Areva Np Gmbh

Gkn Driveline North America, Inc.

J Todd Lee

Ramon Kuczera

William E Bailey

Salvatore Filippo Leone

Daniel Reibscheid

James Alexander Lyon

A method to load a nuclear fuel rod, comprising, providing nuclear fuel pellets in a fuel plate transfer unit; transferring the nuclear fuel pellets from the fuel plate transfer unit to a fuel pellet column through the use of a belt, indexing the nuclear fuel pellets in the fuel pellet column to a nuclear fuel pellet loading machine; and pushing the fuel pellet column into a fuel rod cladding.

Nuclear fuel rod loading method and apparatus

A frangible grease cap for use in a collapsible constant velocity joint. The frangible grease cap includes a body generally having a circular shape. The frangible grease cap includes an orifice through a center section of the body. The grease cap also includes at least one reduced thickness groove on a surface of the body of the constant velocity joint grease cap. The grease cap has a circumferential flange extending from an end thereof. The grease cap includes reduced thickness grooves having predetermined shapes which will peel or rupture when a predetermined axial load is applied thereto. The grease cap is secured to an inner surface of an outer race through any known securing method which also influences when the grease cap will fracture during or completely release during a crash event when a predetermined axial load is applied thereon.

Grease cap for a constant velocity joint

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J Todd Lee