Patent ID: 9175877
Filing Date: 2015-11-03
Classification: F24S,Y02E

Abstract:
1. A solar energy concentrating reflection system comprising: a plurality of rotatable support structures; multiple arrays of generally planar solar reflectors arranged adjacent to one another on a respective rotatable support structure from the plurality, each of the reflector arrays configured into a first Fresnel array in a first dimension; each first Fresnel array of reflectors in turn arrayed and supported in the plurality of rotatable support structures in a configuration of second Fresnel arrays in a second dimension such that the first and second Fresnel arrays are Fresnel arrayed relative to each other in both the first dimension and the second dimension within the support structures; a linear actuator and a cable, said cable connected to said linear actuator and wrapped completely around each of the rotatable support structures in turn, in a self-cinching configuration; a solar receiver disposed in the focal line of the configured solar reflectors; the first and second Fresnel arrays uniformly collecting and concentrating solar energy from the sun onto the solar receiver within the first and second dimensions with a uniform solar intensity profile; and, the rotatable support structures configured to rotate the first and second Fresnel arrays in the first dimension and in the second dimension, respectively, for tracking the sun.