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CONCENTRATED SOLAR POWER. Latest published applications 2015-2017. Dish Stirling
Summary
Concentrators of solar energy in a combination with Stirling engines are one of the most efficient converters of solar energy into electrical energy, but at the same time and the least accepted option of industrial application in the solar industry in comparison with other technologies. The reason of it including is the lack of applied researches and optimal engineering solutions. Recent patent applications for inventions in this field can greatly contribute to solving this problem.
A selection of patent applications related to solar Dish Stirling system and published by patent offices around the globe in 2015-2017 is provided for review in the present bulletin. Research methodology is available on the Advanced Energy Technologies website. The present bulletin includes 239 patent applications, prepared by applicants from 21 countries and registered in 24 patent offices. The patent documents mention 135 applicants and 227 IPC subgroups.
Key Highlights
The bulletin provides general statistical figures, including the overall distribution of patent documents by years, by patent offices and by applicant countries, applicant-related data (residents and non-residents), data on the most frequently mentioned International Patent Classification divisions (sections, classes, subclasses, groups, and subgroups). The most popular patent offices among the applicants were: CNIPA (CN), USPTO (US), WIPO, EPO, INPI (BR), ILPO (IL), IP Australia (AU).
For each of the patent documents selected for the examination in the present bulletin the characteristics of unified indicators were preliminary defined, they include: technical problems, types of inventive solutions employed, belonging to one or another technological segment. This allows the internal content for each of the indicators in the aggregate array of documents to be visualized, for instance, to define the sequence and proportional correlation of technical problems the inventive solutions disclosed in the texts aim to solve. A list of the top 10 groups consisting of patent documents with identical unified indicators contains ID numbers and applicant names of respective documents; the groups are sorted by the number of patent documents.
A list of the top 10 applicants by the number of patent documents includes: ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe AG, Thyssenkrupp Rasselstein Gmbh, Erfis Gmbh (Germany), Brilliant Light Power Inc, Glasspoint Solar, Inc. (USA), Abengoa Solar New Technologies, S.A. (Spain), Western International Green Energy Sterling (Guizhou), Xiangtan Electric Manufacturing Co., Ltd Chengdu Aonengpu Technology Co. Ltd (China), AGC Glass Europe SA (Belgium).
Data representing the share in the established intellectual property market, distribution of applications by problems, IPC sections, patent offices and technology indicators is provided in the form of tables and diagrams for them. The top prominent documents section includes three lists of the top 10 patent applications having the highest bibliographical rating, the largest number of IPC sections, and those not being a part of patent family.
The conclusive part of the bulletin represents the lists of all of the documents reviewed, arranged by the top 10 groups of patent documents with identical unified indicators and by patent offices with the indication of the ID numbers of the registered patent applications.
Who needs this bulletin?
The proposed patent statistics bulletin allows the existing trends in the intellectual property market of the specified industrial sector to be timely traced, as well as the possibility of acquiring a carefully selected list of patent documents fully corresponding to the specified subject. The bulletin can be useful for inventors, engineers, scientific workers, and business representatives, who are focused on the development of solar energy technologies.
