Patent ID: 7958941

Claim:
An assembly for downhole equipment deployment, comprising: a liner hanger having a wall and a bore, a plurality of pin holes through the wall equidistant from the uphole end of the liner hanger, and means for attachment of the downhole end of the liner hanger to the uphole end of deployable equipment; a top sub having a wall, a throat section at its downhole end and a plurality of pin holes through the wall in the throat section, the pin holes alignable with the corresponding pin holes of the liner hanger, the downhole end of the top sub insertable into the uphole end of the liner hanger, and the uphole end of the top sub attachable to the downhole end of a string by top sub string attachment means; a lock piston having at its downhole end a plurality of collet fingers with a slot defined between each pair of adjacent collet fingers, the downhole end of each slot having a pin entrance with a first width greater than the width of the remainder of the slot, each of the pin entrances alignable with corresponding pin holes of the top sub and liner hanger, the lock piston insertable into the throat section of the top sub with the collet fingers oriented downhole, wherein the circumference of the lock piston at the position of the pin entrances is greater than its circumference at the position of the uphole end of the slot; a plurality of lock pins, insertable through the pin holes of the top sub, the pin holes of the liner hanger, and the pin entrances of the slots of the lock piston; means for releasably connecting the top sub and the lock piston; and means for remotely releasing the liner hanger from the top sub and the lock piston.