Communications – electrical: acoustic wave systems and devices – Wellbore telemetering – Through well fluids
Patent
1978-02-27
1980-07-29
Moskowitz, Nelson
Communications, electrical: acoustic wave systems and devices
Wellbore telemetering
Through well fluids
340853, 375 52, 375 79, G01V 140
Patent
active
042154278
ABSTRACT:
The disclosure is applicable for use in a logging-while-drilling apparatus for obtaining subsurface measurements during drilling in a fluid-filled borehole. Acoustic carrier waves are generated downhole in the borehole fluid and are PSK modulated in accordance with digital data representative of the measurements. The PSK modulation is obtained by momentarily unidirectionally either decreasing or increasing the frequency of the acoustic carrier signal until either a desired phase lag (for a decrease in frequency) or phase lead (for an increase in frequency) is imparted to the acoustic carrier signal. An uphole receiving subsystem includes transducers for converting the modulated acoustic carrier waves to electronic signals and circuitry for demodulating the electronic signals to recover the measurement information taken downhole. The uphole circuitry includes an improved carrier tracking loop which is useful, for example, in extracting the carrier from the modulated signal, the extracted carrier then being useful in the demodulation operation. The carrier tracking loop has a voltage controlled oscillator having a control terminal and a comparator for generating a control signal by comparing the phase of a signal derived from the received PSK modulated signal to the phase of a signal derived from the output of the voltage controlled oscillator. The control signal is applied to the control terminal of the oscillator. In accordance with an important feature of the invention, the signal applied to the control terminal is compensated as a function of transitions in the received signal to account for the difference between the nominal frequency of the carrier and the average frequency of the received signal. This difference results from the unidirectional nature of the carrier modulation.
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Schroeder Gene F.
Waggener William N.
McMahon Kevin
Moskowitz Nelson
Sangamo Weston, Inc.
Sherman William R.
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