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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 26, 2015
Filed:
Jun. 06, 2011
Yanir Blumenthal, Kfar Saba, IL;
Oren Gadot, Nes Ziona, IL;
Yanir Blumenthal, Kfar Saba, IL;
Oren Gadot, Nes Ziona, IL;
HELIOFOCUS LTD., Ness Ziona, IL;
Abstract
A solar concentrating system including a concentrator operative to track the Sun so as to concentrate incident sunlight on to a focal location, the concentrator including a support structure, and an array of concentrating reflectors mounted on the support structure, wherein at least one of the reflectors is formed with a reflective surface facing the Sun and configured as a concave surface such that the incident sunlight impinging on the reflective surface is reflected on to the focal location, the array of concentrating reflectors being mounted on the support structure in a Fresnel-like reflector arrangement thus defining the concentrator as a Fresnel reflector.