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patent · US6717045

Photovoltaic array module design for solar electric power generation systems

6 April 2004

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Abstract

The invention relates to a solar photovoltaic array module design, which constitutes three steps of optical concentrations of photovoltaic electric power generation systems. A compound parabolic concentrator (CPC) is mounted under a first optical concentrating fresnel lens that concentrates the intensity of sunlight to five times above normal level. Then the focused sunlight is further concentrated twenty times by the second optical concentrator CPC. The high mirror quality o...

Provenance

Collection
Cited prior art
Filed
2001-10-23
Source
Google Patents bibliographic record
Granted
2004-04-06
Inventors
Leon L. C. Chen