PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15981728
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2019-11
Patent Classification: ["136", "246000"]

Abstract:
A coolant loop for trough-reflector solar energy conversion systems has open coolant supply and discharge reservoirs. Coolant is driven by siphoning pressure through cooling channels which have attached solar cell arrays. The siphoning pressure is produced by maintaining the free surface of coolant in a coolant supply reservoir at a higher elevation than the free surface of coolant in a coolant discharge reservoir. The cooling channels have air evacuation and air inlet ports to facilitate initiation and termination of siphon-pressure-driven coolant flow. The cooling channels also have in-line flow control valves that respond to control signals generated by coolant temperature sensors.

Claim (Index 1):
A coolant loop for trough reflector systems that have solar cell arrays, wherein said coolant loop is comprised of:\n a) a coolant discharge reservoir containing coolant with a free surface, and b) a coolant supply reservoir containing coolant with a free surface, wherein the free surface of the coolant in said coolant supply reservoir is continuously maintained at a higher elevation than the free surface of the coolant in said coolant discharge reservoir, and wherein the elevation difference, H, between the free surface of the coolant in said coolant supply reservoir and the free surface of the coolant in said coolant discharge reservoir can be controlled and set to different desired values by varying the relative amounts of coolant in said coolant supply reservoir and said coolant discharge reservoir, and c) a multiplicity of cooling channels, wherein each of said cooling channels is comprised of a conduit having a coolant inlet port at one of its ends and a coolant discharge port at its other end, and wherein each of said cooling channels supports solar cell arrays that are attached to a wall of said cooling channel, and wherein the portion of each of said cooling channels to which said solar cell arrays are attached is maintained at a higher elevation than the free surface of the coolant in said coolant supply reservoir, and wherein each of said cooling channels is continuously oriented and positioned so that said attached solar cell arrays intercept concentrated sunlight produced by an optically-associated trough reflector, and wherein each of said cooling channels is physically contoured and spatially positioned so that said coolant inlet port is continuously submerged beneath the free surface of the coolant in said coolant supply reservoir, and wherein each of said cooling channels is physically contoured and spatially positioned so that said coolant discharge port is continuously submerged beneath the free surface of the coolant in said coolant discharge reservoir, and wherein the internal volume of each of said cooling channels is devoid of gaseous species and filled throughout with liquid coolant, thereby establishing said cooling channel as a coolant flow passage with respect to siphoning pressure.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.65625
- Patent Class: 136.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14823768', '15639083', '15437272', '13773991', '11287689']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7727393473231028
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5280277556703413
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7482681881578267
- Mean Citation Score: 203.781984
- Max Citation Score: 344.2417
- Similarity Product: 220.8447965676665

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 0
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

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