Patents Assigned to Atomic Energy Council Institute of Nuclear Energy Research
  • Patent number: 9496559
    Abstract: A nanostructured anode of solid oxide fuel cell with high stability and high efficiency and a method for manufacturing the same are revealed. This anode comprising a porous permeable metal substrate, a diffusion barrier layer and a nano-composite film is formed by atmospheric plasma spray. The nano-composite film includes a plurality of metal nanoparticles, a plurality of metal oxide nanoparticles, and a plurality of gas pores that are connected to form nano gas channels. The metal nanoparticles are connected to form a 3-dimensional network that conducts electrons, while the metal oxide nanoparticles are connected to form a 3-dimensional network that conducts oxygen ions. The network formed by metal oxide nanoparticles has certain strength to separate metal nanoparticles and prevent aggregation or agglomeration of the metal nanoparticles. Thus this anode can be applied to a solid oxide fuel cell operating in the intermediate temperatures (600˜800° C.) with high stability and high efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignee: Atomic Energy Council-Institute of Nuclear Energy Research
    Inventors: Chang-Sing Hwang, Chun-Liang Chang, Chih-Ming Chuang, Chun-Huang Tsai, Sheng-Hui Nien, Shih-Wei Cheng
  • Patent number: 9245758
    Abstract: A method for fabricating a silicon-doped or boron-doped aluminum electrode is revealed. Aluminum target or aluminum paste prepared by selectively doped with silicon and/or boron is arranged at a silicon wafer with a passivation layer by physical deposition or screen printing. Then the doped aluminum layer is melted in linear or dot pattern to pass through the passivation layer and contact with the silicon wafer. Thus contact resistance between an aluminum back electrode and the silicon wafer of crystalline silicon solar cells is reduced and acceptor concentration on a surface layer of the silicon wafer is increased. Therefore the process speed is faster and the energy conversion efficiency of the solar cell is improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: Atomic Energy Council-Institute of Nuclear Energy Research
    Inventors: Wei-Yang Ma, Chien-Chang Chao, Guan-Lin Chen, Tsun-Neng Yang
  • Publication number: 20150322005
    Abstract: A precursor for labeling therapeutic agents for liver cancer and a method for manufacturing the same are revealed. The chemical structure of the precursor has a ligand linked to complex compounds of radioisotopes. Moreover, the chemical structure of the precursor further includes a specific functional group soluble in Lipiodol or having properties of Lipiodol. Thus the radioisotopes attached to the precursor are allowed to retain in hepatic tissues of patients with liver cancer for internal radiation therapy of liver cancer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2014
    Publication date: November 12, 2015
    Applicant: ATOMIC ENERGY COUNCIL-INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR ENERGY RESEARCH
    Inventors: SHOW-WEN LIU, YU CHANG, CHENG-FANG HSU
  • Patent number: 9150602
    Abstract: A precursor used for labeling hepatocyte receptors and applied to radiotracers for imaging or pharmaceutical compositions for liver cancers is revealed. The precursor is a bifunctional compound. The bifunctional group includes a trisaccharide structure and a diamide dimercaptide (N2S2) ligand. The trisaccharide has high affinity to asialoglycoprotein receptors (ASGPR) on surfaces of hepatocytes while N2S2 ligand reacts with radioisotopes to form neutral complexes. Thus the precursor stays on surfaces of hepatocytes to provide radioisotope labeling or treatment effect of liver cancers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: Atomic Energy Council, Institute of Nuclear Energy Research
    Inventors: Show-Wen Liu, Yu Chang, Cheng-Fang Hsu, Ming-Che Tsai, Tsung-Hsien Chiang, Yueh-Feng Deng, Kuei-Lin Lu, Chih-Yuan Lin, Da-Ming Wang, Ching-Yun Li
  • Publication number: 20150194554
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a structure of concentrating solar cell module with reduced height, which includes multiple partitions and reflection mirrors. The solar cell receiver is attach to a surface of the partition and rotated by 90 degrees. After the reflection leans against a surface of another partition, the light concentrated by the concentrating lens can be redirected from vertical incidence to horizontal incidence. Then the redirected light is focused at the 90-degree rotated solar cell receiver for performing energy conversion. This structure avoids the limitation of the concentrating solar cell module by the focal distance of the concentrating lens. Thereby, the height of the module is reduced substantially; the volume of the module becomes thinner and the weight thereof becomes lighter and thus facilitating installation and transportation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2014
    Publication date: July 9, 2015
    Applicant: ATOMIC ENERGY COUNCIL-INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR ENERGY RESEARCH
    Inventors: YI-PING LIANG, YI-YA HUANG, HWEN-FEN HONG
  • Publication number: 20150187979
    Abstract: A heterojunction solar cell with an epitaxial silicon thin film and a method for preparing the same are revealed. Low-cost upgraded metallurgical grade silicon (UMG-Si) wafers have been used as the substrates to manufacture solar cells so as to reduce the amount of high-purity silicon materials used. First an epitaxial silicon thin film is disposed over a UMG-Si wafer. Then other layers such as an amorphous silicon thin film, a transparent conductive film, etc. are arranged to form a solar cell having heterojunction with an intrinsic thin-layer (HIT) structure. Due to reduce in using high-purity silicon materials, the manufacturing cost of the heterojunction solar cell with an epitaxial silicon thin film is significantly decreased.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2013
    Publication date: July 2, 2015
    Applicant: ATOMIC ENERGY COUNCIL - INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR ENERGY RESEARCH
    Inventors: CHUN-YAO HOU, TSUN-NENG YANG
  • Publication number: 20150179854
    Abstract: A method of packaging ball lends of a solar collector contains step of coating optical clear adhesives on colloid layers twice, and the optical clear adhesives are solidified so that a solar cell, plural gold wires, and an electric circuit are packaged, thus eliminating use of a conventional support component, lowering weight of the solar collector, and simplifying the solar collector. Moreover, a dam is applied to absorb stray light so as to enhance light absorption of the solar cell and working efficiency of the solar collector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2013
    Publication date: June 25, 2015
    Applicant: ATOMIC ENERGY COUNCIL - INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR ENERGY RESEARCH
    Inventors: YUEH-MU LEE, ZUN-HAO SHIH, YI-PING LIANG, HWA-YUH SHIN, HWEN-FEN HONG
  • Patent number: 9054268
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing an absorber layer of thin film solar cells is revealed. Firstly vapors of different metal-organic sources are generated in a plurality of containers used for mounting different metal-organic sources. Then the vapors of the metal-organic sources are mixed with a carrier gas and are filled into a reaction together with a reaction gas chamber through pipelines. Next the metals and the compounds are deposited on a substrate in the reaction chamber to form an absorber layer of a thin film solar cell. A flow rate of each metalorganic vapors filled into the reaction chamber is controlled by a mass flow controller respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2015
    Assignee: ATOMIC ENERGY COUNCIL-INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR ENERGY RESEARCH
    Inventors: Hwen-Fen Hong, Hou-Ying Huang, Hwa-Yuh Shin
  • Publication number: 20150151277
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a confined cell structure with the entires guarded by nano-scale metal nano-particles to help confine subnano-sized metal nano-particles inside the cell. Also the present invention provides a method of forming said confined cell structure on mesoporous carbon materials using a simple impregnation process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2013
    Publication date: June 4, 2015
    Applicant: ATOMIC ENERGY COUNCIL - INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR ENERGY RESEARCH
    Inventors: YI-REN TZENG, CHENG-SI TSAO
  • Publication number: 20150129527
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a frame structure of solar cell module, which adopts extruded aluminum as the frame member of solar cell module. At the junctions of the length, width, and height edges, connecting members using the three-axis joining and tenoning technology are used as fixing members. The tenon parts in both horizontal directions of the three-axis connecting member are first inserted into and joined with the mortises of the length-edge bar and the width-edge bar of extruded aluminum. Then the mortises in the height-edge bar are joined with the tenon parts of the connecting member in the vertical direction and thus completing assembling of the frame of solar cell module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2013
    Publication date: May 14, 2015
    Applicant: ATOMIC ENERGY COUNCIL - INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR ENERGY RESEARCH
    Inventors: ZUN-HAO SHIH, HWEN-FEN HONG, YUEH-MU LEE
  • Publication number: 20150117845
    Abstract: A structure of hybrid heating equipment according to the present invention is disclosed. The present invention combines a multiple of the thermal sources for heating the interior materials of the container simultaneously, and assures the materials could gain the thermal energy uniformity. Furthermore, the present invention allows users to control the level of the heating simply through adjusting the length of interior heating elements or the flow rate of the incoming gas. In addition, the present invention connect with the tubes of the hot exhaust gas to further lower the influence of the thermal resistance by coordinating the flow of the hot exhaust gas, therefore fully reflect the advantages of the conserving energy and reducing the carbon emissions by reusing the waste heat as the principal source while the electric heating devices as supplement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2013
    Publication date: April 30, 2015
    Applicant: ATOMIC ENERGY COUNCIL-INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR ENERGY RESEARCH
    Inventors: YAU-PIN CHYOU, YI-SHUN CHEN, SHU-CHE LI, PO-CHUANG CHEN
  • Publication number: 20150118118
    Abstract: The present invention provides a membrane reaction apparatus for recovering heat of reaction, which includes a membrane reactor. The said membrane reactor includes a reaction pipeline, a membrane and a sweep pipeline. The reaction pipeline has a reaction space, and an exothermic reaction occurs therein, which generates product gas and heat of reaction. Part of the product gas penetrates through the membrane around the reaction space and enters into the sweep pipeline. Sweeping gas enters into the sweep pipeline and carries the product gas and the heat of reaction away. It is feasible to wrap the product gas around the sweep pipeline, for enhancing the heat transfer from the product gas to the sweeping gas. The heat of reaction brought by the sweeping gas can be further released in a heat exchanger. so that the heat of reaction is available to be recovered and used for other endothermic processes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2014
    Publication date: April 30, 2015
    Applicant: ATOMIC ENERGY COUNCIL- INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR ENERGY RESEARCH
    Inventors: YAU-PIN CHYOU, YEN-CHO CHEN, PO-CHUANG CHEN, REIYU CHEIN, WEN-JENN SHEU, YU-SHAO LIN
  • Publication number: 20150118122
    Abstract: A membrane reactor with divergent-flow channel includes a reaction pipeline, a membrane and a purge (sweep) pipeline sequentially arranged from inside to outside or from outside to inside. The reaction pipeline has a cross-sectional area increment from the front (upstream) end to the rear (downstream) end, so that the flow velocity of a reactant gas is decreased from the upstream end to the downstream end to extend the residence time of the reactant gas and improve the reaction rate of the reactant gas. The sweep pipeline has a cross-sectional area decrement from the upstream end to the downstream end, so that the flow velocity of a purging (sweeping) gas is increased from the upstream end to the downstream end to accelerate the reactant gas, and a product gas generated from the reaction passes through the membrane and enters the sweep pipeline to improve the reaction efficiency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2014
    Publication date: April 30, 2015
    Applicant: ATOMIC ENERGY COUNCIL - INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR ENERGY RESEARCH
    Inventors: YAU-PIN CHYOU, YU-SHAO LIN, PO-CHUANG CHEN, WEN-JENN SHEU, YEN-CHO CHEN, CHIEN-CHON CHEN
  • Publication number: 20150096608
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a fixing apparatus for ball lens used for facilitating installation of concentrator solar cell receiver module. The present invention can finish installing the fixing base for ball lens at a time and positioning the ball lens rapidly and accurately. It can also control the distance between the ball lens and the solar cell excellently. In addition, the present invention further has the function of sheltering the circuit of concentrator solar cell receiver module. When off-axis illumination of sunlight occurs, direct illumination of sunlight on, and consequently high-temperature burnout of, the circuit can be avoided. Thereby, the lifetime of the circuit can be extended effectively and the probability of failure can be reduced as well.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2013
    Publication date: April 9, 2015
    Applicant: ATOMIC ENERGY COUNCIL - INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR ENERGY RESEARCH
    Inventors: YUEH-MU LEE, ZUN-HAO SHIH, YI-PING LIANG, HWA-YUH SHIN, HWEN-FEN HONG
  • Publication number: 20150069286
    Abstract: The present invention relates generally to a magnetic catalyst for wet oxidation of organic waste and the preparation method thereof. According to the present invention, after the raw materials are dissolved and mixed in water, the pH value is adjusted for producing precipitates. Then after heating, filtering, drying, grinding, sifting, and calcinations are performed, the given magnetic catalyst can be reused without losing its activity. In addition, during treating organic waste by using wet oxidation method, no secondary waste is produced. Besides, the magnetic catalyst can be recycled by magnetic devices, making it excellent in terms of performance and convenience.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2013
    Publication date: March 12, 2015
    Applicant: ATOMIC ENERGY COUNCIL - INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR ENERGY RESEARCH
    Inventors: YIH-PING CHEN, CHAO-RUI CHEN, YIN-MAO HSU
  • Publication number: 20150056735
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing membrane layers of organic solar cells by roll to roll coating utilizes a roll to roll process for manufacturing an electron transferring layer and an active layer of the organic solar cells is disclosed. The roll to roll process adopted by the method cooperates with a particular solvent and accompanies a parameter control such as temperature and processing time during the sintering and baking steps. The method utilizes a slot-die coating technique in the interim, whereby a membrane layer of the solar cells can be manufactured with a large area for reducing the cost, and the formed membrane layers can have a good efficiency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2013
    Publication date: February 26, 2015
    Applicant: ATOMIC ENERGY COUNCIL-INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR ENERGY RESEARCH
    Inventors: HOU-CHIN CHA, YU-CHING HUANG, CHIH-MIN CHUANG, CHENG-WEI CHOU, DE-HAN LU, YEONG-DER LIN, CHARN-YING CHEN, CHENG-SI TSAO
  • Publication number: 20150047821
    Abstract: The present relates to a heating device structure, which comprises a heat conducting member to mate with the heat dissipation fins of an electronic device. Thereby, during the packaging process of the electronic device, the effect of multi-point heating can be achieved by combining the heat conducting member and the fins. Accordingly, heating can be performed rapidly to reach the soldering temperature. Without the influence of the structure of heat dissipation fins, the heating process will not be performed at low efficiency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2013
    Publication date: February 19, 2015
    Applicant: ATOMIC ENERGY COUNCIL - INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR ENERGY RESEARCH
    Inventors: YUEH-MU LEE, HWA-YUH SHIN, ZUN-HAO SHIH, YI-PING LIANG, HWEN-FEN HONG
  • Publication number: 20150025248
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a radiotracer precursor for imaging of hypoxic tissues, a radiotracer and a method for preparing the same. The radiotracer precursor, BANI, includes a nitroimidazole functional group with a feature of retention in hypoxic tissues and a bifunctional ligand able to complex with radioisotopes. Thus BANI can be used to produce radiotracers retained in hypoxic tissues and the radiotracers are applied to medical imaging of malignant tumor with hypoxic layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2013
    Publication date: January 22, 2015
    Applicant: ATOMIC ENERGY COUNCIL - INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR ENERGY RESEARCH
    Inventors: SHOW-WEN LIU, YU CHANG, CHENG-FANG HSU, SHENG-LUN LIN, TSUNG-HSIEN CHIANG, CHIH-YUAN LIN
  • Publication number: 20150004735
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing large-area organic solar cells utilizes a hot solvent vapor annealing manufacturing process while manufacturing the organic solar cells via a large-area proceeding method, such as spraying. Namely, a heated solvent vapor is utilized to modify an active layer after the active layer of the organic solar cells is formed, which ensures a flatness and an uniformity thereof and increases a crystallinity of the active layer and an element charge transport rate so that a power conversion efficiency of the large area organic solar cells is increased, a proceeding time is quite short, and the performance thereof is quite obvious. Therefore, the method not only reduces the cost by a large area production but obtains organic solar cells with higher conversion efficiency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2013
    Publication date: January 1, 2015
    Applicant: ATOMIC ENERGY COUNCIL-INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR ENERGY RESEARCH
    Inventors: YU-CHING HUANG, HOU-CHIN CHA, FAN-HSUAN HSU, CHENG-WEI CHOU, DE-HAN LU, YEONG-DER LIN, CHIH-MIN CHUANG, CHARN-YING CHEN, CHENG-SI TSAO
  • Publication number: 20140336934
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an ensemble wind power forecasting platform system and the operational method thereof. According to the present invention, a great amount of wind energy predictions from multiple sources, including numerical weather prediction information, multi-grid prediction information, and multiple wind-energy predicting methods, are integrated and processed for providing users with an ensemble prediction. Thereby, the trend and the possible variation range of the output capacity of a wind farm can be mastered. In addition, by means of the integration platform, the predicted results by different prediction modes can be compared and the history data and the predicted results can be compared as well, which can be used as a basis for improving modes for prediction-mode developers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2013
    Publication date: November 13, 2014
    Applicant: ATOMIC ENERGY COUNCIL - INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR ENERGY RESEARCH
    Inventor: Atomic Energy Council - Institute Of Nuclear Energy Research