Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Nuclear fuel assembly support grid
- Patent Title (中): 核燃料组件支撑电网
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Application No.: US12609259Application Date: 2009-10-30
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Publication No.: US08369475B2Publication Date: 2013-02-05
- Inventor: Yong (Roger) Lu , Xiaoyan (Jane) Jiang , Michael E. Conner , Paul M. Evans
- Applicant: Yong (Roger) Lu , Xiaoyan (Jane) Jiang , Michael E. Conner , Paul M. Evans
- Applicant Address: US PA Cranberry Township
- Assignee: Westinghouse Electric Company LLC
- Current Assignee: Westinghouse Electric Company LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US PA Cranberry Township
- Main IPC: G21C3/352
- IPC: G21C3/352 ; G21C3/34 ; G21C3/00

Abstract:
A nuclear fuel assembly support grid formed from an array of a plurality of orthogonally arranged straps in an egg-crate configuration with angled trailing and/or leading edges that are designed to break the correlation of vortices shed from the edges of the grid straps by varying the phase of the vortices to avoid resonant vibration of the straps.
Public/Granted literature
- US20110002436A1 NUCLEAR FUEL ASSEMBLY SUPPORT GRID Public/Granted day:2011-01-06
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