E - Fixed Constructions – 21 – B
Patent
E - Fixed Constructions
21
B
E21B 17/02 (2006.01) E21B 17/042 (2006.01) F16D 1/02 (2006.01)
Patent
CA 2510435
A connector assembly for connecting with a rotatable shaft is provided. The connector assembly includes a mating sleeve threadably coupleable about the shaft and a center sleeve sized and shaped for deployment between the shaft and the mating sleeve. The center sleeve includes pluralities of splines formed on inner and outer surfaces thereof. The splines on the inner surface of the center sleeve are engageable with splines on the outer surface of the shaft and the splines on the outer surface of the center sleeve are engageable with splines on the inner surface of the mating sleeve. Exemplary embodiments of this invention are useful in downhole tools to reduce make-up torque requirements of the mating sleeve, and therefore may advantageously increase the cyclic torsional and/or bending load capacity of the shaft, while also increasing the total torsional load capacity of the connection.
Borden Ladner Gervais Llp
Pathfinder Energy Services Inc.
Smith International Inc.
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