CONNECTING DEVICE FOR CONNECTING ELECTRICAL POWER SUPPLY LINES OF DRILLING AND PRODUCTION FACILITIES

• US 20130009459A1
• Filed: 02/03/2011
• Published: 01/10/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 02/11/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Advanced Drilling Solutions GmbH
• Original Assignee: Advanced Drilling Solutions GmbH
• Inventors: Scheibelmasser, Anton, Lamik, Abdelrhani, Lamik-Thonhauser, Bouchra, Lindner, Werner, Karpf, Robert
• Application Number:
  US13/578,329
• Publication Number:
  US 20130009459A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 307/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 2203/5475 adapted for drill or well combined with data transmission
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 3/546 Combination of signalling, telemetering, protection circuits for remote indication of supply or distribution network condition H02J13/00

Abstract

A connecting device, for example, a plug (1) for connecting electrical power supply lines (3), includes a connection (4a) for feeding electrical signals representing the operating state of an electrical, mechanical, hydraulic, or optical device into the power supply line (3). The use of such a connecting device in drilling and production facilities is also described.

Claims

1. Connecting device for connecting electrical power supply lines (3) of drilling and production facilities, characterized in that the connecting device (1) has a connection (4a) for the feed of electrical signals that represent the operating state of a device (8, 14, 15) into the power supply line (3).

2. Connecting device according to claim 1, wherein the connection (4a) is provided on a modem (4), especially a PLC modem.

3. Connecting device according to claim 2, wherein the modem (4) is supplied with current from the power supply line (3).

4. Connecting device according to claim 1, wherein a central data acquisition device (10) is connected to the power supply line (3), preferably via a modem (4), especially a PLC modem.

5. Connecting device according to claim 2, wherein the modems (4) are interconnected in a bus topology.

6. Connecting device according to claim 2, wherein the modems (4) are connected to one another via a master-slave communication (10 to 13).

7. Connecting device according to claim 1, wherein the connection (4a) is made bidirectional.

8. Connecting device according to claim 1, wherein a microcontroller (6) is connected upstream or downstream from the connection (4a), especially the modem (4).

9. Connecting device according to claim 1, wherein a measurement device (5) for an operating state is connected upstream from the connection (4a), especially the modem (4).

10. Connecting device according to claim 9, wherein the measurement device (5) measures values of the power supply line (3).

11. Connecting device according to claim 8, wherein the measurement device (5) and/or the microcontroller (6) has at least one external connection (16, 17), via which measured values or data from measurement devices or sensors that represent operating states or data of the consumer or his vicinity can be fed.

12. Connecting device according to claim 8, wherein the measurement device (5) and/or the microcontroller (6) has at least one external connection (16, 17) via which units of the installation can be controlled.

13. Connecting device according to claim 1, wherein it is a plug (1), a socket (2), a coupling or the like.

14. Connecting device according to claim 13, wherein the modem (4) and/or the microcontroller (6) and/or the measurement device (5) is/are integrated into the housing of the plug (1), the socket (2), the coupling or the like.