Conical beam concentrator

Stoves and furnaces – Stoves – Cooking

Patent

Rate now

  [ 0.00 ] – not rated yet Voters 0   Comments 0

Details

126440, G02B 1318

Patent

active

043337139

ABSTRACT:
The disclosure is a multiple-stage optical instrument consisting of conical lenses which reduce the size of an incipient beam of light as a means of producing a high-intensity concentrated beam. The beam is composed of parallel rays of coherent light similar to the laser beam. The beam concentrator, however, is powered by sunlight, and it produces concentrated solar beams as a source of energy without using electricity.
Each stage of the beam concentrator consists of two component lenses; an upper lens with a planar section (face) which receives and transmits an incipient solar beam to a convex conical section on the opposite side of the lens, and a lower lens with a convex conical section which receives the beam refracted by the convex conical section of the upper lens and refracts the beam to a concave conical section on the opposite side of the lower lens. The beam is refracted three times and it emerges from the lower lens parallel to the incipient beam and concentrated 0.23 1/X, with 1/X denoting reduction in size. Any number of stages can be used, since the beams received and emitted are parallel. Moreover, the reduction in size is exponential. A three-stage concentrator, for instance, would reduce an incipient beam with a diameter of 82 mm to a concentrated beam with a diameter of 1 mm; 82 mm.times.0.23.sup.3 =1 mm.

REFERENCES:
patent: 2881654 (1955-10-01), Toffolo

LandOfFree

Say what you really think

Search LandOfFree.com for the USA inventors and patents. Rate them and share your experience with other people.

Rating

Conical beam concentrator does not yet have a rating. At this time, there are no reviews or comments for this patent.

If you have personal experience with Conical beam concentrator, we encourage you to share that experience with our LandOfFree.com community. Your opinion is very important and Conical beam concentrator will most certainly appreciate the feedback.

Rate now

     

Profile ID: LFUS-PAI-O-551345

  Search
All data on this website is collected from public sources. Our data reflects the most accurate information available at the time of publication.