Patents by Inventor Christopher Dwight Barnes

Christopher Dwight Barnes has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20230402234
    Abstract: A solar cell system and a flexible solar panel are disclosed herein. The solar cell system includes a glass housing, a set of rows of solar cells each defining a front side and a rear side and arranged within the glass housing. The solar cell system can also include a reflective element disposed in the glass housing and facing the rear side of the set of rows of solar cells and a first terminal coupled to a first end of the set of rows of solar cells, traversing through and sealed against the first end of the glass housing. The solar cell system can be configured with other solar cell systems into the flexible solar panel that is deployable in a wide range of potential applications.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2023
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Inventor: Christopher Dwight Barnes
  • Patent number: 11776764
    Abstract: A solar cell system and a flexible solar panel are disclosed herein. The solar cell system includes a glass housing, a set of rows of solar cells each defining a front side and a rear side and arranged within the glass housing. The solar cell system can also include a reflective element disposed in the glass housing and facing the rear side of the set of rows of solar cells and a first terminal coupled to a first end of the set of rows of solar cells, traversing through and sealed against the first end of the glass housing. The solar cell system can be configured with other solar cell systems into the flexible solar panel that is deployable in a wide range of potential applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Taka Solar Corporation
    Inventor: Christopher Dwight Barnes
  • Publication number: 20230238470
    Abstract: A solar cell system and a flexible solar panel are disclosed herein. The solar cell system includes a glass housing, a set of rows of solar cells each defining a front side and a rear side and arranged within the glass housing. The solar cell system can also include a reflective element disposed in the glass housing and facing the rear side of the set of rows of solar cells and a first terminal coupled to a first end of the set of rows of solar cells, traversing through and sealed against the first end of the glass housing. The solar cell system can be configured with other solar cell systems into the flexible solar panel that is deployable in a wide range of potential applications.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2022
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Inventor: Christopher Dwight Barnes
  • Patent number: 11495415
    Abstract: A solar cell system and a flexible solar panel are disclosed herein. The solar cell system includes a glass housing, a set of rows of solar cells each defining a front side and a rear side and arranged within the glass housing. The solar cell system can also include a reflective element disposed in the glass housing and facing the rear side of the set of rows of solar cells and a first terminal coupled to a first end of the set of rows of solar cells, traversing through and sealed against the first end of the glass housing. The solar cell system can be configured with other solar cell systems into the flexible solar panel that is deployable in a wide range of potential applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: Taka Solar Corporation
    Inventor: Christopher Dwight Barnes
  • Patent number: 11495414
    Abstract: A solar cell system and a flexible solar panel are disclosed herein. The solar cell system includes a glass housing, a set of rows of solar cells each defining a front side and a rear side and arranged within the glass housing. The solar cell system can also include a reflective element disposed in the glass housing and facing the rear side of the set of rows of solar cells and a first terminal coupled to a first end of the set of rows of solar cells, traversing through and sealed against the first end of the glass housing. The solar cell system can be configured with other solar cell systems into the flexible solar panel that is deployable in a wide range of potential applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: Taka Solar Corporation
    Inventor: Christopher Dwight Barnes
  • Publication number: 20210408316
    Abstract: A solar cell system and a flexible solar panel are disclosed herein. The solar cell system includes a glass housing, a set of rows of solar cells each defining a front side and a rear side and arranged within the glass housing. The solar cell system can also include a reflective element disposed in the glass housing and facing the rear side of the set of rows of solar cells and a first terminal coupled to a first end of the set of rows of solar cells, traversing through and sealed against the first end of the glass housing. The solar cell system can be configured with other solar cell systems into the flexible solar panel that is deployable in a wide range of potential applications.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2021
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Inventor: Christopher Dwight Barnes
  • Publication number: 20210407739
    Abstract: A solar cell system and a flexible solar panel are disclosed herein. The solar cell system includes a glass housing, a set of rows of solar cells each defining a front side and a rear side and arranged within the glass housing. The solar cell system can also include a reflective element disposed in the glass housing and facing the rear side of the set of rows of solar cells and a first terminal coupled to a first end of the set of rows of solar cells, traversing through and sealed against the first end of the glass housing. The solar cell system can be configured with other solar cell systems into the flexible solar panel that is deployable in a wide range of potential applications.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2021
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Inventor: Christopher Dwight Barnes
  • Patent number: 10295721
    Abstract: Various approaches discussed herein enable techniques for adjusting color temperature value of illumination, for example with regard to electrophoretic ink display screens. A plurality of one type of LEDs are positioned along an injection line of a light guide panel, and are interleaved with a plurality of another type of LED positioned along the injection line. By controlling the current supplied to each group of LEDs, a color temperature value of light directed onto a display screen from the light guide panel may be adjusted to remove or reduce blue aspects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Eric Gifford Marason, Miguel Virgen, Christopher Dwight Barnes
  • Publication number: 20180151767
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a solar panel system, particularly a novel solar panel design to increase performance in a cost-effective manner. The present invention includes a solar panel assembly. The solar panel assembly includes a plurality of elongated solar electric module which includes a first transparent material and a second transparent material. In addition, a solar electric material is disposed between the first transparent material and the second transparent material. The solar electric module may include an elongated array of one or more solar electric cells. Additionally, each array of the one or more solar electric cells include at least one bi-facial solar cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2016
    Publication date: May 31, 2018
    Inventor: Christopher Dwight Barnes
  • Patent number: 9965999
    Abstract: An electronic device may include a display and a light that may illuminate the display. Based at least partly on preferences of a user that is using the electronic device, a brightness of the display, and/or a brightness of the ambient environment surrounding the electronic device, the color that is being rendered by the display or that is being illuminated on the display may be determined and/or adjusted to a different color. The color may be presented or adjusted by setting or adjusting the power or current being supplied to one or more light-emitting diodes (LEDs) included within the light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Christopher Dwight Barnes
  • Patent number: 9837852
    Abstract: An electronic device with a e-paper display that internally integrates photovoltaic cells and are not apparent from the exterior of the device. A light source of the device injects light into a light guide to front-light the e-paper. Light that leaks from edges of the light guide is captured by the photovoltaic cells. The plastic light guide is also impregnated with a photoluminescent material that absorbs near infrared energy that is incident on a face of the display and re-emits it isotropically to be guided by the light guide to the photovoltaic cells. By combining multiple techniques to illuminate hidden photovoltaic cells, the utility of the hidden cells is maximized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Dwight Barnes, Mohammed Aftab Alam