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Solar-tracking system
A solar-tracking system that provides a polar rotation at a constant velocity of 366.25 revolutions clockwise per year, and orbital revolution that is one revolution per year in the...
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6031177 |
Shadowing timer for a photovoltaic solar cell array and photovoltaic power source comprising same
A photovoltaic power source includes a shadowing timer comprising at least one shadowing member (i.e. vane element) secured proximal to an array of photovoltaic solar cells electrically connected...
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5829427 |
Orientable pyramid-shaped solar collector device
Solar collector device constituted by a pyramid-shaped structure comprising three faces 1, 2, 3 or more and a base 4. The face 1, on which various solar energy collecting means are mounted, is the...
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5632823 |
Solar tracking system
The solar tracking system maintains a solar collector with its responsive surface normal to the sun rays. It includes a shaft supported for rotation about an axis parallel to the north-south axis...
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5227618 |
Variably pressurable support and tracking apparatus and method for tracking moving radiation source
A variably pressurizable support system for supporting and orienting a radiation detector, and a method for orienting a radiation detector on a moving radiation source are disclosed. The support...
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5151520 |
Cationic dye-triarylmonoalkylorate anion complexes
A cationic dye-borate anion compound represented by the formula: ##STR1## where D+ is a cationic dye moiety selected from the group consisting of cationic cyanine, carbocyanine, hemicyanine,...
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5058675 |
Method and apparatus for the destructive distillation of kerogen in situ
A method and apparatus for the destructive distillation of kerogen and extraction of oil and gas from oil shale. The method and apparatus includes generating super heated steam or air, injecting...
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4890599 |
Solar panel mounting assembly
A solar tracking control system selectively energizes and deenergizes a motor. The motor causes a rotatable shaft supported on a base and situated parallel to the earth's axis of rotation to be...
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4723826 |
Lens type solar collector requiring no orientation system
A conventional fiber optic solar collector employs a matrix of lenses mounted in an enclosure similar to that of a conventional flat plate collector. Each lens focuses a solar image upon the open...
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4583520 |
Balanced solar concentrator system
This solar concentrator system is configured such that the base pedestal attachment point is located on the beam connecting the curved solar reflector and the heat energy receiver power conversion...
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4564275 |
Automatic heliostat track alignment method
A method of automatically aligning heliostats by comparing the actual sunbeam centroid position on a target to a command reference position to determine the error in the sunbeam centroid location....
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4561423 |
Solar parabolic collector
A water-heating solar parabolic collecting and concentrating apparatus comprises a pair of inclined parabolic reflectors positioned side by side on a rotary framework with upwardly extending...
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4548195 |
Solar energy apparatus with automatic tracking alignment adjustments
Automatic alignment adjustments are incorporated into the tracking control program of a concentrating solar collector apparatus to skew the alignment of aspheric, nonparabolic reflectors slightly...
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4509501 |
Solar energy collecting system using a primary reflector based on a pyramid structure
A primary reflector formed as a modified pyramid having a polygonal base located in open exposure to the sun has faces above the base which include reflecting surfaces that intersect at obtuse...
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4483311 |
Solar power system utilizing optical fibers, each fiber fed by a respective lens
A mosaic of lenses is oriented to face the sun. Each lens focuses a solar image upon the open end of a respective optical fiber. The several fibers converge to form a bundle. The bundle passes to a...
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4440150 |
Heliostat control
An improvement in a system and method of controlling heliostat in which the heliostat is operable in azimuth and elevation by respective stepper motors and including the respective steps or means...
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4432343 |
Solar energy collector system
A trough-like concentrator having a reflective surface contoured to image the sun at a linear focus. The reflective surface is supported by a structural tube having plural ribs. A microcomputer is...
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4354484 |
Solar collection system
A solar energy collection system for receiving and collecting a concentrated supply of available energy from the sun includes a reflector having an internal structural frame covered by a thin...
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4349245 |
Modular natural lighting system
A modular natural lighting system having a microprocessor controlled heliostat which collects the sun's rays. The collected rays are directed towards a dielectric mirror that reflects visible solar...
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4347834 |
Variable entropy solar energy harvester
A collector of solar energy has, in cross-section, the profile of a nested, truncated and inverted trough which is formed as an array of concentric annular conic frusta. The array ascends from a...
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4318394 |
Solar energy concentrator
A solar energy concentrator is provided which includes a flexible reflective surface to focus solar flux on absorber tubes. The surface is mounted above a plurality of partially evacuated chambers....
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4266530 |
Sun ray tracker
A solar energy collector, including an assembly of reflectors supported pivotally upstanding upon a circular carriage that rotates once a day upon horizontal, circular tracks, the reflector...
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4266179 |
Solar energy concentration system
A solar radiant energy concentrating system for concentrating solar radiation on a radiant to electric power thermionic conversion transducer. The radiated energy concentration system utilizes...
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4261335 |
Solar energy apparatus
The solar energy apparatus of the present invention collects, concentrates, and transmits solar radiation to a light converter, which converts solar radiation to another energy form. The apparatus...
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4257401 |
Solar heat collector
The present invention relates to a solar heat collecting system comprising a lens focusing sunlight at a flat mirror which is spaced from the lens by half of its focal length, the flat mirror...
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4223662 |
Structural solar collector assembly
A structural support assembly and its method of formation for collecting solar energy, regulating heat gain and loss, controlling light transmission and being adapted to be interconnected with...
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4217884 |
Collection and utilization of solar energy
A solar energy utilization system employing a glazed, insulated, collector box that houses a plurality of swingably mounted, conduit type, energy absorber assemblies; together with associated,...
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4215410 |
Solar tracker
An open loop servo controller for controlling motors which drive a solar energy utilizing device about its azimuth and altitude axis to track the sun. The controller has a central processor and...
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4192583 |
Solar receiver heliostat reflector having a linear drive and position information system
A heliostat for a solar receiver system comprises an improved drive and control system for the heliostat reflector assembly. The heliostat reflector assembly is controllably driven in a...
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4162825 |
Method for adjusting the radius of curvature of a spherical mirror
A method and apparatus for controlling the astigmatic focusing of a spherical mirror by adjusting the radius of curvature configuration thereof. Adjustment is made by applying a couple to the outer...
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4159712 |
Solar energy conversion unit
A solar energy conversion unit having a collector forming a focal area in which is disposed a core assembly including a governor arranged for varying the surface area of fluid carrying tubes partly...
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4137897 |
Unified array for collection and concentration of solar energy
A reflector array is disclosed that provides for the collection and concentration of a relatively constant daily total quantity of usable energy for one or more energy receivers through use of a...
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4040411 |
Apparatus for concentration of solar radiation
An apparatus for the concentration of solar radiation to a utilizable flux by directing it vertically downward upon the reflecting surface of a rotating liquid and utilizing the concentrated...
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3872854 |
SUNLIGHT CONCENTRATOR FOR ENERGY CONVERSION
An array of mirrors for focusing the sun's rays onto a steam-generating boiler. Mirrors are mounted on a large ring to serve as a variable-focal-length parabolic reflector. A second reflector with...
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3466119 |
MULTIPLE MIRRORED APPARATUS UTILIZING SOLAR HEAT
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