Patents by Inventor Alfred Neufert

Alfred Neufert 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).

  • Fuel element of a pressurized-water-nuclear reactor and fuel rod
    Patent number: 5209898
    Abstract: A fuel assembly of a pressurized water nuclear reactor includes at least two fuel rods, respectively, having a cladding tube of given outer and inner diameters and pellets of given outer diameter received in the cladding tube, the fuel rods being disposed in the fuel assembly at a given mutual spacing of center points thereof, a ratio of the given mutual spacing of the center points of the fuel rods to the outer diameter of the cladding tube being in a range between 1.35 and 1.37.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 1989
    Date of Patent: May 11, 1993
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Heinz-Peter Holley, Rolf Holzer, Guenther Lill, Alfred Neufert, Wolfgang Schricker, Peter Suchy