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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4266088 | Method of making electret means A method of storing solar energy in the immediate vicinity of available solar energy comprising the steps of generating electrical current with the available solar energy and charging a strip of electret producing material directly with the electrical cur... | 05/05/1981 |
| 4257823 | Direct conversion solar electric generator A solar electric generator comprises a concentrator of the sun radiation consisting of a system of lenses which focalize the sun radiation into a vessel of which the bottom--that is the wall opposite to the radiation inlet--comprises a thermoionic stage, ... | 03/24/1981 |
| 4257822 | Continuous thermopile A current generator is disclosed located in a temperature gradient between a heat source region and a heat sink region. The generator comprises a first continuous material having thermoelectric characteristics and having a repetitive shape with one portio... | 03/24/1981 |
| 4251291 | Thermoelectric generator with latent heat storage Energy storage is accomplished for use with a thermoelectric generator in which thermopiles are provided. The source of solar energy irradiates upon the latent heat storage device to enable the heat to be stored at a relatively constant temperature to ser... | 02/17/1981 |
| 4251290 | Thermopile formed of conductors A thermocouple and thermopile formed of conductor elements. The conductors are joined at thermocouple junctions, with the junction areas being relatively large compared with the normal cross-sectional area of the conductor elements. By providing large cro... | 02/17/1981 |
| 4250384 | Radiant energy systems, memories and thermal imaging methods and apparatus A very thin insulator having a dipole structure such as a dielectric material having ferroelectric properties and, preferably, also having thermodielectric properties, is used as the insulator insulating an electrode of an electrode pair from a semiconduc... | 02/10/1981 |
| 4246080 | Solar-energy-process-converter system A solar-energy-process-converter system whereby the energy from the sun is accumulated and projected by a parabolic reflector so as to impinge upon a cluster of thermocouples to create electrical energy for activating an electrolysis unit through which hy... | 01/20/1981 |
| 4234354 | Solar power unit The hereinproposed solar power unit comprises a solar energy collector made up of mirror facets and a solar energy receiver. A sun-light-sensitive surface of the receiver is exposed to a radiation flux reflected by the collector. Each facet of the collect... | 11/18/1980 |
| 4204881 | Solar power system A system for generating electrical power from sunlight, comprising a focussing diffraction grating or other focussing, spectrally dispersive means and a photocell array. The diffraction grating focuses sunlight into a spectrally dispersed band. The photoc... | 05/27/1980 |
| 4187123 | Directionally controlled array of solar power units A directionally controlled array of solar power units includes a supporting frame having conduits for flow of hot and cold water to each of the units supported on the frame, and each unit includes a solar cell which directly converts solar energy into ele... | 02/05/1980 |
| 4174979 | Method of storing solar energy A method of storing solar energy in the immediate vicinity of available solar energy comprising the steps of generating electrical current with the available solar energy and charging a strip of electret producing material directly with the electrical cur... | 11/20/1979 |
| 4172740 | Solar energy system A system for extracting energy from the sun's rays including a bank of solar energy cells which generate electrical current when exposed to the rays of the sun, immersed in a bath of liquid formed to serve as a lens, concentrating the sun rays on the cell... | 10/30/1979 |
| 4168716 | Solar-powered thermionic-photoelectric laser A solar-powered thermionic-photoelectric current generator is disclosed employing a paraboloidal telescope for collecting and concentrating sunlight into a narrow beam which is incident upon a thorium-doped tungsten cathode target within an evacuated enve... | 09/25/1979 |
| 4166917 | Concentrating solar receiver There has been provided a concentrating solar receiver of the type including a closed envelope having a window and reflective portions. A photocell is disposed at a focal zone for the reflector. Heat and/or electricity may be produced from received solar ... | 09/04/1979 |
| 4149902 | Fluorescent solar energy concentrator Apparatus for concentrating radiant energy such as solar radiation, collected over a large area, to a smaller area for more efficient conversion of the radiant energy to a more useful form of energy. Fluorescent material in a thin film form is optically b... | 04/17/1979 |
| 4149025 | Method of fabricating thermoelectric power generator modules An improved method of fabricating thermoelectric power generator modules, which are particularly useful in converting solar energy into electrical power and heat, is disclosed. This method involves the formation of an array of longitudinally elongated n- ... | 04/10/1979 |
| 4147561 | Solar energy collector This invention provides a solar energy collector including a Fresnel lens substantially fixed in orientation and position relative to the Earth, a receiver situated at a focal point of the said Fresnel lens, a mounting mechanism which constrains the recei... | 04/03/1979 |
| 4131485 | Solar energy collector and concentrator Modular structures for the collection, concentration and conversion of solar energy to another usable form such as electrical energy. The structures feature three conic section reflective surfaces, two of which focus in front of a receiver element and off... | 12/26/1978 |
| 4106952 | Solar panel unit The elements of the solar panel are arranged generally in parallel planes that, starting from the top, include a transparent sheet, a plurality of converging lenses, a plurality of solar cells arranged in electrical series respectively aligned with the co... | 08/15/1978 |
| 4050444 | Reflective device The invention provides for a linear reflective device having a plurality of concave reflective regions disposed along a reference line, such that normal incident light is focussed to a focal region by all of the reflective regions. The reflective device m... | 09/27/1977 |
| 4029519 | Solar collector having a solid transmission medium There is provided a radiant energy transmission device capable of operation in a concentrative mode in which energy incident on an entrance area is directed toward and concentrated on an exit area of smaller area than the entrance area. The device include... | 06/14/1977 |
| 4024852 | Solar energy reflector-collector A system including a non-tracking reflector-collector for the concentration and collection of solar energy. An energy-collecting plate is disposed upright along a substantially horizontal axis substantially coincident with the east-west direction of the e... | 05/24/1977 |
| 4017725 | Solar powered portable calculator A portable calculator utilizing a solar panel array which can be either slidably moved within the calculator's housing or pivotly connected to it and which when exposed to incident light provide power for the calculator.... | 04/12/1977 |
| 4005698 | Photon energy converter An efficient converter of photon energy to heat has been devised comprising a dense array of metal whiskers grown with spacings between the whiskers of a few wavelengths of visible light. The material selected, and tungsten is exemplary of such materials,... | 02/01/1977 |
| 4002499 | Radiant energy collector An electromagnetic energy collection device is provided which does not require a solar tracking capability. It includes an energy receiver positioned between two side walls which reflect substantially all incident energy received over a predetermined incl... | 01/11/1977 |
| 3977904 | Semi-conductor battery The battery is of the type including a plurality of laminar semi-conductor bodies arranged on a dielectric support in parallel relation to each other and each comprising respectively layers of two different but oppositely conducting semi-conductor materia... | 08/31/1976 |
| 3977909 | Solar heat energy conversion system A self-sustaining solar energy conversion system for converting solar heat energy to electrical energy comprising a finite heat sink having a first heat exchange means and drive means disposed therein. The finite heat sink comprises an enclosure having a ... | 08/31/1976 |
| 3973996 | Diffusion welded solar cell array A method of mounting and interconnecting solar cells to form a solar cell array particularly suited to space applications. In the present invention, the solar cells, which are already silver plated on the underside, are diffusion welded to a suitably plat... | 08/10/1976 |
| 3966499 | Solar cell grid patterns A grid pattern for a solar cell of the type including a semiconductive layer doped to a first polarity and a top counter-doped layer. The grid pattern comprises a plurality of concentric conductive grids of selected geometric shapes which are centered abo... | 06/29/1976 |
| 3956017 | Optoelectric transducer A metal layer made of a high heat conductivity material such as silver or aluminum is provided at the rear surface of a solar battery with the use of vacuum evaporation technology. A thermoelectric converter is attached to the metal layer in a manner to c... | 05/11/1976 |
| 3935031 | Photovoltaic cell with enhanced power output The photovoltage and photocurrent, and therefore, the power output of photovoltaic cells (solar cells) are markedly enhanced by depositing, on an exposed semiconductor surface of a solar cell, a layer of any one of a very large number of prophyrinic compo... | 01/27/1976 |
