Small-scaled portable electrical power generator

• US 6,686,534 B2
• Filed: 12/26/2001
• Issued: 02/03/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 12/26/2001
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: I-Ming Chen
• Original Assignee: I-Ming Chen
• Inventors: Chen, I-Ming
• Primary Examiner(s): DIAMOND, ALAN D
• Application Number:
  US10/032,814
• Publication Number:
  US 20030116186A1
• Time in Patent Office: 769 Days
• Field of Search: 136/253, 136/244, 310/303, 323/906, 323/221, 362/253, 362/159
• US Class Current: 136/253
• CPC Class Codes: H02S 10/10 including a supplementary source of electric power, e.g. hybrid diesel-PV energy systems combinations with gas-turbine plants F02C6/00
• CPC Class Codes: H02S 40/38 Energy storage means, e.g. batteries, structurally associated with PV modules
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 10/50 Photovoltaic [PV] energy
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 70/30 Systems combining energy storage with energy generation of non-fossil origin
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 323/906 Solar cell systems

Abstract

The present invention provides a small-scaled portable electrical power generator comprising a base, which includes an assembly surface, a fuel chamber, and at least one fuel delivery channels connected to the fuel chamber and placed under the assembly surface; a power generation means which includes at least one solar battery packs placed on the assembly surface of the base, a solar battery pack contains two opposing solar batteries which face each other with their light-collecting surfaces and their power outputs being connected; a light generation means placed on the assembly surface of the base, which includes at least one hollow tube that is placed in-between the solar batteries of the solar battery packs and includes at least one hollow tube capable of capillarity that is connected to the at least one fuel delivery channels so that fuel can always be filled into them; and an igniting means which includes at least one operative igniters placed nearby the at least one hollow tubes, and can be manipulated to ignite the fuel inside the hollow tubes.

Claims

1. A small-scaled portable electrical power generator, comprising:

a base including an assembly surface, a fuel chamber, and at least one fuel delivery channel connected to the fuel chamber and placed under the assembly surface;

a power generation means including at least one solar battery pack placed on the assembly surface of the base, the solar battery pack including two solar batteries, each of the two solar batteries having a light-collecting surface facing to each other, and power outputs of the two solar batteries being connected together;

a light generation means placed on the assembly surface of the base, including at least one hollow tube pack placed between the solar batteries of the solar battery pack, each of the hollow tube packs including at least one hollow tube and drawing the fuel up therethrough by capillarity from the at least one fuel delivery channel; and

an igniting means including at least one operative igniter placed nearby the at least one hollow tube and used to ignite the fuel inside the hollow tubes,

wherein the solar batteries are formed by several battery segments in a Z shape, a light-collecting surface of each battery segment is disposed with at least one coating layer having a first surface and a second surface, the first surface of the coating layer permits at least one specific wavelength of incident light to pass through, and the second surface of the coating layer prohibits a specific wavelength of light from passing through.

2. The electrical power generator according to claim 1, further comprising a heat exchanger, placed on the top of the at least one hollow tube so as to absorb heat generated by fuel ignition in the hollow tube and convert it to electric energy, wherein power outputs of the heat exchanger and the solar batteries are connected together.

3. The electrical power generator according to claim 2, further comprising:

a temperature-sensing means including at least one temperature sensor, being placed nearby the at least one hollow tube for sensing the temperature of the at least one hollow tube;

a pump means including at least one pump placed between the at least one hollow tube and the corresponding fuel delivery channel, the at least one pump used to draw up the fuel inside the fuel delivery channel into the at least one hollow tube; and

a control circuit electrically connected to the at least one temperature sensor and the at least one pump, the control circuit receiving a temperature reading from the temperature sensor and comparing the temperature reading with a reference value, the control circuit activating the at least one pump to draw up the fuel inside the corresponding fuel delivery channel into the corresponding hollow tube when the temperature reading is lower than the reference value.

4. The electrical power generator according to claim 1, wherein a surface of the at least one hollow tube is disposed with a material so that only light with a wavelength acceptable by the solar batteries can pass.

5. The electrical power generator according to claim 1, wherein the light generation means further comprises several light generation plates.

6. The electrical power generator according to claim 5, wherein each light generation plate includes a transparent casing and a liquid tube inside the casing.

7. The electrical power generator according to claim 6, wherein a liquid fluorescence material is filled inside the each liquid tube.

8. A small-scaled portable electrical power generator, comprising:

a base including an assembly surface, a fuel chamber, and several fuel delivery channels connected to the fuel chamber and placed under the assembly surface;

a power generation means including several solar battery packs placed on the assembly surface of the base, each of the solar battery packs containing two solar batteries, each of the two solar batteries having a light-collecting surface facing each other, each of the light-collecting surfaces of adjacent solar batteries of adjacent solar battery packs facing away from each other, and power outputs of the two solar batteries of each solar battery pack being connected together;

a light generation means placed on the assembly surface of the base and including several hollow tube packs, each of the hollow tube packs being placed between the two solar batteries of each solar battery pack and including at least one hollow tubes drawing the fuel up therethrough by capillarity from the fuel delivery channel; and

an igniting means including several operative igniters placed nearby a corresponding hollow tube and used to ignite the fuel inside the hollow tube.

9. The electrical power generator according to claim 8, wherein the light-collecting surface of the solar batteries is disposed with at least one coating layer having a first surface and a second surface, the first surface of the coating layer permits incident light to pass through, and the second surface of the coating layer prohibits a specific wavelength of light from passing through.