalline diamond and a substrate. Spark plasma sintering produces plasma from a reactant gas found in the pores in the polycrystalline diamond and, optionally, also the substrate. The plasma forms carbide structures in the pores, which covalently bond to the substrate.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2015Date of Patent: September 15, 2020Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Qi Liang, William Brian Atkins
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Patent number: 10730107Abstract: A mold transfer assembly includes a transfer housing providing an interior defined by one or more sidewalls and a top. The transfer housing is sized to receive and encapsulate a mold as the mold is moved between a furnace and a thermal heat sink. An arm is coupled to the transfer housing to move the transfer housing and the mold encapsulated within the transfer housing between the furnace and a thermal heat sink. The transfer housing exhibits one or more thermal properties to control a thermal profile of the mold.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2019Date of Patent: August 4, 2020Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: William Brian Atkins, Clayton Arthur Ownby, Michael Clark, Grant O. Cook, III, Garrett T. Olson
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Patent number: 10718166Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods of laser-leaching polycrystalline diamond (PCD), devices for performing such methods, and to laser-leached PCD and elements and drill bits containing laser-leached PCD.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2015Date of Patent: July 21, 2020Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Qi Liang, William Brian Atkins
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Patent number: 10711331Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a polycrystalline diamond compact (PDC) including a gradient interfacial layer between a thermally stable diamond (TSP) table and a base, such as a substrate or an earth-boring drill bit body. The gradient interfacial layer has a gradient of coefficients of thermal expansion between that of the diamond and the base. The disclosure also relates to methods of forming a gradient interfacial layer and a PDC containing such a layer.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2015Date of Patent: July 14, 2020Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Andy Cheng Chang, Gagan Saini, Qi Liang, Paul B. Lively, William Brian Atkins
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Publication number: 20200040662Abstract: The present disclosure provides a sintering assembly and a polycrystalline diamond compact (PDC) including a acid-labile leach-enhancing material, a PDC including cavities formed by removal of an acid-labile leach-enhancing material, and a method of forming a leached PDC using an acid-labile leach-enhancing material. The present disclosure further includes drill bits using PDCs formed suing an acid-labile leach-enhancing material.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 2, 2016Publication date: February 6, 2020Inventors: William Brian Atkins, Gagan Saini, Grant O. Cook, III
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Publication number: 20200018122Abstract: Provided are systems and methods for wellbore drilling and, more particularly, example embodiments may use of one or more cutting elements including a cutting face with one or more channels capable of steering chip cuttings into an intended direction off of the cutting face of the cutting element for drilling operations. A method may comprise rotating a drill bit to extend a wellbore into a subterranean formation, flowing a drilling fluid through the drill bit, and directing a plurality of formation cuttings away from one or more cutting elements of the drill bit by moving the cuttings along one or more channels on at least a portion of a cutting face of the one or more cutting elements.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 11, 2019Publication date: January 16, 2020Applicant: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Christopher John Keller, William Brian Atkins
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Patent number: D911399Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2018Date of Patent: February 23, 2021Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventor: William Brian Atkins
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Patent number: D951313Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2018Date of Patent: May 10, 2022Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Christopher John Keller, William Brian Atkins