公开(公告)号：US07697219B2

公开(公告)日：2010-04-13

申请号：US12008053

申请日：2008-01-08

Applicant: Leo David DiDomenico

Inventor： Leo David DiDomenico

IPC: G02B17/00

CPC classification number: G02B5/045 ,  F24S23/10 ,  F24S23/31 ,  G02B19/0028 ,  G02B19/0033 ,  G02B19/0042 ,  G02B27/095 ,  G02B27/0977 ,  Y02E10/43

Abstract: A high efficiency and compact optical device comprising two or more active and resonating optical facet surfaces defined by a three-dimensional representation and configured to provide a three-dimensional device. A focal region, remote from the optical surfaces and non-contiguous therewith, is defined by two or more active optical resonant surfaces, at least one of which is self-resonant. The optical surfaces in general do not have a continuous second derivative and are defined by a piecewise continuous surface function providing radially directed facets. The optical device comprises a transparent dielectric body with its optical surfaces being formed on the surfaces of said transparent dielectric body. A light transducer may be located at a focal region to provide an energy conversion. A light source having a physical extension in space, such as an LED, may be located at the focal region to provide collimation. In some embodiments the active surfaces may be chosen to transform incident radiation into a predetermined shape and having a predetermined spatial power distribution.

Abstract translation: 一种高效率和紧凑的光学装置，其包括由三维表示限定并且被配置为提供三维装置的两个或更多个有源和谐振的光学小面表面。 远离光学表面并且不连续的聚焦区域由两个或更多个有源光学谐振表面限定，其中至少一个是自谐振的。 光学表面通常不具有连续的二阶导数，并且由分段连续的表面函数限定，提供径向指向的小平面。 光学器件包括透明电介质体，其光学表面形成在所述透明电介质体的表面上。 光转换器可以位于聚焦区域以提供能量转换。 在空间中具有物理延伸的光源（例如LED）可以位于焦点区域以提供准直。 在一些实施例中，可以选择有源表面以将入射辐射转换成预定形状并具有预定的空间功率分布。

公开(公告)号：US07924495B1

公开(公告)日：2011-04-12

申请号：US12156699

申请日：2008-06-03

Applicant: Leo David DiDomenico

Inventor： Leo David DiDomenico

IPC: G02F1/29

CPC classification number: G02B26/0875 ,  F24S23/00 ,  F24S2023/85 ,  F24S2023/87 ,  F24S2023/872 ,  F24S2030/11 ,  Y02B10/20 ,  Y02E10/44 ,  Y02P80/24

Abstract: This invention deals with the general topic of adaptive electronic redirection of sunlight by means of an active matrix of transistors, electrodes, and optical elements. The scale of the system may range from small portable systems to large-scale arrays for industrial processes such as solar power plants used for the production of environmentally benign energy. It may be integrated directly into buildings and other platforms without the need for heliostats to hold photovoltaic cells or other energy conversion devices above the building or other host platform. It makes solar energy harvesting systems practical by allowing the separation of tracking, collection, concentration, aggregation, distribution, and energy conversion. This novel system is unique and distinct from other sun tracking and energy conversion systems because it allows adaptive solid-state electronics to be used in place of conventional mechanical tracking heliostats. Furthermore, it is highly precise and therefore allows very high levels of concentration to be achieved in a dynamic environment. It is also cost effective because it leverages integrated opto-electronics to perform sun tracking.

Abstract translation: 本发明涉及通过晶体管，电极和光学元件的有源矩阵的太阳光自适应电子重定向的一般主题。 该系统的规模可以从小型便携式系统到用于工业过程的大规模阵列，例如用于生产环境友好能量的太阳能发电厂。 它可以直接集成到建筑物和其他平台中，而不需要定日镜将太阳能电池或其他能量转换装置保持在建筑物或其他主机平台之上。 通过允许分离跟踪，收集，集中，聚集，分配和能量转换，使太阳能收获系统实用化。 这种新颖的系统与其他太阳跟踪和能量转换系统是独一无二的，因为它允许自适应固态电子器件用于代替传统的机械跟踪定日镜。 此外，它是高度精确的，因此允许在动态环境中实现非常高水平的浓度。 这也是成本有效的，因为它利用集成光电子执行太阳跟踪。

公开(公告)号：US20080178867A1

公开(公告)日：2008-07-31

申请号：US11700751

申请日：2007-01-30

Applicant: Leo David DiDomenico

Inventor： Leo David DiDomenico

IPC: F24J2/38

CPC classification number: G01S3/7862 ,  G01S3/7861 ,  Y02B10/10 ,  Y02B10/20 ,  Y02P80/24 ,  Y02P80/25

Abstract: This invention deals with the general topic of adaptive non-imaging tracking of the sun. A transmission-mode electro-optical system is presented for solar energy tracking and collection. The scale of the system may range from small portable systems to large-scale industrial power plants used for the production of environmentally benign energy. It maybe integrated directly into buildings and other platforms without the need for heliostats to hold photovoltaic cells or other energy conversion devices above the building or other host platform. It makes solar energy harvesting systems practical by allowing the separation of tracking, collection, concentration, aggregation, distribution, and energy conversion. This novel system is unique and distinct from other sun tracking and energy conversion systems because it allows adaptive solid-state electronics to be used in place of conventional mechanical tracking heliostats. Furthermore, it is highly precise and therefore allows very high levels of concentration to be achieved in an dynamic environment. It is also cost effective because it leverages integrated opto-electronics instead of mechanical devices to perform sun tracking.

Abstract translation: 本发明涉及太阳的自适应非成像跟踪的一般主题。 提出了一种用于太阳能跟踪和采集的透射模式电光系统。 该系统的规模可以从小型便携式系统到用于生产环境友好能源的大型工业发电厂。 它可以直接集成到建筑物和其他平台中，而不需要定日镜将太阳能电池或其他能量转换设备放置在建筑物或其他主机平台之上。 通过允许分离跟踪，收集，集中，聚集，分配和能量转换，使太阳能收获系统实用化。 这种新颖的系统与其他太阳跟踪和能量转换系统是独一无二的，因为它允许自适应固态电子器件用于代替传统的机械跟踪定日镜。 此外，它是高度精确的，因此允许在动态环境中实现非常高的浓度水平。 这也是成本有效的，因为它利用集成光电而不是机械装置执行太阳跟踪。

公开(公告)号：US07902490B2

公开(公告)日：2011-03-08

申请号：US11700751

申请日：2007-01-30

Applicant: Leo David DiDomenico

Inventor： Leo David DiDomenico

IPC: G01J1/00 ,  F24J2/00 ,  F24J2/38

CPC classification number: G01S3/7862 ,  G01S3/7861 ,  Y02B10/10 ,  Y02B10/20 ,  Y02P80/24 ,  Y02P80/25

Abstract: This invention deals with the general topic of adaptive non-imaging tracking of the sun. A transmission-mode electro-optical system is presented for solar energy tracking and collection. The scale of the system may range from small portable systems to large-scale industrial power plants used for the production of environmentally benign energy. It maybe integrated directly into buildings and other platforms without the need for heliostats to hold photovoltaic cells or other energy conversion devices above the building or other host platform. It makes solar energy harvesting systems practical by allowing the separation of tracking, collection, concentration, aggregation, distribution, and energy conversion. This novel system is unique and distinct from other sun tracking and energy conversion systems because it allows adaptive solid-state electronics to be used in place of conventional mechanical tracking heliostats. Furthermore, it is highly precise and therefore allows very high levels of concentration to be achieved in an dynamic environment. It is also cost effective because it leverages integrated opto-electronics instead of mechanical devices to perform sun tracking.

Abstract translation: 本发明涉及太阳的自适应非成像跟踪的一般主题。 提出了一种用于太阳能跟踪和采集的透射模式电光系统。 该系统的规模可以从小型便携式系统到用于生产环境友好能源的大型工业发电厂。 它可以直接集成到建筑物和其他平台中，而不需要定日镜将太阳能电池或其他能量转换设备放置在建筑物或其他主机平台之上。 通过允许分离跟踪，收集，集中，聚集，分配和能量转换，使太阳能收获系统实用化。 这种新颖的系统与其他太阳跟踪和能量转换系统是独一无二的，因为它允许自适应固态电子器件用于代替传统的机械跟踪定日镜。 此外，它是高度精确的，因此允许在动态环境中实现非常高的浓度水平。 这也是成本有效的，因为它利用集成光电而不是机械装置执行太阳跟踪。

公开(公告)号：US07863517B1

公开(公告)日：2011-01-04

申请号：US11215046

申请日：2005-08-30

Applicant: Leo David DiDomenico

Inventor： Leo David DiDomenico

IPC: H01L31/00 ,  H01L35/30 ,  H01J1/62 ,  H01S3/00

CPC classification number: B82Y20/00 ,  G02B6/1225 ,  H01L31/055 ,  H02S10/30 ,  Y02E10/52 ,  Y10S136/291 ,  Y10T117/10

Abstract: A solar power plant (10) capable of generating electricity comprising a light pipe carrying highly concentrated solar light (19), a hot reservoir (24), a cold reservoir (20), and a plurality of large-scale solid-state nano-structured photonic crystals (12) that are capable of recycling out-of-band photons with transition energies associated with a photovoltaic cell (13) into photons with in-band energies associated with the same photovoltaic cell (13) when photon energy is subjected to propagation through a thermal temperature gradient that is held across a suitably nano-structured photonic crystal (12). The input thermal photons from the hot thermal reservoir (24) are shifted in energy to the optimal photovoltaic cell energy for electron-hole pair generation by work that is expanded by the heat engine to convert said input photons into phonons and then back to photons again at a new wavelength through a process of phonon rethermalization occurring inside the nano-structured photonic crystal (12).

Abstract translation: 一种能够发电的太阳能发电厂（10），包括承载高度集中的太阳能灯（19）的光管，热水箱（24），冷库（20）和多个大规模固态纳米 - 结构光子晶体（12），其能够将具有与光伏电池（13）相关联的过渡能量的带外光子再循环到具有与光子能量相关联的同一光伏电池（13）的带内能量的光子中，当光子能量经受 通过保持在适当的纳米结构的光子晶体（12）上的热温度梯度传播。 来自热蓄热器（24）的输入热光子通过由发动机扩展的工作而能量转移到用于电子 - 空穴对生成的最佳光伏电池能量，以将所述输入的光子转换成声子，然后再次回到光子 通过在纳米结构光子晶体（12）内发生的声子再热化过程，在新的波长处。

公开(公告)号：US20080165437A1

公开(公告)日：2008-07-10

申请号：US12008053

申请日：2008-01-08

Applicant: Leo David DiDomenico

Inventor： Leo David DiDomenico

IPC: G02B17/00 ,  F21V5/00

CPC classification number: G02B5/045 ,  F24S23/10 ,  F24S23/31 ,  G02B19/0028 ,  G02B19/0033 ,  G02B19/0042 ,  G02B27/095 ,  G02B27/0977 ,  Y02E10/43

Abstract: A high efficiency and compact optical device comprising two or more active and resonating optical facet surfaces defined by a three-dimensional representation and configured to provide a three-dimensional device. A focal region, remote from the optical surfaces and non-contiguous therewith, is defined by two or more active optical resonant surfaces, at least one of which is self-resonant. The optical surfaces in general do not have a continuous second derivative and are defined by a piecewise continuous surface function providing radially directed facets. The optical device comprises a transparent dielectric body with its optical surfaces being formed on the surfaces of said transparent dielectric body. A light transducer may be located at a focal region to provide an energy conversion. A light source having a physical extension in space, such as an LED, may be located at the focal region to provide collimation. In some embodiments the active surfaces may be chosen to transform incident radiation into a predetermined shape and having a predetermined spatial power distribution.

Abstract translation: 一种高效率和紧凑的光学装置，其包括由三维表示限定并且被配置为提供三维装置的两个或更多个有源和谐振的光学小面表面。 远离光学表面并且不连续的聚焦区域由两个或更多个有源光学谐振表面限定，其中至少一个是自谐振的。 光学表面通常不具有连续的二阶导数，并且由分段连续的表面函数限定，提供径向指向的小平面。 光学器件包括透明电介质体，其光学表面形成在所述透明电介质体的表面上。 光转换器可以位于聚焦区域以提供能量转换。 在空间中具有物理延伸的光源（例如LED）可以位于焦点区域以提供准直。 在一些实施例中，可以选择有源表面以将入射辐射转换成预定形状并具有预定的空间功率分布。