Patents by Inventor Terry A. Brewer

Terry A. Brewer 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: 8416909
    Abstract: A method of repairing a nuclear fuel cell wall and tools useful for performing that repair are described. A repair tool may be used to align a jack near a region of a bent or distorted structural component of nuclear fuel cell and that jack may be used to apply a force to that structural component. Application of such a force may serve to bend the structural component of a nuclear fuel cell in a way to restore the structural component to its position before damage occurred. The repair tool includes a way of mounting that tool to a fuel cell, positioning elements to align the tool near a structural deformation or bent element and a jack that may be use to apply a force to at least one structural component in a fuel cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2013
    Assignee: STP Nuclear Operating Company
    Inventors: Walter S. Childers, Terry A. Brewer, Satish K. Dubey, Robert L. Schuck
  • Patent number: 6374506
    Abstract: An RCP pusher tool for use in maintenance of RCP motors wherein the tool utilizes a clamp assembly that fits over the existing bolts and nuts of the motor's lower bearing oil pan flanges, obviating the need for disassembly of the motor. The pusher tool is formed of two plates, each plate having holes disposed to fit externally over the bolt heads of the oil pan flanges. Disposed between the plates is a spacer block that maintains the plates in a spaced apart, parallel relationship. The spacer block also functions to support the pusher block itself. The spacer block has a threaded bore disposed for receipt of a pusher block positioning shaft. The threaded shaft has a motor shaft pusher block mounted to its distal end and is disposed to position the concave surface of the pusher block against the motor shaft. The two plates, when mounted over the bolts of the oil pan flange, are attached to one another by fasteners that can be adjusted with wing nuts to tighten the plates together over the bolt flanges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2002
    Assignee: STP Nuclear Operating Company
    Inventors: David J. Schutte, Ronald L. Warnock, Terry A. Brewer