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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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.
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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3532551 |
SOLAR CELL INCLUDING SECOND SURFACE MIRRORS
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3515594 |
RADIANT ENERGY DRIVEN ORIENTATION SYSTEM
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3510714 |
SOLAR ENERGY CONVERTER WITH TROUGH-SHAPED CATHODE AND SHIELDED,PLANAR ANODE
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3490950 |
SELECTIVE CONVERSION OF SOLAR ENERGY WITH RADIATION RESISTANT SOLAR ENERGY CONVERTER ARRAY
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3478219 |
OPTICAL PRISM WITH MULTIPLE PHOTOCELLS
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3427200 |
LIGHT CONCENTRATOR TYPE PHOTOVOLTAIC PANEL HAVING CLAMPING MEANS FOR RETAINING PHOTOVOLTAIC CELL
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3419434 |
Solar cell assemblies
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3383246 |
Rotatable solar energy converter
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3379394 |
Optical solar energy converter
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