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Mini-optical light shelf daylighting system

  • US 6,239,910 B1
  • Filed: 02/12/1999
  • Issued: 05/29/2001
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/12/1999
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A daylighting apparatus, mountable adjacent to a window opening located on a wall of a room, for redirecting incident sunlight into said room to illuminate said room, comprising:

  • frame means for mounting said daylighting apparatus juxtaposed said window opening, where said window opening presents an occupant of said room with a field of view to look through said window opening; and

    a plurality of identical light reflecting element means, mounted in said frame means in a fixed position, that is a substantially parallel, spaced apart orientation, for redirecting said incident sunlight into said room, each of said light reflecting element means comprising;

    an elongated substantially linear member having a top surface and a bottom surface, said top surface being of a geometry to redirect said incident sunlight received from a predetermined range of directions onto a predetermined region of a ceiling surface of said room absent said redirected incident sunlight being transmitted into said field of view, while concurrently blocking low altitude direct sunlight from entering said room.

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