Wired pipe joint with current-loop inductive couplers

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E - Fixed Constructions

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E21B 47/12 (2006.01) E21B 17/02 (2006.01) F16L 25/01 (2006.01)

Patent

CA 2428171

A robust, low-loss wired pipe joint is provided for service as a component of a wired pipe string for transmitting measurement data to a surface station from locations in a borehole in oil well drilling and oil well operations. Conductive layers reduce signal energy losses over the length of the drill string by reducing resistive losses and flux losses at each inductive coupler. The wired pipe joint is robust in that it remains operational in the presence of gaps in the conductive layer. A wired pipe joint includes an elongate tubular shank having an axial bore, a threaded box-end, and a threaded pin end. A first annular coil, fixedly mounted to the box-end is partially surrounded by a first high- conductivity, low-permeability layer, and a second annular coil fixedly mounted to the pin- end is partially surrounded by a second high-conductivity, low-permeability layer, such that when the box-end of a first wired pipe joint is coupled for operation with the pin-end of a second wired pipe joint, the first and second high-conductivity, low- permeability layers form at least a portion of a toroidal path enclosing the first annular coil of the first wired pipe joint and the second annular coil of the second wired pipe joint. Coil windings of the first and second coils of the wired pipe joint are electrically coupled.

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