G21C 19/202
Arrangements for handling ball-form, i.e. pebble fuel
Official title: {Arrangements for handling ball-form, i.e. pebble fuel}
G21C19/202 (Arrangements for handling ball-form, i.e. pebble fuel) appears on 13 US grants and 13 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G21C- Granted patents
- 13
- Published applications
- 13
- Assignees
- 10
- Inventors
- 48
- Latest grant
- 7 May 2024
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Unloading device7 May 2024US 11,978,566 B2Chinergy Co., Ltd.
- Unloading and temporary storage device30 Jan 2024US 11,887,740 B2Chinergy Co., Ltd.
- Spherical object falling buffer device30 May 2023US 11,661,282 B2Tsinghua University
- Spherical element detecting and positioning device for a pebble bed nuclear reactor10 Jan 2023US 11,551,825 B2Tsinghua University
- Nuclear power plant spent fuel negative pressure unloading system26 Jan 2021US 10,902,962 B2Tsinghua University
- Hamr pebble reactor23 Jul 2026US 2026/0213027 A1Odin Electric, Inc.
- Serial high-temperature gas-cooled reactor nuclear systems and operating methods thereof18 Apr 2024US 2024/0127975 A1Huaneng Nuclear Energy Technology Research Institute Co. Ltd.
- Spherical element detecting and positioning device23 Sep 2021US 2021/0296014 A1Tsinghua University
- Unloading and temporary storage device2 Sep 2021US 2021/0272712 A1Tsinghua University
- Spherical object falling buffer device26 Aug 2021US 2021/0261341 A1Tsinghua University
Most cited
By later US patents
- Guide ring to control granular mixing in a pebble-bed nuclear reactor8US 6,865,245 B2Massachusetts Institute of Technology · 2005
- Shut-off device blocking spontaneous passage of spherical bulk material especially in quick emptying pipes of pebble bed reactors6US 4,312,704 AKernforschungsanlage Julich Gesellschaft mit beschrankter Haftung · 1982
- Nuclear reactor refuelable in space6US 5,106,574 AUniversity of New Mexico · 1992
- Process for loading the reactor cavity of a nuclear reactor4US 4,356,145 AHochtemperatur-Reaktorbau GmbH · 1982
- Operating element charging and withdrawal in a gas cooled high temperature reactor4US 4,654,189 AHochtemperatur-Reaktorbau GmbH · 1987