Patents by Inventor Fernand Giordano

Fernand Giordano has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Safety device for a nuclear reactor and especially a fast reactor
    Patent number: 4019954
    Abstract: The safety device comprises an absorber element connected by a separable coupling to the lower end of a vertical operating stem. When released, the absorber element drops under gravity from a top position to a bottom position within an open-topped casing placed among wrappers containing fuel pin bundles. In the top position of the absorber element, the disconnectable coupling is placed at the top and partly within the interior of the casing while the absorber element extends within said casing into the peripheral blanket zone located externally of the central fuel zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 1974
    Date of Patent: April 26, 1977
    Assignee: Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique
    Inventors: Fernand Giordano, Pierre Marmonier, Jean Vayra