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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 07, 2007
Filed:
Jun. 28, 2004
Ivan Pawlenko, Holland, PA (US);
Larry Samson, Langhorne, PA (US);
Ivan Pawlenko, Holland, PA (US);
Larry Samson, Langhorne, PA (US);
Lucent Technologies Inc., Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Abstract
A solar tracking system has a first set of solar heat gain transducers () that produce respective first output signals to drive a reversible first motor () for changing a vertical angle of a solar collector (); and a second set of solar heat gain transducers () that produce respective second output signals to drive a reversible second motor () for changing a horizontal angle of the solar collector (); each of the transducers () having a thermistor () in thermal contact with a thermal mass (); and a communications apparatus () receiving output voltage from solar cells () on the solar collector ().