112 results about "Exposure sunlight" patented technology

Solar cells are attached to vehicle components such as a moon roof (2) or truck bed cover (12, 13) to create modular solar panels. An adjustable mount (4, 10) can be attached to the solar panels to adjust the angle of the solar cells in a direction of the sun. Sensing for solar tracking the sun angle can be performed using solar cells of the solar panel itself, or a separate sensor (7). A telescoping moon roof mount mechanism (16) can allow a first solar panel (17) to be extended above a vehicle roof to allow additional solar panels (18, 19) to be telescoped out and also exposed to the sun. An additional battery (15, 100) can be mounted in the truck bed cover and connected in parallel with the hybrid battery (42).

A transportable, self-contained, solar power system comprised of a plurality of individual solar power arrays, each array being contained within a transportable frame. Each array is folded into a frame during transportation. Upon reaching a desired location, the frame is positioned at a desired location. The frame then acts as a base while its solar power array is activated and deployed. The array has the capability of tracking the position of the sun during deployment. Each frame has a global positioning system (GPS) and a controller containing a chart of sun locations for a given location. The controller positions a frame's solar array to maximize the array's exposure to the sun. Each frame has a battery system, enabling a frame's solar array to self-start after a period of darkness.

The present invention provides an oil in silicone emulsion and an oil in silicone / water in silicone dual emulsion. These emulsions employ a silicone resin as the emulsifying agent, include an effective amount of one or more active ingredients, such as, a sunscreen and / or insect repellent and provide enhanced aesthetics and SPF. Also provided are methods of preparation of the oil in silicone and the oil in silicone / water in silicone dual emulsions, compositions that employ these emulsions, and methods of using the compositions to repel insects from skin and protect skin from exposure to the sun.

An outdoor umbrella includes a foldable umbrella awning, an umbrella frame, a lighting system mounted on the umbrella frame, and a solar power supply arrangement which converts solar energy into electrical energy and provides the converted electrical energy to the lighting system for lighting up the lighting system. The solar power supply arrangement includes a solar collecting device supported by the main supporting stem, wherein the solar collecting device has a collecting surface arranged to expose to sunlight for extensively collecting solar energy.

Disclosed is a hybrid wind-solar energy device comprising: a) a wind-capture assembly comprising: i) one or more wind sails evenly distributed circumferentially around a central axis thereof; and ii) a solar-energy capture means on an outer surface of the wind-capture assembly; and c) a turbine assembly comprising an anchoring base, an electrical generator and an output shaft; the wind-capture assembly rotatably mounted on the output shaft and coupled thereto; the hybrid wind-solar energy device configured to convert energy harnessed by the wind capture assembly to electrical energy, wherein: interaction of the one or more wind sails with wind induces rotation of the wind-capture assembly and turbine assembly around the central axis; and the outer surface of the wind capture assembly is directly exposed to sunlight throughout daylight hours.

The present invention provides polyolefin compositions that are UV stable and suitable for articles that may be exposed to sunlight. The present invention provides, in one aspect, a polyolefin homopolymer or copolymer comprising, by weight of the polyolefin: (a) from 0.001 to 2 wt % hindered amine; (b) from 0.001 to 1 wt % ethoxylated amine; and (c) from 0.001 to 1 wt phenolic antioxidant; wherein the amount of phenolic antioxidant (PA), ethoxylated amine (EA) and hindered amine (HA) present in the composition is satisfied by the equation:PA+EAHA=Qwherein Q ranges from 0.15 to 250 when each component is expressed as a weight percentage. The composition is stable towards UV radiation such that it is useful for any number of articles such as automotive components and other articles that are, for example, injection molded.

A coupling device for restraining belts, particularly for children's safety seats for motor-vehicles, which includes a body intended to be connected to at least one belt branch and a pair of tongue elements intended to be connected to respective belt branches, each tongue element including an attachment portion for connection with the respective belt branch and a stem portion arranged to be received and locked in the body and forming a catch tooth for locking the tongue element in the body. Each tongue element further comprises a metal insert wholly covered by a plastic or rubber housing or coating to protect user from burning from the coupling device which has been exposed to the sun.

A solar panel (10) has tubing (12) through which water from a swimming pool is recirculated. The tubing (12) is adapted to be exposed to the sun for heating the water to a temperature whereby the pool is heated. The solar panel (10) has a housing (14) for the tubing (12), and the housing (14) has a transparent screen (16) covering the tubing (12). In use, the housing (14) retains heat therewithin for increasing the temperature of the tubing (12) above that outside of the housing.

A practical product combining a thin film solar cell component with a residential environment is provided. Being flexible and easy to manufacture on a plane material, a silicon thin film solar cell is combined with a shutter used in residential buildings, thereby extending shutter functions. This module integrates energy saving, power generation and elegant appearance by bringing in a flexible and colored solar cell module that is light and thin and can generate power indoors and outdoors. As buildings are becoming higher nowadays, the area exposed to sunlight increases. Solar shutters have great power generation efficiency potential if used a building. The solar shutters can save energy and reduce CO2 emission when combined with electric products and provide electricity in emergency when combined with a storage device. The thin film solar cell provides components of many colors for customers, thereby providing options for the appearance of the building.

A shrimp aquaculture system includes the steps of: (1) preparing a water container; (2) exposing the water container under the sunlight, and then filling with predetermined amount of water; (3) adding 50 liter of liquid-fermentation feed into the water container at least 1 to 2 times per day; (4) adding 50 kilogram of beneficial agents into the water container once per day to obtain nursing water; (5) adding larva and young shrimp into the nursing water, and further adding a solid-fermentation feed into the nursing water, at least once a day, lasting for 0.5 to 3 months beginning on the date of adding young and larva shrimp; (6) three months later, adding regular shrimp feed containing beneficial agents into the water container; and (7) adding the amount of 1 to 3 ppm of photosynthetic bacteria into the nursing water of the water container once a day.

A degradable plastic film for use as an agricultural mulch film comprises two longitudinal bands each adjacent to a respective longitudinal edge of the film, and a middle section between the bands. The bands and middle section contain degradants. In use, the bands along the edges of the mulch film are buried in the soil and the middle section is exposed to sunlight. By reason of different degradants in the bands and middle section respectively, or different levels of the same degradants, the entire film degrades by the time of the next cycle of cultivation. The film is produced by means of extrusion from two extruders through one circular die which has a die opening with one segment which receives resin with one degradant and another segment which receives resin with a second degradant. The extruded cylindrical film is blown and then slit longitudinally.

The invention relates to a bamboo rhizome cultivating method, which belongs to the technical field of bamboo forest cultivation. According to the invention, the bamboo rhizome cultivating method comprises the following steps of: (1) piling up ridge troughs: selecting a field with hard ground as a cultivating land and arranging ridge troughs on the cultivating land; (2) selecting and digging mother bamboos: shoveling the mother bamboos along the peripheral edges of the mother bamboos so as to form soil balls with the mother bamboos; (3) planting the mother bamboos: arranging the selected and dug mother bamboos in the ridge troughs and adding soils to the ridge troughs so as to pile up the ridge troughs; (4) inducing bamboo rhizomes: after growths of the bamboo rhizomes are recovered, covering 8-12 cm soils in furrows formed in a space between the adjacent ridge troughs, keeping the soils in a wet state, and inducing new bamboo rhizomes growing from the mother bamboos to grow into the furrows; and (5) treating and collecting the bamboo rhizomes: exposing the new bamboo rhizomes to sunlight so as to treat the bamboo rhizomes, and then collecting aged new bamboo rhizomes. The bamboo rhizome obtained by the bamboo rhizome cultivating method provided by the invention has the advantages of high yield, large toughness and long service life.

Photostable sunscreen compositions containing at least one cinnamic acid ester UV-B screening agent, at least one dibenzoylmethane compound UV-A screening agent and at least one particular s-triazine compound have improved effectiveness with respect to UV-B radiation, while maintaining the balance in UV-A / UV-B protection during exposure to the sun.

The invention discloses a novel photothermal salt sun-drying accelerating method. The novel photothermal salt sun-drying accelerating method comprises the following steps of enabling a pumping deviceto inject the seawater into a salt tank; enabling one end of a hydrophilic material to extend into the seawater of the salt tank, and be in full contact with the seawater; enabling the other end of the hydrophilic material to be in full contact with an optical absorbing material, and exposing the optical absorbing material under the sun; injecting a heat insulation material between the optical absorbing material and the seawater; adjusting the contact area between the hydrophilic material and the seawater, and the hydrophility or width or thickness of a hydrophilic device, so as to control thewater absorbing rate of the hydrophilic material; drying the salt crystal at the bottom part of the salt tank under the sun. The invention also discloses a novel photothermal salt sun-drying accelerating device. The novel photothermal salt sun-drying accelerating method has the advantages that the salt-making seawater can be quickly evaporated, the salt sun-drying cycle is greatly shortened, andthe production efficiency of the salt sun-drying process is obviously improved.

A method for treating a region of skin. An amount of at least one photolabile compound or a compound converted into a photolabile compound when present in the skin is applied to the region of skin. The photolabile compound generates a biologically active agent when in the skin and the skin exposed to sunlight. The applied compound is allowed to penetrate into the skin; and the region of skin is exposed to sunlight so as to generate the biologically active agent in the skin.

A container for purification of water by a combination of filtering, heating, and UV-radiation of the water is disclosed. The container includes a first section, which at least partly includes a sunlight permeable layer, and a second section, which at least partly is opposite the first section and at least partly includes a sunlight absorbing and infrared radiation emitting (IR-emitting) layer. The first and the second section together enclose a volume, in which the water can be received to be heated by and exposed to sunlight. According to the present invention, the first section is arranged such that the permeable layer is essentially flat, and the second section is arranged such that the volume includes at least a first and a second portion, wherein the first and the second portion, respectively, have a first and a second distance, respectively, between the permeable layer and the sunlight absorbing and IR-emitting layer, where the first and second distances are mutually different. A temperature difference between the water in the first and second portion is created after a period of sun exposure.

The invention relates to a fishing-light integrated pond circulating water aquaculture system, comprising a culture unit, a water purification unit, a photovoltaic power generation device and a water pushing device for promoting the flow of a water body. The water outlet of the aquaculture unit is connected with the water inlet of the water purification unit, The water outlet of the water purification unit is communicated with the water inlet of the breeding unit, and the water pushing device is arranged in the water purification unit; the photovoltaic power generation device includes a plurality of photovoltaic panels, an inverter connected to the photovoltaic panels, and a device connected to the inverter. The electric device and the power distribution device supply power to the water pushing device, and the photovoltaic panel is arranged above the water purification unit. By combining photovoltaic power generation with an engineered circulating aquaculture system, the invention improves the utilization rate of the water surface of the pond, thereby improving the breeding efficiency of the farmers; by only setting the photovoltaic panels in the water purification unit, and exposing the breeding unit to the sun, electricity is generated. At the same time, it will not affect the productivity of the pond and ensure the breeding efficiency.

The invention discloses a phenolic foam thermal insulation material used for a flat-plate solar collector, containing the following materials in parts by weight: 90-100 parts of phenolic foam, 10-15 parts of foaming agent, 8-12 parts of curing agent, 7-9 parts of flame retardant, 3-5 parts of emulsifying agent, and 10-15 parts of flexibilizer, wherein the flame retardant is a compound inorganic flame retardant and is prepared from red phosphorus masterbatch, aluminium hydroxide and magnesium hydroxide. The phenolic foam thermal insulation material has the advantages of being capable of preventing fire and retarding flame, low in heat conductivity coefficient, good in heat insulation performance and good in compression resistant property, can be exposed in sunlight for a long time, is widein working temperature scope and can prolong the service life and improve the quality stability of the flat-plate solar collector.

A chemical compound and a method for its use as a topical medication that can reverse the effects of sun-damage, reverse the signs of aging, demonstrate anti-scarring properties and allow for the treatment of acne while still permitting the patient the ability to simultaneously expose the affected area to the sun without damage that includes a combination of curcumin, water, alcohol, cellulose, anti-inflammatory agent, carbomer, diazolinyl urea, triethanolamine, EDTA and an acidic component that maintains the optimal pH of between 4.5 and 5.5

A covering component for protecting outer surfaces of buildings from atmospheric agents comprises a metal sheet (7), an insulating mass (8) arranged below said sheet (7), and heat exchanging means (7–9, 11, 12) comprising at least a passage channel (7B), the latter being an integral part of the component and being designed to be part of a solar energy heating system for a heat conveying fluid. The passage channel consists of a rib (7B) of the sheet (7) defining a cross section opening towards the insulating mass (8), and the outer surface of the passage channel thus formed is almost completely exposed to sunlight. In the preferred embodiment of the invention there is provided a cover made of transparent material (11), arranged above the sheet (7), which delimits together with the latter at least part of a hollow space (12) into which the rib (12) projects.

A device for supporting and enabling the manual rotation of a hanging planter. The device comprises an attachment member having a first end capable of attaching the hanging planter to an overhead stationary support. An O-ring connecting member including a central opening capable of receiving a second end of the attachment member therethrough and a holding member for holding this attachment member therein. At least one suspending member having a first and second end, the first end of the at least one suspending member capable of being attached to the O-ring connecting member and the second end of the at least one suspending member capable of being attached to a hanging planter wherein the hanging planter is capable of being lifted and freely rotated with respect to the overhead stationary support for even exposure of the plant to sunlight.

The present invention is a chair designed to optimize sun exposure that may be used by a person to lie on her back or her stomach. This chair is unique in that it has supports for each arm and each leg of the user. The supports have been engineered so that skin that was once flush to material or to the chair itself is now exposed to the sun, enabling a better, more even tan for the user. In addition the supports can be moved and adjusted to the user's liking. The leg supports can be turned over and used as a table if desired. The top portion of the chair has been designed such that the user can attach material to it and use it as a shade.

A roofing tile installation system includes spaced rows of installation strips each having an elongated base to which is attached a plurality of spaced apart hooks. The hooks are formed with a profile that engages and presses on underlying tiles and that grips and hooks around the lower edge of an overlying tile. Each tile is positioned and held laterally between a pair of hooks and held vertically on the slope of a roof by a single hook. An improved weatherproofing system includes a second layer of water resistive material which protects an underlying layer of plastic weatherproofing material against exposure to sunlight and erosion from wind and rain.

A solar ventilation refrigerating device comprises a housing, a refrigerator, a cover plate and a solar cell panel, wherein the refrigerator is located in the housing; the cover plate comprises a cover plate cover and cover plate seats; the cover plate seats are located in the housing and distributed at the two ends of the refrigerator; air channels are arranged on the cover plate seats; an air inlet and an air outlet are formed in the cover plate cover; a lifting mechanism is arranged on one side of a bottom plate of the housing, penetrates through the air inlet and the air outlet and is fixedly connected with the solar cell panel; the solar cell panel ascends and descends under the action of the lifting mechanism; the solar cell panel provides electric energy to the refrigerator and the lifting mechanism of the solar ventilation refrigerating device with surrounding solar energy resources; cool air can be continuously supplied to the interior of a vehicle exposed in the sun; the problem of an overhigh temperature rise in the vehicle parked in the open air is solved effectively; and the vehicle comfortability is improved.