Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Solar PV generator with dish reflector and fly's eye receiver
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Application No.: US16610358Application Date: 2018-05-01
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Publication No.: US11177767B2Publication Date: 2021-11-16
- Inventor: Roger P. Angel , Justin J. Hyatt , Dmitry Reshidko , Brian M. Wheelwright , Nicholas J. Didato
- Applicant: THE ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA
- Applicant Address: US AZ Tucson
- Assignee: THE ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA
- Current Assignee: THE ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA
- Current Assignee Address: US AZ Tucson
- Agency: Snell & Wilmer L.L.P.
- International Application: PCT/US2018/030491 WO 20180501
- International Announcement: WO2018/204388 WO 20181108
- Main IPC: H02S40/22
- IPC: H02S40/22 ; H02S20/30 ; H02S30/10 ; H02S40/42

Abstract:
An apparatus for generating electricity from solar energy has a large dish reflector with a fly's eye receiver positioned near the focus of the dish reflector, held by a dual axis tracking structure. The fly's eye receiver includes a field lens that concentrates sunlight into an image of the dish reflector, a two-dimensional fly's eye array of contiguous convex lenses extending across the dish image, and a photovoltaic cell behind each convex lens of the fly's eye array. Two imaging stages are provided. First, the dish reflector and the field lens concentrate the sunlight in the form of an image of the dish that is stabilized against pointing errors of the tracking mechanism. Second, the contiguous array of convex lenses divides the sunlight energy of the dish image into portions, one per convex lens, each portion being further concentrated by the respective convex lens onto a corresponding photovoltaic cell.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200091863A1 SOLAR PV GENERATOR WITH DISH REFLECTOR AND FLY'S EYE RECEIVER Public/Granted day:2020-03-19
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