Stoves and furnaces – Tool having fluid fuel burner – Curling iron
Patent
1987-02-27
1991-10-08
Flanigan, Allen J.
Stoves and furnaces
Tool having fluid fuel burner
Curling iron
126451, F24J 212
Patent
active
050544667
ABSTRACT:
A solar energy concentrator system comprises an offset reflector structure made up of a plurality of solar energy reflector panel sections interconnected with one another to form a piecewise approximation of a portion of a (parabolic) surface of revolution rotated about a prescribed focal axis. Each panel section is comprised of a plurality of reflector facets whose reflective surfaces effectively focus reflected light to preselected surface portions of the interior sidewall of a cylindrically shaped solar energy receiver. The longitudinal axis of the receiver is tilted at an acute angle with respect to the optical axis such that the distribution of focussed solar energy over the interior surface of the solar engine is optimized for dynamic solar energy conversion. Each reflector panel section comprises a flat, hexagonally shaped truss support framework and a plurality of beam members interconnecting diametrically opposed corners of the hexagonal framework recessed within which a plurality of (spherically) contoured reflector facets is disposed. The depth of the framework and the beam members is greater than the thickness of a reflector facet such that a reflector facet may be tilted (for controlling the effective focus of its reflected light through the receiver aperture) without protruding from the panel section.
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Erikson Raymond J.
Scott Michael A.
Sturgis James D.
Waligroski Gregg A.
White John E.
Flanigan Allen J.
Harris Corporation
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