Mount for continuously orienting a collector dish in a system adapted to perform both diurnal and seasonal solar tracking
CA 1081514 A · Owner: National Aeronautics And Space Administration · Inventors: Lawson, Billy D.; Brantley, Lott W.
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A mount for continuously orienting a collector dish relative to the sun in a system adapted to perform both diurnal and seasonal solar tracking. The mount is characterized by a rigid angulated axle having a linear midportion supporting a collector dish, and oppositely extended end portions normally related to the midportion of the axle and received in spaced journals. The longitudinal axis of symmetry for said midportion of the axle is coincident with a seasonal axis while the axes of the journals are coincident with a diurnal axis paralleling the earth's polar axis. Drive means are provided for periodically displacing the axle about the diurnal axis at a substantially constant rate while …
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- Granted July 15, 1980. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended July 15, 1997.
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