Patent ID: 8847061

Claim:
A method of making solar collector assemblies for photovoltaic conversion, comprising: a) providing a continuous, flexible mold for receiving encapsulant; the mold having serially arranged, alternating peaks and valleys; b) placing a respective PV solar cell into each of a series of the valleys such that light-receiving surfaces of the PV solar cells face upwards by passing the respective PV solar cell in a direction from a position between a pair of said adjacent peaks towards a valley between the peaks; c) delivering uncured encapsulant into the mold and— i) onto said light-receiving surfaces; and ii) from said light-receiving surfaces to a level at least as high as said peaks so as to form, above said light-receiving surfaces, respective optical concentrators for concentrating light received by the optical concentrators and directing said light to said light-receiving surfaces; and d) curing the uncured encapsulant.