Feb
13
Green patents: dryer and nano-solar cells
Posted by Dirk Avery at 10:01 am under Patent, Technology.
EarthTimes reports:
At the 2008 International Builders’ Show (IBS)® Hydromatic Technologies Corporation will launch a new technology [Dryer Miser™] for clothes dryers that will reduce the appliance’s energy consumption up to 50 percent and cuts clothes-drying time by up to 41 percent.
And the Journal of New England Technology reports:
Solar cell equipment maker Spire Corp. has been awarded a patent [7,306,963] from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for a nanophotonics technology that could result in more efficient, low-cost solar cells.
The patent granted to Bedford-based Spire (Nasdaq: SPIR) describes a method for designing and synthesizing quantum dot nanoparticles that are more consistent than those made with existing methods. These quantum dots have the potential to create new high efficiency, low-cost solar cells and other optoelectronic devices such as lasers, light emitting diodes (LEDs), and photodetectors, Spire officials said.