US 12,326,057 B2
Three axis vibrating device
Michael Doster, Houston, TX (US); and Mason Panahi, Houston, TX (US)
Assigned to RUBICON OILFIELD INTERNATIONAL, INC., Houston, TX (US)
Filed by Rubicon Oilfield International, Inc., Houston, TX (US)
Filed on May 8, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/313,659.
Application 18/313,659 is a continuation of application No. 16/682,700, filed on Nov. 13, 2019, granted, now 11,680,455.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/760,127, filed on Nov. 13, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2023/0323748 A1, Oct. 12, 2023
Int. Cl. E21B 31/00 (2006.01); E21B 7/24 (2006.01); E21B 28/00 (2006.01); E21B 34/10 (2006.01)
CPC E21B 31/005 (2013.01) [E21B 7/24 (2013.01); E21B 28/00 (2013.01); E21B 34/10 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
12. A method, comprising:
pumping fluid into a drill string, wherein pumping causes a rotor to rotate relative to a stator, wherein rotating the rotor causes a rotary valve plate to rotate relative to a stationary valve plate, the rotary valve plate and the stationary valve plates both including pass-through sections that periodically align and misalign as the rotor rotates, generating pressure pulses which cause axial vibration in the drill string, wherein the rotary valve plate and the stationary valve plate are cylindrical, disk-shaped elements, and wherein the pass-through sections of the rotary valve plate and the pass-through sections of the stationary valve plate are holes that extend only in an axial direction through the respective disk-shaped element; and
adjusting an angular orientation of the rotary valve plate with respect to a rotary valve insert having ports, the rotary valve plate being received at least partially into the rotary valve insert; or
adjusting an angular orientation of the stationary valve plate with respect to a stationary valve insert having ports, the stationary valve plate being received at least partially into the stationary valve insert.