Sensor configuration for nulling reverberations to image behind reflective layers
US6002639A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | May 14, 1997 |
| Grant date | Dec 14, 1999 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | May 14, 2017 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG01V1/44
- WIPO fieldMeasurement
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
A transducer configuration disposed within a wellbore sonde for acoustically imaging a target region behind an acoustically reflective layer includes a transmitting transducer for producing a transmitted acoustic beamspread pattern defined by a insonified zone having a width approximately equal to a width of the transmitting transducer and a transmitting main lobe beyond the transmitting collimated zone. The transducer configuration also includes a receiving transducer disposed adjacent the transmitting transducer. The receiving transducer includes an acoustic signal reception pattern defined by a insonified zone having a width approximately equal to a width of the receiving transducer and a receiving main lobe beyond the receiving insonified zone. A beamspread angle defines an amplitude contour forming an outer periphery of the transmitting and receiving main lobes. Intersection of the transmitting and receiving main lobes behind but not within an acoustically reflective layer allows the transducer configuration to null reverberation energy from the acoustically reflective material and enhance acoustic energy received from the less reflective material disposed behind the highly re…
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