US 7,802,634 B2
Integrated quill position and toolface orientation displayGeneral
US 7,802,634 B2
Integrated quill position and toolface orientation display
Tech Center:
3600 Transportation, Construction, Electronic Commerce, Agriculture, National Security and License and Review
Examiner:
David J Bagnell
Art Unit:
3676 Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware
Agent:
Inventors:
Scott G. Boone; Colin Gillan
Priority:
12/21/07
Filed:
12/19/08
Granted:
09/28/10
Expiration:
02/14/28
Abstract
Method and apparatus for visibly demonstrating a relationship between toolface orientation and quill position by: (1) receiving electronic data on an on-going basis, wherein the electronic data includes quill position data and at least one of gravity-based toolface orientation data and magnetic-based toolface orientation data; and (2) displaying the electronic data on a user-viewable display in a historical format depicting data resulting from a most recent measurement and a plurality of immediately prior measurements.
Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC)
E21E21B47/022E21B