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US 12,429,250 B2Granted
Heat-collecting member and agricultural house
AssigneeKobe Steel, Ltd.
InventorsKoji Uematsu, Akio Sugimoto, Hiroki Okada
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Abstract
A heat collector includes a body including a hollow portion extending from a first end to a second end of the body and being a metal-extruded body having a light-receiving surface to receive sunlight, a pair of lids adjacent to the first end and the second end and covering the hollow portion, an inlet located in one of the pair of lids to allow a heating medium to enter the hollow portion, and an outlet located in one of the pair of lids to allow the heating medium to exit the hollow portion.
Claims26
A heat collector, comprising:
- a body including a hollow portion extending from a first end to a second end of the body, the body being a metal-extruded body having a light-receiving surface to be irradiated with sunlight;
- a pair of lids adjacent to the first end and the second end, respectively, the pair of lids covering the hollow portion;
- an inlet located in one of the pair of lids to allow a heating medium to enter the hollow portion;
- and
- an outlet located in one of the pair of lids to allow the heating medium to exit the hollow portion.
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An agricultural greenhouse, comprising:
- one or more heat collectors, each of the one or more heat collectors comprising:
- a body including a hollow portion extending from a first end to a second end of the body, the body being a metal-extruded body having a light-receiving surface to receive sunlight;
- a pair of lids adjacent to the first end and the second end, the pair of lids covering the hollow portion;
- an inlet located in one of the pair of lids to allow a heating medium to enter the hollow portion;
- and
- an outlet located in one of the pair of lids to allow the heating medium to exit the hollow portion.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.