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Date of Patent:
Oct. 19, 1999

Filed:

Nov. 24, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:

Roland Winston, Chicago, IL (US);

Harald Reis, Villigen, CH;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F24J / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
126657 ; 126658 ;
Abstract

A nonimaging solar collector. A method and article of manufacture of a solar collector includes an outer housing transparent to light, a reflector element position asymmetrically within the outer housing, an absorber disposed within the outer housing, and a heat conduction fin coupled to the absorber and having a wedge shape which tapers to a smaller thickness as a function of increasing radial separation from the absorber. The heat conductor fin can be positioned at a variety of angular positions.


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Winston, Roland. (1999). Nonimaging solar collector (U.S. Patent No. 5967140). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/5967140

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