Matches 1 - 47 out of 47
Match Document Document Title
7607427 Solar tracking device with springs  
A solar tracking device for overcoming the disadvantages of a conventional solar energy system utilizing motors and to lower electricity consumption and decrease cost is provided. The device...
7202457 Device that automatically tracks the position of the sun  
A sun-position tracking system for a solar module has a base on which a rotary plate is supported. Several generally parallel fixed rods fixed to the plate have outer ends extending outward past...
6877507 Mounting  
Novel mounting devices for attachment to an apparatus, the apparatus configured to receive and/or transmit radiation flux (e.g. satellite dishes for communications or electromagnetic power...
6617506 Power generation equipment using sunlight  
Power generation equipment using sunlight, allowing a solar cell panel to follow and rotate at a required time to follow a movement of the sun and allowing a level support base to rotate slowly at...
6543441 Apparatus for utilizing solar energy  
An apparatus for utilising solar energy is described. The apparatus comprises: (a) a plurality of movable mirrors ( 3 ) which are arranged in parallel next to one another, are orientable according...
6363928 Solar collection system  
The solar tracking mechanism is utilized in connection with a solar energy collection system. The collection system includes a light reflective shell shaped to focus solar radiation on a radiation...
6286504 Apparatus for capturing light energy  
An apparatus for capturing solar radiation of tracking type including a matrix array of a number of light receptors is disclosed. A first set of four shafts are disposed parallel to each other and...
6239353 Solar tracker  
A solar tracker operates on a single axis, but partially simulates a dual-axis tracker by adjusting tilt angle as the tracker rotates. The tracker is disclosed in particular embodiments which fit...
6079408 Sun-ray tracking system  
A plurality of sun-ray collecting units connected to one another by parallel links and arranged in rows on first turning axes are supported on a pair of turning frames that can be turned about the...
5787878 Solar concentrator  
A steam boiler (14) is situated on a tower (16) at the center of concentric tracks (17), (18), and (19). Poles (21) and (23) have wheels (25) running on the tracks. The poles are kept upright on...
5640950 Simplified cradle and dish for a solar powered high-pressure steam generator  
A cradle and concentrator dish for solar powered high pressure steam generation is described. The cradle permits the dish to rotate around the declination axis to follow the sun through its...
5622078 Linear/helix movement support/solar tracker  
A series of inner fitted pipes with linear and helical guides or opposing helical guides for converting linear to rotational motion or converting rotational to linear motion of a support device....
5542409 Solar concentrator system  
A solar concentrator system, comprising a plurality of long metal foils with a reflective surface, longitudinally tensioned from both free ends by respective end moving frames with tensioning...
5203318 Sun tracking solar concentrator  
The solar concentrator includes a carriage movable along an inclined, ground anchored ramp. A first weight at the end of a pulley carried first cable, biases the carriage upwardly of the ramp...
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...
4706649 Selectively switched shading for daylighting and the like  
A unitary structure is provided comprises a frame, including perimeter portions, transparent panels, a pair of spaced rollers rotatable about parallel axes, and a sheet rolled up on the rollers....
4658805 Thermo-hydraulic power supply  
A radiant energy utilization device including an aiming detector sensing the relative angle of radiation received and outputting signals in accordance therewith to control aiming of the device or...
4655196 Through the wall solar cooker  
A solar oven or cooker for permanent installation as a kitchen appliance with provision made for collection of solar radiation throughout the daylight hours. Reflective panels are provided for...
4612913 Solar energy collector array  
A concentrating reflector adapted to focus light on a target spaced a predetermined distance from the reflector comprising a lens, a linear echelon element closely positioned to said lens and a...
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...
4566432 Method for mass producing solar radiation reflectors  
A structure (47) is rotatable 360° about a vertical azimuth axis and 90° or more about an orthogonal elevation axis. The structure (47) is mounted upon a rotating turret (6) in the general shape...
4497311 Sun tracking solar air heating system  
A heating system for buildings such as dwelling houses, office buildings, commercial establishments, industrial establishments, and the like, in which it is desired to maintain a comfortable...
4458672 Thermal panel  
A thermal panel comprises (a) a body including a solar radiation transmitting lens sheet, having opposite surfaces characterized in that solar radiation incident on one surface is focussed at...
4428358 Solar skylight  
A reflective shutter rotates within a skylight housing in such a fashion as to control solar energy thereby providing a combination of heating, lighting, and ventilation. The skylight housing has...
4425904 Tracking system for solar collectors  
A tracking system is provided for pivotally mounted spaced-apart solar collectors. A pair of cables is connected to spaced-apart portions of each collector, and a driver displaces the cables,...
4312326 Electro-magnetic radiation reflective concentrator  
A system for concentrating electro-magnetic radiation, such as solar radiation, by means of a plurality of reflectors mounted on a common frame and aimed at a radiation absorber that is rigidly...
4307712 Rotatable, hermetically sealed, tubular, solar heat collecting system  
A system comprising one or more straight, rotatable, hermetically sealed, tubular solar heat collecting units employs for each unit an outer tube and concentric with it an inner tube, the two tubes...
4291677 Solar energy collector  
A solar energy collector comprising a parabola shaped mirror formed a plurality of flexible reflective film strips stretched over a plurality of supports being arranged to position the film in a...
4275710 Solar collector  
A solar collector (10) is disclosed which is tiltable about a horizontal axis so as to vary the angle at which solar radiation is received by the collector (10). The solar collector (10), which...
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...
4217881 Concentrating solar collector with mechanical tracking apparatus  
A hollow cylindrical tubing passing a coolant, a generally V-shaped trough having at the apex thereof a mating semicylindrical surface for engaging said cylindrical tubing and the V-shaped trough...
4205661 Solar boiler  
A solar boiler having a heat receiver element which substantially tracts the path of the sun for utilizing solar energy to heat a fluid passing through the boiler. A lens system is mounted on the...
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...
4184482 Solar energy collecting system  
A solar energy collecting system is disclosed, especially adapted for suspended installation from overhead support members at a roof or other enclosure which includes energy-transmissible portions...
4141626 Method of and apparatus for collecting solar radiation utilizing variable curvature cylindrical reflectors  
A heliostat apparatus includes a frame which is rotatable about an axis which is parallel to the aperture plane of an elongate receiver. A plurality of flat flexible mirror elements are mounted to...
4114594 Device for synchronously rotating solar collectors  
A device for rotating solar collectors has a pulley assembly connected to an individual solar collector of a bank of such collectors for rotating the collector in synchronization with the sun....
4106480 Reflective solar heat collector  
A reflecting solar heat collector. A stationary cylindrical receiver surface absorbs sunlight. An array of reflecting mirror strips are rotatably mounted in substantially parabolic arrangement...
4088121 Solar energy concentrator  
A solar energy concentrator having an array of horns each having converging reflecting surfaces which provide a multiple reflective path from a relatively wide entrance aperture exposed to incident...
4078549 Solar energy collector  
The solar energy collector concentrates the sun's rays on a liquid medium that is used to power a mechanical energy device such as a positive displacement steam engine. A reflective surface of the...
4056309 Renewable surface heliostat type solar mirror  
A support surface having the shape of a desired mirror surface for use in reflecting solar light and a sheet of flexible mirror material with a portion covering the support surface. A reel device...
4038971 Concave, mirrored solar collector  
A concave, mirrored solar collector includes a concave shell, a series of mirrored strips disposed in the shell and acting as the reflecting surface, a support for the shell and a cover. The...
3924604 Solar energy conversion system  
A solar energy concentrator system which includes a centrally disposed column supporting a solar receiver means, and having an array of pivotally mounted support pads disposed circumferentially...
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...
3841302 SOLAR ENERGY SYSTEM FOR A BUILDING  
A solar energy system is provided in which a solar collector is positioned inside what would be the attic under a conventional roof of a building. The inside surfaces of the roof rafters and top...
3831581 LUNAR SHELTER  
A lunar shelter which is maintained at a uniform temperature during the lunar day, by means of reflecting shutters about the outside of the shelter with the temperature of the shelter itself...
3613659 SOLAR-ENERGY-CONCENTRATING DEVICE  
Presented is a solar-energy-concentrating device in which a reflector-concentrator panel is supported in such manner that radiant solar energy is intercepted by the reflector-concentrator panel and...
3595216 MOBILE SOLAR WATER HEATER  
A mobile solar water heater mounted on the top of a camper and including a water tank and water heating coils positioned in a heater box exposed to solar energy. The heater box is adjustable about...
Matches 1 - 47 out of 47