Patents by Inventor Steven K. Ruggieri

Steven K. Ruggieri 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).

  • Upper bundle steam generator cleaning, inspection, and repair system
    Patent number: 6820575
    Abstract: An upper bundle steam generator cleaning, inspection, and repair system includes a deployment and support device receivable within the steam generator configured to raise and position a distal end of said device to the upper bundle region of the steam generator, a head subsystem connected to the distal end of the deployment and support device for at least one of cleaning, inspection, and repair of said upper bundle region, and a lateral support subsystem deployable to support said head subsystem within the upper bundle region of the steam generator and retractable to deploy said head subsystem up to the upper bundle region and to withdraw said head subsystem therefrom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2004
    Assignee: Foster-Miller, Inc.
    Inventors: Augustus J. Ashton, III, J. Timothy Lovett, Daniel Fischbach, Steven K. Ruggieri, Alan Brightman, Steven Jens
  • Upper bundle steam generator cleaning, inspection, and repair system
    Publication number: 20040083986
    Abstract: An upper bundle steam generator cleaning, inspection, and repair system including a deployment support device receivable within the steam generator to raise a cleaning device, an inspection device, and/or a tool up to the upper bundles of the steam generator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2003
    Publication date: May 6, 2004
    Inventors: Augustus J. Ashton, J. Timothy Lovett, Daniel Fischbach, Steven K. Ruggieri, Alan Brightman, Steven Jens
  • Upper bundle steam generator cleaning system and method
    Patent number: 6672257
    Abstract: An upper bundle steam generator cleaning, inspection, and repair system including a deployment support device receivable within the steam generator to raise a cleaning device, an inspection device, and/or a tool up to the upper bundles of the steam generator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2004
    Assignee: Foster-Miller, Inc.
    Inventors: Augustus J. Ashton, III, J. Timothy Lovett, Daniel Fischbach, Steven K. Ruggieri, Alan Brightman, Steven Jens
  • Deployment system for an upper bundle steam generator cleaning/inspection device
    Patent number: 6543392
    Abstract: A deployment system for an upper bundle steam generator cleaning/inspection device, the deployment system including an elongated body feedable through an access in a steam generator shell proximate the tube sheet of the steam generator, the elongated body flexible in one configuration to bend into a position for extension up through flow slots in support plates of the interior of the steam generator, and rigid in another configuration for positioning and supporting cleaning/inspection devices up through the steam generator proximate the upper tube bundles of the steam generator; and a drive device for driving the elongated body up through the support plates and for retracting the elongated body back down through the support plates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 1998
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2003
    Assignee: Foster-Miller, Inc.
    Inventors: Augustus J. Ashton, III, Steven K. Ruggieri, Timothy J. Lovett, Alan Brightman, Stephen Jens
  • Flexible lance and drive system
    Patent number: 5036871
    Abstract: A flexible lance and drive system (10) extends through manhole (12) into blow down lane (14) of a pressurized water reactor (PWR) steam generator secondary side assembly (16). The system (10) includes a support rail (18) passing through the manhole (12) and along the blow down lane (14). A transporter (20) is suspended for locomotion along the support rail (18). A flexible lance (24) extends through the transporter (20) and can be driven by the transporter into tube bundle (26) to a greater or lesser extent as required to observe and/or clean sludge deposits (28) within the tube bundle (26). High pressure hoses (34), nitrogen purge line (36) and Fiber optics cable (32) is supported by a spacerless hosebar structure (38). The hosebar structure (38) is integrally formed from a flexible plastic material in a single piece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 1989
    Date of Patent: August 6, 1991
    Assignee: Electric Power Research Institute, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven K. Ruggieri, Stephen Jens, Robert Sykes