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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 06, 2012
Filed:
Dec. 13, 2010
Kevin O'connor, Windsor, CA;
Yei-ping (Mimi) H. Wang, Troy, MI (US);
Duane O. Recker, Auburn, IN (US);
Robert A. Vandal, Syracuse, IN (US);
Shane Hadfield, Auburn, IN (US);
Jean-marc Sol, Thoionvillo, FR;
Greg Brecht, Grosse Pointe Farms, MI (US);
Kevin O'Connor, Windsor, CA;
Yei-Ping (Mimi) H. Wang, Troy, MI (US);
Duane O. Recker, Auburn, IN (US);
Robert A. Vandal, Syracuse, IN (US);
Shane Hadfield, Auburn, IN (US);
Jean-Marc Sol, Thoionvillo, FR;
Greg Brecht, Grosse Pointe Farms, MI (US);
Guardian Industries Corp., Auburn Hills, MI (US);
Centre Luxembourgeois de Recherches pour le Verre et la Ceramique S.A. (C.R.V.C.), Luxembourg, LU;
Abstract
A reflector (e.g., mirror) for use in a solar collector or the like is provided. In certain example embodiments of this invention, a reflector is made by (a) forming a reflective coating on a thin substantially flat glass substrate (the thin glass substrate may or may not be pre-bent prior to the coating being applied thereto), (b) optionally, if the glass substrate in (a) was not prebent, then cold-bending the glass substrate with the reflective coating thereon; and (c) applying a plate or frame member to the thin bent glass substrate with the coating thereon from (a) and/or (b), the plate or frame member (which may be another thicker pre-bent glass sheet, for example) for maintaining the thin glass substrate and coating thereon in a desired bent orientation in a final product which may be used as parabolic trough or dish type reflector in a concentrating solar power apparatus or the like.