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US 2003/0140960 A1Published application
System and method for converting solar energy to electricity
AssigneeIsrael Aircraft Industries Ltd.
InventorsAvi Baum, Moshe Halfon, Abraham Steinman
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Abstract
Energy converting system including a cell array and a light concentrating unit directing concentrated light at the cell array, the cell array including a plurality of cells, wherein the cells are coupled together according to the flux of the concentrated light which reaches each of the cells.
Claims49
Energy converting system comprising:
- at least one cell array;
- and
- at least one light concentrating unit directing concentrated light at said at least one cell array, said at least one cell array comprising a plurality of cells,
- wherein said cells are coupled together according to the flux of said concentrated light which reaches each of said cells.
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Method for coupling together a plurality of cells in a cell array, the method comprising the procedures of:
- determining a lowest one of a plurality of cell flux values of said cells, in each of a plurality of groups, of each one of a plurality of array architectures;
- determining the difference between said lowest cell flux value in each of said groups, and each of the other cell flux values in said group;
- determining the sum of said differences for each of said array architectures;
- and
- selecting an array architecture having a lowest one of said sums.
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Method for coupling together a plurality of cells in a cell array, the method comprising the procedures of:
- determining the sum of a plurality of cell flux values of said cells, in each of a plurality of groups, of each one of a plurality of array architectures;
- determining one of said groups in each one of said array architectures, said group having a lowest sum of said cell flux values;
- determining the difference between said lowest sum and said sums in other ones of said groups, of each one of said array architectures;
- determining the sum of said differences in each one of said array architectures;
- and
- selecting an array architecture having a lowest sum of said differences.
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Energy converting system comprising:
- means for converting light to electricity, including a plurality of photovoltaic means;
- and
- means for concentrating light onto said means for converting light to electricity,
- wherein said photovoltaic means are coupled together according to the flux of said concentrated light which reaches each of said cells, such that selected one of said photovoltaic means which coupled together in series, are exposed to similar levels of said flux.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.