Patent ID: 11916157
Assignee: 10644137 CANADA INC.
Field: Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  B  Y | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. An integrated multi-layer energy apparatus comprising:
a transparent or semi-transparent substrate;
a solar-cell layer coupled to the substrate, the solar-cell layer comprising a plurality of solar cells for receiving light through the substrate and converting energy of the received light to a first electrical energy;
an energy-storage layer coupled to the solar-cell layer, the energy-storage layer comprising one or more energy-storage units for storing a second electrical energy; and
a converter layer comprising, in a single layer, a solar-input converter electrically connected to the solar-cell layer, a battery-input converter electrically connected to the energy-storage layer, and an output converter configured to receive the first electrical energy and the second electrical energy and convert the first electrical energy and the second electrical energy into a third electrical energy;
wherein the solar-input converter, the battery-input converter, and the output converter are coupled to a ferrite core comprising a first ferrite loop, a second ferrite loop, and a third ferrite loop, each of the first and second ferrite loops sharing a portion of the third ferrite loop; and
wherein the solar-input converter comprises coils winding around the first ferrite loop, the battery-input converter comprises coils winding around the second ferrite loop, and the output converter comprises coils winding around the third ferrite loop.