DETACHABLE SOLAR THERMAL COAT ASSEMBLY WITH CARBON NANOCAPSULE COMPOSITE MATERIAL

• US 20110030120A1
• Filed: 06/07/2010
• Published: 02/10/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 08/06/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Chian-Li Company
• Original Assignee: National Kaohsiung Marine University
• Inventors: WANG, HONG-WEN, LIN, LIANG-YANG
• Granted Patent: US 8,370,965 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 2/97
• CPC Class Codes: A41D 13/0051 Heated garments heated divers' suits B63C11/28
• CPC Class Codes: B82Y 30/00 Nanotechnology for materials or surface science, e.g. nanocomposites

Abstract

A detachable solar thermal coat assembly with carbon nanocapsule composite material includes an outer jacket, an inner lining and a conducting wire. The outer jacket has therein a power input device that provides electric power to a carbon nanocapsule fiber composite layer of the inner lining through the conducting wire so that the carbon nanocapsule fiber composite layer is powered to give out heat and warm a user wearing the solar thermal coat assembly.

Claims

1. A detachable solar thermal coat assembly with carbon nanocapsule composite material, comprising:

an outer jacket provided therein with a power input device;

an inner lining including a contacting layer, a carbon nanocapsule fiber composite layer and a heat insulation layer; and

a conducting wire for connecting the power input device with the inner lining;

wherein the power input device in the outer jacket transmits electric power to the carbon nanocapsule fiber composite layer of the inner lining through the conducting wire so as to power the carbon nanocapsule fiber composite layer to give out heat.

2. The detachable solar thermal coat assembly of claim 1, wherein at least one solar panel is provided on an outer surface of the outer jacket.

3. The detachable solar thermal coat assembly of claim 2, wherein the solar panel is a flexible solar panel.

4. The detachable solar thermal coat assembly of claim 1, wherein the carbon nanocapsule fiber composite layer is sandwiched between the contacting layer and the heat insulation layer.

5. The detachable solar thermal coat assembly of claim 1, wherein the carbon nanocapsule fiber composite layer is provided partially or entirely between the contacting layer and the heat insulation layer.

6. The detachable solar thermal coat assembly of claim 1, wherein the carbon nanocapsule fiber composite layer is made of the carbon nanocapsule composite material that is mainly produced by blending carbon nanocapsules and a plastic material (polymer) under a high temperature, drawing fiber and cooling the fiber.

7. The detachable solar thermal coat assembly of claim 1, wherein the carbon nanocapsule composite material contains carbon nanocapsules each being a polyhedral carbon cluster constituted by multiple graphite layers having a balls-within-a ball structure, with a capsule diameter of 10˜

50 nm (a few being more than 100 nm), in which a center of the graphite layers is composed of hexagons, while corners or turns of the graphite layers have pentagons or heptagons, while each carbon atom is in a structure of sp2.