Solar chargers

We are already familiar with a portable solar charger, described in WO 2004/077577. This charger includes a flexible photovoltaic panel that is permanently fixed onto a flexible textile material. The said solar or photovoltaic panel can be stitched along its inactive edges to the flexible textile sheet, glued or even welded by the application of heat or ultrasound. 

The manufacture of this type of solar charger is still artisanal even today. There are no techniques available that can be used to manufacture assemblies resulting from the assembly of a textile sheet and one or more flexible photovoltaic panels that are of large dimension in an industrial manner. 

Geomagnetic storms are not the only source of low-frequency magnetic fields. Hard drives and solar chargers are two examples of common equipment at seismograph stations which tend to generate interfering signals, and should therefore be located as far as away from the seismometer as is practicable. 

Charger Technology. Alkaline storage batteries are commonly charged from rectified d-c equipment, solar panels, or other d-c sources and... 

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Commercialization of amorphous silicon solar cells started in 1980 when Sanyo introduced calculators powered only by small solar-cell panels (total area 5 cm2). Shortly thereafter, Fuji Electric also started producing a-Si H solar cells for calculators. As of 1983, a-Si H photovoltaic devices are produced for several other applications such as photodetectors, power supplies for watches, and NiCd battery chargers. Before the end of 1984 one may see a-Si H solar panels used in larger-scale applications such as irrigation and remote electrification. 

Further applications for ASA in the area of solar energy include, for example, sunlight sensors, solar-powered battery chargers and solar-charged flashlights. 

As most of these inverters can operate as battery chargers, it is possible to use power from the grid to avoid critical states, especially for lead-acid batteries, like low-state of charge values as well as partial cycling at medium- and low-state of charge values during long periods without sufficient solar irradiation. 

The JOOS Orange portable solar ceU phone charger, first marketed in 2010, delivers 2.5 hours of talk time for every hour of charging, twenty times the capacity of existing devices. The 24-ounce device can charge on cloudy or rainy days and costs less then f 100. 

Computer science and engineering Solar panel-based battery charger... 

PBN exhibits much less abrasion in the Taber test than POM and PPS at room temperature, leading to use in gears and gear-change levers. Its gas-barrier properties have been applied as a back-sheet material for solar battery chargers where back-sheets are normally comprised of multilayer structures. Additional applications include cable encapsulation for mass transportation, where the PBN provides resistance to abrasion between individual cables. 

The first and simplest applications are embedded off-the-sheh consumer electronic devices, such as digital cameras, battery packs, chargers, speakers, headphones, mobile phones, and light emitting diodes (discrete LEDs and LED strips, flexible solar films, digital audio players, EL wires, etc.). These are installed into apparel using standard wiring. 

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