Patent ID: 9581357
Date: 2017-02-28
CPC Classifications: F24S,G02B,Y02E

Claim:
1. A solar energy concentration system comprising: a curved lower solar reflective dish; a curved solar concentrator that is smaller than the curved solar reflective dish located on the focal line of the curved solar reflective dish a distance above the curved solar reflective dish, the curved solar reflective dish reflecting input light rays onto the curved solar concentrator; a deformable solar concentrator with moveable supports to adjust a shape of the deformable solar concentrator mounted directly below the curved solar concentrator to receive the concentrated light rays reflected from the curved solar concentrator, the deformable solar concentrator having a width W and length L; a controller for storing and executing a set of instruction to control a shape of the deformable concentrator to focus the reflected concentrated light rays onto a focal collector that comprises a solar thermal device selected from one of a sterling engine and a heat sink and a fiber optics collector; and a mirror point list used by the controller to adjust the shape of the deformable solar concentrator based on a sun angle, wherein the solar energy concentration system only has one dimensional axis of rotation during operation.