Y02B 40/18
Technologies aiming at improving the efficiency of home appliances: using renewables
Official title: using renewables, e.g. solar cooking stoves, furnaces or solar heating
Y02B40/18 (Technologies aiming at improving the efficiency of home appliances: using renewables) appears on 159 US grants and 126 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in Y02B- Granted patents
- 159
- Published applications
- 126
- Assignees
- 60
- Inventors
- 325
- Latest grant
- 9 Jun 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- System and method for the thermal processing of bulk material by intense concentrated solar power9 Jun 2026US 12,650,261 B2Magaldi Power S.P.A.
- Household appliance particularly suitable for use in a hybrid electrical power system and hybrid electrical power system comprising the same10 Feb 2026US 12,546,045 B2La Leonardo Srl
- Arrangement, system and method for producing hot water from solar energy9 Sep 2025US 12,410,945 B2
- Accessible and portable solar-powered washer dryer11 Jun 2024US 12,006,617 B2
- Multi-purpose heat transfer and storage device14 May 2024US 11,982,494 B2Sun Buckets Inc.
- Combined solar heating and thermoelectric generation system22 May 2025US 2025/0164153 A1
- Mini solar cooker with heat storage20 Jun 2024US 2024/0200832 A1
- Arrangement, system and method for producing hot water from solar energy1 Feb 2024US 2024/0035708 A1
- Modular solar dryer28 Dec 2023US 2023/0417485 A1
- Household appliance particularly suitable for use in a hybrid electrical power system and hybrid electrical power system comprising the same21 Dec 2023US 2023/0407543 A1La Leonardo Srl
Most cited
By later US patents
- Method and means for grain drying optimization55US 6,530,160 B12003
- Solar powered/multiple fuel cooking device52US 5,524,610 A1996
- Solar collector, transmitter and heater51US 4,841,946 A1989
- Tracking device48US 4,585,318 A1986
- Inflatable multi-function parabolic reflector apparatus and methods of manufacture36US 6,897,832 B22005