Patents by Inventor Francesco Deleo

Francesco Deleo 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).

  • Patent number: 11728052
    Abstract: Alternative designs for a modular test reactor are presented. In one aspect, a molten fuel salt nuclear reactor includes a vessel defining a reactor volume, the vessel being open-topped and otherwise having no penetrations. A neutron reflector is provided within the vessel and displacing at least some of the reactor volume, the neutron reflector defining a reactor core volume. A plurality of heat exchangers are contained within the vessel above the neutron reflector. A flow guide assembly is provided within the neutron reflector that includes a draft tube draft tube separating a central portion of the reactor core volume from an annular downcomer duct. Fuel salt circulates from the reactor core volume, through the heat exchangers, into the downcomer duct and then back into the reactor core volume.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Terra Power, LLC
    Inventors: Anselmo T. Cisneros, Jr., Francesco Deleo, Michael J. Edwards, Gregory T. Markham, James A. Roecker, Noor Ullah, Daniel J. Walter, Kent E. Wardle
  • Patent number: 11485829
    Abstract: Radiation cured composite materials are greatly improved by enhancing the fiber to matrix bond by prewetting the fibers with an interface resin that has a curing agent mixed in with the interface resin. Furthermore, radiation curing the composite material at or near an expected operating temperature of the composite material improves the mechanical properties of the material by reducing thermally induced strains and stresses caused by thermally curing a material and subsequently cooling the material. Adding an interface resin with a curing agent to the fibers allows relatively thick parts, a must faster curing process, a wide variety of inexpensive and easily workable molding materials, the ability to maintain tight tolerances and reduce or eliminate springback, and a radiation cured material that approaches or exceeds the material characteristics of thermally cured composite materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: TERRAPOWER, LLC
    Inventors: Jesse R Cheatham, III, Francesco Deleo
  • Publication number: 20220051818
    Abstract: Alternative designs for a modular test reactor are presented. In one aspect, a molten fuel salt nuclear reactor includes a vessel defining a reactor volume, the vessel being open-topped and otherwise having no penetrations. A neutron reflector is provided within the vessel and displacing at least some of the reactor volume, the neutron reflector defining a reactor core volume. A plurality of heat exchangers are contained within the vessel above the neutron reflector. A flow guide assembly is provided within the neutron reflector that includes a draft tube draft tube separating a central portion of the reactor core volume from an annular downcomer duct. Fuel salt circulates from the reactor core volume, through the heat exchangers, into the downcomer duct and then back into the reactor core volume.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2021
    Publication date: February 17, 2022
    Inventors: Anselmo T. Cisneros, JR., Francesco Deleo, Michael J. Edwards, Gregory T. Markham, James A. Roecker, Noor Ullah, Daniel J. Walter, Kent E. Wardle