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Title:
THERMO-OPTICAL POWER GENERATOR
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP3714086
Kind Code:
B2
Abstract:

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a thermo-optical power generator in which heating efficiency can be improved by heating a radiant body with a flame part having the highest temperature and an energy conversion efficiency be improved as a result.
SOLUTION: This power generator is provided with a radiant body 24, a means for heating radiant body for heating the radiant body 24 with a counter stream flame sandwiching the faces of the radiant body 24, and a photoelectric converting element 34 for converting photoelectrically the radiant light emitted from the radiant body 24. For example, the counter stream flame is formed of a flame which is produced through the combustion of a fuel gas supplied from one side 22 of the porous radiant body 24 and an air supplied from the other side thereof.


Inventors:
Kiyohito Murata
Application Number:
JP2000017840A
Publication Date:
November 09, 2005
Filing Date:
January 21, 2000
Export Citation:
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Assignee:
TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
International Classes:
F23N5/00; F23D14/22; F23N5/08; H01L31/04; H01L31/042; (IPC1-7): H01L31/042; F23D14/22; F23N5/00; F23N5/08; H01L31/04
Domestic Patent References:
JP2000106001A
JP63316486A
JP6300227A
JP62297615A
JP61048232U
JP63074923U
Foreign References:
US4584426
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Takashi Ishida
Jun Tsuruta
Shigeru Tsuchiya
Masaya Nishiyama