Patents by Inventor Eckhard Steinkamp

Eckhard Steinkamp 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).

  • Core support structure for nuclear power plants
    Patent number: 4142936
    Abstract: Core support structure for nuclear power plants includes a grid of mutually crossing bridges and a support ring surrounding the grid and connected to ends of the outer bridges of the grid, the grid being formed of profile rod crosses having legs of given length, respective legs of pairs of adjacent crosses abutting one another endwise to form together a side of the smallest mesh opening of the grid, and weld means for securing the profile rod crosses to one another at the mutually abutting ends of the legs thereof; and method of producing the foregoing core support structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 1976
    Date of Patent: March 6, 1979
    Assignee: Kraftwerk Union Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Eckhard Steinkamp, Jurgen Tautz, Horst Ries