51 results about "Solar shingle" patented technology

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.

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.

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 present invention relates to an attachment device for a solar tile having a thickness of 4 mm, including for one tile at least three tile attachment hooks (3) combined with corresponding shims (4) for positioning the hooks and supporting the tiles. In addition, the hooks (3) are reinforced by adapted thickness and width dimensions and/or include a reinforcement means.

A solar tile structure includes a base, a first hook structure disposed on a first side of the base, a second hook structure dispose on a second side of the base opposite to the first side for engaging with a hook structure of an adjacent solar tile structure so as to constrain the relative movement of the base and the adjacent solar tile structure, a first slot structure disposed on a third side of the base different from the first side for draining water from the base, and a second slot structure disposed on a fourth side of the base opposite to the third side for engaging with a slot structure of other adjacent solar tile structure so as to constrain the relative movement of the base and the other adjacent solar tile structure. A combination of solar tile structures is also provided.

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.

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.