G21C 9/012
By thermal accumulation or by steam condensation
Official title: by thermal accumulation or by steam condensation, e.g. ice condensers
G21C9/012 (By thermal accumulation or by steam condensation) appears on 92 US grants and 54 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G21C- Granted patents
- 92
- Published applications
- 54
- Assignees
- 40
- Inventors
- 207
- Latest grant
- 28 Jan 2025
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1976 | 1 | 0 |
| 1977 | 3 | 0 |
| 1978 | 1 | 0 |
| 1979 | 5 | 0 |
| 1980 | 3 | 0 |
| 1981 | 3 | 0 |
| 1982 | 2 | 0 |
| 1983 | 2 | 0 |
| 1984 | 1 | 0 |
| 1985 | 2 | 0 |
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| 1987 | 6 | 0 |
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| 1991 | 4 | 0 |
| 1992 | 2 | 0 |
| 1993 | 0 | 0 |
| 1994 | 3 | 0 |
| 1995 | 2 | 0 |
| 1996 | 2 | 0 |
| 1997 | 1 | 0 |
| 1998 | 1 | 0 |
| 1999 | 0 | 0 |
| 2000 | 0 | 0 |
| 2001 | 1 | 0 |
| 2002 | 0 | 0 |
| 2003 | 1 | 1 |
| 2004 | 0 | 0 |
| 2005 | 0 | 1 |
| 2006 | 0 | 1 |
| 2007 | 0 | 0 |
| 2008 | 0 | 0 |
| 2009 | 1 | 3 |
| 2010 | 1 | 0 |
| 2011 | 0 | 0 |
| 2012 | 1 | 3 |
| 2013 | 2 | 6 |
| 2014 | 3 | 5 |
| 2015 | 2 | 3 |
| 2016 | 1 | 3 |
| 2017 | 4 | 5 |
| 2018 | 1 | 9 |
| 2019 | 3 | 4 |
| 2020 | 12 | 8 |
| 2021 | 5 | 0 |
| 2022 | 2 | 1 |
| 2023 | 3 | 1 |
| 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | 1 | 0 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001.
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By later US patents
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- Passive safety device for emergency steam dump and heat removal for steam generators in nuclear power reactors27US 4,687,626 A1987
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