US 12,104,470 B2
Slide-in frame for shaped charges
Erick Lowe, Clamart (FR); and Alexander Lee, Pearland, TX (US)
Assigned to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION, Sugar Land, TX (US)
Filed by Schlumberger Technology Corporation, Sugar Land, TX (US)
Filed on Oct. 19, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/490,453.
Application 18/490,453 is a continuation of application No. 17/659,229, filed on Apr. 14, 2022, granted, now 11,795,790.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/175,120, filed on Apr. 15, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2024/0044229 A1, Feb. 8, 2024
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. E21B 43/117 (2006.01); E21B 43/119 (2006.01)
CPC E21B 43/117 (2013.01) [E21B 43/119 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
8. A perforation tool, comprising:
a charge module with a slide-in charge frame that has a snap structure, the slide-in charge frame comprising:
a body comprising:
a central passage along an axis of the body; and
a track, formed in a side of the body and extending in a direction parallel to the axis, for installing and removing a shaped charge, the track comprising:
a first end and a second end opposite from the first end in the direction parallel to the axis, the first end being open and configured to receive the shaped charge, and the second end being closed; and
the snap structure.