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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 09, 2021
Filed:
Apr. 17, 2018
Sunfolding, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Louis Hong Basel, Berkeley, CA (US);
Joshua Earle Erickson, Oakland, CA (US);
Dan Goldwater, Amherst, MA (US);
Jeffrey Charles Lamb, San Francisco, CA (US);
Leila Madrone, San Francisco, CA (US);
Vincent Domenic Romanin, San Francisco, CA (US);
Matthew N Schneider, Sierra Madre, CA (US);
SUNFOLDING, INC., San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
A system for controlling a rotation of one or more solar panels about an axis of rotation, comprising one or more solar panels defining a longitudinal axis, one or more bellows actuators coupled to the one or more solar panels and defining an axis of rotation parallel to the longitudinal axis of the panels, a fluid source, a first valve circuit coupled to the bellows actuators and the fluid source, a second valve circuit coupled to the bellows actuators and the fluid source, and a controller, wherein introduction or release of fluid from one or more of the bellows actuators is configured to cause rotation of the one or more actuators about the axis of rotation.