G21C 3/12
Means forming part of the element for locating it within the reactor
Official title: Means forming part of the element for locating it within the reactor core {(means not forming part of the element G21C5/06)}
G21C3/12 (Means forming part of the element for locating it within the reactor) appears on 52 US grants and 13 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G21C- Granted patents
- 52
- Published applications
- 13
- Assignees
- 27
- Inventors
- 111
- Latest grant
- 5 Aug 2025
Filings by year
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| 1976 | 2 | 0 |
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| 1978 | 3 | 0 |
| 1979 | 0 | 0 |
| 1980 | 2 | 0 |
| 1981 | 1 | 0 |
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| 2000 | 1 | 0 |
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| 2002 | 0 | 0 |
| 2003 | 0 | 1 |
| 2004 | 0 | 0 |
| 2005 | 1 | 1 |
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| 2008 | 1 | 0 |
| 2009 | 0 | 0 |
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| 2011 | 0 | 1 |
| 2012 | 0 | 1 |
| 2013 | 0 | 1 |
| 2014 | 2 | 0 |
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| 2016 | 0 | 1 |
| 2017 | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | 0 | 1 |
| 2019 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | 1 | 0 |
| 2021 | 0 | 1 |
| 2022 | 1 | 3 |
| 2023 | 1 | 0 |
| 2024 | 1 | 2 |
| 2025 | 1 | 0 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001.
Recent patents
- Lower end fitting locating pins5 Aug 2025US 12,381,015 B2BWXT mPower, Inc.
- Method for manufacturing multi-layered nuclear fuel cladding pipe20 Aug 2024US 12,068,083 B2Gachon University of Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation
- Fast-neutron reactor fuel rod21 Mar 2023US 11,610,692 B2State Atomic Energy Corporation "Rosatom" On Behalf of the Russian Federation
- Lower end fitting locating pins29 Mar 2022US 11,289,209 B2BWXT mPower, Inc.
- Fuel rod cladding, fuel rod and fuel assembly21 Jul 2020US 10,720,244 B2Joint Stock Company “Akme-Engineering”
- Interlocking fuel assembly structure for core reactivity control8 Aug 2024US 2024/0266080 A1TerraPower, LLC
- Core assembly sodium flow control system11 Apr 2024US 2024/0120118 A1TerraPower, LLC
- Method for manufacturing multi-layered nuclear fuel cladding pipe4 Aug 2022US 2022/0241889 A1Gachon University of Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation
- Debris filtering skirt arrangement for nuclear fuel assembly bottom nozzle and bottom nozzle including same7 Jul 2022US 2022/0215971 A1Westinghouse Electric Corp.
- Lower end fitting locating pins23 Jun 2022US 2022/0199269 A1BWXT mPower, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Top nozzle-mounted replacement guide pin assemblies30US 5,207,980 AWestinghouse Electric Corp. · 1993
- Arrangement for retaining a fuel rod in a reconstitutable fuel assembly25US 4,391,771 ACombustion Engineering, Inc. · 1983
- Device and method for locking rods in a bottom tie plate of a fuel assembly22US 6,310,931 B1ABB Atom AB · 2001
- Locking support for nuclear fuel assemblies20US 4,194,948 AGeneral Atomic Company · 1980
- Hold-down device of fuel assembly top nozzle employing leaf springs19US 4,671,924 AWestinghouse Electric Corp. · 1987