Solar collector unit
AssigneeDIY-Sol, Inc.
InventorsFelix Rapp, Jr., James M. Barron
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Abstract
A solar collector unit including a corrugated absorber element coated with a reflectively selective coating; a plurality of thin, low mass, low thermal conductivity, thermal isolating elements for supporting the absorber element; and an insulation medium spaced from and generally parallel to the absorber element and disposed on a first side of the absorber element; a reflector surface carried on said insulation medium between said first side and the medium; and an inner transparent insulating sheet spaced from and generally parallel to the absorber element disposed on the second side of the absorber element for transmitting solar radiation to the absorber element and suppressing heat loss.
Claims8
A solar collector unit comprising:
- a corrugated foil absorber element of low thermal mass;
- a reflectively selective coating on said absorber unit;
- a plurality of thin, low mass, low thermal conductivity, thermal isolating wire elements extending in a plane generally parallel to and beneath said absorber element for supporting said absorber element;
- an insulation medium spaced from and generally parallel to said absorber element, disposed on the bottom side of said absorber element;
- a reflector surface carried on said insulation medium between said bottom side and said medium;
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- an inner transparent insulating sheet spaced from and generally parallel to said absorber element disposed on the top side of said absorber for transmitting solar radiation to said absorber element and suppressing heat loss.
A solar collector unit comprising:
- a plurality of solar collector units, each including:
- a corrugated foil absorber element of low thermal mass;
- a reflectively selective coating on said absorber unit;
- a plurality of thin, low mass, low thermal conductivity thermal isolating wire elements extending in a plane generally parallel to and beneath said absorber element for supporting said absorber element;
- an insulation medium spaced from and generally parallel to said absorber element, disposed on the bottom side of said absorber element;
- a reflector surface carried on said insulation medium between said bottom side and said medium;
- and medium;
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- an inner transperant insulating sheet spaced from and gnerally parallel to said absorber element disposed on the top side of said absorber for transmitting solar radiation to said absorber element and suppressing heat loss.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.