Batteries: thermoelectric and photoelectric – Photoelectric – Panel or array
Patent
1995-08-08
1997-03-25
Weisstuch, Aaron
Batteries: thermoelectric and photoelectric
Photoelectric
Panel or array
136245, 428 73, H01L 31052
Patent
active
056140339
ABSTRACT:
Discrete carrier and lattice structures are bonded together to form a lightweight rigid solar panel. The carrier includes a pair of electrically inert face sheets bonded on opposite sides of a thin thermoconductive honeycomb core. The face sheets provide an electrically inert surface for receiving a solar cell array and the honeycomb core forms a heat sink for conducting heat away from the solar cell array. The lattice includes a pair of patterned face sheets having a high elastic modulus bonded on opposite sides of a lattice base. The patterned face sheets provide axial stiffness and the lattice base separates them to provide bending stiffness. By splitting the solar panel into discrete carrier and lattice components, the present invention reduces the weight of existing solar panels by approximately 40% and increases power efficiency by approximately 10%.
REFERENCES:
patent: 4101101 (1978-07-01), Barkats et al.
patent: 4394529 (1983-07-01), Gounder
Krause Stanley J.
Robinson Stephen A.
Denson-Low Wanda K.
Gudmestad Terje
Hughes Aircraft Company
Leitereg Elizabeth E.
Weisstuch Aaron
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