Photovoltaic tile module

By designing the overlapping structure and sliding installation method of photovoltaic tile modules, the problems of load, aesthetics and power supply stability of existing photovoltaic tile systems have been solved, achieving convenient installation and efficient power supply.

CN223885135UActive Publication Date: 2026-02-06BEIJING JIAOTONG UNIV
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Application Number
CN202520430764.8
Authority / Receiving Office
CN · China
Patent Type
Utility models(China)
Current Assignee / Owner
Filing Date
2025-03-12
Publication Date
2026-02-06
Estimated Expiration
2035-03-12

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Technical Problem

Existing photovoltaic tile systems suffer from problems such as additional burden, poor aesthetics, messy power lines, easily damaged connection nodes, and unstable power supply, which affect building safety and efficiency.

Method used

A photovoltaic tile module was designed, including tile units, photovoltaic cell units, and junction boxes. It adopts an overlapping structure and sliding installation method. The wires are connected to the junction boxes through the through holes of the tiles. The tile mounting strip assembly uses sliding clips and conductive elements to achieve stable power supply.

Benefits of technology

It enables convenient installation and replacement of photovoltaic tile modules, maintains the aesthetics of buildings, improves power supply stability and cleanliness, and reduces construction and maintenance costs.

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Abstract

The utility model discloses a photovoltaic tile module, which relates to the technical field of photovoltaic buildings and comprises a tile unit and a photovoltaic cell unit, and the photovoltaic cell unit is mounted at the top of the tile unit. Each tile unit comprises a tile and a plurality of groove sliding rails sequentially and transversely embedded in the top of the tile, first lap joint structures are arranged on the two opposite sides of the tile, and second lap joint structures are arranged on the other two opposite sides of the tile. The photovoltaic tile module provided by the utility model is provided with the lap joint structure, and the photovoltaic sheet is installed above the tile, so that the module is more convenient to install and replace.
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Description

TECHNICAL FIELD

[0001] The utility model relates to photovoltaic building technical field especially relates to a photovoltaic tile module. BACKGROUND

[0002] With the increasing demand for clean energy in the world, solar energy as a kind of inexhaustible green energy, its development and utilization are concerned about.The photovoltaic tile system emerges as the times require, it combines photovoltaic power generation function and building roof tile, aims at realizing building energy self-sufficiency, reduces the dependence on traditional power supply.

[0003] In the early building field, roof material mainly focuses on waterproofing, heat insulation and other basic functions.The traditional tile such as clay tile, cement tile, although can meet the basic needs of wind and rain shelter, but has no contribution to energy utilization.With the development of technology, people try to integrate solar panels on buildings, however, the initial form is mainly simple additional installation, that is, the ordinary solar panels are directly fixed on the roof.This brings many disadvantages: on the one hand, the additional solar panels increase the roof load, which challenges the safety of building structure;On the other hand, this kind of patchwork combination destroys the overall aesthetic of the building, the solar panels and roof tiles are quite different in style, which is extremely inconsistent in vision.

[0004] Further focusing on the power supply structure level, the power supply line layout of the early photovoltaic tile system is disorderly.Due to lack of systematic planning, the electric wire randomly shuttles on the roof, not only affects the overall cleanliness of the roof, but also is easily damaged by the shaking and friction of the electric wire in rainy weather, causing the risk of electric leakage and power failure, threatening personal and building safety.Moreover, the power supply connection node is designed simply, and the simple plug-in or screw fastening connection is mostly used, which is easily affected by temperature and humidity changes in long-term outdoor environment, and problems such as loosening and oxidation corrosion occur, resulting in poor contact and unstable power supply, which seriously affects the power transmission efficiency, reduces the reliability of the entire photovoltaic tile system to building power supply, and the comprehensive problems require a new, highly integrated and efficient and reliable photovoltaic tile system to fill the gap in the existing technology and meet the market demand of building energy saving and aesthetics. CONTENT OF THE UTILITY MODEL

[0005] The utility model aims at the technical defects in the prior art, and provides a photovoltaic tile module.

[0006] The technical scheme adopted by the utility model to achieve the purpose is:

[0007] A photovoltaic tile module, comprising a tile unit, a photovoltaic cell unit and a concentrator box, the photovoltaic cell unit is installed on the top of the tile unit;

[0008] The tile unit comprises a tile and a plurality of groove sliding rails successively embedded on the top of the tile, first lap joint structures are arranged on opposite sides of the tile, and second lap joint structures are arranged on the other opposite sides of the tile.

[0009] The photovoltaic cell unit comprises a pressing plate, photovoltaic cell pieces and sliding plates successively installed together from top to bottom, the pressing plate and the sliding plates are oppositely arranged, and each of the sliding plates is slidingly installed in one of the groove sliding rails to slidingly install the photovoltaic cell unit on the tile unit.

[0010] The collecting box is electrically connected with the photovoltaic cell pieces, and the collecting box is located below the tile.

[0011] In the technical scheme, vertical through holes are formed in the tile, the through holes are used for penetrating and installing electric wires, the electric wires are used for connecting the collecting box and the photovoltaic cell pieces, and the ends of power supply lines of the collecting box are respectively provided with connectors for connecting external power supplies.

[0012] In the technical scheme, opposite side edges of the photovoltaic cell unit are sealed by pressing strips or silica gel.

[0013] In the technical scheme, the bottom groove wall of the groove sliding rail is connected with the tile through a screw and a nut, and a gasket is arranged between the screw and the bottom groove wall of the groove sliding rail.

[0014] A photovoltaic tile system comprises a batten assembly and the photovoltaic tile module installed on the batten assembly, the batten assembly is arranged successively and used for being installed on a roof to form a plurality of columns of batten assemblies, a plurality of photovoltaic tile modules are successively and lap-jointedly arranged between every two adjacent columns of batten assemblies, and the photovoltaic tile modules on both sides of each column of batten assemblies are lap-jointed with each other to form a photovoltaic tile.

[0015] In the technical scheme, the batten assembly comprises a batten, a connecting piece and a sliding rail successively connected, the batten is used for being installed on the roof, a sliding clamping head is installed at the joint end of the photovoltaic tile module, three metal contacts are installed on the outer surface of the sliding clamping head, three conductive elements are installed on the sliding rail along the length direction of the sliding rail, the joint is slidingly installed in the sliding rail through the sliding clamping head, each of the metal contacts on the sliding clamping head is in contact with one of the conductive elements, and the three conductive elements are respectively connected with one of a live wire, a ground wire and a zero wire.

[0016] Compared with the prior art, the photovoltaic tile system has the following beneficial effects:

[0017] 1. The photovoltaic tile module of the utility model is provided with a lap joint structure, and a photovoltaic cell unit is installed above the tile, the module is more convenient to install and replace, does not add too much learning cost to construction, does not affect the form presented after construction is completed, and only needs to replace the photovoltaic cell unit regularly, so the maintenance cost is low.

[0018] 2. The tile of the utility model adopts original fired tiles, can retain the historical features and cultural features of original buildings to the maximum extent, keeps the color, texture, size and other characteristics of original building roofs, and avoids excessive influence of new technologies on ancient buildings to a certain extent. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS

[0019] Figure 1 It is a structure schematic view of the photovoltaic tile module of example 1.

[0020] Figure 2 It is a tile unit side schematic view of example 1.

[0021] Figure 3 It is an explosion view of the tile unit of example 1.

[0022] Figure 4 It is a tile unit bottom schematic view of example 1.

[0023] Figure 5 It is a photovoltaic tile unit side schematic view of example 1.

[0024] Figure 6 It is an explosion view of the photovoltaic tile unit of example 1.

[0025] Figure 7 It is a photovoltaic tile module use state view of example 1.

[0026] Figure 8 It is a structure schematic view of the photovoltaic tile system of example 2.

[0027] Figure 9 It is a structure schematic view of the photovoltaic tile system of example 2.

[0028] Figure 10 It is a structure schematic view of the hanging tile strip assembly and joint of example 2.

[0029] Figure 11 It is a structure schematic view of the hanging tile strip assembly and joint of example 2.

[0030] Figure 12 It is a structure schematic view of the hanging tile strip assembly and joint of example 2.

[0031] Among them, 1: tile unit, 1.1: tile, 1.2: grooved slide rail, 1.3: first overlapping groove, 1.4: first overlapping plate, 1.5: second overlapping groove, 1.6: second overlapping plate, 1.7: through hole, 2: photovoltaic cell unit, 2.1: pressing sheet, 2.2: photovoltaic cell, 2.3: sliding sheet, 3: junction box, 4: pressure strip, 5: connector, 6: sliding clip, 7: metal contact, 8: tile hanging strip assembly, 8.1: tile hanging strip, 8.2: connector, 8.21: connecting plate, 8.22: insert, 8.3: sliding rail, 8.4: copper strip, 8.5: plastic shell, 9: wire, 10: switch. Detailed Implementation

[0032] The present invention will be further described in detail below with reference to specific embodiments. It should be understood that the specific embodiments described herein are merely illustrative of the present invention and are not intended to limit the present invention.

[0033] Example 1

[0034] like Figures 1-7 As shown, a photovoltaic tile module includes a tile unit 1, a photovoltaic cell unit 2, and a junction box 3. The photovoltaic cell unit 2 is installed on the top of the tile unit 1. The opposite side edges of the photovoltaic cell unit 2 are sealed by pressure strips 4 or silicone. The junction box 3 is electrically connected to the photovoltaic cell unit 2 and is located at the bottom of the tile unit 1.

[0035] Specifically, such as Figures 1-3 As shown, the tile unit 1 includes a tile 1.1 (a flat tile in this embodiment) and three grooved slide rails 1.2 sequentially embedded in the top of the tile 1.1 along the length direction of the tile. The bottom groove wall of the grooved slide rail 1.2 is connected to the tile 1.1 by screws and nuts. A gasket is provided between the screws and the bottom groove wall of the grooved slide rail 1.2. The tile 1.1 has a first overlapping structure that matches each other on opposite sides along its length direction for overlapping between adjacent tile units 1 along the length direction of the tile 1.1. In this embodiment, the first overlapping structure is a first overlapping groove 1.3 with an upward opening and a first overlapping plate 1.4 with a downward protrusion. The tile 1.1 has a second overlapping structure that matches each other on opposite sides along its width direction for overlapping between adjacent tile units 1 along the width direction of the tile 1.1. The second overlapping structure is a second overlapping groove 1.5 with an upward opening and a second overlapping plate 1.6 with a downward protrusion.

[0036] Specifically, such as Figures 4-5As shown, the photovoltaic cell unit 2 includes a pressure plate 2.1, a photovoltaic cell 2.2, and a sliding plate 2.3 arranged sequentially from top to bottom and connected together by screws and nuts. The pressure plate 2.1 and the sliding plate 2.3 are arranged opposite each other vertically. In this embodiment, a pressure plate 2.1 and a sliding plate 2.3 are arranged on opposite sides and in the middle of the photovoltaic cell 2.2. The sliding plate 2.3 is slidably installed in the groove slide rail 1.2 to slide the photovoltaic cell unit 2 onto the tile unit 1.

[0037] Furthermore, such as Figure 7 As shown, a vertical through hole 1.7 is opened on the tile 1.1. The through hole 1.7 is used to pass through the wire. The two ends of the wire are connected to the junction box 3 and the photovoltaic cell 2.2 respectively. The power cord of the junction box 3 is equipped with a connector 5. The connector 5 is used to connect to an external power source. The connector 5 is installed on the tile strip assembly 8. Two adjacent junction boxes 3 are connected in series along the width direction of the tile 1.1, that is, the junction boxes 3 of every two photovoltaic tile modules are connected in series along the width direction of the tile 1.1.

[0038] Example 2

[0039] like Figures 8-12 As shown, a photovoltaic tile system includes a tile-hanging assembly 8 and photovoltaic tile modules as described in Embodiment 1, mounted on the tile-hanging assembly 8. The tile-hanging assemblies 8 are arranged sequentially for installation on a roof, forming multiple rows of tile-hanging assemblies 8. Multiple photovoltaic tile modules are sequentially overlapped between each adjacent pair of tile-hanging assemblies 8. The tiles 1.1 of the photovoltaic tile modules on both sides of each row of tile-hanging assemblies 8 overlap with each other, ultimately forming a photovoltaic tile. Furthermore, adjacent tiles 1.1 of the photovoltaic tile modules between two rows of tile-hanging assemblies 8 are overlapped by a second overlapping structure, and adjacent tiles 1.1 of the photovoltaic tile modules on both sides of each row of tile-hanging assemblies 8 are overlapped by a first overlapping structure.

[0040] like Figures 9-12As shown, the batten assembly 8 comprises a batten 8.1, a connecting piece 8.2 and a sliding rail 8.3 connected in sequence, the bottom surface of the batten 8.1 is installed on the roof, the connecting piece 8.2 comprises a connecting plate 8.21 and a plug 8.22 installed on one side surface of the connecting plate 8.21, the other side surface of the connecting plate 8.21 is installed on the batten 8.1, the plug 8.22 is inserted into the sliding rail 8.3 to install the sliding rail 8.3 on the batten 8.1; the sliding clamp 6 is installed at the end of the joint 5 of the photovoltaic tile module, three metal contacts 7 are installed on the outer surface of the sliding clamp 6 in intervals, three copper bars 8.4 (conductive elements) are arranged in the sliding rail 8.3 along the length direction of the sliding rail 8.3, the joint 5 is slidingly installed in the sliding rail 8.3 through the sliding clamp 6, each metal contact 7 on the sliding clamp 6 is in contact with one copper bar 8.4, the three copper bars 8.4 are connected with one of the live wire, the ground wire and the neutral wire (that is, one copper bar 8.4 is connected with the live wire, another copper bar 8.4 is connected with the ground wire, and the third copper bar 8.4 is connected with the neutral wire), the copper bars 8.4 are wrapped and installed in the sliding rail 8.3 by a plastic shell 8.5, and one side opening thereof is connected with the metal contact 7.

[0041] Further, the electric wire 9 is installed on one side surface of the batten 8.1 through silica gel, the electric wire 9 is located below the connecting piece 8.2 and the sliding rail 8.3, and the end of the electric wire 9 is installed with the switch 10 to supply power for the interface.

[0042] The above only describes the preferred embodiments of the present application, and it should be noted that, for those skilled in the art, some improvements and refinements can be made without departing from the principles of the present application, and these improvements and refinements should also be considered as the protection scope of the present application.

Claims

1. A photovoltaic tile module, characterized in that, The tile unit, the photovoltaic cell unit and the collecting box are included, and the photovoltaic cell unit is installed on the top of the tile unit; The tile unit includes a tile and a plurality of groove sliding rails successively embedded on the top of the tile, and the tile is provided with a first lap joint structure on opposite sides, and a second lap joint structure on the other opposite sides; The photovoltaic cell unit includes a pressing piece, a photovoltaic cell and a sliding piece successively installed from top to bottom, and the pressing piece and the sliding piece are oppositely arranged, each of the sliding pieces is slidingly installed in one of the groove sliding rails to slidingly install the photovoltaic cell unit on the tile unit; and the collecting box is electrically connected with the photovoltaic cell.

2. The photovoltaic tile module of claim 1, wherein, The collecting box is located below the tile.

3. The photovoltaic tile module of claim 2, wherein, A through hole is formed on the tile, and the through hole is used for installing an electric wire for connecting the collecting box and the photovoltaic cell.

4. The photovoltaic tile module of claim 1, wherein, The end of the power line of the collecting box is respectively provided with a connector for connecting an external power source.

5. The photovoltaic tile module of claim 1, wherein, The opposite side edges of the photovoltaic cell unit are sealed by a pressing strip or silicone.

6. The photovoltaic tile module of claim 1, wherein, The bottom groove wall of the groove sliding rail is connected with the tile by a screw and a nut, and a gasket is arranged between the screw and the bottom groove wall of the groove sliding rail.