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Nonimaging radiant energy device

Patent ·
OSTI ID:868917
 [1];  [2]
  1. Chicago, IL
  2. North Providence, RI
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A nonimaging radiant energy device may include a hyperbolically shaped reflective element with a radiant energy inlet and a radiant energy outlet. A convex lens is provided at the radiant energy inlet and a concave lens is provided at the radiant energy outlet. Due to the provision of the lenses and the shape of the walls of the reflective element, the radiant energy incident at the radiant energy inlet within a predetermined angle of acceptance is emitted from the radiant energy outlet exclusively within an acute exit angle. In another embodiment, the radiant energy device may include two interconnected hyperbolically shaped reflective elements with a respective convex lens being provided at each aperture of the device.
Research Organization:
Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL
DOE Contract Number:
FG02-87ER13726
Assignee:
Argonne National Laboratory (Chicago, IL); University of Chicago Development Corporation (Chicago, IL)
Patent Number(s):
US 5243459
OSTI ID:
868917
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

References (9)

Test of a “trumpet” secondary concentrator with a paraboloidal dish primary journal January 1986
Dielectric totally internally reflecting concentrators journal January 1987
Optics of two-stage photovoltaic concentrators with dielectric second stages journal January 1987
Design of nonimaging concentrators as second stages in tandem with image-forming first-stage concentrators journal January 1980
Light Collection within the Framework of Geometrical Optics* journal January 1970
Geometrical vector flux and some new nonimaging concentrators journal January 1979
Axially symmetric nonimaging flux concentrators with the maximum theoretical concentration ratio journal January 1987
Ideal flux concentrators as shapes that do not disturb the geometrical vector flux field: A new derivation of the compound parabolic concentrator journal January 1979
Nonimaging Optics for Illumination conference February 1987

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