Frederick Jerome Foreman

US Patent:

20110186106, Aug 4, 2011

Filed:

Feb 1, 2011

Appl. No.:

13/019021

Inventors:

Reginald Parker - Arlington VA, US
Frederick J. Foreman - Haymarket VA, US

Assignee:

510NANO INC. - Washington DC

International Classification:

H01L 31/058
H01L 31/052

US Classification:

136246, 136248

Abstract:

An apparatus for generating electricity with the ability to distill a liquid and/or expand a working fluid and/or produce mechanical energy and/or produce thermal energy and/or produce chemical energy through separately utilizing light in the infrared (IR) region and light within the visible and ultraviolet (UV) regions. The apparatus uses polychromatic light concentration and multiplication, light collimation, spectral separation, photoelectric generation through conversion of visible light, and useful conversion of infrared light into applications to generate a distilled liquid, expand a working fluid, produce mechanical energy, produce thermal energy, produce chemical energy and/or generate electricity. Non-reflected radiant energy may be used to operate a suitable photovoltaic cell or stack of cells. In alternative embodiments, the spectral separator may reflect most radiant energy incident upon it to one or more photovoltaic cells and pass infrared to an accumulator for use as heat energy to generate mechanical or chemical energy or generate further electrical energy.

US Patent:

20170279406, Sep 28, 2017

Filed:

Apr 6, 2017

Appl. No.:

15/480622

Inventors:

- Durham NC, US
Marcus Shute - Conyers GA, US
Frederick J. Foreman - Douglasville GA, US

International Classification:

H02S 40/22
H01L 31/0304
H01L 31/054
H02S 40/44
H02S 20/32

Abstract:

An apparatus for generating electricity with the ability to distill a liquid and/or expand a working fluid and/or produce mechanical energy and/or produce thermal energy and/or produce chemical transformations through separately utilizing light in the infrared (IR) region and light within the visible and ultraviolet (UV) regions. The apparatus uses methods to capture diffuse and direct polychromatic light, concentration and multiplication of that light up to 1000 times or more, collimation of light, separation of the spectrum into the IR and UV/visible bands, generation of electricity through conversion of at least UV/visible light, and useful conversion of infrared light into applications to generate a distilled liquid or compound, expand a working fluid, produce mechanical energy, produce thermal energy, produce chemical energy and/or generate additional electricity. Non-reflected radiant energy may be used to operate a suitable photovoltaic cell or stack of cells. In alternative embodiments, the spectral separator may reflect most radiant energy incident upon it to one or more photovoltaic cells and pass infrared to an accumulator for use as heat energy to generate mechanical or chemical energy or generate further electrical energy.