MUMBAI, India, Nov. 7 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202441034604 A) filed by Vidyastee, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, on May 1, 2024, for 'fibre optics integrated compact solar energy harvesting system.'
Inventor(s) include Vidyastee.
The application for the patent was published on Nov. 7, under issue no. 45/2025.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The proposed compact solar power harvesting system integrates PV panels, optical fibers, and a converging mechanism to enhance efficiency without requiring outer transparent protection cover and also to reduce the overall space requirement. Converging unit focus solar rays into smaller areas of focus plane connector, which eliminating the need for larger surface area and solar source tracking systems. The optical fibres are connected with this focus plane connector through which focused solar rays are transmitted to the PV array through Array panel terminal connectors, where transmitted rays are flashed onto PV panels. These fibres connect to the closed structure at angular intervals, ensuring uniform distribution of concentrated light on PV panels thereby significantly reducing surface requirements compared to conventional solar panels. The array of PV panels with gap separator acts like a closed airtight structure, which prevents dust or dirt infiltration and leak of incoming solar rays. With this proposed structure, advantages include improved watt per square meter due to the layered arrangement of PV Panels, reduced internal reflection, and decreased maintenance costs by limiting dust deposition. Overall, this system represents a holistic approach to solar power harvesting, providing both structural and functional improvements over traditional PV panel systems in terms of decreasing surface area requirement, minimizing the loss due to internal reflections in the PV panel, controlling the PV panel temperature by elimination thermal source at root and ultimately reduce the overall maintenance cost of the system by eliminating the cleaning requirements."
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