Aeronautics and astronautics – Spacecraft – With payload accommodation
Patent
1993-02-08
1994-03-01
Mitchell, David M.
Aeronautics and astronautics
Spacecraft
With payload accommodation
136251, 440 6, B64G 144
Patent
active
052899993
ABSTRACT:
An apparatus for utilizing solar energy with solar cells, which are arranged on a supporting structure and are connected electrically to one another and have an external connection for discharging the electrical energy. Several solar cells are parts of a frameless solar cell element, in which the solar cells are enclosed next to one another between film strips or panels. At least one side of the laminate, which faces the sunlight, is flat and transparent. The solar cell laminate lies on a supporting structure, which comprises two covering layers and a supporting foam layer therebetween, the support being formed with a recessed circumferential edge. The laminate lies on the edge, flush with the upper side of the supporting structure. The support body is constructed in undulating fashion between two parallel sections of edge, in order to support the solar cell laminate on the higher sections and to provide, with the lower sections, ducts for conducting coolant as well as for accommodating electrical conductors.
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Naujeck Andreas
Schneider Stephan
Ellis Christopher P.
Mitchell David M.
Schottel Werft Joseph Becker GmbH & Co. KG
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