
In almost all cases, things in parenthesis, "( )", are added information by me.
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Dr. Thomason solar patents
US5103802 Thermosyphon heat-storage and backup heat apparatus
US4852547 Heat storage
US4369764 Solar heat storage system
US4343293 Solar domestic water heater
US4284059 Heat storage and heat exchanger
US4265219 Solar heating (cooling) system
US4158358 Heat and cold storage apparatus
US4146011 Solar energy
US4139055 Solar heating (cooling)
US4134544 Solar heating system
US4132220 Solar energy collector
US4102327 Solar heating (cooling) system
US4082143 Solar energy
US4048812 Solar-energy conserving
US4029082 Heat and cold storage apparatus
US3989031 Solar heat collector
US3980130 Heat, cold and dry storage
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US3412728
US3369541
US3295591
US3254703
US3254702
US3236294
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| Patent Link | yr | Category | Inventor | Description
| control | | Control Lighting
| US6695090 | 01 | Control Lighting | McAllister; Michael C. | Back-lit handlebar control assembly | (Motorcycle Riders Holdings Corp.) awnings | | Awnings for RVs
| US5636675 | 97 | Awnings | Baka | Malott Shifting roll awning assembly with stowable support arms | (White Consolidated Industries, Inc.) US5035253 | 91 | Awnings | Bortles | Tent canopy rain awning | bearings | | Bearings
| US5302874 | 94 | Bearings Magnetic | Pinkerton | Magnetic bearing and method utilizing movable closed conductive loops
| brayton | | Brayton Engines
| US4189922 | 80 | Brayton Solar | Bellofatto | Converting solar energy into electric power | US4942736 | 90 | Brayton Solar | Bronicki | Method of and apparatus for producing power from solar energy | US5448889 | 95 | Brayton Solar | Bronicki | Method of and apparatus for producing power using compressed air | US4683872 | 87 | Brayton Solar | Fricker | Receiver for solar energy | US4262484 | 81 | Brayton Solar | Jubb | Stansbury Gas turbine engine power plant using solar energy as a heat source | US4172491 | 79 | Brayton Solar | Rice | Method of more efficiently operating a heat storage-heat exchange system | candles | | Candles
| US5078591 | 92 | Candles | Despres | Candle having thermal response
| US4320575 | 82 | Candles Molding | Karlsson | Apparatus for manufacturing candles
| US4022862 | 77 | Candles Molding | McBride | Glenn Cooper Method of molding an article in an expansible mold and removing the article from the mold
| US5353827 | 94 | Candles Paste | Bouchard | Lafrance Perrault Process for producing pasty paraffin
| US4017231 | 77 | Candles Powder | Karlsson | Device on apparatus for pressing power or granules into candles
| US4054636 | 77 | Candles Powder | Menig | Method of making a composite candle with powdered wax core
| US3702495 | 72 | Candles Powder | Renoe | Method of producing compression molded candles
| US4291458 | 81 | Candles Wicking | Flinn | Apparatus and method for installing wicking in candles
| US3964858 | 76 | Candles Wicking | Marik | Automatic candle-wicking machine
| compressor | | Compressors
| US4242878 | 81 | Compressor | Brinkerhoff | Isothermal compressor apparatus and method | US4027993 | 77 | Compressor | Wolff | Method and apparatus for compressing vaporous or gaseous fluids isothermally
| rolling piston | | Compressor Rolling Piston (sometimes called "Sliding Abutement")
| US4975031 | 90 | Compressor Rolling Piston | Bagepalli | Imam Rotary compressor with compliant impact surfaces | US4332534 | 82 | Compressor Rolling Piston | Becker | Membrane pump with tiltable rolling piston pressing the membrane | US5529469 | 96 | Compressor Rolling Piston | Bushnell | Swidowski Vane hole cover for rotary compressor
| US5226797 | 93 | Compressor Rolling Piston | Da Costa; Caio Mario Franco | Rolling piston compressor with defined dimension ratios for the rolling piston
| US5007813 | 91 | Compressor Rolling Piston | Da Costa; Caio Mario Franco | Rotary rolling piston compressor with fixed vane having a relieved incline section
| US5244366 | 93 | Compressor Rolling Piston | Delmotte | Rolling piston compressor, and a cylinder therefor
| US3942414 | 76 | Compressor Rolling Piston | Eddy | Hydraulic device | ( This motor has a plurality of expansion elements strung in series.) US4580957 | 86 | Compressor Rolling Piston | Fickelscher | Schabert Rotary fluid-flow machine with thin-walled annular piston | ( Check out the slider/valve assembly in figure 5. ) US5322424 | 94 | Compressor Rolling Piston | Fujio | Two stage gas compressor
| US4452570 | 84 | Compressor Rolling Piston | Fujisaki | Chu Multiple cylinder rotary compressor
| US3056542 | 82 | Compressor Rolling Piston | Galin; R. | REFRIGERATING APPARATUS
| US5616019 | 97 | Compressor Rolling Piston | Hattori | Futamura Saito Ozu Rolling piston type expansion machine | US5775883 | 98 | Compressor Rolling Piston | Hattori | Ozu Saito Morishima Otaka Futamura Rolling-piston expander apparatus | US4558993 | 85 | Compressor Rolling Piston | Hori | Hirano Kojima Yuda Rotary compressor with capacity modulation
| US5667372 | 97 | Compressor Rolling Piston | Hwang | Shin Rolling piston rotary compressor formed with lubrication grooves
| US4669963 | 87 | Compressor Rolling Piston | Ishihara | Takei Hattori Okazaki Rolling piston type rotary machine
| US4793780 | 88 | Compressor Rolling Piston | Ishihara | Takei Hattori Okazaki Rolling piston type rotary machine with discharge passage in vane
| US4537567 | 85 | Compressor Rolling Piston | Kawaguchi; Susumu | Morinushi; Ken Rolling piston type compressor
| US4676726 | 87 | Compressor Rolling Piston | Kawaguchi; Susumu | Hirahara; Takuho Nakane; Kazuhiro Ueda; Sei Rotary compressor
| US4983108 | 91 | Compressor Rolling Piston | Kawaguchi | Shirafuji Maeyama Sugita Yamamoto Low pressure container type rolling piston compressor with lubrication channel in the end plate
| US4507064 | 85 | Compressor Rolling Piston | Kocher | Szymaszek Nikolaus Rotary gas compressor having rolling pistons
| US5322424 | 94 | Compressor Rolling Piston | Matsuda | Inagaki Ogawa Sasaya Rolling piston compressor
| US5522235 | 96 | Compressor Rolling Piston | Matsuoka | Yamazaki Tezuka Mochizuki Tanabe Reversible rotary compressor and reversible refrigerating cycle
| US4714414 | 87 | Compressor Rolling Piston | Miller | Plural-stage gas compressor
| US5326233 | 94 | Compressor Rolling Piston | Mochizuki | Kawaguchi Sakai Sato Maeyama Enclosed motor compressor of a two cylinder type
| US4427351 | 84 | Compressor Rolling Piston | Sano; Kiyoshi | Rotary compressor with noise reducing space adjacent the discharge port
| US4397618 | 83 | Compressor Rolling Piston | Stenzel | Rolling piston compressor with locking device for the separating slide | US4598559 | 86 | Compressor Rolling Piston | Tomayko | Pandeya Reversible fixed vane rotary compressor having a reversing disk which carries the suction port
| concentrator | | Solar Concentrators
| US4170985 | 79 | Concentrator Dish | Authier | Solar energy collector | US4111184 | 78 | Concentrator Dish | Fletcher; James C. | Perkins; Gerald S. Sun tracking solar energy collector | (A dish is moved about a stationary receiver by means of tracks.) US4395581 | 83 | Concentrator Dish | Girard | Concave mirror constituted by a plurality of plane facets and solar generator comprising such a mirror | US4126123 | 78 | Concentrator Dish | Hall | Solar energy collector including a weightless balloon with sun tracking means | (Inflatable.) US6284968 | 00 | Concentrator Dish | Niesyn; Joseph Z. | Solar-tracking system | (Clockwork driven tracker perportedly capable of folowing the sun with constant speed drive and gearing only. However, this can't work properly as the sun may be as much as 15 minutes of time in error. This error is not a simple harmonic motion.) US5758938 | 98 | Concentrator Dish | Osterwisch | Solar concentrator elevational drive mechanism | (Dish used with Stirling Thermal Motors' solar stirling engine) US4237868 | 80 | Concentrator Dish | Overton | Solar heating balloon | (Inflatable Tethered Balloon Solar Collector.) US5325844 | 94 | Concentrator Dish | Rogers | Borton Durnin Lightweight, distributed force, two-axis tracking, solar radiation collector structures | (One axis is polar and the other is heliostatic, or in another variation it is a receiver axis heliostat Power Kinetics, Inc.) US4608964 | 86 | Concentrator Dish | Russo | Tension solar mirror | US6691701 | 02 | Concentrator Dish | Roth; Karl Frederic | Modular solar radiation collection and distribution system | (See Stiles.) US5529054 | 96 | Concentrator Dish | Shoen | Solar energy concentrator and collector system and associated method | (Casegrainian optics.) US4333446 | 82 | Concentrator Dish | Smyth | Solar concentrator | (Based on a geodesic dome structure) US4535961 | 85 | Concentrator Dish | Sobczak; Isidore F. | Cleveland; William C. Pons; Robert L. Lightweight azimuth/elevation mount | US4342501 | 82 | Concentrator Dish | Solomon; Murray | Radiant energy collector with focal point between the plane of the frame and earth | (Tilt and rotate effected by 2 extensible actuators based on the U-joint mechanism. Similar to the Gueguen Dish and Sallis Heliostat.) US6128135 | 98 | Concentrator Dish | Stiles; Michael R. | Kinney; Laurence F. Three-reflection collection system for solar and lunar radiant energy | (Forget the dish, look at the pantogram half angle mechanism.) US5893360 | 99 | Concentrator Dish | Stoumen | Stoumen Inflatable solar oven | (This sounds like a half silvered mylar balloon) US4116541 | 78 | Concentrator Dish | Weiss | Parabolic reflector with vary transverse width | (Formed from crossed reflective sections. These flower petal like sections are bent into shape. The specific shape of the petals directly form a parabolic curve. Equations are given to develop the petal shape.) US4568945 | 86 | Concentrator Dish | Winegard; John R. | Cowan; Keith B. Satellite dish antenna apparatus | (Winegard Company) US4171876 | 79 | Concentrator Dish | Wood; Douglas E. | Sunflower <fox@harbornet.com> Apparatus for supporting large-dimension curved reflectors | US4295709 | 81 | Concentrator Dish | Wood; Douglas E. | Sunflower <fox@harbornet.com> Parabolic reflector comprising a plurality of triangular reflecting members forming a reflecting surface supported by a framework having a particular geometric pattern | US4372772 | 83 | Concentrator Dish | Wood; Douglas E. | Sunflower <fox@harbornet.com> Parabolic reflector comprising a plurality of triangular reflecting members forming a reflecting surface supported by a framework having a particular geometric pattern | US4491388 | 85 | Concentrator Dish | Wood; Douglas E. | Sunflower <fox@harbornet.com> Support carriage for a solar concentrator | US6485152 | 01 | Concentrator Dish | Wood; Douglas E. | Sunflower <fox@harbornet.com> Matrix solar dish | US4789921 | 88 | Concentrator Dish Fresnel | Aho; Kenneth A. | Cone shaped Fresnel reflector | (From 3M and lives in Chisago City, MN) US4999059 | 91 | Concentrator Dish Fresnel | Bagno | Universal solar concentrator panel | (Combination of multiple flat mirrors reflecting light onto a receiver. The receiver uses concentrator PV cells and water cooled heat output) US4552126 | 85 | Concentrator Dish Fresnel | Boyd | Radiation concentrator | (A Fresnel mirror made from an inflatable balloon with concentric mirror segments on the upper and lower surfaces. The combination of the two mirrored surfaces focuses solar energy behind the array. The combination reminds me of Gregorian telescope optics) US412724 | 89 | Concentrator Dish Fresnel | Calver; William | Solar Apparatus | ((1889)) US4906070 | 98 | Concentrator Dish Fresnel | Cobb, Jr.; Sanford | Totally internally reflecting thin, flexible film | (Plastic material ruled with internal grooves to form parallel roof prisms. Forms 2/3rds of a retroreflector 3M and he lives in St. Mary's Point, MN) US6959993 | 05 | Concentrator Dish Fresnel | Gross; William | Luconi; Gregg Zsolnay; Denes Solar concentrator array with individually adjustable elements | (Fresnel Dish with adjustable 3 point link mechanism) US4136674 | 62 | Concentrator Dish Fresnel | Korr | System for solar radiation energy collection and conversion | (Looks like an "arc heliostat" floating in a moat of water (1862)) US4561425 | 85 | Concentrator Dish Fresnel | Long; John B. | Ware; Robert R. Solar cooker | (A Fresnel mirror composed of concentric rings of conical mirror segments focusing in front of the array) US4716258 | 87 | Concentrator Dish Fresnel | Murtha; R. Michael | <murtha2@juno.com> Stamped concentrators supporting photovoltaic assemblies | US4566432 | 86 | Concentrator Dish Fresnel | Sobczak | Cleveland Pons Method for mass producing solar radiation reflectors | US4457297 | 84 | Concentrator Dish Fresnel | Sobczak | Cleveland Pons Modular solar concentrator | US4350412 | 82 | Concentrator Dish Fresnel | Steenblik; Richard A. | Ho; Dar-Veig Fresnel spiral reflector and method for making same | (A unique method of making a pseudo-parabolic reflector dish by cutting a spiral out of flat sheet reflective stock and winding it up to form the curved shape needed to concentrate solar energy.) US4784700 | 88 | Concentrator Dish Fresnel | Stern | Cornwall Kaincz Mildice Point focus solar concentrator using reflector strips of various geometries to form primary and secondary reflectors | US5982481 | 99 | Concentrator Dish Fresnel | Stone; Kenneth | Blackmon; James Alignment system and method for dish concentrators | (Alignment and focusing method. The system uses a light source and detector at a position about 2 times the focal distance. A computer operates the light source and adjusts the individual facits.) US4347834 | 82 | Concentrator Dish Fresnel | York | Variable entropy solar energy harvester | (A Fresnel mirror composed of concentric rings of paraboloidal mirror segments focusing behind the array) US4275950 | 81 | Concentrator Fiber Optics | Meyer; Stanley A. | Light-guide lens | (Ya, the wacco run a car on water guy) US3924604 | 75 | Concentrator Heliostat | Anderson; Donald E. | Solar energy conversion system | (Power Tower. Guy from Northfield, MN. Looks like Solar II with air heat transport. Describes mirrors moved with cables.) US5347402 | 92 | Concentrator Heliostat | Arbogast; Porter | Multiple mirror assembly for solar collector | (Method of removing and stowing mirrors for protection in storms) US4056313 | 77 | Concentrator Heliostat | Arbogast; Porter R. | Multiple mirrored apparatus utilizing solar energy | US4398802 | 83 | Concentrator Heliostat | Auger; Henri | Acloque; Jean-Pierre Solar mirror having contiguous reflecting panels mounted on a movable frame | (Interesting method of forming and controlling the curve in strips of mirrors.) US4832001 | 87 | Concentrator Heliostat | Baer; Stephen C. | Lightweight solar panel support | (Heliostat elements supported on cables. Zomeworks Similar to the Dolan patent.) US5417052 | 93 | Concentrator Heliostat | Bharathan; Desikan | Bohn; Mark S. Williams; Thomas A. Hybrid solar central receiver for combined cycle power plant | (Looks like Solar II with air heat transport.) US4227513 | 80 | Concentrator Heliostat | Blake; Floyd A. | Northrup, Jr.; Lynn L. Solar system employing ground level heliostats and solar collectors | (Heliostat and inline optical tracker) US4276872 | 81 | Concentrator Heliostat | Blake; Floyd A. | Northrup, Jr.; Lynn L. Solar system employing ground level heliostats and solar collectors | (Heliostat and inline optical tracker) US4110009 | 78 | Concentrator Heliostat | Bunch; Jesse C. | Heliostat apparatus | (Heliostat actuation scheme that uses parallelogram linkages) US4218114 | 80 | Concentrator Heliostat | Bunch; Jesse C. | Heliostat apparatus | (Heliostat actuation scheme that uses parallelogram linkages) US260657 | 82 | Concentrator Heliostat | Calver; William | Method Of And Means For Utilizing The Rays Of The Sun | (Arc Heliostat (1882)) US291491 | 84 | Concentrator Heliostat | Calver; William | Means For Utilizing The Rays Of The Sun | (Arc Heliostat (1884)) US549765 | 95 | Concentrator Heliostat | Calver; William | Apparatus For Making Gas | (Arc Heliostat (1895)) US603317 | 98 | Concentrator Heliostat | Calver; William | Solar Apparatus | (Arc Heliostat (1898)) US3906927 | 75 | Concentrator Heliostat | Caplan; Harry W. | Solar-thermal power system employing adjustable curvature reflective panels and method of adjusting reflective panel curvature | (Heliostat with mechanically adjustable flat mirrors. The tracker uses inline sensors) US4192289 | 80 | Concentrator Heliostat | Clark; David J. | Solar heat collection system | (Vacuum formed concave heliostat mirror. Receiver axis tracker using a cable over pullys.) US608755 | 97 | Concentrator Heliostat | Cottle; Henry F. | Apparatus For Storing And Using Solar Heat | (Arc Heliostat on tracks (1897)) US4129360 | 78 | Concentrator Heliostat | Deflandre; Jean | Matarasso; Pierre Traisnel; Jean-Pierre Heliostats | (A Hinge type heliostat mechanism that tracks similar to a TPole although much stronger than a TPole. See Sayre) US4466423 | 84 | Concentrator Heliostat | Dolan; James E. | Sands; Timothy D. Rim-drive cable-aligned heliostat collector system | (Heliostat mirrors suspended on cables in linear rows. The mirrors are stowable for waether protection.) US3466119 | 66 | Concentrator Heliostat | Francia; G. | Multiple Mirrored Apparatus Utilizing Solar Heat | (True ganged mechanical heliostat.) US4266179 | 81 | Concentrator Heliostat | Hamm; James E. | Solar energy concentration system | US4063543 | 77 | Concentrator Heliostat | Hedger; John Henry | Servo tracking apparatus | (Moves mirror by rocking mechanisms that tilt and rotate using linear actuators. My goofy tracker is similar to this.) US4110010 | 78 | Concentrator Heliostat | Hilton; Richard D. | Ganged heliostat | (In a frame similar to Arbogast) US4509501 | 85 | Concentrator Heliostat | Hunter; Larry D. | Solar energy collecting system using a primary reflector based on a pyramid structure | US5949594 | 97 | Concentrator Heliostat | Iglseder; Heinrich | Arens-Fischer; Wolfgang Process for the generation of information in space | (Spaced based solar iluminated advertising) US3905352 | 75 | Concentrator Heliostat | John; Arnold | System For Collecting And Transferring Usable Solar Heat | (Arc Heliostat) US4365618 | 82 | Concentrator Heliostat | Jones; Dedger | Heliostatic solar energy conversion | (Heliostat field that uses tilt only mirrors for altitude adjustment. The field of mirrors rotates about the central tower on tracks for azimuth adjustment) US7000608 | 82 | Concentrator Heliostat | Löschmann; Thomas | Solar energy system | (Heliostat array linked by cables.) US4832002 | 89 | Concentrator Heliostat | Medina; Oscar | Unified heliostat array | (A heliostat array for reflecting the rays of the sun upon a central collector. Receiver axis trackers. A cable over pulleys links them together.) US4137897 | 79 | Concentrator Heliostat | Moore; Walter T. | Unified array for collection and concentration of solar energy | (Heliostats built into buildings with conventional tower) US5979438 | 98 | Concentrator Heliostat | Nakamura; Katsushige | Sunlight collecting system | (Describes a secondary Gregorian mirror and a tertiary compound parabolic concentrator receiver, and inline tracker.) US6231197 | 01 | Concentrator Heliostat | Nakamura; Katsushige | Heliostat for sunlight collecting system | (Similar to the half angle gearing methods used in a receiver axis heliostat. In this case there are two half angle mechanisms, one for each axis of a TPole mount.) US6899096 | 04 | Concentrator Heliostat | Nakamura; Katsushige | Autonomous heliostat | (Similar to a Silberman mechanical heliostat) US4586488 | 86 | Concentrator Heliostat | Noto; Vincent H. | Reflective solar tracking system | (Half angle tracker employing gears. Similar to that describes to me by Jerimiah Chace. Receiver Axis Mount) US6227673 | 01 | Concentrator Heliostat | O'Hara-Smith; Stephen C. | <sohara@best.com> Adjustable reflector | (Sohara, a Directable Mirror is an inexpensive panel approximately one meter square and a couple of inches thick. It is composed of a plurality of spheres bisected with a mirror. Steve O'Hara-Smith) US509393 | 93 | Concentrator Heliostat | Paine; Halbert E. | Solar Heater | (Arc Heliostat (1893)) US5945961 | 99 | Concentrator Heliostat | Price; Russell E. | Gastonguay; Raymond J. Antenna dias system having constrained rotational movement | (Mechanical tracker based on the U-joint mechanism. Similar to the Sallis dish and Solomon Heliostat) US5787878 | 96 | Concentrator Heliostat | Ratliff Jr.; George D. | Solar concentrator | (Arc Heliostat with parking using tracks) US6897423 | 02 | Concentrator Heliostat | Redler; Michael H. | <redlerm@yahoo.com> Rader; Dennis Self-powered intermittent moving light tracking device and method | (Escentially a Receiver Axis Heliostat Mount with Shadow Blocker sensor) US5325844 | 94 | Concentrator Heliostat | Rogers; William E. | Borton; David N. Durnin; John E. Lightweight, distributed force, two-axis tracking, solar radiation collector structures | (One axis is polar and the other is heliostatic, or in another variation it is a receiver axis heliostat Power Kinetics, Inc.) US4930493 | 90 | Concentrator Heliostat | Sallis; Daniel V. | Multi-lever rim-drive heliostat | (Unusual dual lever actuator based on the U-joint mechanism. Similar to the Gueguen and Solomon Dish but much more elegant.) US4209231 | 80 | Concentrator Heliostat | Sayre; Robert K. | Heliostat assemblies | (A TPole type heliostat mechanism that looks similar to a Hinge although much stronger. See Deflandre) US4219729 | 80 | Concentrator Heliostat | Smith; Otto J. M. | Method of aligning and locating the mirrors of a collector field with respect to a receptor tower | (Laser alignment of a field of mirrors) US4117682 | 78 | Concentrator Heliostat | Smith; Otto J. M. | Solar collector system | (Solar Power Tower and receiver and mirror field strategies.) US4102326 | 77 | Concentrator Heliostat | Sommer; Warren T. | Central receiver solar collector using mechanically linked mirrors | USRE30960 | 82 | Concentrator Heliostat | Sommer; Warren T. | Central receiver solar collector using mechanically linked mirrors | US3981151 | 76 | Concentrator Heliostat | St. Clair | Use of solar energy heat gathering and storing systems to increase farm crop yields | (Heliostat to store solar energy for later use in agricultural ilumination) US4266530 | 81 | Concentrator Heliostat | Steadman; Robert W. | Sun ray tracker | (Arc Heliostat with Mirrors moved and tilted in circular tracks) US4251135 | 81 | Concentrator Heliostat | Stone; Douglas C. | Solar reflector | (Tensioned triangular membrain reflector.) US4488779 | 84 | Concentrator Heliostat | Varner; Kevin | Lightweight heliostat system | (Varner is from Ogilvie, MN.) US6025583 | 98 | Concentrator Heliostat | Whitehead; Lorne A. | Concentrating heliostat for solar lighting applications | (Escentially a Fresnel optical lens that reedirects the sunlight to a receiver. Tracking of the sun is accomplished by moving a plastic film from one roler to another. The film contains a plurality of optical lenses.) US4798949 | 86 | Concentrator Heliostat | Wilcox; William W. | Kudija; Charles T. Linear actuated optical concentrator | (This patent is the basis of a lighting heliostat I am working on) US5862799 | 97 | Concentrator Heliostat | Yogev; Amnon | Krupkin; Vladimir Control of a heliostat field in a solar energy plant | (Uses Gregorian and Cassigranian optics.) US5517339 | 94 | Concentrator Holographic | Riccobono; Juanita R. | Ludman; Jaques E. Method of manufacturing high efficiency, broad bandwidth, volume holographic elements and solar concentrators for use therewith | US5877874 | 97 | Concentrator Holographic | Rosenberg; Glenn A. | Device for concentrating optical radiation | (Using holograms and passive solar tracking. Operates in a similar manner to Luminescent Concentrators but with the advantage of utilizing a wider spectrum.) US4318394 | 82 | Concentrator Inflatable | Alexander; William C. | Solar energy concentrator | (I don't understand how it works.) US4552126 | 84 | Concentrator Inflatable | Boyd; John O. | Radiation concentrator | (A Fresnel mirror made from an inflatable balloon with concentric mirror segments on the upper and lower surfaces. The combination of the two mirrored surfaces focuses solar energy behind the array. The combination reminds me of Gregorian telescope optics) US4182307 | 80 | Concentrator Inflatable | Brindle; Dannie K. | Shanfelt; Donald Y. Inflatable solar energy collector | (A kind of inflatable greenhouse with a flat plate absorber.) US4160443 | 79 | Concentrator Inflatable | Brindle; Dannie K. | Shanfelt; Donald Y. Kiserl Dennis D. Armagast; David W. Lynch; Patrick J. Inflatable solar heat collector | (A kind of inflatable greenhouse with a flat plate absorber.) US4203425 | 80 | Concentrator Inflatable | Clark; Dana A. | Inflatable solar collector | (A kind of inflatable watterbed with a flat plate absorber.) US4126123 | 78 | Concentrator Inflatable | Hall; Frederick F. | Solar energy collector including a weightless balloon with sun tracking means | (Inflatable.) US4432342 | 84 | Concentrator Inflatable | Lucas; Jean | Sylla; Lancine Inflatable solar collector | (Trough) US4237868 | 80 | Concentrator Inflatable | Overton; Charlie N. | Solar heating balloon | (Inflatable Tethered Balloon Solar Collector.) US5893360 | 97 | Concentrator Inflatable | Stoumen; O'Malley O. | Stoumen; Jonathan A. Inflatable solar oven | (This sounds like a half silvered mylar balloon) US4610518 | 84 | Concentrator Involute | Clegg; John E. | Involute beam concentrator | US5870233 | 97 | Concentrator Lens Fresnel | Benz; Volker | Berkenkopf; Martin Fischer; Udo Lorenz; Hans Meier-Kaiser; Michael Process for manufacture of fresnel lenses | US4257401 | 81 | Concentrator Lens Fresnel | Daniels; Ronald M. | Solar heat collector | (A Fresnel primary lens focusing on an optical fiber through a secondary flat mirror) US5505789 | 94 | Concentrator Lens Fresnel | Fraas; Lewis M. | O'Neill; Mark J. Line-focus photovoltaic module using solid optical secondaries for improved radiation resistance | (Entech Inc.) US5344497 | 93 | Concentrator Lens Fresnel | Fraas; Lewis M. | O'Neill; Mark J. Line-focus photovoltaic module using stacked tandem-cells | US5648873 | 96 | Concentrator Lens Fresnel | Jaster; Paul A | O'Neill; Mark Joseph Passive solar collector | (3M) US5578139 | 95 | Concentrator Lens Fresnel | Jones; P. Alan | Harvey; T. Jeffrey Fraser, Allister F. Murphy; David M. Stowable and deployable solar energy concentrator with fresnel lenses | (Linear Fresnel lens onto a linear array of PV cells) US3991741 | 76 | Concentrator Lens Fresnel | Northrup; Leonard L. | O'Neill; Mark J. Roof-lens solar collector | US4545366 | 84 | Concentrator Lens Fresnel | O'Neill; Mark J. | Bi-focussed solar energy concentrator | (Entech Inc.) US4711972 | 86 | Concentrator Lens Fresnel | O'Neill; Mark J. | Photovoltaic cell cover for use with a primary optical concentrator in a solar energy collector | (Prismatic cover for concentrator PV cells Entech Inc.) US4069812 | 76 | Concentrator Lens Fresnel | O'Neill; Mark J. | Solar concentrator and energy collection system | US4672949 | 85 | Concentrator Lens Fresnel | O'Neill; Mark J. | Solar energy collector having an improved thermal receiver | (Entech Inc.) US4812013 | 79 | Concentrator Luminescent | Aurouet | Blumenfeld Bourdinaud Calve Cavan Meyer Thevenin Process for utilizing light radiation with the aid of fluorescent optical fibres and functional devices and apparatus using said process | (This is not a concentrator but is Luminescent Technology.) US4222880 | 80 | Concentrator Luminescent | Baur | Greubel Knauer Krueger Arrangement for optical transmission of communications | (This is not a concentrator but is Luminescent Technology.) US4135537 | 79 | Concentrator Luminescent | Blieden | MacDonald Light collector | US4153813 | 79 | Concentrator Luminescent | Blieden | Sill Luminescent solar collector | US4357486 | 82 | Concentrator Luminescent | Blieden | Yerkes Luminescent solar collector | US4188238 | 80 | Concentrator Luminescent | Boling | Generation of electrical energy from sunlight, and apparatus | US4164432 | 79 | Concentrator Luminescent | Boling | Luminescent solar collector structure | US4188239 | 80 | Concentrator Luminescent | Boling | Luminescent solar collector structure | US4190465 | 80 | Concentrator Luminescent | Boling | Luminescent solar collector structure | US4733929 | 88 | Concentrator Luminescent | Brown | Diffuser fiber incident energy concentrator and method of using same | US4884860 | 89 | Concentrator Luminescent | Brown | Linear lens and method for concentrating radiant energy and multiplying phosphor luminance output intensity | US4799748 | 89 | Concentrator Luminescent | Brown | Slab-diffuser fiber incident energy concentrator | US5816238 | 98 | Concentrator Luminescent | Burns | Pavelka Durable fluorescent solar collectors | (3M) US4144097 | 79 | Concentrator Luminescent | Chambers | Wohlmut Luminescent solar collector | US4127425 | 78 | Concentrator Luminescent | Chambers | Luminescent solar collector | US4544496 | 85 | Concentrator Luminescent | Claussen | Harnisch Light-collecting system using coumarin derivatives as energy converters | (No pictures) US3934148 | 76 | Concentrator Luminescent | Collins | Fluorescent plastic controlled direction lamp | US4175980 | 79 | Concentrator Luminescent | Davis | Sill Yerkes Luminescent solar collector | (Hybrid Luminescent and Thermal panel.) US4110123 | 78 | Concentrator Luminescent | Goetzberger | Greubel Apparatus for converting light energy into electrical energy | US5500054 | 96 | Concentrator Luminescent | Goldstein | Superemissive light pipes and photovoltaic systems including same | US3912931 | 75 | Concentrator Luminescent | Gravisse | Photovoltaic device with luminescent layers of differing composition | US4324946 | 82 | Concentrator Luminescent | Gravisse | Solar radiation concentrator | US5431742 | 95 | Concentrator Luminescent | Kleinerman | Luminescent solar concentrators using light amplification processes | (Luminescent laser iluminator.) US4149902 | 79 | Concentrator Luminescent | Mauer | Turechek Fluorescent solar energy concentrato | US4298802 | 81 | Concentrator Luminescent | Quella | Pape Method and device for collecting light utilizing a light trap | US4367367 | 83 | Concentrator Luminescent | Reisfeld | Neuman Collector for solar energy | US4488047 | 84 | Concentrator Luminescent | Thomas | High efficiency multiple layer, all solid-state luminescent solar concentrator | US4155371 | 79 | Concentrator Luminescent | Wohlmut | Yerkes Luminescent solar collector | US4159212 | 79 | Concentrator Luminescent | Yerkes | Luminescent solar collector | US4425907 | 84 | Concentrator Luminescent | Younghouse | Reflector-coupled fluorescent solar collector | US4227939 | 80 | Concentrator Luminescent | Zewail | Batchelder Luminescent solar energy concentrator devices | US4327969 | 82 | Concentrator Non Imaging Optics | Giutronich | Mills Radiation concentrator and distributor | US4275950 | 81 | Concentrator Non Imaging Optics | Meyer; Stanley A. | Light-guide lens | (Ya, the wacco run a car on water guy) US3970070 | 76 | Concentrator Non Imaging Optics | Meyer; Stanley A. | Solar heating system | (Ya, the wacco run a car on water guy) US4398530 | 83 | Concentrator Non Imaging Optics | Saunders; Norman B. | Solar collector and heating and cooling system | (A kind of leanto shaped structure with mirrors) US4496787 | 85 | Concentrator Non Imaging Optics | Touchais | Djelalian Method and device for collecting and exploiting solar radiation
| US3923381 | 75 | Concentrator Non Imaging Optics | Winston | Radiant energy collector | (Suitable for use with PV cells.) US4002499 | 77 | Concentrator Non Imaging Optics | Winston | Radiant energy collector | (Suitable for thermal collection.) US4318394 | 82 | Concentrator Trough | Alexander | Solar energy concentrator | (Inflatable) US4175391 | 79 | Concentrator Trough | Baer; Stephen C. | Self reorienting solar tracker | (Zomeworks) US4967730 | 90 | Concentrator Trough | Billheimer | Constant absorption solar furnace | (An unusual conical shaped trough.) US4559926 | 85 | Concentrator Trough | Butler | Centerless-drive solar collector system | US4148564 | 79 | Concentrator Trough | Devin | Guillemot Solar sensor with linear concentration with a fixed receiver and movable mirrors | (Similar to the Russell patent.) US4316448 | 82 | Concentrator Trough | Dodge | Solar energy concentrator system | (Similar to the Carrizo Planes defunct solar power station.) US4241726 | 80 | Concentrator Trough | Doebel | Concave helix solar concentrator
| US4051834 | 77 | Concentrator Trough | Fletcher | Miller Pohl Portable, linear-focused solar thermal energy collecting system
| US4454371 | 84 | Concentrator Trough | Folino | Solar energy concentrator system
| US4131336 | 78 | Concentrator Trough | Frosch | Miller Stephens Primary reflector for solar energy collection systems | (Describes how to make a Russell concentrator using road building equipment) US4077392 | 78 | Concentrator Trough | Garner | Novel solar collector
| US4628142 | 86 | Concentrator Trough | Hashizume; Kenichi | Solar tracking mechanisms
| US6080927 | 00 | Concentrator Trough | Johnson; Colin Francis | Solar concentrator for heat and electricity
| US4249514 | 81 | Concentrator Trough | Jones | Tracking solar energy concentrator | (Similar to the Russell patent except it doesn't have a movable receiver.) US4173213 | 79 | Concentrator Trough | Kelly | Solar power system, with high concentration, linear reflective solar panels
| US5851309 | 98 | Concentrator Trough | Kousa; Paavo | Directing and concentrating solar energy collectors | (Neat adjustable flexible concentrator built into the roof or wall of a house) US5365920 | 94 | Concentrator Trough | Lechner | Solar concentrator system | (Gregorian Optics by Bomin Solar Research) USRE30407 | 80 | Concentrator Trough | Lightfoot; Daniel J. | Solar heat collector module | (Low grade concentrator, apears to be about 2X, with wide input angles) US4432342 | 84 | Concentrator Trough | Lucas | Sylla Inflatable solar collector | US5253637 | 93 | Concentrator Trough | Maiden | Hyperfocal tracking solar thermal collector | (Off axis parabolic trough) US5833176 | 98 | Concentrator Trough | Rubin | Fabbri Young Bowed solar array | (Method to use a cable to bow a segmented mirror into a parabola) US4071017 | 78 | Concentrator Trough | Russell, Jr.; John L. | Potthoff Tensioned reflector support system | US4243019 | 81 | Concentrator Trough | Severson | Light-weight-trough type solar concentrator shell | (Interesting method of making a stiff mirror. Similar to what I do for my heliostat mirrors. Honeywell) US4820033 | 89 | Concentrator Trough | Sick | Solar mirror apparatus
| US4359041 | 82 | Concentrator Trough | Snodgrass | Light energy concentrating device
| US4476593 | 84 | Concentrator Trough Fresnel | Fanselow; Dan L. | Cobb, Jr.; Sanford Bergsten; Ronald E. Tanning blanket | (3M Flat sheet with reflective embedded sawtoot patern. Fanselow is from my home town of White Bear Lake.) US4519384 | 85 | Concentrator Trough Fresnel | Murtha; R. Michael | <rmmurtha@aol.com> Concentrating solar beam collector | US6021007 | 00 | Concentrator Trough Fresnel | Murtha; R. Michael | <rmmurtha@aol.com> Side-collecting lightguide | US3868823 | 75 | Concentrator Trough Fresnel | Russell, Jr.; John L. | DePlomb Concentrator, Method, and System for Utilizing Radiant Energy | (Describes a stationary Fresnel trough where the receiver tube moves in a circular arc) US4281640 | 81 | Concentrator Trough Fresnel | Wells; David N. | <laseraxe@erols.com > Electromagnetic radiation collector system | (One of David Wells' patents.) US5592932 | 97 | Concentrator Trough Fresnel | Yeomans | Radiant energy collecting apparatus | (Similar to Wells) US5309893 | 94 | Concentrator Trough Fresnel | Yeomans | Solar energy collecting apparatus | cooling | | Cooling or Air Conditioning
| US5647221 | 97 | Cooling Ejector | Garris, Jr.; Charles A. | Pressure exchanging ejector and refrigeration apparatus and method
| EMI | | EMI / RFI Supression components
| US5869788 | 99 | EMI | Gordon; Arnold S. | Estes; Mark K. Andrejko; Roman Weighing scale with EMI/RFI shielding | (This patent references my patent. See Johnson) US5473110 | 95 | EMI | Johnson; Duane C. | <redrok@redrok.com> Magnetically-attachable EMI shielding cover for attenuating electromagnetic emanation | (My patent for Unisys) engine | | Heat Engines
| US5027602 | 91 | Engine Carnot | Glen | Edwards Heat engine, refrigeration and heat pump cycles approximating the Carnot cycle and apparatus therefor
| US5819554 | 98 | Engine Carnot | Glen | Rotating vane compressor with energy recovery section, operating on a cycle approximating the ideal reversed Carnot cycle
| US4691523 | 87 | Engine Carnot | Rosado | Thermodynamic process for a practical approach to the Carnot cycle
| US4419617 | 83 | Engine Curie Point | Reitz | Thermally electrogenerative storage cell and generator apparatus
| US5916140 | 99 | Engine Liquid | Hageman | Hydraulic engine powered by introduction and removal of heat from a working fluid | (Sounds like a Malone engine, liquid fluid version of a Stirling Engine) US5899067 | 99 | Engine Liquid | Hageman | Hydraulic engine powered by introduction and removal of heat from a working fluid | (Sounds like a Malone engine, liquid fluid version of a Stirling Engine) US4428193 | 84 | Engine Magnetic | Papp; Joseph | Inert gas fuel, fuel preparation apparatus and system for extracting useful work from the fuel
| US6094915 | 00 | Engine Otto | Negre; Guy | Negre; Cyril Method and devices for eliminating the pollution of cyclic internal combustion engines with an independent combustion chamber | (Internal combustion gasoline engine burning the fuel with compressed air. Apparently this company uses this patent MDI, Motor Development International) US5765387 | 98 | Engine Rankine | Amin | Device and method for thermal transfer using air as the working medium | (See: Entropy Systems) US5547341 | 95 | Engine Rankine | Amin | Device for thermal transfer using air as the working medium | (See: Entropy Systems) US3750393 | 73 | Engine Rotary | Minto; Wallace L. | Keller Prime mover system
| US5236349 | 93 | Engine Turbine | Fabris | Two-phase reaction turbine
| US4332520 | 82 | Engine Turbine | House | Velocity pump reaction turbine
| US4627241 | 86 | Engine Uniflow | Johnston | Closed loop solar collector system powering a self-starting uniflow steam engine | US4134264 | 79 | Engine Vapor | Baer; Stephen C. | Double bubble wheel engine | (Similar to the Minto Wheel. Minto didn't patent his wheel. Zomeworks) US4195481 | 80 | Engine Vapor | Gregory; Alvin L. | Power plant | (Similar concept to Roesel) US3901033 | 75 | Engine Vapor | McAlister; Roy E. | Vapor pressurized hydrostatic drive | (Similar concept to Roesel) US3636706 | 72 | Engine Vapor | Minto; Wallace L. | Heat-to-power conversion method and apparatus
| US3608311 | 71 | Engine Vapor | Roesel; John F. JR. | Engine | (I think this is a pair of half filled columns of liquid. Above the liquid is a compressible fluid. Hot and cold liquid is alternately sprayed into the fluid causing pressure changes. No image nor description.) flat plate | | Flat Plate Solar Collectors
| US4226506 | 80 | Flat Plate | Auger | Swiveling solar reflector with multiple reflecting elements supported by prefabricated cambered members | US4676225 | 87 | Flat Plate | Bartera; Ralph | Method and apparatus for enhancing the pumping action of a geyser pumped tube | US4478211 | 84 | Flat Plate | Haine; Eldon | Bartera; Ralph Self-pumping solar heating system with geyser pumping action (I think this is the Copper Cricket) | US4246890 | 81 | Flat Plate | Kraus | Kraus Passive solar heater fluid pump system | (This pump uses a 2 pipe heat pipe to exchange heat from the thermal transfer fluid to the heated water) US4458669 | 84 | Flat Plate | Lee; Kap-Joong | Building heating system | US4419981 | 83 | Flat Plate | Mori | Sun tracking apparatus | US6223743 | 01 | Flat Plate | Prueitt; Melvin L. | Solar power generation and energy storage system | (Solar Energy Limited) US4357932 | 82 | Flat Plate | Stacy; W. Dodd | Self pumped solar energy collection system | (Uses a kind of single tube heat pipe.) heatpipe | | Heat Pipes
| US3618569 | 71 | Heat Pipe | Baer; Stephen C. | Device for transferring heat from one portion of a water reservoir to another | (Zomeworks) US4336837 | 82 | Heat Pipe | Koenig | Entirely passive heat pipe apparatus capable of operating against gravity | (Incorporates a bubble pump to bring condensed liquid to the top.) US5190098 | 93 | Heat Pipe | Long | Thermosyphon with evaporator having rising and falling sections | US4357932 | 82 | Heat Pipe | Stacy; W. Dodd | Self pumped solar energy collection system | (Uses a kind of single tube heat pipe.) US4082109 | 79 | Heat Pipe | Sun | Basiulis Heat pipe actuated valve | US3817321 | 74 | Heat Pipe | VON Cube | Wagner Cooling apparatus semiconductor elements, comprising partitioned bubble pump, separator and condenser means | hydrogen | | Hydrogen
| US4391793 | 83 | Hydrogen | Boese | Plant for thermochemical water dissociation by solar energy | (Magnetic ion separation) US4342738 | 82 | Hydrogen | Burgund | Hydrogen generation as fuel by use of solar ultraviolet light process | (Sunlight is separated into its infrared portion and its ultraviolet light portion.) US4588577 | 86 | Hydrogen | Cardinal | Method for generating hydrogen | (Generation of hydrogen gas from hot water by means of a metallic catalyst such as nickel powder and a chelating agent such as EDTA) US4071608 | 78 | Hydrogen | Diggs | Dissociation of water into hydrogen and oxygen using solar energy | (Hydrogen and oxygen are separated from each other by centrifugal forces.) US4310503 | 82 | Hydrogen | Erickson | Hydrogen production by multistaged intermediate oxidation-reduction | (Steam is reformed to hydrogen in two or more successive stages by chemical reaction with intermediates, at least one of which is selected from tin, indium, germanium, molybdenum or WO2.) US4053576 | 77 | Hydrogen | Fletcher | System for obtaining hydrogen and oxygen from water using solar energy | (Separation through diffusion University of Minnesota) US4332775 | 82 | Hydrogen | Genequand | Gross Hydrogen generator utilizing solar energy to dissociate water | (Separation through diffusion.) US4476105 | 84 | Hydrogen | Greenbaum | Process for photosynthetically splitting water | (Photolytic reactor which contains a water-suspension of a photoactive material containing a hydrogen-liberating catalyst.) US3980053 | 76 | Hydrogen | Horvath; Stephen | Fuel supply apparatus for internal combustion engines
| US4490349 | 84 | Hydrogen | Horvath; Stephen | Hydrogen production | (One of chamber walls is formed of a reactant such as iron which reacts exothermally with the superheated steam to liberate free hydrogen and to produce an oxidized compound such as ferric oxide. The other chamber wall is formed as a thin diffusion membrane permeable to hydrogen but relatively impermeable to steam and oxygen and hydrogen is extracted from the chamber by diffusion.) US5658448 | 97 | Hydrogen | Lasich | Production of hydrogen from solar radiation at high efficiency | (Solid oxide electrolysis.) US5973825 | 99 | Hydrogen | Lasich | Production of hydrogen from solar radiation at high efficiency | (Solid oxide electrolysis.) US5589599 | 96 | Hydrogen | McMullen | McMullen McMullen Pyrolytic conversion of organic feedstock and waste
| US4826581 | 89 | Hydrogen | Meyer; Stanley A. | Controlled process for the production of thermal energy from gases and apparatus useful therefore | (Ya, the wacco run a car on water guy) US4613779 | 86 | Hydrogen | Meyer; Stanley A. | Electrical pulse generator
| US4613304 | 86 | Hydrogen | Meyer; Stanley A. | Gas electrical hydrogen generator
| US4798661 | 89 | Hydrogen | Meyer; Stanley A. | Gas generator voltage control circuit
| US4421474 | 83 | Hydrogen | Meyer; Stanley A. | Hydrogen gas burner
| US4389981 | 83 | Hydrogen | Meyer; Stanley A. | Hydrogen gas injector system for internal combustion engine
| US4936961 | 90 | Hydrogen | Meyer; Stanley A. | Method for the production of a fuel gas
| US5149407 | 92 | Hydrogen | Meyer; Stanley A. | Process and apparatus for the production of fuel gas and the enhanced release of thermal energy from such gas
| US4465455 | 84 | Hydrogen | Meyer; Stanley A. | Start-up/shut-down for a hydrogen gas burner
| US6024935 | 00 | Hydrogen | Mills | Good Phillips Popov Lower-energy hydrogen methods and structures | ( An example of a patent being granted to "crank" science ) US4233127 | 80 | Hydrogen | Monahan | Process and apparatus for generating hydrogen and oxygen using solar energy
| US4011149 | 77 | Hydrogen | Nozik | Photoelectrolysis of water by solar radiation | (thin film semiconductor.) US4405594 | 83 | Hydrogen | Pyle; Walter R | <Hion solar> Photo separatory nozzle | (H-ION Solar) US4019868 | 77 | Hydrogen | Sebacher | Sabol Solar hydrogen generator | (Separation through diffusion.) US4595568 | 86 | Hydrogen | Van Damme | Fripiat Nijs Marceau Francois Photosensitive cell for the decomposition of water | (Using catalysts) US4696809 | 87 | Hydrogen | Vialaron | Olalde Gauthier Process and apparatus for thermolytically dissociating water | (Rapid quenching of the gasses with cold water in the reaction cell.) US5510201 | 96 | Hydrogen | Werth | Method of operating a fuel cell wherein hydrogen is generated by providing iron in situ | (Using catalysts) US3844262 | 74 | Hydrogen Oxygen | Dieges; Paul Bertrand | Vaporization of Exhaust Products in Hydrogen-oxygen Engine
| US4880443 | 89 | Hydrogen Oxygen | Miller | Theis Molecular sieve oxygen concentrator with secondary oxygen purifier | (Separation through diffusion.) US5614460 | 97 | Hydrogen Storage | Schwarz | Putyera Bandosz Jagiello Microporous carbons for fuel gas storage | (Hydrogen Storage) IC | | Internal Combustion
| US5794601 | 98 | IC Carburetor | Pantone | Fuel pretreater apparatus and method | (The GEET carburetor) ignitor | | Ignitors
| US5798601 | 98 | Ignitor Piezoelectric | Hansen | Adjustable retrofit ignition kit for portable gas appliances | (Hansen is from my home town of White Bear Lake.) instruments | | Instrumentation
| US4343191 | 82 | Instruments Flowmeter | Cairenius | Fluid flow meter
| US4462262 | 84 | Instruments Flowmeter | Kahnke | Fluid flow sensing system | (A ball rotating about a circular track By Honeywell) US4331036 | 82 | Instruments Flowmeter | Severson | Volk Fluid flowmeter | (A ball rotating about a circular track By Honeywell) US4015116 | 77 | Instruments Solar | Bahm | Measurement of solar radiation
| US4609288 | 86 | Instruments Solar | Dodge | Direct ray solar meter and method | US3875404 | 75 | Instruments Solar | Fletcher | Fletcher Wide angle sun sensor
| US3876880 | 75 | Instruments Solar | Guicherd | Pyranometer for the measurement of solar radiation
| US4719344 | 88 | Instruments Solar | Hiroyuki | Method of and apparatus for measuring amount of solar radiation received directly
| US4253764 | 81 | Instruments Solar | Morrill | Solar energy metering and recording system
| US5861947 | 99 | Instruments Solar | Neumann | Measuring device for measuring concentrated radiation of light
| US4110049 | 78 | Instruments Solar | Younskevicius | Sun meter
| US4560286 | 85 | Instruments Temperature | Wickersheim | Optical temperature measurement techniques utilizing phosphors | (Luxtron) insulation | | Insulation
| US4231202 | 80 | Insulation Bead Wall | Dube | Double-glazed building panel and filling system
| US3903665 | 75 | Insulation Bead Wall | Harrison | Heat energy transmission control panel | (Beadwall from Zomeworks) US4306387 | 81 | Insulation Bead Wall | Hopkins | Hardee Controllable insulating effects by selective interposition of insulating particles in a cavity of an energy transmission panel assembly
| US4147002 | 79 | Insulation Bead Wall | Kautz | Light valve system and greenhouse utilizing the same
| US4370837 | 83 | Insulation Bead Wall | Larguia | Arrangement for selectively changing the radiation and vibration transmission properties of panels
| US4446850 | 82 | Insulation Bead Wall | Zilisch | Solar panel with storage
| US4562674 | 82 | Insulation Bubble Wall | Nelson | Replaceable foam insulation system
| US3672184 | 72 | Insulation Bubble Wall | Zeilon; Sten Olof | Apparatus for thermally insulating a body
| US4467786 | 84 | Insulation Coverites | Sorensen; Jens | Solar heating of water utilizing coverites. | (Insulation for a solar pond) lighting | | Lighting
| US4533317 | 85 | Lighting Mantles | Addison | Yttrium oxide mantles for fuel-burning lanterns | (Coleman) US5116220 | 92 | Lighting Mantles | Kinzel | Warren Quick disconnect clip for gas latern mantle | (Warren is from my home town of White Bear Lake.) US5639231 | 97 | Lighting Mantles | May | Murray Swearingen Taylor Van Driest Mantle and spring clip assembly | (Colemans attempt to circumvent the Kinzel patent. In my opinion this is an inferier clip which might cause one to break the other good mantle in a dual mantle lantern.) US5261184 | 93 | Lighting Solar | Appeldorn; Roger H. | Jaster; Paul A Cobb, Jr.; Sanford Skylight | (Appeldorn is from my home town of White Bear Lake. 3M) US4883340 | 89 | Lighting Solar | Dominguez | Solar lighting reflector apparatus having slatted mirrors and improved tracker | USD364469 | 95 | Lighting Solar | Eijadi | Abraham DeKeyser Hansen Skylight | (Abraham is from my home town of White Bear Lake.) US4593976 | 86 | Lighting Solar | Eijadi | Bennett Solar illumination device
| US4349245 | 82 | Lighting Solar | Kliman | Modular natural lighting system
| US4720170 | 88 | Lighting Solar | Learn | Daylamp system | (Fiberoptic and dish system) US5560700 | 96 | Lighting Solar | Levens | Light coupler | (Fiberoptic and dish system) US4572613 | 86 | Lighting Solar | Mori; Kei | Method and apparatus for illuminating a spot inside of a tunnel of a highway | (Fiberoptic and Luminescent(?) system) US4788437 | 88 | Lighting Tritium | Urquhart | Hart Tritium light
| mechanical | | Mechanical Devices
| US5094562 | 92 | Mechanical Connectors | Anderson | Three-way clamp for structural assemblies | (Robotic Originals.) US3834549 | 74 | Mechanical Connectors | Burg | Lieberman Fiorenza Structural system | (Gordon Tube Products Company, Bronx, NY.) US4923322 | 90 | Mechanical Connectors | Burg | Clamped framework assembly and connectors used therewith | (Uni Corp, Bronx, NY.) US4864795 | 89 | Mechanical Connectors | Burg | Structural framework system and clamp assembly | (Uni Corp, Bronx, NY.) US5403110 | 95 | Mechanical Connectors | Sammann | Square T clamp assembly for elongate members | (Connector for wooden assemplies See Timber Ventures.) US4007993 | 77 | Mechanical Connectors | Schwartz | Pipe coupler | US5704374 | 98 | Mechanical Log Splitter | Abrahamsson | Hand-driven wood splitter | (See Smart-Splitter) US4423759 | 84 | Mechanical Log Splitter | Seeger | Electrically powered log splitter | (Nut and screw type) medical | | Medical Devices
| US6169924 | 01 | Medical Orgasmatron | Meloy; T. Stuart | Martin; W. Joseph Spinal cord stimulation | (A method for spinal cord stimulation to treat orgasmic dysfunction. An Orgasmatron like in Woody Allen movie "Sleeper". (See Medtronic) US4084595 | 78 | Medical TENS | Miller | Transcutaneous nerve stimulator (TENS) | (I met this guy once. As I recall, Medtronics purchased the rights to the TENS. They did nothing to market or develop the device. Miller sued Medtronics for failure to market. Miller regained his patent rights and succesfuly marketed the TENS. He didn't have to return the $150,000 to Medtronics. I might have some details incorrect as it's been a long time. (See Medtronic) US5235967 | 93 | Medical Thumper | Arbisi | Mitchell Electro-magnetic impact massager
| US4977889 | 90 | Medical Thumper | Budd | Fitting and tuning chest compression device | (I repaired this device for Dr. Leland G. Hansen. University of Minnesota) US5000164 | 91 | Medical Thumper | Cooper | Circulation enhancing apparatus
| US5772613 | 98 | Medical Thumper | Gelfand | Rothman Cardiopulmonary resuscitation system with centrifugal compression pump | (Cardiologic Systems, Inc.) US5569170 | 96 | Medical Thumper | Hansen; Craig N. | Pulsator | (Electromed, Inc.) US5453081 | 95 | Medical Thumper | Hansen; Craig N. | Pulsator | US5871008 | 99 | Medical Thumper | Poon | Kolandaivelu Miniature high-frequency ventilator | (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) US5769797 | 98 | Medical Thumper | Van Brunt | Gagne Oscillatory chest compression device | (American Biosystems, Inc.) US4838263 | 91 | Medical Thumper | Warwick | Hansen; Leland G. Chest compression apparatus | (University of Minnesota ) US5056505 | 91 | Medical Thumper | Warwick | Hansen; Leland G. Chest compression apparatus | (University of Minnesota ) US4982735 | 91 | Medical Thumper | Yagata | Noguchi Artificial ventilator | (Sumitomo Bakelite Company Limited) MHD | | Magnetohydrodynamic Generators
| US4847525 | 89 | MHD | Blumenau | Methods and systems for magnetohydrodynamic power conversion
| US4275318 | 81 | MHD | Duncan | Magnetohydrodynamic method and apparatus for converting solar radiation to electrical energy
| US4200815 | 80 | MHD | Petrick | Pierson Schreine MHD Generating system
| US4773144 | 88 | MHD | Youtie | Method of manufacture of scroll compressors and expanders
| US4599551 | 86 | MHD Acoustic | Wheatley | Swift Migliori Thermoacoustic magnetohydrodynamic electrical generator | US4395648 | 83 | MHD Electrothermodynamic | Marks | Electrothermodynamic (ETD) power converter | ( OK, this isn't MHD. Its electrostatic instead of megmetic. ) US5337560 | 94 | MHD Gas | Abdelmalek | Shock absorber and a hermetically sealed scroll gas expander for a vehicular gas compression and expansion power system
| US4287443 | 81 | MHD Liquid | Aladiev | Dzhamardzhashvili Liquid-metal magnetohydrodynamic converter
| US4191901 | |