JUMPER MODULE FOR PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEMS

    公开(公告)号:US20230007941A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-01-12

    申请号:US17858618

    申请日:2022-07-06

    申请人: GAF Energy LLC

    IPC分类号: H02S40/34 H02S20/25

    摘要: A system includes a plurality of photovoltaic modules installed on a roof deck in an array and at least one jumper module electrically connecting a first subarray to a second subarray of the array. The jumper module includes at least one electrical bussing and an encapsulant encapsulating the at least one electrical bussing. The jumper module includes a frontsheet juxtaposed with the encapsulant. The frontsheet includes a first layer and a polymer layer attached to the first layer.

    SYSTEM OF ROOFING AND PHOTOVOLTAIC SHINGLES AND METHODS OF INSTALLING SAME

    公开(公告)号:US20230003025A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-01-05

    申请号:US17942981

    申请日:2022-09-12

    申请人: GAF Energy LLC

    摘要: A first plurality of roofing shingles installed in a first plurality of rows on a roof deck, and a second plurality of roofing shingles installed in a second plurality of rows. An edge of one of the second roofing shingles in each of the second rows is offset from the edge of another one of the second roofing shingles in another adjacent one of the second rows. An edge of a first photovoltaic shingle is juxtaposed with the edge of a first roofing shingle of the second roofing shingles in a first row of the second rows. The edge of at least another photovoltaic shingle in at least one of another row of the second rows is substantially aligned with the edge of the first photovoltaic shingle. An additional roofing shingle is installed intermediate one of the second roofing shingles and one of the photovoltaic shingles.

    Integrated photovoltaic roofing shingles, methods, systems, and kits thereof

    公开(公告)号:US11489482B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-11-01

    申请号:US17154809

    申请日:2021-01-21

    申请人: GAF Energy LLC

    摘要: Some embodiments of the present disclosure relate to an integrated photovoltaic (PV) roofing shingle comprising a photovoltaic (PV) module and a roofing shingle. In some embodiments, the roofing shingle is bonded to the PV module. In some embodiments, a bond strength between the roofing shingle and the PV module is from 5 N/mm to 60 N/mm tested according to ASTM D1876. In some embodiments, the integrated PV roofing shingle has a mass per unit area of 0.5 lb per square foot to 5 lbs per square foot. Methods, systems, and kits including the integrated PV roofing shingle are also disclosed.

    ANGLED POLYMER SOLAR MODULES
    5.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20220345075A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-10-27

    申请号:US17863056

    申请日:2022-07-12

    摘要: This specification describes angled polymer solar modules, methods for producing angled polymer solar modules, and methods for installing angled polymer solar modules. In some examples, a method includes producing a flat polymer sheet including one or more photovoltaic cells. The method includes applying force to the flat polymer sheet to curve the flat polymer sheet in at least one region, forming an angled polymer sheet from the flat polymer sheet. The method includes mounting the angled polymer sheet on a roof deck such that the photovoltaic cells are angled with respect to the roof deck by virtue of the at least one region being curved.

    Angled polymer solar modules
    6.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11424714B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-08-23

    申请号:US15965150

    申请日:2018-04-27

    摘要: This specification describes angled polymer solar modules, methods for producing angled polymer solar modules, and methods for installing angled polymer solar modules. In some examples, a method includes producing a flat polymer sheet including one or more photovoltaic cells. The method includes applying force to the flat polymer sheet to curve the flat polymer sheet in at least one region, forming an angled polymer sheet from the flat polymer sheet. The method includes mounting the angled polymer sheet on a roof deck such that the photovoltaic cells are angled with respect to the roof deck by virtue of the at least one region being curved.

    THERMOELECTRIC ACTIVE STORAGE EMBEDDED HYBRID SOLAR THERMAL AND PHOTOVOLTAIC WALL MODULE

    公开(公告)号:US20220247343A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-08-04

    申请号:US16974431

    申请日:2021-01-29

    申请人: Yonghua Wang

    发明人: Yonghua Wang

    摘要: Solar collection and storage module systems as building blocks are provided to build walls or shingles of buildings to transform any buildings into stabilized power generation stations and tie to power grid to form power grid-interactive efficient buildings. The solar collection and storage module system comprises a hybrid photovoltaic and thermal panel, thermoelectric modules, thermal storage package, control system, and battery storage. The incident sunlight is partially converted into electricity directly by the photovoltaic part of the system directly, and rest part is transformed into heat which is extracted, boosted to high temperature, and stored into the thermal storage package by the thermoelectric modules operating in cooler mode at this movement. At night or in cloudy days, the stored heat flow through the thermoelectric modules, which are switched to generator mode by the control system, generating electricity. In the module system, the cogenerated heat is stored in thermal energy format and outputted in electrical energy format; the total conversion efficiency of the module system is significantly improved. When the module systems are used as wall modules or shingles to build buildings, the encapsulation properties of the buildings are substantially improved.

    FACADE ELEMENT AND PV MODULE FOR A FACADE ELEMENT

    公开(公告)号:US20220231631A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-07-21

    申请号:US17717476

    申请日:2022-04-11

    申请人: ASCA GmbH

    摘要: A façade element has a plurality of photovoltaic (PV) modules, in particular organic PV modules, and a plurality of connectors. The PV modules are arranged flat so that each PV module is adjacent to one or more other PV modules. Each of the PV modules have two bus bars for the connection of one or more of the connectors, which bus bars are connected to one or more cells of the PV module. The bus bars of two adjacent PV modules are electrically connected to one another in parallel by a connector, so that the bus bars together with the connectors form an electrical grid.

    COLORED PHOTOVOLTAIC ROOF TILES
    10.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20220158585A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-05-19

    申请号:US17523724

    申请日:2021-11-10

    申请人: Tesla, Inc.

    摘要: One embodiment can provide a photovoltaic roof tile module. The photovoltaic roof tile module can include a front encapsulant layer and a back encapsulant layer where both the front and back encapsulant layers include different pigments. The front encapsulant layer can include a small amount of pigment that absorbs and scatters particular frequencies of visible light to give the photovoltaic roof tile a desired color. The small amount of pigment does not absorb or scatter a significant amount of infrared light. Two or more photovoltaic roof tiles can be combined to form a photovoltaic module. The two or more photovoltaic roof tiles can have different concentrations of pigment in the front encapsulant layer to give the photovoltaic module a small amount of color variation.