Patent ID: 11891863
Assignee: HALLIBURTON ENERGY SERVICES, INC.
Field: Machine tools (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC E  B  C | IPC B  C  E

Claim 0:
1. A method comprising:
injecting a plurality of particles into a heated metal matrix material thereby forming a mixture of the particles and the heated metal matrix material, wherein the plurality of particles are in a bimodal distribution of particles having large size particles in the range between about 200 μm and about 1 mm constituting between 30-70 weight percentage of the plurality of particles and small size particles in the range between about 15 μm and 125 μm constituting the remaining weight of the plurality of particles;
disposing the mixture on at least a portion of a substrate thereby forming a hardfacing member having the substrate and a particle-embedded metal matrix material; and
removably attaching the hardfacing member to a main body of a rotary steerable pad of a rotary steerable tool via a removable attachment mechanism.