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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:
Jan. 27, 2009
Filed:
Mar. 22, 2003
Applicant:
Niket Keshav Patwardhan, San Jose, CA (US);
Inventor:
Niket Keshav Patwardhan, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60K 16/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
While solar energy is widely available, current means to harness it are sufficiently expensive that for most applications it is not economically viable. The basic problem is that solar energy is not sufficiently concentrated, and the cost of the collector becomes the limiting factor. This invention teaches a way of building a solar collector and an associated energy conversion engine that together allow one to build cost effective solar electric systems that can compete with natural gas based power plants.