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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:
Mar. 05, 1996
Filed:
Jun. 02, 1994
Applicant:
Inventors:
T Jeffrey Harvey, Lompoc, CA (US);
P Alan Jones, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Allister F Fraser, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L / ; H01L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
136245 ; 136246 ; 136259 ;
Abstract
A stowable and deployable concentrator for solar cells, A flexible, springily resilient Fresnel lens is held in a frame whose relaxed condition holds the Fresnel lens as the linear fragment of a cylinder. When in this deployed shape, the Fresnel lens concentrates energy onto a strip of solar cells, The frame is springily mounted by support means, biased toward the deployed condition, and when the Fresnel lens and frame are pressed toward the cells, they tend to flatten toward a stowed condition.