Patents by Inventor Malcolm F. Ross

Malcolm F. Ross 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).

  • In-core fuel management for nuclear reactor
    Patent number: 4574069
    Abstract: An arrangement of square fuel assemblies in the first and subsequent cycles of a pressurized water nuclear reactor wherein shimmed feed assemblies and once-burned or equivalent assemblies occupy the same checkerboard component of alternating diagonals in an inner region of the core, and the highest burned or equivalent assemblies occupy the other checkerboard component. The remainder of the core consists of an outer region containing another checkerboard of feed assemblies wherein the feed assemblies occupy less than one-half the assembly locations on the core periphery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 1984
    Date of Patent: March 4, 1986
    Assignee: Combustion Engineering, Inc.
    Inventors: Malcolm F. Ross, Sidney Visner
  • In-core fuel management for nuclear reactor
    Patent number: 4451427
    Abstract: An arrangement of square fuel assemblies in the first and subsequent cycles of a pressurized water nuclear reactor wherein shimmed feed assemblies and once-burned or equivalent assemblies occupy the same checkerboard component of alternating diagonals in an inner region of the core, and the highest burned or equivalent assemblies occupy the other checkerboard component. The remainder of the core consists of an outer region containing another checkerboard of feed assemblies wherein the feed assemblies occupy less than one-half the assembly locations on the core periphery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 1980
    Date of Patent: May 29, 1984
    Assignee: Combustion Engineering, Inc.
    Inventors: Malcolm F. Ross, Sidney Visner