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patent · US8430093

Solar collector using subreflector

30 April 2013

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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.

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Abstract

A solar collector includes a collecting mirror defining a radiation-transparent window. A collimating mirror re-reflects the collected radiation through the window to a black-body absorber located behind the collecting mirror. A working fluid flows through the black-body absorber to absorb the resulting power and to transfer the power to a utilization apparatus. The collecting and collimating mirrors may be elongated (cylindrical), or they may be axially symmetric. The workin...

Provenance

Collection
Cited prior art
Filed
2009-05-27
Source
Google Patents bibliographic record
Granted
2013-04-30
Inventors
Daniel W. Harris; Lockheed Martin Corp