F22B 37/205
Supporting and spacing arrangements for tubes of a tube bundle
Official title: {Supporting and spacing arrangements for tubes of a tube bundle}
F22B37/205 (Supporting and spacing arrangements for tubes of a tube bundle) appears on 110 US grants and 56 published applications in this corpus.
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Systems and methods for steam separator tie bar repair or replacement31 Dec 2024US 12,183,472 B2GE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy Americas LLC
- Method for fabrication of corrosion-resistant tubing using minimal quantities of specialized material15 Oct 2024US 12,117,166 B2
- Heat exchanger with a bond and a method for manufacturing the same19 Sep 2023US 11,761,716 B2Valmet Technologies Oy
- Alternating offset U-bend support arrangement11 Jul 2023US 11,699,532 B2BWXT Canada Ltd.
- Method for analyzing heat exchanger8 Nov 2022US 11,494,525 B2Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
- Pair of support plates for tubes in a reactor vessel2 Oct 2025US 2025/0305674 A1L Air Liquide, Societe Anonyme Pour L'Etude et L'Exploitation des Procedes Georges Claude
- Method for fabrication of corrosion-resistant tubing using minimal quantities of specialized material11 Apr 2024US 2024/0117964 A1Caliber Elements LLC
- A heat exchanger with a bond and a method for manufacturing the same29 Jul 2021US 2021/0231389 A1Valmet Technologies Oy
- Heat exchanger with heat exchange tubes moveable between aligned and non-aligned positions6 May 2021US 2021/0131314 A1General Electric Company
- Alternating Offset U-Bend Support Arrangement15 Apr 2021US 2021/0110943 A1BWXT Canada Ltd.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Device to reduce local heat flux through a heat exchanger tube29US 4,191,246 ACombustion Engineering, Inc. · 1980
- Tube support structure24US 4,120,350 AThe Babcock & Wilcox Company · 1978
- Heat exchanger tube sheet radial support24US 4,503,903 AWestinghouse Electric Corp. · 1985
- Device for stabilizing the tubes of the bundle of a steam generator having anti-vibration bars21US 5,042,433 AFramatome · 1991
- Anti-vibration support of U-bend flow tubes in a nuclear steam generator21US 5,072,786 AElectric Power Research Institute, Inc. · 1991