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4025786 Solar energy power generating array  
A multi-layer array of power converting elements for converting electromagnetic energy such as sunlight incident on the array to electricity is disclosed. The array is suitable for use in...
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...
4023368 High density-third dimension geometry solar panels  
The high density, third dimension geometry solar panels consist of closely placing any type of conventional solar cells in an in depth, oblique attitude to the sun's normal rays.In one panel...
4021267 High efficiency converter of solar energy to electricity  
Apparatus is disclosed which permits the use of a large proportion of the solar spectrum in the coversion of solar energy to electricity by means of photovoltaic cells. The apparatus comprises a...
4021323 Solar energy conversion  
Solar energy conversion is provided by a structure formed of a plurality of photovoltaic sources. An electrolyte wets the sources. Upon exposure to light the photovoltaic sources cause a current to...
4017332 Solar cells employing stacked opposite conductivity layers  
A cell for converting received light energy to electrical energy comprises, in the simplest embodiment, four layers of differing types of semiconductive material stacked so as to form three...
4013885 Solar energy sun tracker  
A sun tracking servo system is disclosed in which individual mirrors are tilted to redirect incoming sunlight towards a solar energy receiver. Mirror steering is accomplished by providing the...
4007729 Means of increasing efficiency of CPC solar energy collector  
A device is provided for improving the thermal efficiency of a cylindrical radiant energy collector. A channel is placed next to and in close proximity to the nonreflective side of an energy...
4003638 Radiant energy collection  
Disclosed are non-imaging systems and devices for collection and concentration of electromagnetic energy and particularly solar energy including one or more longitudinally-extending, generally...
4003756 Device for converting sunlight into electricity  
An arrangement practical by its efficiency and cost of materials, for converting sunlight into electricity using silicon solar cells. The cells are disposed in facing relation such that sunlight in...
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...
4000734 Solar energy converter  
An improved solar energy collector and converter comprising a plurality of elongated reflectors mounted for movement each around a heating tube arranged in the linear focus of the reflectors and...
4001704 Laser solar cell apparatus  
A highly doped optical amplifier in the form of a thin layer or fiber wherein the pump light is directed transversely to the surface of the layer or fiber. A transparent substrate is provided...
3999283 Method of fabricating a photovoltaic device  
Solar radiation is concentrated on a solar cell of a photovoltaic device in the range of 500 to 1600 suns. the photovoltaic device includes a plurality of solar cells on a flat surface of a heat...
3998206 System for collecting and utilizing solar energy  
A novel and simplified system and apparatus is disclosed herein for efficiently collecting and utilizing solar energy. Fundamentally the invention employs a reflector-supporting medium or frame...
3994012 Photovoltaic semi-conductor devices  
Apparatus and method for constructing by means of standard high-yield microelectronic batch fabrication processes, reliable, monolithic high-voltage photovoltaic cells and highly efficient...
3991741 Roof-lens solar collector  
An array of linear lenses is used as a combination roof-skylight-solar collector. The lenses are oriented at a given latitude to face the most remote of the earth's poles inclined by the local...
3991740 Sea shell solar collector  
A device is provided for the collection and concentration of solar radiant energy including a longitudinally extending structure having a wall for directing radiant energy. The wall is parabolic...
3990914 Tubular solar cell  
High efficiency, low cost solar energy conversion is facilitated by using tubular photovoltaic solar cells situated at the focus of a line-generated paraboloidal reflector. Advantageously, each...
3988166 Apparatus for enhancing the output of photovoltaic solar cells  
An array of photovoltaic cells and a parabolic concentrator for concentrating solar energy onto the cells. A watertight chamber including a solar energy pervious window adjacent the focus of the...
3986490 Reducing heat loss from the energy absorber of a solar collector  
A device is provided for reducing convective heat loss in a cylindrical radiant energy collector. It includes a curved reflective wall in the shape of the arc of a circle positioned on the opposite...
3986021 Passive solar tracking system for steerable Fresnel elements  
An angular tracking servo system for passive tracking of the sun which utzes solar radiation to control the attitude of a mirror element in an array of Fresnel reflectors. The array collects and...
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...
3971672 Light diffuser for photovoltaic cell  
A photovoltaic system in which strips of active photovoltaic cells are coated on one side of a sheet of glass, the glass being illuminated by the sun from the other side of the sheet and the strips...
3964155 Method of planar mounting of silicon solar cells  
A method of mounting silicon solar cells in a planar array that not only lds electrical insulation between cells but allows for a multifold increase in thermal dissipation of the cell array,...
3957031 Light collectors in cylindrical geometry  
A device is provided for collecting electromagnetic energy developed by an energy source of finite dimension and of finite distance from the collection device. It includes an energy absorber...
3923381 Radiant energy collection  
Disclosed are non-imaging systems and devices for collection and concentration of electromagnetic energy and particularly solar energy including one or more longitudinally-extending, generally...
3899672 Solar energy collection  
Disclosed are non-imaging systems and devices for collection and concentration of solar energy including one or more generally conical-shaped bodies having curving inner reflective walls for...
3873829 Photo cathode with means provided which produce a repeated total reflection of the incident light without interference phenomena  
Device comprising a photoelectrically sensitive layer, in particular a photo cathode, which is supported by a transparent plane-parallel support through which the light is incident and on which...
3871902 Method of coating a spacecraft shell surface  
A method of treating the surface of a spacecraft or solar panel for contring the absorption and emission of energy.
3837924 SOLAR ARRAY  
A solar array and method of its fabrication wherein the solar cells are attached to a supporting substrate and electrically joined by interconnects having end terminals attached to the cell...
3833425 SOLAR CELL ARRAY  
A solar cell planar array fabricated by a method from the solar cells to the mounting panel. An electrically insulative, thermally conductive wafer is soft-soldered to the surface of the metallic...
3817605 BEHIND MIRROR FOCUS LIGHT GATHERING DEVICE  
A device for converging sunlight beams so to be able to ignite a fire or do solar cooking; the device consisting of a cylinder of frusto-conica, shape which is outwardly arcuate, the cylinder inner...
3811181 NEW APPROACH TO SHINGLING OF SOLAR CELLS  
A method of mounting solar cells in an array in which the cells are arran on thermally conductive but electrically insulative wafer and promiences so that they overlap each other in a shingled...
3801389 PHOTOELECTRICALLY CONVERTING OPTICAL FIBER AND METHOD OF MAKING THE LIKE  
The peripheral surface of a portion of an optical fiber is roughed and thereon a photoelectrically converting element is provided, so that light transmitted in the optical fiber is converted into...
3780722 FIBER OPTICAL SOLAR COLLECTOR  
The invention is an improved solar collector comprising a fiber optical sr receiver which passively concentrates incident solar energy for delivery as an intensified flux to an absorptive target....
3769091 SHINGLED ARRAY OF SOLAR CELLS  
A method of mounting solar cells in an array, and a solar cell array, in ch the cells are arranged on thermally conductive but electrically insulative wafer and prominences so that they overlap...
3760257 ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ENERGY CONVERTER  
Electromagnetic wave energy is converted into electric power with an array of mutually insulated electromagnetic wave absorber elements each responsive to an electric field component of the wave as...
3713727 SOLAR UNIT  
A solar unit comprising a solar energy concentrator with a reflecting surface made of flat facets, and a rotatable solar energy receiver disposed in a solar spot of said concentrator, test objects...
3630020 SOLAR ORIENTATION DEVICE  
A servomechanism apparatus which will continuously track a moving heat source through its plane of travel. A plurality of bimetallic elements are connected to a crank on an orientation shaft in a...
3615853 SOLAR CELL PANELS WITH LIGHT-TRANSMITTING PLATE  
A solar cell panel with a cover plate which defines a plurality of apertures with light-reflective surfaces. The shapes of the apertures and the spacings between them are chosen to vary the...
3532551 SOLAR CELL INCLUDING SECOND SURFACE MIRRORS  
3515594 RADIANT ENERGY DRIVEN ORIENTATION SYSTEM  
3510714 SOLAR ENERGY CONVERTER WITH TROUGH-SHAPED CATHODE AND SHIELDED,PLANAR ANODE  
3490950 SELECTIVE CONVERSION OF SOLAR ENERGY WITH RADIATION RESISTANT SOLAR ENERGY CONVERTER ARRAY  
3478219 OPTICAL PRISM WITH MULTIPLE PHOTOCELLS  
3427200 LIGHT CONCENTRATOR TYPE PHOTOVOLTAIC PANEL HAVING CLAMPING MEANS FOR RETAINING PHOTOVOLTAIC CELL  
3419434 Solar cell assemblies  
3383246 Rotatable solar energy converter  
3379394 Optical solar energy converter