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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 18, 2011
Filed:
Apr. 17, 2009
Applicant:
Daniel Verne Sommerville, Santa Cruz, CA (US);
Inventor:
Daniel Verne Sommerville, Santa Cruz, CA (US);
Assignee:
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G21C 7/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A device is provided for mitigating vibration in a component of a nuclear reactor by removing vibration energy. To reduce vibration in the component, a device operatively connected to the component and including a magnet may be actuated within a conductive cylinder. This actuation may generate one or more eddy currents providing a damping function for removing vibration energy from the component, so as to alter vibration characteristics of the component.