US 12,228,018 B2
Cluster gun system
Ryan Bradley, Cypress, TX (US); Richard Bradley, Magnolia, TX (US); Charles Craig, Pampa, TX (US); Rick Blain, Pampa, TX (US); Christopher Sokolove, Midlothian, TX (US); Adam Dyess, Houston, TX (US); William Collins, Burleson, TX (US); Shane Wilson, Waxahachie, TX (US); Dale Langford, Pampa, TX (US); and Jason Mai, Houston, TX (US)
Assigned to Hunting Titan, Inc., Pampa, TX (US)
Appl. No. 17/757,064
Filed by Hunting Titan, Inc., Pampa, TX (US)
PCT Filed Dec. 11, 2020, PCT No. PCT/US2020/064393
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jun. 8, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/119370, PCT Pub. Date Jun. 17, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/970,141, filed on Feb. 4, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/946,276, filed on Dec. 10, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2023/0035484 A1, Feb. 2, 2023
Int. Cl. E21B 43/117 (2006.01); E21B 43/1185 (2006.01); E21B 43/119 (2006.01)
CPC E21B 43/117 (2013.01) [E21B 43/1185 (2013.01); E21B 43/119 (2013.01)] 7 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A perforating gun comprising:
an outer gun body;
a first cluster charge holder;
a plurality of shaped charges having an open end and an apex end;
an initiating device;
wherein the first cluster charge holder comprises:
a top end, a bottom end, a housing axis extending from the center of the top and an outer surface substantially parallel to the housing axis;
a central bore extending from the top end of the first cluster charge holder along the housing axis;
a plurality of charge cavities in the charge housing arranged radially about the housing axis, each of the charge cavities extending from a shaped charge aperture in the outer surface toward an apex end proximate the central bore;
a plurality of priming holes in the charge housing connecting the central bore to the plurality of charge cavity apex ends;
a detonator circuit recessed into the first cluster charge holder, wherein the detonator circuit is electrically coupled to the initiating device; and
wherein the initiating device is inside the central bore of the first cluster charge holder and the plurality of shaped charges are inside the plurality of charge cavities; and
wherein the explosive output of the initiating device detonates the shaped charges.