Patent ID: 7077124

Claim:
A thermally insulated wall integrated thermal solar collector with heat storage capacity, comprising in combination: a wall of a building, the wall having an inside surface and an outside surface; a solar panel mounted to the outside surface of the wall, the solar panel having: a transparent layer; a solar radiation absorption layer, that is separated by an air gap from the transparent layer; a heat storage layer of phase changing material sandwiched between and in close contact with the solar radiation absorption layer to facilitate heat transfer and the outside surface of the wall to facilitate heat transfer; the heat storage layer of the solar panel collecting heat during the day to shield the outside surface of the wall from heat and thereby maintain the outside surface of the wall at a temperature which is close to a temperature of the inside surface in order to restrict thermal heat transfer through the wall and emitting heat at night to heat the outside surface of the wall and thereby maintain the outside surface of the wall at a temperature which is close to the temperature of the inside surface in order to restrict thermal heat transfer through the wall.