Digital mineral logging system
First Claim
1. A mineral logging tool connected by a cable to an electronic digital signal processing means located at the site of the borehole for acquiring mineral logging data of the logging tool in a borehole, comprising:
- a deviometer data sensor having magnetic sensors for generating the five analog signals representing the sensor data to compute the location and orientation of a borehole, including the three magnetic sensors to determine the three mutually orthogonal components of the earth'"'"'s magnetic field and the two gravitational sensors for generating analog signals representing mutually orthogonal components of the earth'"'"'s gravitational field;
means in the tool for digitizing said analog deviometer data signals;
means for storing said digitized signals representing each of said analog signals of said deviometer data; and
means for periodically batch transmitting said stored digital deviometer data signals up to the cable at a predetermined rate to the electronic digital signal processing means to perform computations to determine the location and orientation of the borehole.
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Abstract
A digital mineral logging system acquires data from a mineral logging tool passing through a borehole and transmits the data uphole to an electronic digital signal processor. A predetermined combination of sensors, including a deviometer, is located in a logging tool for the acquistion of the desired data as the logging tool is raised from the borehole. Sensor data in analog format is converted in the logging tool to a digital format and periodically batch transmitted to the surface at a predetermined sampling rate. An identification code is provided for each mineral logging tool, and the code is transmitted to the surface along with the sensor data. The self-identifying tool code is transmitted to the digital signal processor to identify the code against a stored list of the range of numbers assigned to that type of tool. The data is transmitted up the d-c power lines of the tool by a frequency shift key transmission technique. At the surface, a frequency shift key demodulation unit transmits the decoupled data to an asynchronous receiver interfaced to the electronic digital signal processor. During a recording phase, the signals from the logging tool are read by the electronic digital signal processor and stored for later processing. During a calculating phase, the stored data is processed by the digital signal processor and the results are outputted to a printer or plotter, or both.
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26 Claims
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1. A mineral logging tool connected by a cable to an electronic digital signal processing means located at the site of the borehole for acquiring mineral logging data of the logging tool in a borehole, comprising:
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a deviometer data sensor having magnetic sensors for generating the five analog signals representing the sensor data to compute the location and orientation of a borehole, including the three magnetic sensors to determine the three mutually orthogonal components of the earth'"'"'s magnetic field and the two gravitational sensors for generating analog signals representing mutually orthogonal components of the earth'"'"'s gravitational field; means in the tool for digitizing said analog deviometer data signals; means for storing said digitized signals representing each of said analog signals of said deviometer data; and means for periodically batch transmitting said stored digital deviometer data signals up to the cable at a predetermined rate to the electronic digital signal processing means to perform computations to determine the location and orientation of the borehole. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. A mineral logging tool connected by a cable to an electronic digital signal processor means located at the site of the borehole for acquiring mineral logging tool in a borehole, comprising:
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a deviometer data sensor having magnetic sensors for generating analog signals representing mutually orthogonal components of the earth'"'"'s magnetic field and further having gravitational sensors for generating analog signals representing mutually orthogonal components of the earth'"'"'s gravitational field; means in the tool for digitizing said analog signals and for storing the digitized signals; means for periodically transmitting said stored digital signals up the cable to the electronic digital signal processor which performs computations to determine the location and orientation of the borehole; read only memory means for storing an identification code for the mineral logging tool; and means for periodically transmitting said mineral logging tool self-identification code periodically from said read only memory means up the cable to the digital signal processor for identification of the logging tool and verification of the accuracy of said means for transmitting. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19)
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20. A mineral logging tool connected by a cable to an electronic digital signal processor means located at the site of the borehole for acquiring mineral logging data of the logging tool in a borehole, comprising:
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a deviometer data sensor having magnetic sensors for generating analog signals representing mutually orthogonal components of the earth'"'"'s magnetic field and further having gravitational sensors for generating analog signals representing mutually orthogonal components of the earth'"'"'s gravitational field; means in the tool for digitizing said analog signals and for storing the digitized signals; means for periodically transmitting said stored digital signals up the cable to the electronic digital signal processor which performs computations to determine the location and orientation of the borehole; at least one additional logging data sensor for acquiring digital logging data other than deviometer data during the same logging run when said deviometer sensor is operating; means for storing the digital logging data from said additional logging data sensor; means for periodically transmitting data from said storage means up the cable to the electronic digital signal processing means; read only memory means for storing an identification code for the mineral logging; and means for periodically transmitting said mineral logging tool self-identification code periodically from said read only memory means up the cable to the digital signal processor for identification of the logging tool and verification of the accuracy of said means for transmitting.
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21. The method of obtaining the true path of a borehole through an ore formation and other mineral logging data from a mineral logging tool connected by a cable to a mineral logging system in a single pass of the mineral logging tool through the borehole, comprising:
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generating the analog signals containing the information for the mineral log from a deviometer sensor and at least one other mineral logging sensor located in the logging tool; converting the analog signals generated by said sensors to digital signals; sequencing the order in which said analog signals are converted to digital signals; storing the converted digital signal of each of the sensors; and periodically batch transmitting said converted digital signals from said storing means up the cable to the digital mineral logging system. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23, 24, 25)
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26. A mineral logging tool connected by a cable to an electronic digital signal processing means for determining the true path of a borehole through an ore formation and for acquiring additional mineral logging data for a digital logging system during a single pass of the logging tool in the borehole, comprising:
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a deviometer data sensor and at least one other mineral logging data sensor housed within the mineral logging tool for providing the mineral logging data on a single pass of the mineral logging tool through the borehole; means for converting the deviometer sensor data and other analog sensor data from analog signals to digital signals; means for storing said digital signals from said sensors; and means for periodically batch transmitting said stored digital signals up the cable at a predetermined rate to the electronic digital signal processing means to perform computations to determine the location and orientation of the borehole and additional logging information from said other sensor.
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