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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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Patent Link | yr | Category | Inventor | Description |
Awnings | Awnings for RVs | |||
US5636675 | 97 | Awnings | Baka Malott | Shifting roll awning assembly with stowable support arms (White Consolidated Industries, Inc.) Camper Awning |
US5035253 | 91 | Awnings | Bortles | Tent canopy rain awning Tent 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 Solar Brayton |
US4942736 | 90 | Brayton Solar | Bronicki | Method of and apparatus for producing power from solar energy Solar Turbine |
US5448889 | 95 | Brayton Solar | Bronicki | Method of and apparatus for producing power using compressed air Solar Turbine |
US4683872 | 87 | Brayton Solar | Fricker | Receiver for solar energy Solar Turbine |
US4262484 | 81 | Brayton Solar | Jubb Stansbury | Gas turbine engine power plant using solar energy as a heat source Solar Turbine |
US4172491 | 79 | Brayton Solar | Rice | Method of more efficiently operating a heat storage-heat exchange system Solar Engine |
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 Isothermal Compressor |
US4027993 | 77 | Compressor | Wolff | Method and apparatus for compressing vaporous or gaseous fluids isothermally |
US4975031 | 90 | Compressor Rolling Piston | Bagepalli Imam | Rotary compressor with compliant impact surfaces Rolling Piston |
US4332534 | 82 | Compressor Rolling Piston | Becker | Membrane pump with tiltable rolling piston pressing the membrane Rolling Piston |
US5529469 | 96 | Compressor Rolling Piston | Bushnell Swidowski | Vane hole cover for rotary compressor |
US5226797 | 93 | Compressor Rolling Piston | Da Costa | Rolling piston compressor with defined dimension ratios for the rolling piston |
US5007813 | 91 | Compressor Rolling Piston | Da Costa | 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.) Multiple Lobes |
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 |
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 |
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 |
US4397618 | 83 | Compressor Rolling Piston | Stenzel | Rolling piston compressor with locking device for the separating slide Modulated Rolling Piston |
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.) Swinging Dish |
US4395581 | 83 | Concentrator Dish | Girard | Concave mirror constituted by a plurality of plane facets and solar generator comprising such a mirror Big Dish |
US4126123 | 78 | Concentrator Dish | Hall | Solar energy collector including a weightless balloon with sun tracking means (Inflatable.) Balloon Dish |
US5758938 | 98 | Concentrator Dish | Osterwisch | Solar concentrator elevational drive mechanism (Dish used with Stirling Thermal Motors' solar stirling engine) Big Stirling Dish |
US4237868 | 80 | Concentrator Dish | Overton | Solar heating balloon (Inflatable Tethered Balloon Solar Collector.) Balloon |
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.) Dish/Heliostat |
US4608964 | 86 | Concentrator Dish | Russo | Tension solar mirror |
US5529054 | 96 | Concentrator Dish | Shoen | Solar energy concentrator and collector system and associated method (Casegrainian optics.) Casegrainian |
US4333446 | 82 | Concentrator Dish | Smyth | Solar concentrator (Based on a geodesic dome structure) Dish in a Dome |
US4535961 | 85 | Concentrator Dish | Sobczak Cleveland Pons | Lightweight azimuth/elevation mount Dish |
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.) Lighting Dish |
US5893360 | 99 | Concentrator Dish | Stoumen Stoumen | Inflatable solar oven (This sounds like a half silvered mylar balloon) Solar Cooker |
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.) Petal Shapped Dish |
US4568945 | 86 | Concentrator Dish | Winegard; John R. Cowan; Keith B. | Satellite dish antenna apparatus (Winegard Company) Satellite Dish |
US4171876 | 79 | Concentrator Dish | Wood; Douglas E. Sunflower <fox@harbornet.com> | Apparatus for supporting large-dimension curved reflectors Many Faceted Dish |
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 Many Faceted Dish |
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 Many Faceted Dish |
US4491388 | 85 | Concentrator Dish | Wood; Douglas E. Sunflower <fox@harbornet.com> | Support carriage for a solar concentrator Many Faceted Dish |
US6485152 | 02 | Concentrator Dish | Wood; Douglas E. Sunflower <fox@harbornet.com> | Matrix solar dish Back Side How it's put togather |
US4789921 | 88 | Concentrator Dish Fresnel | Aho; Kenneth A. | Cone shaped Fresnel reflector (From 3M and lives in Chisago City, MN) Cone Dish |
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) Fresnel Dish |
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) Fresnel |
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) Plastic Sheet |
US4136674 | 79 | Concentrator Dish Fresnel | Korr | System for solar radiation energy collection and conversion (Looks like a heliostat floating in a moat of water.) Dish/Heliostat |
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) Fresnel Dish |
US4716258 | 87 | Concentrator Dish Fresnel | Murtha; R. Michael <murtha2@juno.com> | Stamped concentrators supporting photovoltaic assemblies PV Concentrator |
US4566432 | 86 | Concentrator Dish Fresnel | Sobczak Cleveland Pons | Method for mass producing solar radiation reflectors Big Stirling Dish |
US4457297 | 84 | Concentrator Dish Fresnel | Sobczak Cleveland Pons | Modular solar concentrator Little Stirling Dish |
US4350412 | 82 | Concentrator Dish Fresnel | Steenblik Ho | 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.) Spiral Fresnel Dish Photograph |
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 Fresnel Dish |
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.) Big Stirling Dish |
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) Fresnel Dish |
US4275950 | 81 | Concentrator Fiber Optics | Meyer; Stanley A. | Light-guide lens (Ya, the wacco run a car on water guy) Wierd |
US3924604 | 75 | Concentrator Heliostat | Anderson | Solar energy conversion system (Power Tower. Guy from Northfield, MN. Looks like Solar II with air heat transport. Describes mirrors moved with cables.) Power Plant |
US5347402 | 94 | Concentrator Heliostat | Arbogast | Multiple mirror assembly for solar collector (Method of removing and stowing mirrors for protection in storms) Linked Mirrors |
US4056313 | 77 | Concentrator Heliostat | Arbogast | Multiple mirrored apparatus utilizing solar energy Linked Mirrors |
US4398802 | 83 | Concentrator Heliostat | Auger Acloque | Solar mirror having contiguous reflecting panels mounted on a movable frame (Interesting method of forming and controlling the curve in strips of mirrors.) Mirror Strip Heliostat |
US4832001 | 89 | Concentrator Heliostat | Baer; Stephen C. | Lightweight solar panel support (Heliostat elements supported on cables. Zomeworks Similar to the Dolan patent.) Zomeworks |
US5417052 | 95 | Concentrator Heliostat | Bharathan Bohn Williams | Hybrid solar central receiver for combined cycle power plant (Looks like Solar II with air heat transport.) Hybrid Solar Power Plant |
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) Inline 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) Inline Tracker |
US4218114 | 80 | Concentrator Heliostat | Bunch | Heliostat apparatus (Heliostat actuation scheme that is defective as it uses parallelogram linkages) Linked Mirrors |
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) Inline Tracker |
US4192289 | 80 | Concentrator Heliostat | Clark; David J. | Solar heat collection system (Vacuum formed concave heliostat mirror. Receiver axis tracker using a cable over pullys.) Heliostat |
US4129360 | 78 | Concentrator Heliostat | Deflandre Matarasso Traisnel | Heliostats (A Hinge type heliostat mechanism that tracks similar to a TPole although much stronger than a TPole. See Sayre) Hinge |
US4466423 | 84 | Concentrator Heliostat | Dolan Sands | Rim-drive cable-aligned heliostat collector system (Heliostat mirrors suspended on cables in linear rows. The mirrors are stowable for waether protection.) Mirrors on Wires |
US3466119 | 66 | Concentrator Heliostat | Francia | ? (True ganged mechanical heliostat.) Mirrors on Wires |
US4266179 | 81 | Concentrator Heliostat | Hamm | Solar energy concentration system Solar Furnace |
US4063543 | 77 | Concentrator Heliostat | Hedger | Servo tracking apparatus (Moves mirror by rocking mechanisms that tilt and rotate using linear actuators. My goofy tracker is similar to this.) Inline Tracker |
US4110010 | 78 | Concentrator Heliostat | Hilton | Ganged heliostat (In a frame similar to Arbogast) Removable Mirrors |
US4509501 | 85 | Concentrator Heliostat | Hunter | Solar energy collecting system using a primary reflector based on a pyramid structure Triangular Heliostat |
US5949594 | 99 | Concentrator Heliostat | Iglseder Arens-Fischer | Process for the generation of information in space (Spaced based solar iluminated advertising) Space Advertising |
US4365618 | 82 | Concentrator Heliostat | Jones | 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) Plan Tracked Mount |
US4137897 | 79 | Concentrator Heliostat | Moore | Unified array for collection and concentration of solar energy (Heliostats built into buildings with conventional tower) Heliostat Buildings |
US5979438 | 99 | Concentrator Heliostat | Nakamura | Sunlight collecting system (Describes a secondary Gregorian mirror and a tertiary compound parabolic concentrator receiver, and inline tracker.) Heliostat Array Inline Tracker Tracker |
US6231197 | 01 | Concentrator Heliostat | Nakamura | 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.) Heliostat |
US4586488 | 86 | Concentrator Heliostat | Noto | Reflective solar tracking system (Half angle tracker employing gears. Similar to that describes to me by Jerimiah Chace. Receiver Axis Mount) Half angle tracker, single axis |
US6227673 | 01 | Concentrator Heliostat | O'Hara-Smith; Stephen C. <sohara@best.com> | Adjustable reflector (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) Spheres |
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) U-joint Mechanism |
US5325844 | 94 | Concentrator Heliostat | 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.) Dish/Heliostat |
US4930493 | 90 | Concentrator Heliostat | Sallis | 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.) Really Neat Heliostat |
US4209231 | 80 | Concentrator Heliostat | Sayre | Heliostat assemblies (A TPole type heliostat mechanism that looks similar to a Hinge although much stronger. See Deflandre) TPole |
US4219729 | 80 | Concentrator Heliostat | Smith | Method of aligning and locating the mirrors of a collector field with respect to a receptor tower (Laser alignment of a field of mirrors) Iaser Heliostat Alignment |
US4117682 | 78 | Concentrator Heliostat | Smith | Solar collector system (Solar Power Tower and receiver and mirror field strategies.) Solar Power Plant |
US4102326 | 77 | Concentrator Heliostat | Sommer | Central receiver solar collector using mechanically linked mirrors Linked Mirrors |
USRE30960 | 82 | Concentrator Heliostat | Sommer | Central receiver solar collector using mechanically linked mirrors 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) Agricultural Heliostat |
US4251135 | 81 | Concentrator Heliostat | Stone | Solar reflector (Tensioned triangular membrain reflector.) Heliostat |
US4488779 | 84 | Concentrator Heliostat | Varner | Lightweight heliostat system (Varner is from Ogilvie, MN.) Heliostat |
US6025583 | 00 | 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.) Heliostat on a Role |
US4798949 | 89 | Concentrator Heliostat | Wilcox Kudija | Linear actuated optical concentrator (This patent is the basis of a lighting heliostat I am working on) Heliostat |
US5862799 | 99 | Concentrator Heliostat | Yogev Krupkin | Control of a heliostat field in a solar energy plant (Uses Gregorian and Cassigranian optics.) Heliostat Shadow Tracker |
US5517339 | 96 | Concentrator Holographic | Riccobono Ludman | Method of manufacturing high efficiency, broad bandwidth, volume holographic elements and solar concentrators for use therewith Holographic Concentrators |
US5877874 | 99 | Concentrator Holographic | Rosenberg | 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.) Holographic Tracker |
US4318394 | 82 | Concentrator Inflatable | Alexander | Solar energy concentrator (I don't understand how it works.) Inflatable Trough |
US4552126 | 85 | Concentrator Inflatable | 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) Fresnel |
US4182307 | 80 | Concentrator Inflatable | Brindle Shanfelt | Inflatable solar energy collector (A kind of inflatable greenhouse with a flat plate absorber.) Flat Plate |
US4160443 | 79 | Concentrator Inflatable | Brindle Shanfelt | Inflatable solar heat collector (A kind of inflatable greenhouse with a flat plate absorber.) Flat Plate |
US4203425 | 80 | Concentrator Inflatable | Clark | Inflatable solar collector (A kind of inflatable watterbed with a flat plate absorber.) Flat Plate |
US4126123 | 78 | Concentrator Inflatable | Hall | Solar energy collector including a weightless balloon with sun tracking means (Inflatable.) Balloon Dish |
US4432342 | 84 | Concentrator Inflatable | Lucas Sylla | Inflatable solar collector (Trough) Casegranian Trough |
US4237868 | 80 | Concentrator Inflatable | Overton | Solar heating balloon (Inflatable Tethered Balloon Solar Collector.) Balloon |
US5893360 | 99 | Concentrator Inflatable | Stoumen Stoumen | Inflatable solar oven (This sounds like a half silvered mylar balloon) Solar Cooker |
US4610518 | 86 | Concentrator Involute | Clegg; John E. | Involute beam concentrator Involute |
US5870233 | 99 | Concentrator Lens Fresnel | Benz Berkenkopf Fischer Lorenz Meier-Kaiser | Process for manufacture of fresnel lenses How to make |
US4257401 | 81 | Concentrator Lens Fresnel | Daniels | Solar heat collector (A Fresnel primary lens focusing on an optical fiber through a secondary flat mirror) Fiber Optic Concentrator |
US5505789 | 96 | Concentrator Lens Fresnel | Fraas O'Neill | Line-focus photovoltaic module using solid optical secondaries for improved radiation resistance (Entech Inc.) PV Concentrator |
US5344497 | 94 | Concentrator Lens Fresnel | Fraas O'Neill | Line-focus photovoltaic module using stacked tandem-cells PV Concentrator |
US5648873 | 97 | Concentrator Lens Fresnel | Jaster; Paul A O'Neill | Passive solar collector (3M) PV Concentrator |
US5578139 | 96 | Concentrator Lens Fresnel | Jones Harvey Fraser Murphy | Stowable and deployable solar energy concentrator with fresnel lenses (Linear Fresnel lens onto a linear array of PV cells) PV Concentrator |
US3991741 | 76 | Concentrator Lens Fresnel | Northrup O'Neill | Roof-lens solar collector Built Into the Roof |
US4545366 | 85 | Concentrator Lens Fresnel | O'Neill | Bi-focussed solar energy concentrator (Entech Inc.) PV Concentrator |
US4711972 | 87 | Concentrator Lens Fresnel | O'Neill | Photovoltaic cell cover for use with a primary optical concentrator in a solar energy collector (Prismatic cover for concentrator PV cells Entech Inc.) Prismatic |
US4069812 | 78 | Concentrator Lens Fresnel | O'Neill | Solar concentrator and energy collection system Liquid Heater |
US4672949 | 87 | Concentrator Lens Fresnel | O'Neill | Solar energy collector having an improved thermal receiver (Entech Inc.) Liquid Heater |
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.) 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.) 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 Linear Lens |
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 Fiber |
US4884860 | 89 | Concentrator Luminescent | Brown | Linear lens and method for concentrating radiant energy and multiplying phosphor luminance output intensity Linear Lens |
US4799748 | 89 | Concentrator Luminescent | Brown | Slab-diffuser fiber incident energy concentrator Fiber |
US5816238 | 98 | Concentrator Luminescent | Burns Pavelka | Durable fluorescent solar collectors (3M) PV Concentrator |
US4144097 | 79 | Concentrator Luminescent | Chambers Wohlmut | Luminescent solar collector PV Concentrator |
US4127425 | 78 | Concentrator Luminescent | Chambers | Luminescent solar collector PV Concentrator |
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 Lamp |
US4175980 | 79 | Concentrator Luminescent | Davis Sill Yerkes | Luminescent solar collector (Hybrid Luminescent and Thermal panel.) Luminescent Thermal |
US4110123 | 78 | Concentrator Luminescent | Goetzberger Greubel | Apparatus for converting light energy into electrical energy 3 Color Luminescent |
US5500054 | 96 | Concentrator Luminescent | Goldstein | Superemissive light pipes and photovoltaic systems including same Thermal Luminescent |
US3912931 | 75 | Concentrator Luminescent | Gravisse | Photovoltaic device with luminescent layers of differing composition Multilayers for Light Color Conversion |
US4324946 | 82 | Concentrator Luminescent | Gravisse | Solar radiation concentrator 2 Layer |
US5431742 | 95 | Concentrator Luminescent | Kleinerman | Luminescent solar concentrators using light amplification processes (Luminescent laser iluminator.) Laser |
US4149902 | 79 | Concentrator Luminescent | Mauer Turechek | Fluorescent solar energy concentrato PV Concentrator |
US4298802 | 81 | Concentrator Luminescent | Quella Pape | Method and device for collecting light utilizing a light trap PV Concentrator |
US4367367 | 83 | Concentrator Luminescent | Reisfeld Neuman | Collector for solar energy PV Concentrator |
US4488047 | 84 | Concentrator Luminescent | Thomas | High efficiency multiple layer, all solid-state luminescent solar concentrator PV Concentrator |
US4155371 | 79 | Concentrator Luminescent | Wohlmut Yerkes | Luminescent solar collector PV Concentrator |
US4159212 | 79 | Concentrator Luminescent | Yerkes | Luminescent solar collector Fiber Optic |
US4425907 | 84 | Concentrator Luminescent | Younghouse | Reflector-coupled fluorescent solar collector Fiber Optic |
US4227939 | 80 | Concentrator Luminescent | Zewail Batchelder | Luminescent solar energy concentrator devices Shell |
US4327969 | 82 | Concentrator Non Imaging Optics | Giutronich Mills | Radiation concentrator and distributor CPC |
US4275950 | 81 | Concentrator Non Imaging Optics | Meyer; Stanley A. | Light-guide lens (Ya, the wacco run a car on water guy) Wierd |
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) Roof Top Heating & Lighting |
US4496787 | 85 | Concentrator Non Imaging Optics | Touchais Djelalian | Method and device for collecting and exploiting solar radiation |
US4002499 | 77 | Concentrator Non Imaging Optics | Winston | Radiant energy collector CPC |
US4318394 | 82 | Concentrator Trough | Alexander | Solar energy concentrator (Inflatable) |
US4175391 | 79 | Concentrator Trough | Baer; Stephen C. | Self reorienting solar tracker (Zomeworks) Liquid Mass Transfer |
US4967730 | 90 | Concentrator Trough | Billheimer | Constant absorption solar furnace (An unusual conical shaped trough.) Conical Trough |
US4559926 | 85 | Concentrator Trough | Butler | Centerless-drive solar collector system Trough Drive |
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.) 2X PV |
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 |
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) Trough in a Roof |
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 Casegranian Trough |
US5253637 | 93 | Concentrator Trough | Maiden | Hyperfocal tracking solar thermal collector (Off axis parabolic trough) Off Axis Trough |
US5833176 | 98 | Concentrator Trough | Rubin Fabbri Young | Bowed solar array (Method to use a cable to bow a segmented mirror into a parabola) Trough for Satellite |
US4071017 | 78 | Concentrator Trough | Russell, Jr.; John L. Potthoff | Tensioned reflector support system Russell Trough |
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 PV Concentrator |
US6021007 | 00 | Concentrator Trough Fresnel | Murtha; R. Michael <rmmurtha@aol.com> | Side-collecting lightguide Flat Plastic Sheet |
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) Russell Trough |
US4281640 | 81 | Concentrator Trough Fresnel | Wells; David N. <laseraxe@erols.com > | Electromagnetic radiation collector system (One of David Wells' patents.) Fresnel Double Trough Fresnel Double Trough |
US5592932 | 97 | Concentrator Trough Fresnel | Yeomans | Radiant energy collecting apparatus (Similar to Wells) Fresnel Double Trough |
US5309893 | 94 | Concentrator Trough Fresnel | Yeomans | Solar energy collecting apparatus Fresnel Double Trough |
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 Solar Rankine |
US4134264 | 79 | Engine Vapor | Baer; Stephen C. | Double bubble wheel engine (Similar to the Minto Wheel. Minto didn't patent his wheel. Zomeworks) Solar Engine |
US4195481 | 80 | Engine Vapor | Gregory; Alvin L. | Power plant (Similar concept to Roesel) Liquid Piston Rankine Engine |
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 Swiveling Collector |
US4676225 | 87 | Flat Plate | Bartera; Ralph | Method and apparatus for enhancing the pumping action of a geyser pumped tube Flat Plate |
US4478211 | 84 | Flat Plate | Haine; Eldon Bartera; Ralph | Self-pumping solar heating system with geyser pumping action (I think this is the Copper Cricket) Flat Plate |
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) Flat Plate |
US4458669 | 84 | Flat Plate | Lee; Kap-Joong | Building heating system Water Heater |
US4419981 | 83 | Flat Plate | Mori | Sun tracking apparatus Tracker |
US6223743 | 01 | Flat Plate | Prueitt; Melvin L. | Solar power generation and energy storage system (Solar Energy Limited) Inflatable |
US4357932 | 82 | Flat Plate | Stacy; W. Dodd | Self pumped solar energy collection system (Uses a kind of single tube heat pipe.) Solar Water Heater |
Heat Pipe | Heat Pipes | |||
US3618569 | 71 | Heat Pipe | Baer; Stephen C. | Device for transferring heat from one portion of a water reservoir to another (Zomeworks) Pond Ice Melter |
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.) Up Side Down |
US5190098 | 93 | Heat Pipe | Long | Thermosyphon with evaporator having rising and falling sections Two Pipe |
US4357932 | 82 | Heat Pipe | Stacy; W. Dodd | Self pumped solar energy collection system (Uses a kind of single tube heat pipe.) Solar Water Heater |
US4082109 | 79 | Heat Pipe | Sun Basiulis | Heat pipe actuated valve Valve |
US3817321 | 74 | Heat Pipe | VON Cube Wagner | Cooling apparatus semiconductor elements, comprising partitioned bubble pump, separator and condenser means Heat Sink |
Hydrogen | Hydrogen | |||
US4391793 | 83 | Hydrogen | Boese | Plant for thermochemical water dissociation by solar energy (Magnetic ion separation) Magnetic |
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.) Centrifugation |
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) Diffusion |
US4332775 | 82 | Hydrogen | Genequand Gross | Hydrogen generator utilizing solar energy to dissociate water (Separation through diffusion.) 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) Separatory Nozzle |
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.) Thermolysys of water |
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.) Piezoelectric Ignitor |
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 XYZ Licht Meter |
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.) Warkinz Industries Mantle |
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.) Colemans Mantle |
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 Heliostat 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) Light Pipe |
US4788437 | 88 | Lighting Tritium | Urquhart Hart | Tritium light |
Mechanical | Mechanical Devices | |||
US5094562 | 92 | Mechanical Connectors | Anderson | Three-way clamp for structural assemblies (Robotic Originals.) Connector |
US3834549 | 74 | Mechanical Connectors | Burg Lieberman Fiorenza | Structural system (Gordon Tube Products Company, Bronx, NY.) Connector |
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.) Pipe Connector |
US4007993 | 77 | Mechanical Connectors | Schwartz | Pipe coupler Pipe Connector |
US5704374 | 98 | Mechanical Log Splitter | Abrahamsson | Hand-driven wood splitter (See Smart-Splitter) Connector |
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) Orgasmatron |
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) TENS Schematic |
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.) Chest Thumper |
US5453081 | 95 | Medical Thumper | Hansen; Craig N. | Pulsator Chest Thumper |
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 MHD |
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 | 80 | MHD Liquid | Branover | Method and system for converting solar energy into electricity (LMMHD See Hydromag International Association for Hydromagnetic Phenomena and Applications.) LMMHD |
US5637934 | 97 | MHD Liquid | Fabris | High expansion magnetohydrodynamic liquid metal generator of electricity |
US4183744 | 80 | MHD Liquid | Fischer Johnson | Method of foaming a liquid metal |
US5473205 | 95 | MHD Liquid | Haaland | Double-duct liquid metal magnetohydrodynamic engine |
US5637935 | 97 | MHD Liquid | Haaland | Double-duct liquid metal magnetohydrodynamic engine |
US4388542 | 83 | MHD Liquid | Lovelace Lee Hohl | Solar driven liquid metal MHD power generator |
US4454865 | 84 | MHD Liquid | Tammen | Liquid metal solar power system LMMHD |
US4831289 | 89 | MHD Two Phase | Blumenau | Gas compression using a two-phase MHD channel |
US5614773 | 97 | MHD Two Phase | Fabris | Generator section of a two-phase flow liquid metal magnetohydrodynamic generator (LMMHD) |
US3878410 | 75 | MHD Two Phase | Petrick Cutting Amend Cole | Two-phase liquid-metal magnetohydrodynamic generator |
MPPT | Maximum Power Point Trackers | |||
US4580090 | 86 | MPPT | Bailey Haver | Maximum power tracker (Open loop controller with photo sensor input.) Open Loop |
US5677833 | 97 | MPPT | Bingley | Power conditioning system for a four quadrant photovoltaic array with an inverter for each array quadrant (Multiple inverters for power transmittion) |
US5493204 | 96 | MPPT | Caldwell | Negative impedance peak power tracker (Very slick circuit in its simplicity. I don't understand how it works?) |
US4604567 | 96 | MPPT | Chetty | Maximum power transfer system for a solar cell array (MPPT is controlled by PV open circuit voltage.) Open Loop |
US4390940 | 83 | MPPT | Corbefin Vacelet | Process and system for producing photovoltaic power |
US5604430 | 83 | MPPT | Decker Baxter Lerner Campbell Rosenthal Cook | Solar array maximum power tracker with arcjet load (MPPT powered by solar PV and drive a highly non linear plasma arcjet. Used for spacecraft propultion.) |
US5847549 | 98 | MPPT | Dodson | Power converter stabilization loop (Conventional design with the addition of a stabilization loop. Used to power telephone equipment from the line.) |
US5293447 | 94 | MPPT | Fanney Dougherty | Photovoltaic solar water heating system (a very simple multi stage loading mechanism using an open loop PV sensor) |
US5327071 | 94 | MPPT | Frederick Jermakian | Microprocessor control of multiple peak power tracking DC/DC converters for use with solar cell arrays |
US4175249 | 79 | MPPT | Gruber | Self reconfiguring solar cell system Series / Parallel combinations |
US5867011 | 99 | MPPT | Jo Kim | Maximum power point detecting circuit (Neat circuit generates a PWM signal for the switching power comverter. The patent also describes several earlier circuits) |
US4916382 | 90 | MPPT | Kent | System for maximizing efficiency of power transfer (Water pumping controller) |
US4873480 | 89 | MPPT | Lafferty | Coupling network for improving conversion efficiency of photovoltaic power source |
US5027051 | 91 | MPPT | Lafferty | Photovoltaic source switching regulator with maximum power transfer efficiency without voltage change (Good description of a circuit that both maximizes power transfer while maintaining a regulated output voltage) |
US4204147 | 80 | MPPT | Larrabee | Power transfer apparatus (Uses stepping motor controlled Variac to match PV array to load) Variac modulated converter |
US5923100 | 99 | MPPT | Lukens Moser | Apparatus for controlling a solar array power system (This isn't new. It uses an XOR and FF to arbitrate power control. I built one of these in the '70s to controll a wind generator. I still have the PC board.) |
US5801519 | 98 | MPPT | Midya Krein Turnbull | Self-excited power minimizer/maximizer for switching power converters and switching motor drive applications (Uses an AD633 analog multipler) AD633 |
US5869956 | 99 | MPPT | Nagao Fukae Takehara Kurokami | Solar power generation apparatus and power control device therefor |
US3566143 | 71 | MPPT | Paine Cherdak Douglas | Maximum Power Point Tracker |
US4404472 | 83 | MPPT | Steigerwald | Maximum power control for a solar array connected to a load |
US4494180 | 85 | MPPT | Streater Dwyer | Electrical power matching system |
US3696286 | 72 | MPPT | Ule | System for Detecting and Utilizing the Maximum Available Power From Solar Cells |
US5001415 | 91 | MPPT | Watkinson | Electrical power apparatus for controlling the supply of electrical power from an array of photovoltaic cells to an electrical head (Open loop controller) |
US4525633 | 85 | MPPT | Wertheim Herbermann | Wind turbine maximum power tracking device |
US4868379 | 89 | MPPT | West | Photovoltaic array with two-axis power maximization tracking (Maximizes PV array power output by driving the 2 axes of the mount. Not a true MPPT) |
Optics | Optics | |||
US5927272 | 99 | Optics | Robertson | Combination solar powered cigarette lighter and telescope |
Pneumatic | Air powered equipment | |||
US4478304 | 84 | Pneumatic Engine | Delano | Compressed air power engine |
US5375417 | 94 | Pneumatic Engine | Barth | Method of and means for driving a pneumatic engine |
US5515675 | 96 | Pneumatic Engine | Bindschatel | Apparatus to convert a four-stroke internal combustion engine to a two-stroke pneumatically powered engine |
US4292804 | 81 | Pneumatic Engine | Rogers | Method and apparatus for operating an engine on compressed gas |
US4942736 | 90 | Pneumatic Solar | Bronicki | Method of and apparatus for producing power from solar energy Solar Turbine |
US5448889 | 95 | Pneumatic Solar | Bronicki | Method of and apparatus for producing power using compressed air Solar Turbine |
US6044924 | 00 | Pneumatic Vehicle Air | Adli | Hot compressed gas powered vehicle |
US4370857 | 83 | Pneumatic Vehicle Air | Miller | Pneumatic system for compressed air driven vehicle (Miller, now deceased, built several cars in Joplin, Missouri. These were based on a Ford Escorts chases. The engine was composed of 2 halves. Each half has two double acting cylinders in series for a total of 4 expansions. Each half was geared up, yes geared up 18 to 1, and directly connected to each front wheel. The storage tank was a light weight fiberglass pressurized to 3500psi. The high pressure was reduced through an expansion pressure regulator to 500psi. The engine power was controlled by a throttling valve to 0 to 500psi.) Air powered car |
US4294323 | 81 | Pneumatic Vehicle Nitrogen | Boese | Cryogenic powered vehicle |
US4106581 | 78 | Pneumatic Vehicle Nitrogen | West Lee Noris | Vehicle utilizing cryogenic fuel Air powered car |
Polla | Inventions of Dennis Polla | |||
US5454904 | 95 | Polla | Ghezzo Saia Bagepalli Imam Polla; Dennis L. | Micromachining methods for making micromechanical moving structures including multiple contact switching system (General Electric Company) |
US5374792 | 94 | Polla | Ghezzo Saia Bagepalli Imam Polla; Dennis L. | Micromechanical moving structures including multiple contact switching system (General Electric Company) |
US5367585 | 94 | Polla | Ghezzo Yakymyshyn Saia Polla; Dennis L. | Integrated microelectromechanical polymeric photonic switch (General Electric Company) |
US4608865 | 86 | Polla | Muller Polla; Dennis L. | Integrated pyroelectric sensor and method (University of California) |
US5607433 | 97 | Polla | Polla; Dennis L. Costin Erdman Peichel | Foldable lens delivery system (Micro Medical Devices) |
US5800441 | 98 | Polla | Polla; Dennis L. Costin Erdman Peichel | Foldable lens delivery system (Micro Medical Devices) |
US5914507 | 99 | Polla | Polla; Dennis L. Kim | PZT microdevice (University of Minnesota) |
US5629577 | 98 | Polla | Polla; Dennis L. Peichel Erdman Costin | Miniature linear motion actuator (Micro Medical Devices) |
US5209119 | 93 | Polla | Polla; Dennis L. Tamagawa | Microdevice for sensing a force (University of Minnesota) |
US5536963 | 96 | Polla | Polla; Dennis L. | Microdevice with ferroelectric for sensing or applying a force (University of Minnesota) |
US5208880 | 93 | Polla | Riza Polla; Dennis L. | Microdynamical fiber-optic switch and method of switching using same (General Electric Company) |
US5466932 | 95 | Polla | Young Freidhoff Polla; Dennis L. Schiller | Micro-miniature piezoelectric diaphragm pump for the low pressure pumping of gases (Westinghouse Electric Corp.) |
US5714837 | 98 | Polla | Zurn Schiller Polla; Dennis L. | Vertical field emission devices and methods of fabrication with applications to flat panel displays |
Power | Power Amplifiers, Converters, Inverters, and Power Factor Correction | |||
US4554512 | 85 | Power Amplifier | Aiello | Switching amplifier with MOSFET driver circuit |
US5225789 | 93 | Power Amplifier | Caine Kimbrough | Four quadrant current mode switching amplifier |
US4096557 | 78 | Power Amplifier | Schwarz | Controllable four quadrant a.c. to a.c. and d.c. converter employing an internal high frequency series resonant link |
US4171512 | 83 | Power Bipolar | Tsuda; Shin | Circuit for preventing breakdown of a load resulting from wrong connection of a power source (Reverse battery protection circuit using power bipolar transistor. Works in a similar way to Zaidenweber,4423456. It uses the transistor a kind of backwards way with the collector and emitter swapped to get started.) |
US4399499 | 83 | Power Converter | Butcher Chan Lind | Bi-lateral four quadrant power converter |
US4184197 | 80 | Power Converter | Cuk Middlebrook | DC-to-DC switching converter |
US5903448 | 99 | Power Converter | Davila | Four quadrant flyback converter, method of operation thereof and power plant employing the same |
US5726870 | 98 | Power Converter | Lavieville Bethoux Carrere Meynard | Electronic circuit for converting electrical energy |
US4439718 | 84 | Power Factor Correction | Nola; Frank J. | Motor power control circuit for A.C. induction motors |
US5404093 | 95 | Power Factor Correction | Cowett | Low distortion alternating current output active power factor correction circuit using capacitor coupled bi-directional switching regulator |
US4649287 | 87 | Power Factor Correction | Nola; Frank J. | Bidirectional control system for energy flow in solar powered flywheel |
US4417190 | 83 | Power Factor Correction | Nola; Frank J. | Control system for an induction motor with energy recovery |
US4473792 | 84 | Power Factor Correction | Nola; Frank J. | Coupling an induction motor type generator to A.C. power lines |
US4388585 | 83 | Power Factor Correction | Nola; Frank J. | Electrical power generating system |
US4644234 | 87 | Power Factor Correction | Nola; Frank J. | Four quadrant control circuit for a brushless three-phase d.c. motor |
US4404511 | 83 | Power Factor Correction | Nola; Frank J. | Motor power factor controller with a reduced voltage starter |
US4459528 | 84 | Power Factor Correction | Nola; Frank J. | Phase detector for three-phase power factor controller |
US4266177 | 81 | Power Factor Correction | Nola; Frank J. | Power factor control system for AC induction motors |
US4052648 | 77 | Power Factor Correction | Nola; Frank J. | Power factor control system for AC induction motors |
US4489243 | 84 | Power Factor Correction | Nola; Frank J. | Solar powered actuator with continuously variable auxiliary power control |
US4433276 | 84 | Power Factor Correction | Nola; Frank J. | Three phase power factor controller |
US4469998 | 84 | Power Factor Correction | Nola; Frank J. | Three-phase power factor controller with induced emf sensing |
US6043965 | 00 | Power MOSFET | Hazelton Strayer | Low loss reverse battery protection (Revearse battery protection circuit using a power MOSFET This is a slic use of the reverse current mode of operation in a power MOSSFET, similar to the simulated free wheeling diode in buck regulators.) Reversed Current Flow in MOSFET |
US4423456 | 83 | Power MOSFET | Zaidenweber; Gary A. | Battery reversal protection (Revearse battery protection circuit using power MOSFETs in an interesting H bridge configuration Medtronic) Reversed Current Flow in MOSFET |
Pump | Pumps | |||
US4528976 | 85 | Pump Bubble | Baer; Stephen C. | Thermal control system for solar collector (A bubble pumped solar receiver that dumps heat when the system is in over temperature conditions Zomeworks) |
US4676225 | 87 | Pump Bubble | Bartera; Ralph | Method and apparatus for enhancing the pumping action of a geyser pumped tube Flat Plate |
US4212593 | 80 | Pump Bubble | Chadwick; Duane | Heat-powered water pump (Thermally powered pump. The heat is used to vaporize fluid which acts as a kind of pistone to effect pumping with a pair of check valves) Water Pump |
US4478211 | 84 | Pump Bubble | Haine; Eldon Bartera; Ralph | Self-pumping solar heating system with geyser pumping action (I think this is the Copper Cricket) Flat Plate |
US4246890 | 81 | Pump Bubble | 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) Flat Plate |
US4959526 | 90 | Pump Bubble | Kurachi Mori Koizumi | Storage type electric water heater having a closed circulation loop with a bubble pump (Hot water heater with. The pump works like the vertical type of engine block heater) Water Heater With Bubble Pump |
US4607688 | 86 | Pump Bubble | Sorensen; Wilfred | Autogenous solar water heater Bubble Action Pumps Ltd. Sorensen's bubble pump Solar Water |
US4552208 | 85 | Pump Bubble | Sorensen; Wilfred | Heat actuated system for circulating heat transfer fluids Bubble Action Pumps Ltd. Sorensen's bubble pump Solar Water |
US5351488 | 94 | Pump Bubble | Sorensen; Wilfred | Solar energy generator (Bubble Action Pumps Ltd. Box 1, 121 Counter St. Kingston, Ontario, Canada K7K 6C7) Bubble Action Pumps Ltd. Sorensen's bubble pump Solar Water |
US3817321 | 74 | Pump Bubble | VON Cube Wagner | Cooling apparatus semiconductor elements, comprising partitioned bubble pump, separator and condenser means Heat Sink |
US5080559 | 92 | Pump Electric | Abbin Andraka Lukens Moreno | Liquid metal electric pump LMMHD |
US3566901 | 71 | Pump Feed Active | Swedberg | Fuel regulating valve |
US4627241 | 86 | Pump Feed Passive | Johnston | Closed loop solar collector system powering a self-starting uniflow steam engine Solar Rankine |
US4397300 | 83 | Pump Feed Passive | Johnston | Closed loop solar collector system with dual chamber fluid supply arrangement Solar Water |
US5685152 | 97 | Pump Feed Passive | Sterling; Jeffrey Stephen <info@sterlingsolar.com> | Apparatus and method for converting thermal energy to mechanical energy (Solar collector thermal storage and heat engine system. Very interesting feed liquid pimp with no movind parts. Feed water. Sterling Thermal Power) Liquid Feed Pump |
US5974804 | 99 | Pump Feed Passive | Sterling; Jeffrey Stephen <info@sterlingsolar.com> | Apparatus and method for converting thermal energy to mechanical energy (Solar collector thermal storage and heat engine system. Very interesting feed liquid pimp with no movind parts. Feed water. Sterling Thermal Power) Liquid Feed Pump |
US5203399 | 93 | Pump Pulse | Koizumi | Heat transfer apparatus |
US4625790 | 90 | Pump Pulse | Okayasu | Heat transport apparatus |
US5666814 | 97 | Pump Pulse | Yamamoto | Heat transfer system |
PV | Photovoltaics | |||
US4488038 | 84 | PV | Harrison Tien | Phototransistor for long wavelength radiation |
US5589599 | 96 | PV | McMullen McMullen McMullen | Pyrolytic conversion of organic feedstock and waste |
US4946512 | 90 | PV Flat Plate | Fukuroi Yoshida Ohmura | Solar energy collector device (Roofing tiles with PV and water cooling for domeestic heat.) |
US3948682 | 76 | PV High Voltage | Bordina Zadde Zaitseva et al | Semiconductor photoelectric generator |
US4082570 | 78 | PV High Voltage | House Irvin Kane | High intensity solar energy converter Stacked PV |
US4174561 | 79 | PV High Voltage | House Irvin Kane | Method of fabricating high intensity solar energy converter |
US4042417 | 77 | PV High Voltage | Kaplow Frank | Photovoltaic system including a lens structure (Stacked edge illuminated cells) Stacked PV |
US4174978 | 79 | PV High Voltage | Lidorenko Evdokimov Zadde et al | Semiconductor photovoltaic generator and method of fabricating thereof |
US4228578 | 80 | PV High Voltage | Lin Gutsche Collier | Method for off-orientation point rotation sawing of crystalline rod material |
US4332973 | 82 | PV High Voltage | Sater; Bernard L. | High intensity solar cell (Stacked edge illuminated cells) Stacked PV |
US4409422 | 83 | PV High Voltage | Sater; Bernard L. | High intensity solar cell (Stacked edge illuminated cells) Stacked PV |
US4516314 | 85 | PV High Voltage | Sater; Bernard L. | Method of making a high intensity solar cell (Stacked edge illuminated cells) Stacked PV |
US5542203 | 96 | PV Sign | Luoma Blesener | Mobile sign with solar panel (ADDCO Blesener is from my home town of White Bear Lake.) |
US5772793 | 98 | PV Thermophotovoltaic | Ashcroft Campbell DePoy | Tube-in-tube thermophotovoltaic generator |
US5626687 | 97 | PV Thermophotovoltaic | Campbell | Thermophotovoltaic in-situ mirror cell |
US5753050 | 98 | PV Thermophotovoltaic | Charache Baldasaro Egley | Thermophotovoltaic energy conversion device |
US5932885 | 99 | PV Thermophotovoltaic | DeBellis Scotto Malloy Scoles Hindman Rogers | Thermophotovoltaic electric generator (McDermott Technology, Inc.) |
US4877553 | 89 | PV Thermophotovoltaic | Diederich | Gas mantle technology (TPV Energy Systems, Inc.) |
US5651838 | 97 | PV Thermophotovoltaic | Fraas Avery Samaras | Hydrocarbon fired room heater with thermophotovoltaic electric generator (JX Crystals Inc.) |
US5512109 | 96 | PV Thermophotovoltaic | Fraas Seal West | Generator with thermophotovoltaic cells and hydrocarbon burner (JX Crystals Inc.) |
US5616186 | 97 | PV Thermophotovoltaic | Fraas Williams Samaras | Thermophotovoltaic electric generator using low bandgap photovoltaic cells with a hydrocarbon burner and enhanced catalytic infrared emitter (JX Crystals Inc.) |
US5560783 | 96 | PV Thermophotovoltaic | Hamlen | Thermophotovoltaic generator |
US4707560 | 87 | PV Thermophotovoltaic | Hottel Nelson Parent | Thermophotovoltaic technology (TPV Energy Systems, Inc.) |
US4750943 | 88 | PV Thermophotovoltaic | Nelson | Thermophotovoltaic system (TPV Energy Systems, Inc.) |
US4584426 | 86 | PV Thermophotovoltaic | Nelson | Thermophotovoltaic technology (Gillette) |
US4826426 | 89 | PV Thermophotovoltaic | Nelson | Thermophotovoltaic technology (TPV Energy Systems, Inc.) |
US5797997 | 98 | PV Thermophotovoltaic | Noreen | Oxygen producing thermophotovoltaic systems |
US5512108 | 96 | PV Thermophotovoltaic | Noreen | Thermophotovoltaic systems |
US4836862 | 89 | PV Thermophotovoltaic | Pelka Popovich Fleishman | Thermophotovoltaic system |
US5932029 | 99 | PV Thermophotovoltaic | Stone Schneider Schmitt | Solar thermophotovoltaic power conversion method and apparatus (McDonnell Douglas Corporation) |
US4316048 | 82 | PV Thermophotovoltaic | Woodall | Energy conversion (IBM) |
US4316448 | 82 | PV Trough | Dodge | Solar energy concentrator system (Similar to the Carrizo Planes defunct solar power station.) 2X PV |
Pyrolysis | Thermal cracking of feed stocks into combustible gases | |||
Rankine | Rankine Heat Engines | |||
US3901036 | 75 | Rankine Boiler | Martin | Two fluid solar boiler Solar Boiler |
US4760705 | 88 | Rankine Boiler | Yogev Mahlab | Rankine cycle power plant with improved organic working fluid (Neucler powered power plant Ormat Turbines Ltd.) Solar Boiler |
US5685152 | 97 | Rankine Engine | Sterling; Jeffrey Stephen <info@sterlingsolar.com> | Apparatus and method for converting thermal energy to mechanical energy (Solar collector thermal storage and heat engine system. Very interesting feed liquid pimp with no movind parts. Feed water. Sterling Thermal Power) Liquid Feed Pump |
US5974804 | 99 | Rankine Engine | Sterling; Jeffrey Stephen <info@sterlingsolar.com> | Apparatus and method for converting thermal energy to mechanical energy (Solar collector thermal storage and heat engine system. Very interesting feed liquid pimp with no movind parts. Feed water. Sterling Thermal Power) Liquid Feed Pump |
Receiver | Solar Receiver | |||
US4529830 | 85 | Receiver Thermal | Daniel | Apparatus for collecting, distributing and utilizing solar radiation |
US4683872 | 87 | Receiver Thermal | Fricker | Receiver for solar energy Solar Turbine |
US5143053 | 92 | Receiver Thermal Flat Plate | Baer; Stephen C. | Solar collector tube plate (Fin Tube Zomeworks) |
US5743330 | 98 | Receiver Thermal Flat Plate | Bilotta Shaw | Radiant heat transfer panels (Fin Tube Radiant Technology very siminar to Baer for use with PEX flexible tubing.) |
US4782889 | 88 | Receiver Thermal Flat Plate | Bourne | Solar collector tube plate (Fin Tube) |
US4076025 | 78 | Receiver Thermal Flat Plate | Parker | Solar steam boiler (Neat recirculating air insulation.) |
US4308858 | 82 | Receiver Thermal Flat Plate | Skillman | Solar energy collecting apparatus and methods (Collector built into the roof) |
US4390010 | 83 | Receiver Thermal Flat Plate | Skillman | Solar energy collecting apparatus and roll-formed metal building (Collector built into the roof) |
US4467786 | 84 | Receiver Thermal Solar Pond | Sorensen; Jens | Solar heating of water utilizing coverites. (Insulation for a solar pond) |
Refrigeration | Refrigeration or Air-conditioning | |||
US1953216 | 34 | Refrigeration Refrigerants | ? | ? ( <Robert L. McWilliams III >in an email to me wrote: I did some serious and time consuming digging around, but I think I have at least narrowed down the time frame. The earliest reference I have to a patent for dichlorodifluoromethane (CFC-12, R-12, Freon 12) is 1934. It was originally patented by a joint venture company formed by E.I. DuPont de Nemours and General Motors. Freon was originally trademarked in 1931 by E.I. DuPont de Nemours and covered all of their halocarbon products. Allied Chemical Corporation began producing its own dichlorodifluoromethane in September 12, 1951 under the trade name of Genetron. 1951 - 1934 = 17, the number of years granted an original patent so 1934 looks like the year that R-12 was patented. The original patent number is 1,953,216. DuPont) |
US3956904 | 76 | Refrigeration Refrigerants | Edwards; Thomas | Compressor-expander for refrigeration having dual rotor assembly (Uses air as the refrigerant The Rovac Corporation) |
US6056891 | 00 | Refrigeration Refrigerants | Goble; George H. | Drop-in performance increasing substitute for 1,1,1,2-tetrafluoroethane refrigerant (George Goble) |
US5214929 | 93 | Refrigeration Refrigerants | Goble; George H. | Drop-in substitute for dichlorodifluoromethane refrigerant (George Goble) |
US5151207 | 92 | Refrigeration Refrigerants | Goble; George H. | Drop-in substitute for dichlorodifluoromethane refrigerant (George Goble) |
US5954995 | 99 | Refrigeration Refrigerants | Goble; George H. | Drop-in substitutes for 1,1,1,2-tetrafluoroethane (R-134a) refrigerant (George Goble) |
US6214651 | 01 | Refrigeration Thermionic | Cox; Isaiah Watas | Doped diamond for vacuum diode heat pumps and vacuum thermionic generators (See Borealis Technical Limited) |
US6090893 | 00 | Refrigeration Thermionic | Edelson; Jonathan Sydney | Method and apparatus for vacuum diode heat pump (See Borealis Technical Limited) |
US6089311 | 00 | Refrigeration Thermionic | Edelson; Jonathan | Method and apparatus for vacuum diode heat pump (See Borealis Technical Limited) |
Robotics | Scroll Compressors, Expanders, or Engines | |||
US5325031 | 94 | Robotics | Tilden; Mark W. | Adaptive robotic nervous systems and control circuits therefor (See BEAM - Robotics - Tek) Nervous Network |
Scroll | Scroll Compressors, Expanders, or Engines | |||
US4522574 | 85 | Scroll | Arai Maeda | Balancing weight device for scroll-type fluid machine |
US3817664 | 74 | Scroll | Bennett Hatfield | Rotary fluid pump or motor with intermeshed spiral walls Scroll Sequence |
US5094205 | 92 | Scroll | Billheimer | Scroll-type engine |
US4877382 | 89 | Scroll | Caillat Weatherston Bush | Scroll-type machine with axially compliant mounting |
US4781549 | 88 | Scroll | Caillat | Modified wrap scroll-type machine Thick Scroll |
US0108182 | 05 | Scroll | Creux | Rotary Engine (I believe this is the origional patent for a scroll mechanism.) |
US4431388 | 84 | Scroll | Eber Utter | ontrolled suction unloading in a scroll compressor |
US4738111 | 88 | Scroll | Edwards | Power unit for converting heat to power Scroll Engine |
US4436465 | 84 | Scroll | Fukushima Fukuhara Hiraga | Scroll manufacturing tool |
US4497615 | 85 | Scroll | Griffith | Scroll-type machine |
US4696084 | 87 | Scroll | Hirano Fukami Maruiwa Itoh Sugimoto Ono Mukai | Method for forming scroll members used in a scroll type fluid machine Rounded Edges |
US4666380 | 87 | Scroll | Hirano Fukami Maruiwa Itoh Sugimoto Ono Mukai | Scroll type fluid machine with prevention of stress concentration |
US5362211 | 94 | Scroll | Iizuka Ochiai | Scroll type fluid displacement apparatus having a capacity control mechanism |
US5873707 | 99 | Scroll | Kikuchi | Fluid displacement apparatus with variable displacement mechanism |
US5860791 | 99 | Scroll | Kikuchi | Scroll compressor with end-plate valve having a conical passage and a free sphere |
US4673340 | 87 | Scroll | Mabe Negishi | Variable capacity scroll type fluid compressor |
US4904164 | 90 | Scroll | Mabe Terauchi | Scroll type compressor with variable displacement mechanism |
US5240388 | 93 | Scroll | Matsumoto Tsukagoshi | Scroll type compressor with variable displacement mechanism |
US4892469 | 90 | Scroll | McCullough Dieckmann Hosmer | Compact scroll-type fluid compressor with swing-link driving means |
US4512066 | 85 | Scroll | McCullough | Method of fabricating scroll members |
US4129405 | 78 | Scroll | McCullough | Scroll-type liquid pump with transfer passages in end plate |
US5293850 | 94 | Scroll | Nishida | Scroll type rotary internal combustion engine |
US5775888 | 98 | Scroll | Sakamoto Komai Hidano Kobayashi | Scroll fluid machine having end plate with greater center thickness Air Compressor Scroll |
US4326391 | 82 | Scroll | Sato Arai Tanaka Fukushima Fukushima | Rankine-cycle-engine-driven cooling-and-heating system |
US4747756 | 88 | Scroll | Sato Mabe Terauchi | Scroll compressor with control device for variable displacement mechanism |
US4717314 | 88 | Scroll | Sato Mabe Terauchi | Scroll compressor with control device for variable displacement mechanism |
US4886434 | 89 | Scroll | Satow Masuda Sugimoto Muta | Scroll compressor having discharge part communicating with two compression spaces simultaneously |
US4505651 | 85 | Scroll | Terauchi Kawano Mabe | Scroll type compressor with displacement adjusting mechanism |
US4744733 | 88 | Scroll | Terauchi Mabe | Scroll type compressor with variable displacement mechanism |
US4642034 | 87 | Scroll | Terauchi | Scroll type compressor with displacement adjusting mechanism |
US3802809 | 74 | Scroll | Vulliez | Completely dry and fluid-tight vacuum pumps Vacuum Scroll |
US4940395 | 90 | Scroll | Yamamoto Mabe | Scroll type compressor with variable displacement mechanism |
US4773144 | 88 | Scroll | Youtie | Method of manufacture of scroll compressors and expanders |
Stereolithography | Three Dimentional Manufacturing of products. | |||
US4863538 | 89 | Stereolithography | Deckard | Method and apparatus for producing parts by selective sintering |
US4575330 | 86 | Stereolithography | Hull | Apparatus for production of three-dimensional objects by stereolithography |
Stirling | Stirling Engines | |||
US5457956 | 95 | Stirling | Bowman Berchowitz Urieli | Microminiature stirling cycle cryocoolers and engines |
US4599551 | 86 | Stirling Acoustic | Wheatley Swift Migliori | Thermoacoustic magnetohydrodynamic electrical generator |
US6062023 | 00 | Stirling Engine | Kerwin Owens Norris Kamen; Dean L. Duggan Langenfeld | Cantilevered crankshaft stirling cycle machine (It looks like this whole engine can be built with simple lathe tools.) Kamen Cycle Diagrams Crank Case |
US4450754 | 84 | Stirling Engine | Liljequist, Jon L. | Mechanical arrangements for piston-crankshaft devices (This is an interesting way to get Stirling motions) Crank and Eccentric |
US5901556 | 99 | Stirling Refrigeration | Hofler | High-efficiency heat-driven acoustic cooling engine with no moving parts (Thermoacoustic) |
US4953366 | 90 | Stirling Refrigeration | Swift Martin Radenbaugh | Acoustic cryocooler (Thermoacoustic) |
US4602614 | 86 | Stirling Solar | Percival Wells; David N. <laseraxe@erols.com> | Hybrid solar/combustion powered receiver (One of David Wells' patents.) Hybrid Stirling |
US4475538 | 84 | Stirling Solar | Percival Wells; David N. <laseraxe@erols.com> | Window for solar receiver for a solar-powered hot gas engine (One of David Wells' patents.) Hybrid Stirling |
Storage | Solar Storage Methods | |||
US6060198 | 00 | Storage Battery | Snaper; Alvin A. | Electrochemical battery structure and method (An improved battery, the "Power Battery" (patented), which has a unique internal structure and electrochemistry. Power Technology ) |
US4291755 | 81 | Storage Chemical | Minto; Wallace L. | Method and apparatus for accumulating, storing and releasing thermal energy |
US4455153 | 84 | Storage Chemical | Jakahi | Apparatus for storing solar energy in synthetic fuels (Heliostat) |
US4194496 | 80 | Storage Thermal | Carlson | Solar heat storage systems (Carlson is from my home town of White Bear Lake.) |
US4872442 | 89 | Storage Thermal | Manker, Charles F. | Activator for initiating reaction in a heat pack and method for making same (See Heat and Comfort, Prism Technologies) |
US4880953 | 89 | Storage Thermal | Manker, Charles F. | Method of recharging a heat pack by microwave energy (See Heat and Comfort, Prism Technologies) |
US4402306 | 83 | Storage Thermal | McElroy, Jr.; Robert C. | Thermal energy storage methods and processes |
US4265224 | 81 | Storage Thermal | Meyer; Stanley A. | Multi-stage solar storage system (Ya, the wacco run a car on water guy) Thermal Storage |
US4403643 | 83 | Storage Thermal | Minto; Wallace L. | Method and apparatus for accumulating, storing and releasing thermal energy |
US3981151 | 76 | Storage Thermal | 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) Agricultural Heliostat |
Sundials | Sundials | |||
US4255864 | 81 | Sundials | Glendinning; Scott R. | Sun clock |
US4782472 | 88 | Sundials | Hines; Stephen P. | Solar clock with digital time display (Uses fiber optics) Digital Sundial |
US5596553 | 97 | Sundials | Kellogg; Robert L. | Digital sundial Digital Sundial |
US5590093 | 96 | Sundials | Scharstein; Hans Krotz-Vogel; Werner Scharstein; Daniel | Digital sundial (Digital Sundials International ) Digital Sundial |
Thermionic | Thermionic (Similar principal to the cathode in electronic vaccuum tubes.) | |||
US4188571 | 80 | Thermionic | Brunson | Radiant energy to electrical power conversion system Solar Dish |
US4528417 | 85 | Thermionic | Chubb | Thermionic-photovoltaic energy converter |
US6214651 | 01 | Thermionic | Cox; Isaiah Watas | Doped diamond for vacuum diode heat pumps and vacuum thermionic generators (See Borealis Technical Limited) |
US5981071 | 99 | Thermionic | Cox; Rodney | Doped diamond for vacuum diode heat pumps and vacuum diode thermionic generators (Similar principal to the cathode in electronic vaccuum tubes. See Borealis Technical Limited) |
US6064137 | 00 | Thermionic | Cox; Rodney | Method and apparatus for a vacuum thermionic converter with thin film carbonaceous field emission (See Borealis Technical Limited) |
US4303845 | 79 | Thermionic | Davis | Thermionic electric converter |
US5780954 | 98 | Thermionic | Davis | Thermionic electric converters |
US5942834 | 99 | Thermionic | Davis | Thermionic electric converters |
US3807827 | 74 | Thermionic | De Steese Bowey | Means and method of processing reservoirless thermionic converters |
US6103298 | 00 | Thermionic | Edelson; Jonathan Sidney Cox; Isaiah Watas | Method for making a low work function electrode (Similar principal to the cathode in electronic vaccuum tubes. See Borealis Technical Limited) |
US5874039 | 99 | Thermionic | Edelson; Jonathan | Low Work-Function Electrode (Similar principal to the cathode in electronic vaccuum tubes. See Borealis Technical Limited) |
US5810980 | 98 | Thermionic | Edelson; Jonathan | Low Work-Function Electrode (Similar principal to the cathode in electronic vaccuum tubes. See Borealis Technical Limited) |
US5722242 | 98 | Thermionic | Edelson; Jonathan | Method and apparatus for improved vacuum diode heat pump (Similar principal to the cathode in electronic vaccuum tubes. See Borealis Technical Limited) |
US5973259 | 99 | Thermionic | Edelson; Jonathan | Method and Apparatus for Photoelectric Generatioons of Electricity (Similar principal to the cathode in electronic vaccuum tubes.) Construction |
US5994638 | 99 | Thermionic | Edelson; Jonathan | Method and Apparatus for thermionic generator (See Borealis Technical Limited) |
US5675972 | 97 | Thermionic | Edelson; Jonathan | Method and apparatus for vacuum diode-based devices with electride-coated electrodes (Similar principal to the cathode in electronic vaccuum tubes. See Borealis Technical Limited) Design |
US5981866 | 99 | Thermionic | Edelson; Jonathan | Process for Stampable Photoelectric Generator (Similar principal to the cathode in electronic vaccuum tubes. See Borealis Technical Limited) Stampable |
US4667126 | 87 | Thermionic | Fitzpatrick | Thermionic converter |
US5028835 | 91 | Thermionic | Fitzpatrick | Thermionic energy production |
US4168716 | 79 | Thermionic | Fowler Israel | Solar-powered thermionic-photoelectric laser |
US5578886 | 96 | Thermionic | Holmlid Svensson | Collector for thermionic energy converter covered with carbon like material and having a low electronic work function |
US5492570 | 96 | Thermionic | Horner-Richardson Anderson | Hybrid thermal electric generator (See Thermacore, Inc.) Seriesed |
US5219516 | 93 | Thermionic | Horner-Richardson Ernst | Thermionic generator module with heat pipes (See Thermacore, Inc.) With Heat Pipes |
US5598062 | 97 | Thermionic | Iigami | Transparent photocathode |
US5541464 | 96 | Thermionic | Johnson LeVert | Thermionic generator |
US4040903 | 77 | Thermionic | Monroe | Thermionic energy converters (Converter modules, shapped like "D" cell bateries, stack in tubes forming series strings) |
US4373142 | 83 | Thermionic | Morris | Thermionic energy converters |
US3983423 | 76 | Thermionic | Rasor Britt | Thermionic converter |
US4126149 | 78 | Thermionic | Reitz | Solar energy electrical conversion apparatus |
US4355195 | 82 | Thermionic | Sansbury | Electromagnetic solar cell |
US4094703 | 78 | Thermionic | Williams | Solar energy converter |
US4251679 | 81 | Thermionic | Zwan | Electromagnetic radiation transducer |
US6089311 | 00 | Thermionic Refrigeration | Edelson; Jonathan | Method and apparatus for vacuum diode heat pump (See Borealis Technical Limited) |
Thermoacoustic | Thermoacoustic | |||
US5892293 | 99 | Thermoacoustic Generator Electric | Lucas | RMS energy conversion. (Thermoacoustic) |
US4599551 | 86 | Thermoacoustic MHD | Wheatley Swift Migliori | Thermoacoustic magnetohydrodynamic electrical generator |
US5165243 | 92 | Thermoacoustic Refrigeration | Bennett | Compact acoustic refrigerator (Thermoacoustic) |
US5901556 | 99 | Thermoacoustic Refrigeration | Hofler | High-efficiency heat-driven acoustic cooling engine with no moving parts (Thermoacoustic) |
US4953366 | 90 | Thermoacoustic Refrigeration | Swift Martin Radenbaugh | Acoustic cryocooler (Thermoacoustic) |
US4858441 | 89 | Thermoacoustic Refrigeration | Wheatley Swift Migliori Hofler | Heat-driven acoustic cooling engine having no moving parts (Thermoacoustic) |
US5813234 | 98 | Thermoacoustic Refrigeration | Wighard; Herbert F. | Double acting pulse tube electroacoustic system (Thermoacoustic) |
Thermoelectric | Thermoelectric generators | |||
US5065085 | 91 | Thermoelectric | Aspden Strachan | Thermoelectric energy conversion |
US5936193 | 99 | Thermoelectric | Parise | Nighttime solar cell |
US5356484 | 94 | Thermoelectric | Yater Yater Yater | Reversible thermoelectric converter |
Tracker | Solar Trackers | |||
US4445030 | 84 | Tracker Electronic | Carlton | Tracking arrangement for a solar energy collecting system (Tracker that is stationary and controls a concentrator that moves. Position of the concentrator is set with an Inclinometer. Acurex Corp) Hybrid Stirling |
US4883340 | 89 | Tracker Electronic | Dominguez | Solar lighting reflector apparatus having slatted mirrors and improved tracker (Heliostat lighting tracker. Used in a skylite) Heliostat Tracker |
US5914483 | 99 | Tracker Electronic | Fallon; James J. Fallon; Gerald | Sun Sensor Sensor |
US5829427 | 98 | Tracker Electronic | Gallois-Montbrun | Orientable pyramid-shaped solar collector device |
US6018122 | 00 | Tracker Electronic | Hibino Tange Nagashima | Tracking solar module Optical Tracker |
US5977475 | 99 | Tracker Electronic | Hibino | Converging solar module ( Cylindrical refractive optics. See figure 4) |
US5023440 | 91 | Tracker Electronic | Kuppenheimer | Tracker using angle-converting cones (CPC, compound parabolic concentrator, cones observe diifferential portions of the sky) CPC Tracker |
US4267441 | 81 | Tracker Electronic | Monk | Energy rays tracking device (Complete circuit diagram. Fairly complex and outdated but the idea is there) |
US4361758 | 82 | Tracker Electronic | Rotolo | Sun position sensor for two axis tracking (Tracker for a geodesic dome) |
US4276872 | 81 | Tracker Electronic Inline | Blake; Floyd A. Northrup, Jr.; Lynn L. | Solar system employing ground level heliostats and solar collectors (Heliostat and inline optical tracker) Inline Tracker |
US3906927 | 75 | Tracker Electronic Inline | 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) Inline Tracker |
US4519382 | 85 | Tracker Electronic Inline | Gerwin | Control system for heliostats and method (The tracking controller observes a reflected image of the sun. Similar to Hedger except the tracker is near the receiver) Inline Tracker |
US4063543 | 77 | Tracker Electronic Inline | Hedger | Servo tracking apparatus (Tracks by looking at the position of the sun reflected in the mirror. Similar to Gerwin except the tracker is near each heliostat) Inline Tracker |
US5979438 | 99 | Tracker Electronic Inline | Nakamura | Sunlight collecting system (Describes a secondary Gregorian mirror and a tertiary compound parabolic concentrator receiver, and inline tracker.) Array Inline Tracker |
US4172443 | 79 | Tracker Electronic Inline | Sommer | Central receiver solar collector using analog coupling mirror control (Tracking by means of placing a 2 axis sensor in align and in between the mirror and the receiver. Also describes several interesting mirror movement mechanisms including cable systems.) Inline Tracker |
US4223214 | 80 | Tracker Electronic MPPT | Dorian Nelson | Solar tracking device (Tracking movement of collector by maximizing power output as in an MPPT. Operates on 2 axes. See West) |
US4868379 | 89 | Tracker Electronic MPPT | West | Photovoltaic array with two-axis power maximization tracking (Tracking movement of collector by maximizing power output as in an MPPT. Operates on 2 axes. See Dorian) |
US4215410 | 80 | Tracker Electronic Open Loop | Weslow Rodrian | Solar tracker (Using the open loop method. See the bibliography for calculating the sun's position) |
US4349733 | 82 | Tracker Electronic Shadow | Beam Beam | Sun tracker (Simple single axis. Two sensors with a divider blade) Shadow Tracker |
US4649899 | 87 | Tracker Electronic Shadow | Moore | Solar tracker (2 axis tracker for a Fresnel solar array. Interesting method of making light sensor shadow mask) Shadow Tracker |
US6005236 | 99 | Tracker Electronic Shadow | Phelan Phelan Miller | Automatic sun tracking apparatus (This circuit is almost exactly the same as a tracker I built in about 1972) Shadow Tracker |
US3996460 | 76 | Tracker Electronic Shadow | Smith | Solar tracking control system using shadow detection ( Shadow tracker with the sensors on the inside of a box) Shadow Tracker |
US4262195 | 81 | Tracker Electronic Shadow | White Scott | Solar tracking system (Dish tracker using differential light sensors) Shadow Tracker |
US4107521 | 78 | Tracker Electronic Shadow | Winders | Solar sensor and tracker apparatus (Differential light sensor driving a reversible AC capacitor run motor. The electronics operate very similarly to my LED3 tracker.) Shadow Tracker |
US4146784 | 79 | Tracker Electronic Shadow | Yekutieli; Gideon | Sun tracking device (Inline heliostat optical tracker. Figure 5 is a shadow tracker) Shadow Tracker |
US5862799 | 99 | Tracker Electronic Shadow | Yogev Krupkin | Control of a heliostat field in a solar energy plant (Feedback control system for adjusting a field of heliostats. Similar to Gerwin except the tracker operates multiple heliostats. Also similar to a system I have been thinking about) Heliostat Shadow Tracker |
US4190766 | 80 | Tracker Electronic Shadow | Young; Danny J. | Sun tracking system (Inline heliostat optical tracker.) Shadow Tracker |
US4013885 | 77 | Tracker Electronic Signaling | Blitz | Solar energy sun tracker (Operates in a similar way to an emergency signaling mirror. See Vaerewyck) Signaling Mirror Tracker |
US4211922 | 80 | Tracker Electronic Signaling | Vaerewyck Miller Anderson | Heliostat guidance (Uses the solar angle bisection method with a linear image sensor. Operates in a similar way to an emergency signaling mirror. See Blitz Westinghouse Electric Corp.) Signaling Mirror Tracker |
US5877874 | 99 | Tracker Holographic | Rosenberg | 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.) Holographic Tracker |
US4476854 | 84 | Tracker Mechanical | Baer; Stephen C. | Gas spring solar tracker (Zomeworks) |
US4175391 | 79 | Tracker Mechanical | Baer; Stephen C. | Self reorienting solar tracker (Liquid mass transfer Zomeworks) Liquid Mass Transfer |
US3884414 | 75 | Tracker Mechanical | Baer; Stephen C. | Solar heating device (Zomeworks) Liquid Mass Transfer |
US4505255 | 85 | Tracker Mechanical | Baer; Stephen C. | Summer/winter solar control system (Zomeworks) Liquid Mass Transfer |
US5798517 | 98 | Tracker Mechanical | Berger | Sun tracker system for a solar assembly |
US5600124 | 97 | Tracker Mechanical | Berger | Sun tracker system for a solar assembly |
US5730117 | 98 | Tracker Mechanical | Berger | Sun tracker Tracker |
US4110009 | 78 | Tracker Mechanical | Bunch | Heliostat apparatus (Heliostat actuation scheme that is defective.) Heliostat Array |
US4870949 | 89 | Tracker Mechanical | Butler | Wind resistant two axis tracker for energy or radiation concertrators Heliostat Array |
US4317031 | 82 | Tracker Mechanical | Findell | Central focus solar energy system Tracker |
US3945015 | 76 | Tracker Mechanical | Gueguen; Michel | Satellite tracking antenna having a dish moveably supported at three points (Mechanical tracker based on the U-joint mechanism. Similar to the Sallis dish and Solomon Heliostat) U-joint Mechanism |
US4167936 | 79 | Tracker Mechanical | Hackworth | Static solar tracker and energy converter (Bimetalic strip movement) Bimetalic |
US4368962 | 83 | Tracker Mechanical | Hultberg | Solar tracking apparatus and system (Neat all mechanical Rube Goldberg using gears and cranks. Best used for solar instrumentation) Gears |
US3951510 | 76 | Tracker Mechanical | Lloyd | Inertially stabilized heliostat assembly |
US4367913 | 83 | Tracker Mechanical | Logan Buckley | Inertially dampened heliostat assembly |
US3678685 | 72 | Tracker Mechanical | Low Crawford | Solar Energy Powered Heliotrope |
US5622078 | 97 | Tracker Mechanical | Mattson | Linear/helix movement support/solar tracker (See picture) |
US5512742 | 96 | Tracker Mechanical | Mattson | Solar energy and tracking system (See picture) |
US4586488 | 86 | Tracker Mechanical | Noto | Reflective solar tracking system (Half angle tracker employing gears. Similar to that describes to me by Jerimiah Chace. Receiver Axis Mount) Half angle tracker, single axis |
US5945961 | 99 | Tracker Mechanical | 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) U-joint Mechanism |
US4027651 | 77 | Tracker Mechanical | Robbins | Solar energy powered sun tracker (All pneumatic tracker producing a differential pressure to actuate a cylinder) Pneumatic |
US4442348 | 84 | Tracker Mechanical | Snyder | Solar tracking apparatus for a gimbaled body (Weird ball sort of thing) Ball |
US4266530 | 81 | Tracker Mechanical | Steadman | Sun ray tracker (Mirrors moved and tilted in circular tracks) Circular Tracks |
US4172739 | 79 | Tracker Mechanical | Tassen | Sun tracker with dual axis support for diurnal movement and seasonal adjustment (TPole with cable tilt. The cable changes the tilt throughout the day, pulling the panels towards the horizon at sunrise and sunset.) Cable Adjusted |
US4251819 | 81 | Tracker Mechanical | Vickland; Jack M. | Variable support apparatus (Mechanical tracker similar to the U-joint mechanism I call it a ball-joiny mechanism. See Gueguen) Ball-joint Mechanism |
US4262654 | 81 | Tracker Mechanical | Ward | Solar energy powered sun tracker (See Baer US4476854) Liquid Mass Transfer |
Vane | Vane Compressors or Engines | |||
US4566863 | 86 | Vane | Goto Sugiura Suzuki | Rotary compressor operable under a partial delivery capacity Vane |
US3964442 | 76 | Vane | Hunter | Internal combustion engine Vane Engine |
Vehicles | Alternative Vehicles | |||
US5971091 | 99 | Vehicles Electric | Kamen; Dean L Sugiura Ambrogi Duggan Heinzmann Key Skoskiewicz Kristal | Transportation vehicles and methods ( Very cool one or two man transportation where the riders stand on a platform. The platform is mounted on 6 wheels where only 2 are in contact with the ground. It balances on two wheels. It's capable of walking up a stairway.) It? |
US5975225 | 99 | Vehicles Electric | Kamen; Dean L Sugiura Ambrogi Heinzmann | Transportation vehicles and methods ( Electric wheelchair. The wheelchair is mounted on 6 wheels where only 2 are in contact with the ground. It's capable of walking up a stairway.) Kamen |
Water | Water | |||
US6014968 | 00 | Water Collector | Teoh; Siang Teik | Tubular heating-pipe solar water-heating-system with integral tank Solar water panel |
US4325788 | 82 | Water Distillation | Snyder | Distillation apparatus with solar tracker |
US4235679 | 80 | Water Distillation | Swaidan | High performance solar still |
US4040486 | 77 | Water Pump | Kirkland | Method and apparatus for air development and rejuvenation of water wells |
US4671741 | 87 | Water Pump | Baumberg | Pipe for elevating liquids through successively arranged accumulating and communicating portions, and device provided therewith |
US4579511 | 86 | Water Pump | Burns | Air lift pump system |
US4373867 | 83 | Water Pump | Campbell | Pressure charged airlift pump (Using a Double Diaphram Pump down the well.) |
US4163035 | 79 | Water Pump | Gorsky | Aquarium water aeration device |
US5527461 | 96 | Water Pump | Hill | Airlift oil scavenger |
US5382137 | 95 | Water Pump | Lane | Multiple stage airlift pump |
US4540344 | 85 | Water Pump | Mulvenna | Energy transfer device (Pumping action by shaking a tube of fluid. See: C. Mulvenna, P.Eng) |
US4242053 | 80 | Water Pump | Mulvenna | Free piston fluid energy transfer device (Swashplate free piston pump. See: C. Mulvenna, P.Eng) |
US5780935 | 98 | Water VAWT | Kao | Hydropower turbine system (University of Iowa) |
US4441029 | 84 | Water VAWT | Kao | Hydropower turbine system (University of Kentucky) |
Wind | Windmills HAWT = Horizontal Axis Wind Turbine. VAWT = Vertical Axis Wind Turbine. | |||
US4146800 | 79 | Wind Electrostatic | Gregory Schurig | Apparatus and method of generating electricity from wind energy |
US4206396 | 80 | Wind Electrostatic | Marks | Charged aerosol generator with uni-electrode source |
US4433248 | 84 | Wind Electrostatic | Marks | Charged aerosol wind/electric power generator with solar and/or gravitational regeneration |
US4494009 | 85 | Wind Electrostatic | Yukl | Method and apparatus for capturing an electrical potential generated by a moving air mass |
US4288199 | 81 | Wind HAWT Airfoil | Weisbrich | TARP Yaw track means for rotors (Turbine with augmenter.) |
US4332518 | 82 | Wind HAWT Airfoil | Weisbrich | Multifunctional tarp rotor strut vanes (Turbine with augmenter.) |
US4540333 | 85 | Wind HAWT Airfoil | Weisbrich | TARP Rotor system thrust, yaw and load control (Turbine with augmenter.) |
US4156579 | 79 | Wind HAWT Airfoil | Weisbrich | Toroidal accelerator rotor platform (TARP) (Turbine with augmenter.) |
US4276033 | 81 | Wind HAWT American | Krovina | Sailing system (Flexible boat sail looks like a toy pinwheel. The pinwheel rotates to provide rotary power.) |
US4362470 | 82 | Wind VAWT | Locastro Giemsch | Wind turbine |
US3918839 | 75 | Wind VAWT Darious | Blackwell Feltz Maydew | Wind turbine |
US4718821 | 88 | Wind VAWT Darious | Clancy | Windmill blade |
US4341176 | 82 | Wind VAWT Darious | Orrison | Air foil with reversible camber |
US4383801 | 83 | Wind VAWT Darious | Pryor | Wind turbine with adjustable air foils (Movable air foil) |
US4082479 | 78 | Wind VAWT Darious | Rangi South | Overspeed spoilers for vertical axis wind turbine |
US4355956 | 82 | Wind VAWT Darious | Ringrose Dahle | Wind turbine (Flexible air foil) |
US4818180 | 89 | Wind VAWT Drag | ???? | ???? |
US4681512 | 87 | Wind VAWT Drag | Barnard | Self-fairing windmill vane (Flapping sail. The working and furled sail positions and shapes are obtained by the shape of the sail spar without the use of either lines nor meshes.) |
US4047834 | 77 | Wind VAWT Drag | Benesh | Horizontal multidirectional turbine windmill (Savonius type rotor with augmenter.) |
US4359311 | 82 | Wind VAWT Drag | Benesh | Wind turbine rotor |
US4838757 | 89 | Wind VAWT Drag | Benesh | Wind turbine system using a Savonius type rotor |
US4715776 | 87 | Wind VAWT Drag | Benesh | Wind turbine system using a Savonius type rotor |
US4784568 | 88 | Wind VAWT Drag | Benesh | Wind turbine system using a vertical axis Savonius-type rotor |
US4830570 | 89 | Wind VAWT Drag | Benesh | Wind turbine system using twin Savonius-type rotors |
US5494407 | 96 | Wind VAWT Drag | Benesh | Wind turbine with Savonius-type rotor |
US4527950 | 85 | Wind VAWT Drag | Biscomb | Wind motor (Flapping rigid sails) |
US4208168 | 80 | Wind VAWT Drag | Chen Chen Chen | Wind turbine (Flapping sail louvers with the shapes determined by lines and meshes.) |
US5525037 | 96 | Wind VAWT Drag | Cummings | Overlapping sail wind turbine (Flapping rigid sails) |
US4218183 | 80 | Wind VAWT Drag | Dall-Winther | Windmill (Flapping rigidly held sail.) |
US4015911 | 77 | Wind VAWT Drag | Darvishian | Higher efficiency wind motor with receptors of diminished drag characteristics (Flapping rigid louvers.) |
US3897170 | 75 | Wind VAWT Drag | Darvishian | Wind motor (Flapping rigid hemispherical cups similar to a meteorological anemometer.) |
US4191507 | 80 | Wind VAWT Drag | DeBerg | Windmill (Flapping sail has a similar action to Green without the mechanical communication through connecting lines. The sails are rectangular.) |
US4684817 | 87 | Wind VAWT Drag | Goldwater | Valvular sail power plant (Flapping sail louvers with the shape determined by lines and meshes combined with a Savonius shape. The shape is an improvement over Chen.) |
US3995170 | 76 | Wind VAWT Drag | Graybill | Wind energy conversion device (Flapping rigid sail made from two sections joined and hinged.) |
US5823749 | 98 | Wind VAWT Drag | Green; Robert R. <rgreen999@aol.com> | Vertical-axis wind turbine with two-phase sails (Flapping Sail with interesting method to control the opening and closing of the sail by mechanical communication through connecting lines. The sails are triangular. As I see it, the basic improvement is in the mechanical communication through connecting lines. Similar patents without the communication lines are: DeBerg and Weisbrich. I believe these two patents are direct prior art because they, along with Green, maintain the shape of the sail by use of a single strait spar and flexible lines. Less similar prior art are: Chen and Goldwater. These patents maintain the shape of the sail using lines and meshes. Barnard obtains the sail shape with a single curved spar and without the use of either lines nor meshes. Other patents, Hillman and Rhodes, communicate the position of the working sail to the idle sail by use of a rotating shaft. This mechanism is similar to Green's use of communicating lines. All the flapping sail patents have similarities to Green's flapping sail patent. Green Windmill) Canvas Windmill |
US0802144 | 05 | Wind VAWT Drag | Harrington | |
US3810712 | 74 | Wind VAWT Drag | Hillman | Wind powered motive apparatus (Flapping rigidly held sail with retraction mechanism for a portion of rotation. One sail communicates working position to the opposite idle position through a shaft.) |
US4474529 | 85 | Wind VAWT Drag | Kinsey | Windmill (Savonius rotor with wind oriented shield.) |
US4496283 | 85 | Wind VAWT Drag | Kodric | Wind turbine (Flapping rigid sails) |
US5226806 | 93 | Wind VAWT Drag | Lubbers | Vertical axis wind turbine (Flapping rigidly held sail with orientation mechanism for a portion of rotation.) |
US4288200 | 81 | Wind VAWT Drag | O'Hare | Wind tower turbine (Savonius rotor built into the top of a wing shaped augmenter) |
US4342539 | 82 | Wind VAWT Drag | Potter | Retractable wind machine (Savonius rotor made with sail sections) |
US4408956 | 83 | Wind VAWT Drag | Price | Flip-flop turbine vane module (Flapping air foil vanes operated positioned mechanically) |
US5083902 | 92 | Wind VAWT Drag | Rhodes | Reverting wind wheel (Flapping rigidly held sail. One sail communicates working position to the opposite idle position through a shaft. This patent looks to be the same as one embodiment of Hillman's patent.) |
US4545729 | 85 | Wind VAWT Drag | Storm | Wind turbine apparatus (Retractable sails) |
US4364709 | 82 | Wind VAWT Drag | Tornquist | Wind power converter (Flapping sail has a similar action to Green without the mechanical communication through connecting lines. The sails are cone shaped.) |
US4021140 | 77 | Wind VAWT Drag | Weisbrich | Variable geometry windturbine (Flapping sail has a similar action to Green without the mechanical communication through connecting lines. The sails are parachute shaped.) |
US5520505 | 96 | Wind VAWT Drag | Weisbrich | Wind amplified rotor platform (warp) (Flapping sail has a similar action to Green without the mechanical communication through connecting lines. The sails are parachute shaped.) |
US4365935 | 82 | Wind VAWT Drag | Zukeran | Wind-driven prime mover (Flapping rigidly held sail.) |
Xerography | ||||
US3867170 | 75 | Xerography | Ferguson Komp; Richard J | Method for cleaning liquid developers |
US3723793 | 73 | Xerography | Komp; Richard J Weigl | Coated Corona Generating Electrode |
US3862801 | 75 | Xerography | Komp; Richard J | Method of cleaning an electrostatographic imaging surface |
US3725059 | 73 | Xerography | Komp; Richard J | Method of Cleaning an Electrostato-graphic Imaging Surface |
US3789216 | 74 | Xerography | Komp; Richard J | Photodetection Device and Method Comprising Phthalocyanine |
US3566108 | 71 | Xerography | Weigl Komp; Richard J | Corona Generating Electrode Structure For Use In a Xerographic Charging Method |
US5889383 | 99 | Acoustic Battery Charger | Teich | System and method for charging batteries with ambient acoustic energy |
US5949594 | 99 | Advertising in Space | Iglseder Arens-Fischer | Process for the generation of information in space (Spaced based solar iluminated advertising) Space Advertising |
US6025810 | 00 | Antenna | Strom; David L. | Hyper-light-speed antenna |
US5927272 | 99 | Cigarette Lighter | Robertson | Combination solar powered cigarette lighter and telescope |
US4237868 | 80 | Concentrator Dish | Overton | Solar heating balloon (Inflatable Tethered Balloon Solar Collector.) |
US4761909 | 88 | Do any of you Ice Fish? | Christian Gray Gray | Ice hole fishing plug |
US5765387 | 98 | Free Energy | Amin | Device and method for thermal transfer using air as the working medium |
US5547341 | 96 | Free Energy | Amin | Device for thermal transfer using air as the working medium |
US4238968 | 80 | Free Energy | Cook; Robert L. | Device for conversion of centrifugal force to linear force and motion |
US4553748 | 85 | Game with Shocking Results | Allen Harrison | Electrostatically enhanced game (A video game where the looser gets an electric shock. Fun huh?) |
US4150505 | 79 | Gross | Voelker | Bird trap and cat feeder Bird Trap Cat Feeder |
US4605000 | 86 | Helmets | Anguita | Greenhouse helmet |
US6024935 | 00 | Hydrogen | Mills Good Phillips Popov | Lower-energy hydrogen methods and structures ( An example of a patent being granted to "crank" science ) |
US5794601 | 98 | IC Carburetor | Pantone | Fuel pretreater apparatus and method (The GEET carburetor) |
US5989178 | 99 | Medical Quackery | Teich | Magnetic ring |
US4003094 | 77 | OK Trekers, Remember Julie Newmar? | Newmar | Pantyhose with shaping band for cheeky derriere relief |
US3879622 | 75 | Perpetual Motion | Ecklin | Permanent magnet motion conversion device |
US4877983 | 85 | Perpetual Motion | Johnson; Howard R. | Magnetic force generating method and apparatus |
US5402021 | 95 | Perpetual Motion | Johnson; Howard R. | Magnetic propulsion system |
US4151431 | 79 | Perpetual Motion | Johnson; Howard R. | Permanent magnet motor |
US3811058 | 74 | Perpetual Motion | Kiniski | Rotary-to-Reciprocating Device |
US5211172 | 93 | Tracker | McGuane Lawless Wu | Solar controlled sun tracker for a sunbather |
US5556029 | 96 | Weather Control Heliostat | Griese | Method of hydrometeor, (clouds), dissipation |
US5583561 | 96 | Digital Video | Baker; Donn <donn.baker@unisys.com> Johnson Sipple | Multi-cast digital video data server using synchronization groups (Unisys) |
US5575409 | 96 | Mixer System | Gruendeman; Peter <gruendeman@worldnet.att.net> | Static mixer nozzle configuration that removably receives a locking hub thereon |
US5829639 | 98 | Mixer System | Gruendeman; Peter <gruendeman@worldnet.att.net> Horner | Flowable material dispenser with chambers |
US5829639 | 92 | Mixer System | Gruendeman; Peter <gruendeman@worldnet.att.net> Halat | Serial connectors for motionless mixers |
US4467194 | 84 | Optical Sensor | Foreman <dforeman@goldengate.net> | Omnidirectional electro-optical receiver (From Fridley, MN) |
US4561006 | 85 | Soldering | Currie; Thomas P. <thomas.currie@unisys.com> | Integrated circuit package with integral heating circuit (Unisys) |
US6123251 | 00 | Soldering | McClain Tamarkin; Vladimir K. | Apparatus and method for soldering (Unisys) |
US5835211 | 98 | Optical Sensor | Wells; David N. <laseraxe@erols.com> | Single-particle optical sensor with improved sensitivity and dynamic size range (One of David Wells' patents.) |
US5410403 | 95 | Particle Measuring System | Wells; David N. <laseraxe@erols.com> | Particle measuring system with pump adapted to maintain constant flow for different pressures and viscosities (One of David Wells' patents.) |
US5473110 | 95 | EMI | Johnson; Duane C. <redrok@redrok.com> | Magnetically-attachable EMI shielding cover for attenuating electromagnetic emanation (My patent for Unisys) |
US6617913 | 03 | EMI | Johnson; Duane C. <redrok@redrok.com> | Self-latching H-bridge system and apparatus (My patent for Unisys) |