Solar simulator using a combination of mercury and halogen lamps
US7431466B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Jul 8, 2005 |
| Grant date | Oct 7, 2008 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | May 8, 2026 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG01N21/255
- WIPO fieldMeasurement
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
A solar simulator combines mercury lamps and halogen lamps, to improve upon conventional solar simulators using halogen and infrared lamps which cannot recreate an environment close to that under real sunlight, and upon solar simulators using expensive and fragile metal halide lamps and arc xenon lamps. An environment recreation laboratory for solar simulation includes a lamp bank mounted at an upper portion thereof and including a plurality of halogen lamps, halogen filter lamps being halogen lamps provided with an infrared filter, respectively, and mercury lamps. A temperature control unit includes a cooling unit that discharges air to cool the lamp bank, and an air conditioner that distributes the air discharged by the cooling unit. An electrical panel controls operations of the lamp bank and the temperature control unit, such that an environment within the environment recreation laboratory may very closely simulate the environment under real sunlight.
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