51 results about "Solar shingle" patented technology

A flexible photovoltaic module has a flexible substrate having integrated electrically conductive portions, an array of functional tiles on the substrate, wherein the functional tiles include solar cell tiles, the functional tiles being separated by a spacing which determines the bending radius of the module, the tiles at least partially in electrical contact with the electrically conductive portions, the solar tiles electrically connected in one of either electrical series or parallel configuration to produce an electrical power output. A method of manufacturing flexible, photovoltaic modules, includes manufacturing at least one functional material, forming the functional material into functional tiles, mounting the functional tiles onto a flexible substrate into an array of functional tiles with spacing between the tiles, the spacing selected to provide flexibility, and forming circuitry on the flexible substrate to electrically connect the functional tiles to one of either input / output circuitry or other tiles.

A solar roofing shingle assembly includes an attachment panel configured for attachment to a roof deck and a solar shingle mounted to the attachment panel.

An electrical connection system is presented that is especially suited for use with a solar shingle application disposed on a rooftop of a building structure. The electrical connection system, when underlying roof shingles disposed on the rooftop, has a low profile that prevents an undesired buckled visual appearance from occurring to the roof shingles over a service life of the roof shingles. The electrical connection system has a thickness that is about a diameter thickness of at least one wire conductor that attaches with at least one connector body of the electrical connection system. The electrical connection system further includes at least one latch mechanism, that when sufficiently engaged against by a tool, allows a plug connector body to unmate from a socket connector body or a shunt socket connector body. A method to construct the at least one connector of the electrical connection system is also presented.

A solar roofing system includes components that can be made to mimic traditional tabbed asphalt roofing shingles in size, shape, and performance. Additionally, the shingles also include photovoltaic devices embedded in the shingle tabs. Shingles are installed in a traditional manner using traditional tools and fasteners in offset and overlapping rows. Electrical connectivity among tabs is made by contact between top and bottom surfaces of shingles without the need for additional wiring or hardware. The system includes multiple shingle shapes including a variation that can be cut apart into separate tabs. This solar roofing system can be integrated with non-photovoltaic components to fit irregularities found in a variety of roof surfaces. The system, once installed, creates a redundancy of electrical connectivity throughout a roof surface to allow for interruptions and irregularities in the roof surface and to allow for highly reliable output performance.

A solar roofing system includes components that can be made to mimic traditional tabbed asphalt roofing shingles in size, shape, and performance. Additionally, the shingles also include photovoltaic devices embedded in the shingle tabs. Shingles are installed in a traditional manner using traditional tools and fasteners in offset and overlapping rows. Electrical connectivity among tabs is made by contact between top and bottom surfaces of shingles without the need for additional wiring or hardware. The system includes multiple shingle shapes including a variation that can be cut apart into separate tabs. This solar roofing system can be integrated with non-photovoltaic components to fit irregularities found in a variety of roof surfaces. The system, once installed, creates a redundancy of electrical connectivity throughout a roof surface to allow for interruptions and irregularities in the roof surface and to allow for highly reliable output performance.

A solar roofing shingle assembly includes an attachment panel configured for attachment to a roof deck and a solar shingle mounted to the attachment panel.

The present invention comprises an asphalt roofing shingle with integrated thin film solar cells that is easy to install and scalable to each particular application. The system of the present invention comprises a standard asphalt roofing shingle manufactured with an integrated thin film solar cell connected to two electrodes configured on opposing sides of the shingle. The shingle is dimensioned to that of a standard asphalt shingle. Roofing nails, which are used to install the shingle to the roof, physically attach the shingle to the roof, may also establish an electrical connection between the electrodes of the respective shingles creating a unified electrical circuit amongst the attached solar shingles.

This disclosure describes methods and apparatus for assembly a roofing structure that incorporates photovoltaic modules as shingles of the roofing structure. A sidelap is used to both establish consistent spacing between the solar shingles and prevent water passing between adjacent shingles from collecting beneath the solar shingles by guiding the water passing through the solar shingles and redirecting the water down-roof. In some embodiments, the sidelaps can have additional functionality. For example, a sidelap can include tabs configured to interact with lateral securing features positioned on downward-facing surfaces of the solar roofing modules to help keep the lateral sides of the photovoltaic modules from pulling away from the roofing structure during severe weather conditions. The sidelap could also include means for attaching a wire clip to one end of the sidelap.

The invention discloses a concentrating solar tile capable of supplying heat and generating power, which adopts light concentration and heat collection integrated technology. Firstly, a cylindrical waveform condenser is covered on the uppermost layer of the solar tile so that the focus of the sunlight just falls on a solar cell panel at the underside; two sides of the underside of the condenser are provided with an aluminized film reflector respectively; when rays are irradiated on the reflectors, the rays are reflected and converged to the solar cell panel; a radiating tube is arranged under the cell panel, and the middle of the cell panel is provided with cooling water for reducing the temperature of the cell panel; and the warm water flowing out from the radiating tube is baffled and then enters a vacuum heat collecting tube of the body so that the warm water is further heated in the heat collecting tube, and the hot water is delivered to a hot water collecting barrel of the last solar tile, thus, the hot water is gradually pushed upwards, and the hot water in the solar tile of the uppermost layer is directly delivered to the house for later use so as to finish the whole water circulating process. The lower end of the solar tile is provided with a solar cell output terminal, and the power emitted by the solar cell is conveyed into a storage cell or merged into a power grid after passing through an inverter so as to form the whole current loop.

A shingle and method is provided, wherein the shingle includes a shingle back having at least one back conductive trace and a shingle front configured to securely include at least one solar cell. The shingle front includes at least one front conductive trace configurable such that when the shingle front includes a solar cell, the solar cell is conductively connected to the at least one front conductive trace in a series fashion. At least one of the back conductive traces is conductively connected to at least one of the front conductive traces. The back conductive traces and the front conductive traces are configured such that when the shingle is associated with a like shingle, the back conductive trace of the like shingle is conductively connected to the at least one front conductive trace of the shingle to be in a series fashion.

A shingle and method is provided, wherein the shingle includes a shingle back having at least one back conductive trace and a shingle front configured to securely include at least one solar cell. The shingle front includes at least one front conductive trace configurable such that when the shingle front includes a solar cell, the solar cell is conductively connected to the at least one front conductive trace in a series fashion. At least one of the back conductive traces is conductively connected to at least one of the front conductive traces. The back conductive traces and the front conductive traces are configured such that when the shingle is associated with a like shingle, the back conductive trace of the like shingle is conductively connected to the at least one front conductive trace of the shingle to be in a series fashion.

The invention discloses an integrated solar energy tile. The integrated solar energy tile comprises a cambered tile body, a silicon nitride film, a first contact electrode, an amorphous silicon film, a second contact electrode, a metal wire layer and a protection film. The silicon nitride film covers the top surface of the cambered tile body; the first contact electrode is attached to the surface of the silicon nitride film; the amorphous silicon film covers the silicon nitride film and the first contact electrode; and the second contact electrode is attached to the surface of the amorphous silicon film and is isolated from the first contact electrode. The metal wire layer is positioned on the surface of the amorphous silicon film and is electrically connected with the second contact electrode. The protection film covers the surface of the metal wire layer. The invention also discloses a manufacturing method for the solar energy tile. By the manufacturing method for the solar energy tile, the manufacturing of a solar cell and the manufacturing of a roof tile can be integrated, so that the solar energy tile has a simple structure and the cost of the solar energy tile is reduced.

The invention relates to a low-power condensing electricity-generation heat-supply solar energy tile comprising a cylindrical lens condenser, a solar-energy silicon wafer, vacuum heat collecting pipes, a hot water collecting cylinder, a solar energy tile base plate, a bulge, a panel output terminal, an outer aluminum-alloy frame, a water inlet pipe and a water outlet pipe, wherein firstly, the cylindrical lens condenser covers on the upmost layer of the solar energy tile, a focal strip of solar rays just falls on a lower solar energy panel, both sides of the lower part of the cylindrical lens condenser are respectively provided with a flat mirror, when irradiating on the flat mirrors, the solar rays are reflected and are always converged on the solar energy panel, one vacuum heat collecting pipe is arranged between every two cambered cylindrical lenses, the solar rays which cannot enter the panel are irradiated into the vacuum heat collecting pipe to heat water, the lower end of the solar energy tile is provided with a solar cell output terminal, and solar electricity is transmitted into a storage cell or combined into an electric network through an inverter to form a whole current circuit loop.

A solar tile system is disclosed. The solar tile system includes a fluorescence collector having multiple edges and configured to receive light through a face and configured to direct light towards the edges by total internal reflectance. The system also includes a photovoltaic cell coupled to at least one of the edges and configured to receive the light and convert the light to electrical power. The system further includes an optically matched interface layer disposed between the fluorescence collector and the photovoltaic cell at the at least one edge.

The invention discloses a solar plane tile, a solar roof structure and a mounting method of the solar roof structure. The solar plane tile comprises a first panel, a sealing layer, a solar cell and asecond panel which are sequentially arranged, and the solar cell is sealed in an overlapped area between the first panel and the second panel through the sealing layer. The first panel further comprises a first lapping part extending out of the overlapping area in the first direction, and the second panel further comprises a second lapping part extending out of the overlapping part in the direction opposite to the first direction. The first lapping part can be in sealed lap joint with a second lapping part of an adjacent solar energy plane tile. At least the first panel is a light permeable panel. According to the solar plane tile provided by the invention, the multiple functions of mounting of the roof structure, solar power generation and tile water proofing are achieved; the mounting method is suitable for roofing of all specifications, easy and convenient to apply and high in on-site construction flexibility; and the solar energy roof structure is good in waterproof effect and hashigh cost performance and application value.

One embodiment can provide a photovoltaic roof tile. The photovoltaic roof tile can include a transparent front cover, a back cover, a plurality of photovoltaic structures positioned between the front cover and the back cover, and a front-cover-colorant layer positioned on an interior surface of the transparent front cover that faces a top surface of the photovoltaic structures. A color of the front-cover-colorant layer can substantially match a color of the top surface of the photovoltaic structures, and the front-cover-colorant layer can be configured to cover regions of the interior surface that are not directly above the top surface of the photovoltaic structures, thereby enabling a substantially uniform appearance of the photovoltaic roof tile.

The present invention relates a solar roofing tile and manufacturing method thereof. A solar roofing tile comprises a substrate and a solar cell mounted on the substrate. The upper surface of substrate is provided with a zebra vein. The manufacturing method is to make substrate first and then coat dark glaze material to the surface of substrate to form dark vein. The part of substrate without coating glaze material forms a white vein. The dark vein and the white vein constitute zebra veins. Finally bond solar module to the substrate. The object of the present invention is to provide a solar roofing tile to promote air circulation on substrate surface and its manufacturing method to solve the problem of poor heat dissipation, poor efficiency in hot days and hence poor thermal insulation in existing photovoltaic tile.

The invention relates to the technical field of solar building integration and solar tiles, in particular to a spliced building component solar photovoltaic tile and a battery panel of the spliced building component solar photovoltaic tile. The spliced building component solar photovoltaic tile comprises a body. A groove capable of holding the crystalline silicon battery panel or the thin film battery panel is formed in the front face of the body and fixing holes enabling the tile to be fixed conveniently are formed above the groove. The upper end and the lower end of the back face of the body are provided with a plurality of upper locating blocks and a plurality of lower locating blocks respectively. The two sides of the body are provided with an upper joint block and a lower joint block which can be matched with each other in a sealed mode respectively. The groove is provided with a glue groove capable of containing fixing glue for fixing the crystalline silicon battery panel or the thin film battery panel. The battery panel is arranged in the groove of the body of the solar photovoltaic tile. The spliced building component solar photovoltaic tile has the advantages that the rigidity of the photovoltaic tile applied to a building can be increased, the sealing performance after the photovoltaic tile is installed is guaranteed, and further, the photovoltaic tile serving as a building component is convenient to install and detach; the battery panel is divided into a plurality of independent small blocks so that it can be guaranteed that under the condition that the local battery panel is blocked, the hot spot effect can be prevented and high energy can be generated.

This disclosure describes methods and apparatus for assembly a roofing structure that incorporates photovoltaic modules as shingles of the roofing structure. A sidelap is used to both establish consistent spacing between the solar shingles and prevent water passing between adjacent shingles from collecting beneath the solar shingles by guiding the water passing through the solar shingles and redirecting the water down-roof. In some embodiments, the sidelaps can have additional functionality. For example, a sidelap can include tabs configured to interact with lateral securing features positioned on downward-facing surfaces of the solar roofing modules to help keep the lateral sides of the photovoltaic modules from pulling away from the roofing structure during severe weather conditions. The sidelap could also include means for attaching a wire clip to one end of the sidelap.

A solar shingle roofing kit comprises a plurality of crystalline solar panel modules, a central connector for adjoining adjacent solar modules, a starting connector to join a solar module to an eaves or a deck of a roof; left and right closures to join solar modules to the rake edges of a roof or to other kinds of commercial shingles or roof tiles, and a plurality of clamps to fasten the forgoing elements to the deck of a roof. The solar shingle roofing kit allows solar modules to be installed interchangeably with metal roof shingles. The solar shingle roofing kit allows an individual solar module to be removed and replaced without removing neighbouring modules or shingles in the event that a solar module fails.

The invention discloses a solar tile, comprising a solar panel and a fixed substrate which is used for supporting the solar panel and has a curved plate shape, wherein the fixed substrate comprises an adhesive layer plate and a metal frame for supporting the adhesive layer plate, and one end of the fixed substrate is bent to form a supporting part which supports the solar panel; and the metal frame can provide enough supporting strength for the solar tile, good mutual constraint and restraint force also exists in the metal frame, and thus good impact resistance can be achieved. As the fixed substrate only comprises the metal frame and the adhesive layer plate, compared with the fixed substrates with pure metal structures, the weight of the fixed substrate disclosed by the invention can be greatly reduced; and in addition, because the fixed substrate disclosed by the invention uses less metal materials and is simple in structure, relatively low manufacturing cost can be achieved.

The invention relates to a waterproof solar tile. The waterproof solar tile comprises a tile base body, and a solar panel and a transparent cover plate with a concave surface are arranged on the tile base body from bottom to top in sequence; a concave block with an opening downward is arranged on one side of the tile base body, the length of the concave block is consistent with that of the tile base body, and a connecting opening is formed in the position where the concave block is connected with the solar panel; a first arc lap joint part is arranged on the outside of the concave block, a second arc lap joint part is arranged on the other side of the tile base body, the arc surface of the first arc lap joint part faces upward, a groove is formed in the arc surface of the first arc lap joint part, a waterproof layer is arranged on the arc surface and the groove surface of the first arc lap joint part, the arc surface of the second arc lap joint part faces downward, the outer end of the arc surface of the second arc lap joint part is connected with an insertion block vertically arranged, magnets are arranged on both sides of the insertion block, and iron blocks are arranged on both sides of the interior of the groove. The problems that short circuit is likely to occur when connecting wires between tiles are influenced by water, connection between tiles is tedious and the waterproof effect in the lap joint positions between tiles is not good are solved.

The invention provides a cylindrical tile with refrigeration and heat collection capability and a solar tile roof system. The cylindrical tile comprises a double-layer vacuum tube and a refrigerant tube, wherein the double-layer vacuum tube is concentrically arranged on an outer layer, and the refrigerant tube is arranged on an inner layer, an outer tube of the double-layer vacuum tube is the outer tube of an atmospheric window material, and an inner layer tube is the inner tube of a metal material, and a vacuum layer is arranged between the inner tube and the outer tube; the outer surface of the inner tube is divided into two opposite parts in the circumferential direction, wherein one part is provided with a radiation refrigeration metamaterial, and the other part is provided with a heat selective coating; and the double-layer vacuum tube and the refrigerant tube can rotate relative to each other, the inner tube and the refrigerant tube are in direct contact or are provided with a heat transfer layer, and the interior of the refrigerant tube is used for introducing heat transfer media. According to the structure of the cylindrical tile, the double-layer vacuum tube are rotated to different angles in different seasons, so that the switching of refrigeration and heating is realized, and the problem of integration with buildings is solved.

The invention relates to a method for manufacturing solar tiles, which comprises the following steps of: (1) manufacturing tiles: preparing a tile material A and a tile material B, wherein both ends of the surface of the tile material A are provided with splicing grooves, the lower surface of the tile material A is provided with a positioning groove, a junction box groove and a circuit wire running groove, and the tile material B is provided with a connecting groove matched with the splicing grooves on the tile material A; and (2) manufacturing solar photovoltaic tiles: sequentially stacking a back plate, a cell piece, a laminated film and a super white tempered glass on the tile material A; then putting into a laminating machine for laminating treatment; installing a junction box in the junction box groove of the tile material A to obtain single solar photovoltaic tiles; flattening the single solar photovoltaic tiles orderly into a single row; then inserting the tile material B into the splicing groove adjacent to the tile material A; and sequentially stacking multiple layers to obtain the solar photovoltaic tile. Compared with the prior art, the solar photovoltaic generation is directly applied to the tiles to achieve friendly combination of the photovoltaic generation with buildings.

The invention discloses a solar tile system, and relates to a solar tile. The solar tile system comprises the solar tile, a line system and a solar tile fixing matrix which is used for fixing more than two solar tiles together, wherein an electric energy output end is arranged on the solar tile; an electric energy input interface which corresponds to the electric energy output end is arranged on the solar tile fixing matrix; a light emitting diode (LED) indicating lamp is arranged on the solar tile; and a power input end of the LED indicating lamp is connected with the electric energy output end of the solar tile. A method for detecting the accuracy of a connecting line of the solar tile comprises the following steps of: connecting an energy consumption element into the line system; connecting the electric energy output end of the solar tile into the electric energy input interface; observing whether the LED indicating lamp is darkened or not; if the LED indicating lamp is darkened, proving that the connection modes are correct; and if the LED indicating lamp is not changed, proving that the connection modes are incorrect, and adjusting the connection modes. In the system, the solar tile can achieve effects of wind prevention, rain prevention and heat insulation and can store energy and generate electricity by fully using solar energy; and the condition of a line can be known at the right moment, so that the function of the system is convenient to implement.