DOWNHOLE MOTOR SPINDLE Russian patent published in 2014 - IPC E21B4/02 

FIELD: mining.

SUBSTANCE: invention refers to drilling equipment, and namely to downhole motors for well drilling. A spindle includes a housing, a throttle and a shaft with a through axial channel, which is installed in the housing with possibility of axial movement within the limits of a guaranteed play. Between three sealed radial supports there installed are two sections of a multistage bearing plate to take an axial load in downward and upward directions. Each stage of the bearing plate consists of discs with supply hydraulic channels and flow centre plates, the rubber elements of which have annular chambers forming together with discs the thrust hydrostatic bearings. A throttle is replaceable and installed in an axial channel of the shaft. Diameter of the throttle pass for creation of pressure drop is chosen in compliance with an expected hydraulic load on the axial support in start-up operating mode of the motor. On outer surface of the shaft there are blind longitudinal slots hydraulically connecting in a separate manner a cavity above upper radial support to annular chambers of the upper section of the bearing plate and a cavity above the middle radial support to annular chambers of the lower section of the bearing plate. The cavity above lower radial support is hydraulically interconnected with the shaft axial channel below the throttle.

EFFECT: improvement of a motor structure.

1 cl, 3 dwg, 2 tbl