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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 05, 1989
Filed:
Feb. 25, 1988
Applicant:
Inventor:
Stephen C Hatfield, Granby, CT (US);
Assignee:
Combustion Engineering, Inc., Windsor, CT (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G21C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
376451 ; 376440 ;
Abstract
A solid or hollow replacement rod 40 for use in a pressurized water reactor (PWR) fuel assembly 10 inserts into cells of the spacer grids 18, 20 and 22 past mixing vanes 32, without damaging them, because of its asymmetric tip 42 formed by chamfer 54 and elongated curved surface 52 and its offset 'x' formed by the bowed end section 44.