Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Solar tracker, sun tracking method, solar power generator, and controller
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Application No.: US14191911Application Date: 2014-02-27
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Publication No.: US09960729B2Publication Date: 2018-05-01
- Inventor: Ryutaro Futakuchi , Masaki Yamamoto
- Applicant: Panasonic Corporation
- Applicant Address: JP Osaka
- Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Osaka
- Agency: Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP
- Priority: JP2012-281008 20121225
- Main IPC: G01J1/20
- IPC: G01J1/20 ; H02S20/00 ; G01S3/786 ; H02S20/32 ; F24J2/38

Abstract:
A solar tracker comprises: a measuring section which measures the quantity of electric power generated by a solar panel; a solar position getting section which gets information about the theoretical solar position; a driving section which changes the orientation of the solar panel; a dither control section which measures a solar position; a positional shift measuring section which measures a solar positional shift between the measured solar position and the theoretical solar position. The driving section corrects the theoretical solar position based on the estimated attitude error and controls the orientation of the solar panel based on the theoretical position corrected.
Public/Granted literature
- US20140175260A1 SOLAR TRACKER, SUN TRACKING METHOD, SOLAR POWER GENERATOR, AND CONTROLLER Public/Granted day:2014-06-26
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