Acoustic logging apparatuses and methods

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9842581
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14570288

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A transmitter for an acoustic logging tool includes an elongated housing, an acoustic energy generator, and a driver. The elongate housing defines a hollow interior and supports an acoustic energy generator, which includes four mutually orthogonally orientated bender bars that are electrically driveable to flex within the hollow interior in order to generate pressure-derived waves in a fluid surrounding the transmitter in use. The housing includes one or more transmissive windows via which flexing of the bender bars gives rise to propagation of one or more said waves in a said fluid. The driver electrically drives the bender bars to flex so as selectively to generate monopole, dipole, or quadrupole waves in a said fluid, with the poles of the dipole and quadrupole when generated selectively being aligned with normals to pairs of the bender bars or rotated 45° relative thereto.

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REEVES WIRELINE TECHNOLOGIES LIMITEDGOTHAM ROAD EAST LEAKE LOUGHBOROUGH LEICESTERSHIRE LE12 6JQ

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Mayor, Terence Paul Nottingham, GB 4 9

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