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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 08, 2016
Filed:
Dec. 12, 2013
James Joseph Clair, Bay Village, OH (US);
Victor George Weizer, Cleveland Heights, OH (US);
James Joseph Clair, Bay Village, OH (US);
Victor George Weizer, Cleveland Heights, OH (US);
SKYSUN, LLC, Bay Village, OH (US);
Abstract
A concentrator having a reflective surface () and a pair of flexible members () supporting the deformable reflective surface so as to define its shape. A mechanism () is movably mounted to a vertical support and has one end of each of the flexible members () attached thereto. A controller drives rotation-changing linkage and tension-varying linkage so as to move the mechanism () to impart a toric shaped curvature on the reflective surface (). This toric shaped curvature minimizes astigmatic aberration due to obliquely incident radiation and changes as the solar point moves throughout the day.