G21C 17/066
Control of spherical elements
Official title: {Control of spherical elements}
G21C17/066 (Control of spherical elements) appears on 10 US grants and 11 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G21C- Granted patents
- 10
- Published applications
- 11
- Assignees
- 11
- Inventors
- 40
- Latest grant
- 17 Mar 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Robust automatic tracking of individual triso-fueled pebbles through a novel application of x-ray imaging and machine learning17 Mar 2026US 12,580,089 B2University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc.
- Spherical element detecting and positioning device for a pebble bed nuclear reactor10 Jan 2023US 11,551,825 B2Tsinghua University
- Radionuclide generation system15 Mar 2022US 11,276,507 B2Framatome
- Sample holder assembly for effective thermal conductivity measurement of pebble-bed in laser flash apparatus23 Feb 2021US 10,928,338 B2Korea Basic Science Institute
- Fuel ball detecting method and system with self-diagnosis function4 Feb 2020US 10,553,323 B2Tsinghua University
- Robust automatic tracking of individual triso-fueled pebbles through a novel application of x-ray imaging and machine learning2 Jul 2026US 2026/0188532 A1University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc.
- Robust automatic tracking of individual triso-fueled pebbles through a novel application of x-ray imaging and machine learning9 Mar 2023US 2023/0072324 A1University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc.
- Spherical element detecting and positioning device23 Sep 2021US 2021/0296014 A1Tsinghua University
- Sample holder assembly for effective thermal conductivity measurement of pebble-bed in laser flash apparatus3 Oct 2019US 2019/0302044 A1Korea Basic Science Institute
- Radionuclide generation system25 Jan 2018US 2018/0025802 A1Areva GmbH
Most cited
By later US patents
- Method for testing the strength and structural integrity of nuclear fuel particles7US 5,459,767 ALockheed Idaho Technologies Company · 1995
- Fuel elements for nuclear reactors and method for testing the circulation of fuel elements in a core of a nuclear reactor1US 4,092,217 AHochtemperatur-Kernkraftwerk GmbH (HKG) Gemeinsames Europaisches Unternehman · 1978
- Apparatus for the monitoring of the passsage of conductive objects through a tube1US 4,424,187 AKernforschungsanlage Ju/ lich GmbH · 1984