US 11,808,116 B2
Connector for perforating gun system
Joseph Todd MacGillivray, Fort Worth, TX (US); Courtney Ann Thain Roberts, Crowley, TX (US); and Camille Anne Bryant, Cleburne, TX (US)
Assigned to Halliburton Energy Services, Inc., Houston, TX (US)
Filed by Halliburton Energy Services, Inc., Houston, TX (US)
Filed on May 3, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/306,649.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/042,922, filed on Jun. 23, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0396103 A1, Dec. 23, 2021
Int. Cl. E21B 43/1185 (2006.01); E21B 43/119 (2006.01); E21B 43/117 (2006.01)
CPC E21B 43/11855 (2013.01) [E21B 43/117 (2013.01); E21B 43/119 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
14. An apparatus, comprising:
a connector body positionable within a perforating gun;
a pin carried on the connector body; and
an electrical contact structure coupled to a signal conductor of the perforating gun, wherein the electrical contact structure comprises:
a free end with a contact tab which is aligned for engagement with the pin upon positioning the connector body within the perforating gun,
a spring element coupled with the contact tab, which elastically deforms in response to the contact tab engaging with the pin; and
a fixed end unitarily formed with the spring element to centralize the contact tab for engagement by the pin.