US 11,855,584 B2
Device and method for cleaning solar panel arrays
Yoel Sefi, Kibbutz Malkiya (IL)
Assigned to DUSTOSS LTD, Har Adar (IL)
Filed by DUSTOSS LTD, Har Adar (IL)
Filed on Oct. 31, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/976,993.
Application 17/976,993 is a continuation of application No. 16/317,569, granted, now 11,489,486, previously published as PCT/IL2017/050815, filed on Jul. 19, 2017.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/363,862, filed on Jul. 19, 2016.
Prior Publication US 2023/0047014 A1, Feb. 16, 2023
Int. Cl. H02S 40/10 (2014.01); B08B 7/02 (2006.01); F24S 40/20 (2018.01); F24S 40/40 (2018.01); B08B 1/00 (2006.01); H01L 31/05 (2014.01)
CPC H02S 40/10 (2014.12) [B08B 1/00 (2013.01); B08B 1/005 (2013.01); B08B 7/02 (2013.01); F24S 40/20 (2018.05); F24S 40/40 (2018.05); H01L 31/05 (2013.01); Y02E 10/40 (2013.01)] 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system comprising:
(a) an array of solar panels, each solar panel surrounded by an outer frame and having a solar collecting area having a height and a width, the array of solar panels including a plurality of panels in side-by-side relation; and
(b) an elongated flexible element anchored relative to said array of solar panels at a first region and a second region so that a portion of said flexible element between the first and second regions spans simultaneously a plurality of the solar panels,
wherein the portion of the flexible element is configured to be wind-displaceable so as to contribute to cleaning of at least two of said solar panels.