PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15995760
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["290", "044000"]

Abstract:
There is provided a hybrid turbine system comprising a plurality of flexible and thin film photovoltaic modules or panels attached to a plurality of blades of a vertical-axis wind turbine (VAWT) for energy generation. Electrical performance of rotating photovoltaic modules or panels is enhanced since rotating photovoltaic modules are self-cooled by rotation of the blades of the wind turbine. It is experimentally shown that voltage of the photovoltaic modules decreases when the photovoltaic modules' temperature increases, and this decrease was modelled by four parameters namely ideality factor, reverse saturation current, short-circuit current, and material band gap. The present invention evidences that the proposed rotating photovoltaic modules increases the output voltage of the photovoltaic modules. Rotation of the photovoltaic modules as a part of the plurality of blades cools down and lowers the operating temperature of the photovoltaic modules and improves overall performance of the hybrid turbine system.

Claim (Index 13):
A method of manufacturing a photovoltaic-wind hybrid turbine system, the method comprising:\n attaching a plurality of photovoltaic modules to a plurality of blades of a wind turbine using cable ties; fabricating slip rings by cutting a wooden board in a circular shape and making a hole in a middle portion of the wooden board enough for a shaft of the wind turbine to pass through; creating two circular even crevices on the wooden board and taking two sanded and cleaned smooth copper rings to fit within the crevices; gluing the fabricated slip rings to a bottom of the wind turbine and placing the slip rings underneath a generator; polishing surfaces of the slip rings to minimize any friction associated with the slip rings; fabricating a wooden base by cutting a wooden sheet; bolting down the wind turbine, a hybrid charge controller (HCC) and a battery to the wooden base and placing an on-off switch on top of the wooden base; and mounting an Arduino Uno microcontroller and an SD card on the hybrid turbine system using cable ties.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 8.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.93902
- Patent Class: 290.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13135967', '15384586', '12424386', '14335890', '15259969']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5962637353758506
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4755398139216412
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5841913432304298
- Mean Citation Score: 192.34266
- Max Citation Score: 205.01945
- Similarity Product: 163.43782001303134

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

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