PACKAGING FOR SOLAR ROOF TILES

One embodiment provides a solar roof tile module. The module includes a plurality of solar roof tiles positioned side by side and one or more tile spacers. The tiles are electrically and mechanically coupled to each other. A tile spacer is positioned between two adjacent solar roof tiles, thereby pr...

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Main Authors Nguyen, Peter P, Zajac, Piotr, Yang, Bobby, Winger, Seth M, Wang, Jennifer L, Heng, Jiunn Benjamin, Klauber, Kaleb A
Format Patent
LanguageEnglish
Published 24.01.2019
Subjects
BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
BUILDING
CONVERSION OR DISTRIBUTION OF ELECTRIC POWER
ELECTRIC SOLID STATE DEVICES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
ELECTRICITY
FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
GENERATION
GENERATION OF ELECTRIC POWER BY CONVERSION OF INFRA-REDRADIATION, VISIBLE LIGHT OR ULTRAVIOLET LIGHT, E.G. USINGPHOTOVOLTAIC [PV] MODULES
GUTTERS
ROOF COVERINGS
ROOF-WORKING TOOLS
SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES
SKY-LIGHTS
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Summary:One embodiment provides a solar roof tile module. The module includes a plurality of solar roof tiles positioned side by side and one or more tile spacers. The tiles are electrically and mechanically coupled to each other. A tile spacer is positioned between two adjacent solar roof tiles, thereby preventing water leakage. A solar roof tile can include a front cover, a back cover, and a plurality of photovoltaic strips positioned between the front and back covers. Each photovoltaic strip includes a first edge busbar located on an edge of a first surface and a second edge busbar located on an opposite edge of a second surface, and the photovoltaic strips are arranged in such a way that the first edge busbar of a photovoltaic strip overlaps with a second edge busbar of an adjacent photovoltaic strip, thereby forming a serial connection among the photovoltaic strips.
Bibliography:Application Number: US201715656794