An untethered device includes a tool and a ballast weight. The ballast weight includes an attachment plate that is securable to the tool, a dissolvable ballast, and attachment elements that secure the dissolvable ballast to the attachment plate. At least one of the attachment elements is dissolvable to release the dissolvable ballast from the attachment plate.
Downhole robots with dissolvable fail-safe ballast
2025-02-25
Patent
Electronic Resource
English
Automotive engineering | 1988
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