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A mechanical thermo-voltaic solar power system (MeTSoPoS) that uses a mechanical generator, instead of the photovoltaic panel commonly in use today, is disclosed. The system is com...
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The present invention provides a method and apparatus for using light emitting diodes for curing and various solid state lighting applications. The method includes a novel method f...
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A spherical lens is used to focus and direct light into an optical fiber for transmitting the focused light to an energy converter, a lighting or heating system, or a lighting or h...
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A lens, fabricated from a plurality of materials, each having an associated index of refraction, is used to focus and direct light into one or more optical fibers, coupled to the l...
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A concentrating photovoltaic module comprising: a lightguide member having at least one exit face and a plurality of entrance faces; and at least one solar cell placed immediately...
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A stack of light-deflecting elements are installed in a window. Each deflecting element has a solar ray inlet, a curved middle section and an end comprising a ray outlet into the r...
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A fiber optical solar power generating system provides a tower outside a structure to be supplied with solar energy and on which a multiplicity of collectors is provided. An optica...
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A fiber optical solar power generating system provides a tower outside a structure to be supplied with solar energy and on which a multiplicity of collectors are provided. An optic...
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The present invention relates to a sunlight collection apparatus with increased sunlight gathering and receiving capabilities, which is cheap to produce and allows reliable collect...
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A solar collection device used to maximize solar collection by a plurality of fixed collectors that concentrate all available sunlight on its surface into a single transfer conduit...
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A conventional fiber optic solar collector employs a matrix of lenses mounted in an enclosure similar to that of a conventional flat plate collector. Each lens focuses a solar imag...
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A solar collector in which an elongated focusing means transmits the sun's rays to a dark, heat-absorbent fluid within a conduit surrounded by an evacuated chamber having a reflect...
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A solar ray energy collecting device capable of effectively separating and collecting only a light component of a desired wave length among the solar rays. The solar ray energy col...
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A thermal panel comprises (a) a body including a solar radiation transmitting lens sheet, having opposite surfaces characterized in that solar radiation incident on one surface is...
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A solar energy accumulator arrangement including a plurality of optical systems for focusing the sunlight and a fluid passage in a transparent body which is disposed such that it p...
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A solar ray collector for a spacecraft includes six posts which are movable into and out of a housing section in the spacecraft and define respectively the apexes of a hexagon. Pan...
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A plurality of bundles of fiber optic light pipes are each arranged for the reception of a selected color band of monochromatic light emanating through a prism with which they act...
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A mosaic of lenses is oriented to face the sun. Each lens focuses a solar image upon the open end of a respective optical fiber. The several fibers converge to form a bundle. The b...
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A solar energy accumulator arrangement including a plurality of optical systems for focusing the sunlight and a fluid passage in a transparent body which is disposed such that it p...
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A system for collecting solar energy which comprises a thin faceplate made of a large number of optical fibers having respectively a diameter ranging from 0.5 micron to 2.0 micron...
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The present invention relates to a solar heat collecting system comprising a lens focusing sunlight at a flat mirror which is spaced from the lens by half of its focal length, the...
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A solar energy absorber comprises a thermally-insulated duct housing a plurality of longitudinally-extending absorbing plates and having a slit located at the focal axis of an elon...
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Light energy from the sun is directed by a solar collector device onto the end of a bundle of optical fibers. Means which may comprise a tracking system is provided to maintain the...
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A paraboloidal mirror collects radiant solar energy and reflects it to a smaller mirror positioned on the directrix of the larger mirror. A fiber-optic cable has one end positioned...
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A solar heating system including a unit for converting the sun's rays into heat, comprising an insulated tank lined with a heat reflecting metal and containing a fluid heat transfe...
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The invention described herein is a Method and Process for the direct absorption of radiant solar-thermal energy by and within a radiant-heat absorbing fluid. More specifically, ho...
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A lighting system utilizing the sunlight comprising in general an optical system for focusing the sun rays at a point, an optical transmission line consisting of optical conductor...
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A radiation-excited light source having a beta-emitting radioisotope within a sealed tube. Illumination is provided by the impingement of betas upon phosphor material within the tu...
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A power generating system comprises a solar concentrator defining an effectively concave reflective surface on a surface of the earth for concentrating incoming solar energy. A sol...
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A method of making hot air in the range of 200 degrees (F) from the sunlight striking the paved surface of a parking lot is described. The transparent surface is above an opaque su...
