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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 03, 1978
Filed:
Jan. 06, 1977
Daniel Gross, Carouge, Geneva, CH;
Pierre Genequand, Geneva, CH;
Battelle Development Corporation, Columbus, OH (US);
Abstract
In order to reduce energy losses by convection and/or thermal radiation from the radiation-absorbing surface of a photothermal energy converter for the utilization of solar energy, the said surface is provided with a multiplicity of projecting fibres sufficiently close to one another to suppress convection, each fibre consisting of a material which is permeable to the incident luminous radiation to be absorbed and at least partly opaque to infrared thermal radiation which may be reemitted from the said surface whereby energy losses by radiation are reduced. The fibres can be, for example, glass or plastic fibres and can be integral with or implanted in the said surface. Preferably, the fibres have diameters in the range 25 to 500 micrometers, a height of the order of 5 cm, and an average distance between fibres in the range 100 to 5000 micrometers.
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