Oil Well Pipe Screw Joint Seal Structure With Minimum Thread Length

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing screw joints for oil well pipes face challenges in optimizing screw length to balance productivity and shear fracture strength, leading to increased processing and construction times.

Innovation Solution

The screw length of the joint portion is optimized by defining a minimum necessary screw length (Lmin) using the expression Lmin=((t×(D-t))/(αt×Dt/√{3}))×joint efficiency, ensuring the shear stress is less than or equal to the tensile stress, thereby reducing processing and construction times.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Strength

If the screw length is increased to enhance shear fracture strength, then the joint strength is improved, but the processing time and construction time are increased

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveshear fracture strengthVSAvoidprocessing time and construction time
Core Design Contradiction:
StrengthVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies parameter changes by establishing a mathematical relationship (Expression 1) that defines the minimum necessary screw length based on multiple parameters including pipe thickness, pipe outer diameter, effective screw length ratio, and average screw diameter. This allows optimization of screw length by adjusting these parameters to achieve the required shear fracture strength while minimizing processing and construction time.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Solution Approach 2:

The patent implements partial action by determining that only the minimum necessary screw length (not the maximum possible length) is required to achieve sufficient shear fracture strength. This avoids the excessive action of using unnecessarily long screws, thereby reducing processing time and construction time while still meeting strength requirements.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #16Partial or excessive action

2Productivity

If the screw length is optimized to reduce processing time, then productivity is improved, but the shear fracture strength may be insufficient

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveprocessing efficiencyVSAvoidshear fracture strength
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSStrength

Solution Approach 1:

The patent uses parameter changes to establish a precise mathematical formula (Expression 1) that calculates the minimum screw length required to maintain sufficient shear fracture strength. This enables productivity improvement by avoiding excessive screw length while ensuring strength requirements are met through optimized parameter selection.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Solution Approach 2:

The patent implements feedback by incorporating the joint efficiency factor in Expression 1, which accounts for the actual performance of the joint relative to the pipe material. This feedback mechanism ensures that the calculated minimum screw length adequately maintains shear fracture strength while optimizing for reduced processing time.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentUS11549620B2Screw joint for oil well pipe
Publication Date: 2023.01.10 JFE STEEL CORP
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AI summary

A screw joint in which an efficient screw length of a joint portion is achieved. This screw joint is for an oil well pipe of an integral type and includes: (i) a pin that is provided with a male screw portion which is a male taper screw, at one end of a steel pipe; and (ii) a box that is provided with a female screw portion which is a female taper screw fitted to the male screw portion, at one end of the steel pipe, in which a structure, in which the pin and the box are in metal contact with each other to seal a fluid, is provided at least at one place of a seal portion on an outer peripheral surface side of a pipe end side of the pin and a seal portion on an inner peripheral surface side of a pipe end side of the box.