Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Solar tracking system
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Application No.: US15765924Application Date: 2016-10-05
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Publication No.: US10965243B2Publication Date: 2021-03-30
- Inventor: Stephen R. Forrest , Kyusang Lee , Boning Qu
- Applicant: The Regents of the University of Michgian
- Applicant Address: US MI Ann Arbor
- Assignee: The Regents of the University of Michgian
- Current Assignee: The Regents of the University of Michgian
- Current Assignee Address: US MI Ann Arbor
- Agency: Lempia Summerfield Katz LLC
- International Application: PCT/US2016/055473 WO 20161005
- International Announcement: WO2017/062440 WO 20170413
- Main IPC: H02S20/32
- IPC: H02S20/32 ; F24S23/74 ; F24S30/425 ; F24S30/00 ; F24S25/60 ; F24S23/70 ; F24S30/20 ; F24S20/00 ; F24S50/20 ; F24S30/428 ; F24S30/452 ; F24S30/455 ; F24S30/458 ; F24S30/48

Abstract:
A solar tracking system for tracking the orientation of solar energy is disclosed. The solar tracking system may be integrated with solar cells and solar concentrators. The solar tracking system may have a first (22) and second (24) tracker module array that are opposite from another, aligned in substantially identical orientation, and form a tracker module pair array (1000). Tracker module pairs (12, 14; 12, 144) may allow motion relative to one another while maintaining substantially identical orientation. Solar concentrators may be attached to opposing tracker modules of a tracker module pair forming an array of solar concentrators. A base bar array (28) may be coupled to at least one tracker module pair. A transmission may operably rotate the base bar array and the tracker module pair array simultaneously.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180294767A1 SOLAR TRACKING SYSTEM Public/Granted day:2018-10-11
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