G21C 3/324
Coats or envelopes for the bundles
G21C3/324 (Coats or envelopes for the bundles) appears on 92 US grants and 57 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G21C- Granted patents
- 92
- Published applications
- 57
- Assignees
- 41
- Inventors
- 248
- Latest grant
- 19 May 2026
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| 1976 | 1 | 0 |
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| 1978 | 5 | 0 |
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| 1981 | 2 | 0 |
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| 2003 | 1 | 1 |
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| 2007 | 0 | 2 |
| 2008 | 0 | 1 |
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| 2010 | 2 | 1 |
| 2011 | 0 | 1 |
| 2012 | 1 | 6 |
| 2013 | 0 | 1 |
| 2014 | 3 | 4 |
| 2015 | 3 | 4 |
| 2016 | 2 | 3 |
| 2017 | 3 | 2 |
| 2018 | 2 | 5 |
| 2019 | 2 | 3 |
| 2020 | 3 | 3 |
| 2021 | 4 | 0 |
| 2022 | 3 | 6 |
| 2023 | 2 | 7 |
| 2024 | 5 | 0 |
| 2025 | 2 | 1 |
| 2026 | 3 | 2 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Channel boxes for a boiling water reactor and methods of manufacture thereof19 May 2026US 12,633,425 B2Westinghouse Electric Corp.
- Fuel bundle with twisted ribbon fuel rodlets for nuclear thermal propulsion applications, structures for manufacture, and methods of manufacture12 May 2026US 12,626,829 B2BWXT Advanced Technologies LLC
- Carbide-based fuel assembly for thermal propulsion applications20 Jan 2026US 12,531,166 B2BWXT Nuclear Energy, Inc.
- Continuous fiber-reinforced silicon carbide member, manufacturing method thereof, and nuclear reactor structural member20 May 2025US 12,304,176 B2Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Carbide-based fuel assembly for thermal propulsion applications11 Mar 2025US 12,249,435 B2BWXT Nuclear Energy, Inc.
- Fuel bundle with twisted ribbon fuel rodlets for nuclear thermal propulsion applications, structures for manufacture, and methods of manufacture6 Aug 2026US 2026/0229376 A1BWXT Advanced Technologies LLC
- Fuel Assembly and Method for Producing Fuel Assembly8 Jan 2026US 2026/0011457 A1Hitachi GE Vernova Nuclear Energy, Ltd.
- Mandrel-wound, splined monolithic fuel assembly core, fuel assembly and reactor incorporating same, and methods of manufacture23 Jan 2025US 2025/0029740 A1BWXT Advanced Technologies LLC
- Channel boxes for a boiling water reactor and methods of manufacture thereof26 Oct 2023US 2023/0343475 A1Westinghouse Electric Corp.
- Carbide-based fuel assembly for thermal propulsion applications12 Oct 2023US 2023/0326618 A1BWXT Advanced Technologies LLC
Most cited
By later US patents
- Thin walled channel42US 4,749,544 AGeneral Electric Company · 1988
- Composite nozzle design for reactor fuel assembly36US 4,427,624 AWestinghouse Electric Corp. · 1984
- Large BWR fuel channel design23US 5,519,746 AGeneral Electric Company · 1996
- Fuel assembly and reactor core and fuel spacer and channel box22US 6,516,043 B1Hitachi Engineering Co., Ltd. · 2003
- Axially shaped channel and integral flow trippers20US 4,749,543 AGeneral Electric Company · 1988