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- Patent Title: Method and apparatus that generates electricity from a wind turbine equipped with self-cleaning photovoltaic panels
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Application No.: US15384586Application Date: 2016-12-20
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Publication No.: US10094361B2Publication Date: 2018-10-09
- Inventor: Jaime Miguel Bardia
- Applicant: Jaime Miguel Bardia
- Agency: Hess Patent Law Firm
- Agent Robert J. Hess
- Main IPC: F03D3/00
- IPC: F03D3/00 ; F03D9/00 ; F03D9/11 ; F03D9/25 ; H02K7/18 ; H02P9/06 ; F03D13/20

Abstract:
An apparatus that can optimize wind power without compromising solar photovoltaic power collection by doing so and yet provide self-cleaning of the solar photovoltaic panels of the collector. The panels rotate in unison with rotation of the wind turbine airfoils and arranged in a planar region that is substantially transverse to a circumferential region in which the airfoils rotate beneath the solar photovoltaic collector.
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