Patents by Inventor Clifford W. Henry

Clifford W. Henry 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).

  • Spent fuel storage rack
    Patent number: 5245641
    Abstract: A spent fuel rack for storing fresh fuel assemblies, or spent fuel assemblies removed from a nuclear reactor, which includes a base plate having multiple cells of modular construction welded at their bottom ends to the plate. The cells are formed of L-shaped sections having walls which support neutron absorbing material, and the walls of one cell are common to the adjacent cells. The base plate includes openings primarily for receiving the bottom nozzle of a fuel assembly, but they further serve as access openings for apparatus used for leveling the base plate. There is also means for receiving and locking the engaging mechanism of lifting apparatus which means is wholly within the periphery of the base plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 1989
    Date of Patent: September 14, 1993
    Assignee: Westinghouse Electric Corp.
    Inventors: Octavio J. Machado, Clifford W. Henry, Ray L. Congleton, William M. Flynn
  • Spent fuel storage rack for BWR fuel assemblies
    Patent number: 4960560
    Abstract: A spent fuel rack for storing fresh fuel assemblies, or spent fuel assemblies removed from a nuclear reactor, which includes a base plate having multiple cells of modular construction welded at their bottom ends to the plate. The cells are formed of L-shaped sections having walls which support neutron absorbing material, and the walls of one cell are common to the adjacent cells. The base plate includes openings primarily for receiving the bottom nozzle of a fuel assembly, but they further serve as access openings for apparatus used for leveling the base plate and for lifting and transferring the base plate with or without cells thereon, to a different area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 1989
    Date of Patent: October 2, 1990
    Assignee: Westinghouse Electric Corp.
    Inventors: Octavio Machado, Clifford W. Henry, Ray L. Congleton, William M. Flynn
  • Spent fuel storage rack
    Patent number: 4900505
    Abstract: A spent fuel rack for storing fresh fuel assemblies, or spent fuel assemblies removed from a nuclear reactor, which includes a base plate having multiple cells of modular construction welded at their bottom ends to the plate. The cells are formed of L-shaped sections having walls which support neutron absorbing material, and the walls of one cell are common to the adjacent cells. The base plate includes openings primarily for receiving the bottom nozzle of a fuel assembly, but they further serve as access openings for apparatus used for leveling the base plate and for lifting and transferring the base plate with or without cells thereon, to a different area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 1988
    Date of Patent: February 13, 1990
    Assignee: Westinghouse Electric Corp.
    Inventors: Octavio J. Machado, Clifford W. Henry, Ray L. Congleton, William M. Flynn