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US 12,059,715 B2Granted
Mobile panel cleaner
AssigneeSteam Tech, LLC
InventorsPhilip J. Hartman, James L. Hartman
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Abstract
A mobile panel maintenance system including a mobile panel maintenance unit having a base supported for translational motion over a surface within a panel array and a carriage movably mounted to the base to position a panel maintenance assembly in relation to a panel surface for panel maintenance.
Claims19
A mobile panel maintenance unit, comprising:
- a base supported for translational motion on a ground surface;
- a carriage movably mounted to said base;
- a panel maintenance assembly movably mounted to said carriage;
- one or more navigation sensors mounted to said base to generate panel detection signals which vary based on distance between said base and a panel;
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- a logic controller including a processor communicatively coupled to a non-transitory computer readable media containing a program code,
- wherein said logic controller operable to control movement of said mobile panel maintenance unit on said ground surface,
- wherein said logic controller processes said panel detection signals to position said base on said ground surface in spatial relation to said panel to perform panel maintenance of a panel.
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A mobile panel maintenance unit, comprising:
- a base supported for translational motion over a surface;
- a carriage movably mounted to said base;
- a panel maintenance assembly movably mounted to said carriage;
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- logic controller including a processor communicatively coupled to a non-transitory computer readable media containing a program code, said logic controller operable to control operation of said mobile panel maintenance unit;
- a global positioning system receiver communicatively coupled to a global positioning system;
- a real time kinematics receiver communicatively coupled to a stationary base station operable to broadcast a phase measurement of a carrier wave emitted by said global positioning system, a global position signal analyzer compares said phase measurement of said carrier wave received by said real time kinematics receiver of said mobile panel maintenance unit with said phase measurement of said carrier wave received by said stationary base station, said global position signal analyzer based on comparison of said phase measurement of said carrier wave calculates location coordinates of each mobile panel maintenance unit to said base station.
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A mobile panel maintenance unit, comprising:
- a base supported for translational motion over a surface;
- a carriage movably mounted to said base;
- a panel maintenance assembly movably mounted to said carriage;
- a logic controller including a processor communicatively coupled to a non-transitory computer readable media containing a program code to control operation of said mobile panel maintenance unit;
- a panel array database including panel spatial information, including one or more of geographic panel location coordinates, location coordinates of panel dimensional boundaries, location coordinates of panel plane orientation;
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- an electronic data exchanger communicatively coupled through a network to a server computer operable to serve said panel spatial information to said logic controller.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.