Patents by Inventor Hideki Kurosaki
Hideki Kurosaki 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).
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Patent number: 6728329Abstract: A fuel assembly having a plurality of fuel rods arranged in a square lattice array. The fuel rods include a plurality of short-length fuel rods each having a fuel active length shorter than that of each of remaining ones of the fuel rods. At least one water rod is arranged in a region in which one or more of the fuel rods are arrangeable in the array, and a plurality of fuel spacers are provided at a plurality of positions in the axial direction for holding the plurality of fuel rods and the at least one water rod, with mutual radial intervals therebetween being kept immovable. The plurality of short-length fuel rods include at least one first short-length fuel rod arranged in the outermost peripheral region of the square lattice array. Each of the plurality of fuel spacers include a plurality of cylindrical members.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2002Date of Patent: April 27, 2004Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Engineering Co., Ltd.Inventors: Atsuya Hirano, Satoshi Kanno, Makoto Irube, Hideki Kurosaki, Yasuhiro Aizawa, Takashi Fukumoto
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Publication number: 20020136348Abstract: A fuel assembly having a plurality of fuel rods arranged in a square lattice array. The fuel rods include a plurality of short-length fuel rods each having a fuel active length shorter than that of each of remaining ones of the fuel rods. At least one water rod is arranged in a region in which one or more of the fuel rods are arrangeable in the array, and a plurality of fuel spacers are provided at a plurality of positions in the axial direction for holding the plurality of fuel rods and the at least one water rod, with mutual radial intervals therebetween being kept immovable. The plurality of short-length fuel rods include at least one first short-length fuel rod arranged in the outermost peripheral region of the square lattice array. Each of the plurality of fuel spacers include a plurality of cylindrical members.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 30, 2002Publication date: September 26, 2002Inventors: Atsuya Hirano, Satoshi Kanno, Makoto Irube, Hideki Kurosaki, Yasuhiro Aizawa, Takashi Fukumoto
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Publication number: 20020075988Abstract: Disclosed is a fuel assembly, particularly, a fuel assembly including short-length fuel rods and fuel spacers, used for a boiling water reactor, which is capable of sufficiently reducing the pressure loss of at least one, of the fuel spacers, positioned upward from the upper ends of the short-length fuel rods irrespective of arrangement of the short-length fuel rods, and also ensuring the structural strength of the fuel spacer. The fuel assembly includes fuel rods located in a square lattice array, two water rods arranged in a region in which seven pieces of the fuel rods are arrangeable, two fuel spacers for holding the fuel rods and the water rods with mutual intervals kept immovable. Each of the fuel spaces includes cells which are connected to each other and in which the fuel rods are to be inserted respectively, and a band for surrounding the outermost peripheries of the cells.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 8, 1999Publication date: June 20, 2002Inventors: ATSUYA HIRANO, SATOSHI KANNO, MAKOTO IRUBE, HIDEKI KUROSAKI, YASUHIRO AIZAWA, TAKASHI FUKUMOTO
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Patent number: 6400788Abstract: A fuel assembly, particularly, a fuel assembly including short-length fuel rods and fuel spacers, is used for a boiling water reactor, which is capable of sufficiently reducing the pressure loss of at least one of the fuel spacers positioned above the upper ends of the short-length fuel rods, irrespective of the arrangement of the short-length fuel rods, and also ensuring the structural strength of the fuel spacer. The fuel assembly includes fuel rods located in a square lattice array, two water rods arranged in a region in which seven of the fuel rods are arrangeable, two fuel spacers for holding the fuel rods and the water rods with mutual intervals kept immovable. Each of the fuel spacers includes cells which are connected to each other and in which the fuel rods are to be inserted, respectively, and a band for surrounding the outermost peripheries of the cells. The short-length fuel rods include four first short-length fuel rods arranged in the outermost peripheral region of the square lattice array.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 1999Date of Patent: June 4, 2002Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Engineering Co., Ltd.Inventors: Atsuya Hirano, Satoshi Kanno, Makoto Irube, Hideki Kurosaki, Yasuhiro Aizawa, Takashi Fukumoto
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Patent number: 5828715Abstract: Fuel rod 2 has a fuel cladding tube 3, and upper end plug 5 and a lower end plug 6 welded to the ends of fuel cladding tube 3. He gas 1 and U pellets 4 are filled in the fuel cladding tube 3. The He gas pressure 1 is about 8 atm, and the average crystal grain size of the U pellet 4 is in the range of 30-60 .mu.m. The fuel rod can be manufactured at a lower manufacturing cost, while maintaining the fuel integrity the same as in a conventional fuel rod.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 1996Date of Patent: October 27, 1998Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Engineering Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hideki Kurosaki, Kenichi Ito, Masana Sasaki, Kensuke Tokunaga
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Patent number: 5640435Abstract: The lower end of each of a plurality of fuel rods is supported by a fuel supporting portion of a lower tie plate. The fuel supporting portion includes a plurality of second coolant paths for supplying a coolant from below the fuel supporting portion to a first coolant path defined above the fuel supporting portion and between the fuel rods. The total cross-sectional area of all the second coolant paths is smaller than the cross-sectional area of the first coolant path.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 1994Date of Patent: June 17, 1997Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Hideki Kurosaki, Junjiro Nakajima, Hajime Umehara, Shozo Nakamura, Satoshi Kanno, Koji Nishida, Yasunori Bessho, Masahisa Inagaki, Osamu Yokomizo, Yuichiro Yoshimoto
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Patent number: 5617456Abstract: The lower end of each of a plurality of fuel rods is supported by a fuel supporting portion of a lower tie plate. The fuel supporting portion includes a plurality of second coolant paths for supplying a coolant from below the fuel supporting portion to a first coolant path defined above the fuel supporting portion and between the fuel rods. The total cross-sectional area of all the second coolant paths is smaller than the cross-sectional area of the first coolant path.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 1995Date of Patent: April 1, 1997Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Hideki Kurosaki, Junjiro Nakajima, Hajime Umehara, Shozo Nakamura, Satoshi Kanno, Koji Nishida, Yasunori Bessho, Masahisa Inagaki, Osamu Yokomizo, Yuichiro Yoshimoto