Patents Assigned to Viking Solar Systems, Incorporated
  • Solar energy collector system
    Patent number: 4432343
    Abstract: A trough-like concentrator having a reflective surface contoured to image the sun at a linear focus. The reflective surface is supported by a structural tube having plural ribs.A microcomputer is programmed to exclusively aim the concentrator at the sun.A stationary vacuum-insulated linear solar energy receiver is positioned at the focus of the concentrator, with heat-transfer fluid entering at one end of the receiver and leaving at the other end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 1982
    Date of Patent: February 21, 1984
    Assignee: Viking Solar Systems, Incorporated
    Inventors: H. Norman Riise, George G. Goranson, Henry P. Karwan