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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 05, 2016
Filed:
Dec. 13, 2013
Applicant:
Suncentral Inc., Richmond, CA;
Inventors:
Lorne A. Whitehead, Vancouver, CA;
Allen James Upward, Vancouver, CA;
Peter George Friedel, Burnaby, CA;
Assignee:
SUNCENTRAL, INC., , CA;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 7/183 (2006.01); G02B 5/10 (2006.01); G02B 17/00 (2006.01); G02B 19/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 7/183 (2013.01); G02B 5/10 (2013.01); G02B 17/002 (2013.01); G02B 17/004 (2013.01); G02B 17/006 (2013.01); G02B 19/00 (2013.01);
Abstract
A light concentrating apparatus is presented. Disclosed apparatuses include a collection of shaped reflectors capable of redirecting incident light, sunlight for example. The reflectors are configured to modify the spatial distribution of the redirected light in a manner where the distribution of light associated with a first dimension is modified differently than the distribution of light associated with a second, different dimension, via a relay of reflections. Contemplated apparatuses generate a substantially collimated output beam subsequent to the relay of reflections.