Current Solar Technologies under Patent

Next Generation Photovoltaics

Family 1:             PROCESS OF FORMING A PHOTOACTIVE LAYER OF AN OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICE

This patent covers the process of depositing a thin-metallic film and conversion of the seed layer to a perovskite semiconductor as an optoelectronic device

Inventor(s): JONES TIMOTHY (AU); WILSON GREGORY (AU); ANDERSON KENRICK (AU); HOLLENKAMP ANTHONY (AU); DUFFY NOEL (AU); FIRET NIENKE (NL)

Concentrated Solar Thermal

Family 1:              CLOSED LOOP CONTROL SYSTEM FOR HELIOSTATS

This patent covers the use of the moving arm camera array concept in front of the receiver to close the loop on the heliostat control

 

Family 2:              MONITORING AND MEASURING OF MULTIPLE LIGHT SOURCES ESPECIALLY HELIOSTATS

This patent covers the camera array concept which uses a fixed 2D array of cameras to measure heliostat images on the calibration target.

 

Family 3:              MONITORING AND MEASURING OF MULTIPLE LIGHT SOURCES ESPECIALLY HELIOSTATS

This patent covers the moving arm concept, which uses a moving arm with a linear array of cameras to create a 2D array of cameras to measure heliostat images on the target or in-front of the receiver

 

Family 4:              METHOD OF DESIGNING A CONCENTRATED SOLAR CAVITY RECEIVER

This patent coverst the method of designing a cavity receiver by using a raytracer to move facets of a hemisphere away from an aperture so as to build a receiver that never exceeds irradiance limits on the surface.

 

Family 5:              HELIOSTAT CALIBRATION AND CONTROL

This patent covers the control and calibration system, mostly the use of a calibration target. I can’t tell what the difference is between the 1A, 1B, 1C sections at this stage.

 

Family 6:              HELIOSTAT CONSTRUCTION

This patent covers the method for assembling the heliostat facet, it seems mostly based on the method developed for the ASI foundation project.