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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:
Dec. 28, 1993
Filed:
Sep. 25, 1992
Applicant:
Inventor:
William J Bryan, Granby, CT (US);
Assignee:
Combustion Engineering, Inc., Windsor, CT (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G21C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
376414 ; 376457 ; 376416 ;
Abstract
A method for enhancing the wear and corrosion resistance of a tubular nuclear fuel assembly component (40), comprising the step of coating the component with a corrosion and wear resistant material by an anodic arc plasma deposition process (70). The coating is preferably a nitride reactively formed during the plasma deposition process. The component is preferably a nuclear fuel rod cladding tube and the coating material is one of ZrN or TiN.