US 12,291,312 B2
Solar power generators
Yves Audet, La Macaza (CA)
Assigned to POLYVALOR, LIMITED PARTNERSHIP, Montreal (CA)
Appl. No. 17/754,242
Filed by POLYVALOR, LIMITED PARTNERSHIP, Montreal (CA)
PCT Filed Sep. 28, 2020, PCT No. PCT/CA2020/051290
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Mar. 28, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/062525, PCT Pub. Date Apr. 8, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/907,986, filed on Sep. 30, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0348293 A1, Nov. 3, 2022
Int. Cl. B63B 22/20 (2006.01); B63B 22/04 (2006.01); H01L 31/042 (2014.01); H02S 20/30 (2014.01); H02S 40/44 (2014.01); H10N 10/17 (2023.01)
CPC B63B 22/20 (2013.01) [B63B 22/04 (2013.01); H01L 31/042 (2013.01); H02S 20/30 (2014.12); H02S 40/44 (2014.12); H10N 10/17 (2023.02)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A solar power generator comprising:
a frame securable to an underwater ground surface;
a shaft supported by the frame;
a casing floatable on a body of water and movably mounted to the frame via the shaft, the casing rotatable relative to the frame about a first axis defined by the shaft;
a photovoltaic cell array secured to the casing;
a Fresnel lens secured to the casing opposite the photovoltaic cell array to converge solar rays on the photovoltaic cell array;
a reflective cone secured within the casing at a location where the Fresnel lens converges the solar rays, photovoltaic cells of the photovoltaic cell array secured to the casing and circumferentially distributed around a central axis of the cone; and
a motor drivingly engaged to the casing for rotating the casing about the first axis to orient the photovoltaic cell array towards a sun in function of an azimuth of the sun.