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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 30, 1980
Filed:
Feb. 26, 1979
Applicant:
Inventor:
Burrell E Hammons, Albuquerque, NM (US);
Assignee:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F24J / ; G01J / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
2502 / ; 126425 ; 250209 ; 2502 / ; 356141 ; 356152 ;
Abstract
The invention relates to a solar tracking device which tracks the position of the sun using paired, partially-shaded photocells. Auxiliary photocells are used for initial acquisition of the sun and for the suppression of false tracking when the sun is obscured by clouds.