1. A method for taking a sample from a subterranean formation, comprising:
(a) conveying a tool into a wellbore intersecting the subterranean formation;
(b) substantially isolating isolation an annular region proximate to the sampling tool;
(c) flowing fluid out of the annular region; and
(d) retrieving at least one core sample from the subterranean formation in the annular region.
2. The method of claim 1 further comprising decreasing a pressure in the annular region.
3. The method of claim 1 further comprising drawing fluid out of the annular region until the annular region is substantially filled with a formation fluid.
4. The method of claim 3 wherein the at least one core sample is retrieved after the annular region is substantially filled with the formation fluid.
5. The method of claim 1 further comprising retrieving a fluid sample from the annular region.
6. The method of claim 5 further comprising analyzing the retrieved fluid sample.
7. The method of claim 5 further comprising storing the fluid sample with the at least one core sample.
8. The method of claim 1 further comprising performing in the annular region one of (i) a pressure profile test, and (ii) a drawdown test.
9. An apparatus for retrieving a sample from a wellbore drilled in a subterranean formation, comprising:
(a) a coring device;
(b) an isolation member substantially isolating an annular region proximate to the coring device; and
(c) a pump in fluid communication with the wellbore and with the annular region.
10. The apparatus of claim 9 wherein the pump decreases a pressure in the annular region.
11. The apparatus of claim 9 wherein the pump pumps fluid out of the annular region until the annular region is substantially filled with a formation fluid.
12. The apparatus of claim 9 further comprising at least one analyzing a fluid retrieved from the annular region.
13. The apparatus of claim 9 further comprising a fluid sampling device retrieving a fluid sample from the annular region.
14. The apparatus of claim 9 further comprising a container receiving the at least one core sample retrieved by the coring device.
15. The apparatus of claim 14 wherein the container stores the at least one core sample in a formation fluid.
16. A method for taking a sample from a subterranean formation, comprising:
(a) retrieving a formation fluid from the subterranean formation; and
(b) retrieving at least one core sample in the formation fluid.
17. The method of claim 16 further comprising storing the at least one core sample in the formation fluid.
18. The method of claim 16 further comprising retrieving the formation fluid into an isolated zone of a wellbore.
19. The method of claim 16 further comprising storing a sample of the formation fluid.
20. The method of claim 16 further comprising analyzing a sample of the formation fluid.
21. The method of claim 5 further comprising storing the fluid sample at a separate location.
22. The apparatus of claim 9 wherein the isolation member comprises at least two axially spaced-apart isolation elements.
23. The apparatus of claim 9 further comprising a hydraulics module energizing one of: (i) the coring device, (ii) the annular isolation member, and (iii) the pump.
24. The apparatus of claim 9 further comprising at least one arm radially displacing the coring device.
25. The apparatus of claim 9 further comprising a wireline coupled to the coring device.
26. The apparatus of claim 9 further comprising an electronics module is operatively coupled to the coring device and provides one of: (i) power, (ii) communication signals.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
1. An audio signal transmission circuit comprising:
a codec to provide analog audio signals and digital audio signals;
an amplifier connected to the codec to receive the analog audio signals, wherein the amplifier includes two input terminals connected to the codec to receive a left-channel and a right-channel of the analog audio signals respectively, and two output terminals to output amplified analog audio signals;
a control circuit connected to the codec to receive the digital audio signals and connected to the amplifier to selectively turn off the amplifier; and
an output port connected to the amplifier and the control circuit to receive the analog audio signals and the digital audio signals, wherein the output port comprises:
a first interface configured to connect to the analog system, the first interface having two input terminals each connected to a corresponding output terminal of the amplifier via a capacitor, and grounded via a resistor;
a second interface configured to connect to the digital system, the second interface having a power terminal and a data terminal connected to the control circuit;
a grounded reference terminal;
a first feedback terminal connected to the control circuit; and
a second feedback terminal connected to the control circuit, wherein the first and the second feedback terminals are elastically deformed by a plug of the analog system to contact the grounded reference terminal to turn off the control circuit when the first interface is connected to the analog system, and the first feedback terminal is elastically deformed by a plug of the digital system to contact the grounded reference terminal to turn off the amplifier when the second interface is connected to the digital system.
2. The audio signal transmission circuit as claimed in claim 1, wherein the control circuit comprises:
an XNOR gate having a first input terminal connected to a power source, a second input terminal connected to the power source and the first feedback terminal of the output port, and an output terminal;
an AND gate having a first input terminal connected to the output terminal of the XNOR gate, a second input terminal connected to the codec to receive the digital audio signals, and an output terminal connected to the data terminal of the second interface of the output port;
a first electric switch having a first terminal connected to the power source and the second feedback terminal of the output port, a second terminal grounded, and a third terminal connected to the first input terminal of the XNOR gate;
a second electric switch having a first terminal connected to the first feedback terminal of the output port, a second terminal grounded, and a third terminal connected to the power source and the control terminal of the amplifier;
a third electric switch having a first terminal connected to the power source, a second terminal connected to the power source, and a third terminal connected to the power terminal of the second interface of the output port; and
a fourth electric switch having a first terminal connected to the output terminal of the XNOR gate, a second terminal grounded, and a third terminal connected to the first terminal of the third electric switch.
3. The audio signal transmission circuit as claimed in claim 2, wherein the first, second, and fourth electric switches are NPN transistors, and the third electric switch is a MOSFET.
4. An audio signal transmission circuit comprising:
a codec to provide analog audio signals and a digital audio signals;
an amplifier connected to the codec to receive the analog audio signals, wherein the amplifier comprises:
two input terminals connected to the codec to receive a right-channel and a left-channel of the analog audio signals respectively;
a control terminal;
two output terminals to output amplified analog audio signals; and
two output feedback terminals controlled by the control terminal, wherein a voltage of the feedback terminals goes to low level when the control terminal receives a low level signal;
a control circuit connected to the codec to receive the digital audio signals and connected to the control terminal of the amplifier to selectively turn off the amplifier;
a front audio port connected to the amplifier to receive amplified analog audio signals generated by the amplifier; and
a rear audio port connected to the amplifier and the control circuit to selectively receive the amplified analog audio signals or the digital audio signals,
wherein when the rear audio port is connected to an analog system, the rear audio port outputs the amplified analog audio signals to the analog system and turns off the control circuit and the front audio port; when the rear audio port is connected to a digital system, the rear audio port outputs the digital audio signals to the digital system and turns off the amplifier and the front audio port; and when the rear audio port is idle the front audio port works and the control circuit is turned off.
5. The audio signal transmission circuit as claimed in claim 4, wherein the front audio port includes four signal terminals connected to the output terminals and the output feedback terminals of the amplifier respectively to form two audio signal loops, and the front audio port receives the amplified analog audio signals when the voltage of the feedback terminals are low level.
6. The audio signal transmission circuit as claimed in claim 5, wherein the rear audio port includes:
a first interface which can be used to connect to the analog system, the first interface having two input terminals each connected to the corresponding output terminal of the amplifier via a capacitor, and grounded via a resistor;
a second interface which can be used to connect to the digital system, the second interface having a power terminal and a data terminal connected to the control circuit;
a grounded reference terminal;
a first feedback terminal connected to the control circuit; and
a second feedback terminal connected to the control circuit,
wherein the first and the second feedback terminals elastically contact the reference terminal to turn off the control circuit when the first interface is connected to the analog system, and the first feedback terminal elastically contacts the reference terminal to turn off the amplifier when the second interface is connected to the digital system.
7. The audio signal transmission circuit as claimed in claim 6, wherein the control circuit includes:
an XNOR gate having a first input terminal connected to a power source, a second input terminal connected to the power source and the first feedback terminal of the output port, and an output terminal;
an AND gate having a first input terminal connected to the output terminal of the XNOR gate, a second input terminal connected to the codec to receive the digital audio signals, and an output terminal connected to the data terminal of the second interface of the output port;
a first electric switch having a first terminal connected to the power source and the second feedback terminal of the output port, a second terminal grounded, and a third terminal connected to the first input terminal of the XNOR gate;
a second electric switch having a first terminal connected to the first feedback terminal of the output port, a second terminal grounded, and a third terminal connected to the power source and the control terminal of the amplifier;
a third electric switch having a first terminal connected to the power source, a second terminal connected to the power source, and a third terminal connected to the power terminal of the second interface of the output port; and
a fourth electric switch having a first terminal connected to the output terminal of the XNOR gate, a second terminal grounded, and a third terminal connected to the first terminal of the third electric switch.
8. The audio signal transmission circuit as claimed in claim 7, wherein the first, second, and fourth electric switches are NPN transistors, and the third electric switch is a MOSFET.