Solar-energy converter

US4596237A · kind A · utility

Assignees

• BM Chemie Kunststoff GmbH · DE
• Kernforschungsanlage Lulich Gesellschaft mit beschrankter Haftung · DE

Inventors

• Bernd Melchior · Remscheid, DE
• Friedrich W. Grimme · Aachen, DE
• Wolfgang Heidrich · Vancouver, CA

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 14, 1984
• Grant date: Jun 24, 1986
• Expiry date: Mar 14, 2004

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10S126/908
• WIPO field: Thermal processes and apparatus
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A solar energy converter which can be used as a solar collector or for the direct mounting on a building for the heating of the interior thereof through a wall of the building has a light transmissive layer spaced from this wall and provided on its inner side with an absorptive surface at which incident solar energy is transformed into heat. One or more solar structures between this layer and the wall contain a chemico-physical phase transformation medium capable of storing latent heat when thermal energy is produced at the absorptive surface and adapted to release this heat through the wall or to a heat carrier fluid which can be passed through a space formed by the solar structure.