patent · US6994082
Lightweight, low-cost solar energy collector
7 February 2006
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This patent is cited by material in the archive, so it is indexed here by number, title and inventor. The archive holds no copy of its text.
Abstract
A lightweight solar concentrator of the reflecting parabolic or trough type is realized via a thin reflecting film, an inflatable structural housing and tensioned fibers. The reflector element itself is a thin, flexible, specularly-reflecting sheet or film. The film is maintained in the parabolic trough shape by means of a plurality of identical tensioned fibers arranged to be parallel to the longitudinal axis of the parabola. Fiber ends are terminated in two identical spaced...
Provenance
- Collection
- Cited prior art
- Original PDF
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- Filed
- 2003-06-19
- Source
- Google Patents bibliographic record
- Granted
- 2006-02-07
- Inventors
- Eric B. Hochberg; Michael K. Costen