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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 14, 2017
Filed:
Dec. 23, 2013
Applicant:
Esolar, Inc., Burbank, CA (US);
Inventors:
Parsa Dormiani, San Mateo, CA (US);
Carl Chin, Santa Monica, CA (US);
Herach Ayvazian, Burbank, CA (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06G 7/48 (2006.01); G06F 17/50 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/5004 (2013.01); Y02E 10/47 (2013.01);
Abstract
Methods, systems, and devices for determining the placement of one or more lightning rods in one or more circles of non-interference in a solar field, where the placement is based on a determined location of one or more ungrounded triangular heliostat structures and one or more circles of interference, where the one or more circles of interference are areas within a range of motion of one or more heliostats disposed on corners of the one or more triangular heliostat structures in the solar field.