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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 30, 2021
Filed:
Oct. 05, 2016
The Regents of the University of Michgian, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Stephen R. Forrest, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Kyusang Lee, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Boning Qu, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
The Regents of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Abstract
A solar tracking system for tracking the orientation of solar energy is disclosed. The solar tracking system may be integrated with solar cells and solar concentrators. The solar tracking system may have a first () and second () tracker module array that are opposite from another, aligned in substantially identical orientation, and form a tracker module pair array (). Tracker module pairs () may allow motion relative to one another while maintaining substantially identical orientation. Solar concentrators may be attached to opposing tracker modules of a tracker module pair forming an array of solar concentrators. A base bar array () may be coupled to at least one tracker module pair. A transmission may operably rotate the base bar array and the tracker module pair array simultaneously.