Roof Tile-Integrated Solar Battery Module

• US 20070199590A1
• Filed: 03/29/2005
• Published: 08/30/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 04/14/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Tanaka, Masao, Aihara, Hiroshi
• Application Number:
  US11/578,050
• Publication Number:
  US 20070199590A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 136/251
• CPC Class Codes: E04D 3/38 Devices for sealing spaces or joints between roof-covering elements E04D3/36 takes precedence; sealing joints not restricted to roof-covering elements E04B1/68
• CPC Class Codes: F24S 2020/13 Overlaying arrangements similar to roof tiles
• CPC Class Codes: F24S 2025/016 Filling or spacing means; Elastic means
• CPC Class Codes: H02S 20/25 Roof tile elements
• CPC Class Codes: Y02B 10/10 Photovoltaic [PV]
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 10/50 Photovoltaic [PV] energy

Abstract

A roof tile-integrated solar battery module applicable to many types of roof tiles can be obtained. A roof tile-integrated solar battery module according to the present invention is a module including a solar battery power generating body, and an exterior member accommodating the solar battery power generating body therein and including an upper metal plate and a lower metal plate. A concave portion formed of an upper metal plate insertion portion and a surface of the upper metal plate and opening in a direction to an eaves when the module is provided at a roof, and a fitting portion for connection, for connecting to another module adjacent in a direction intersecting the direction to the eaves, are formed at the upper metal plate. An eaves side insertion portion extending in a direction to a ridge when the module is provided at the roof is formed at the lower metal plate.

Claims

1. A roof tile-integrated solar battery module, comprising a solar battery power generating body, and an exterior member accommodating said solar battery power generating body therein and including one exterior plate and the other exterior plate, wherein

a concave portion open in a direction to an eaves when the roof tile-integrated solar battery module is provided at a roof, and a fitting portion for connection, for connecting to another roof tile-integrated solar battery module adjacent in a direction intersecting said direction to the eaves, are formed at said one exterior plate, and

an insertion portion extending in a direction to a ridge when the roof tile-integrated solar battery module is provided at the roof is formed at said other exterior plate.

2. The roof tile-integrated solar battery module according to claim 1, wherein said one exterior plate includes a projection portion, the projection portion connecting said one exterior plate and said other exterior plate by being bent to grasp an end portion of said other exterior member.

3. The roof tile-integrated solar battery module according to claim 1, wherein said other exterior plate has a convex portion for supporting said solar battery power generating body.

4. The roof tile-integrated solar battery module according to claim 1, further comprising a power generating body shock-absorbing member placed between said solar battery power generating body and said exterior member.

5. The roof tile-integrated solar battery module according to claim 1, wherein

said solar battery power generating body includes a solar battery cell, and

an outer dimension of said solar battery power generating body is determined based on an outer dimension of said solar battery cell.

6. The roof tile-integrated solar battery module according to claim 1, further comprising at least one of an eaves edge cover member for filling a gap between said roof tile-integrated solar battery module and a roof tile positioned adjacently to an eaves side of said roof tile-integrated solar battery module, and a ridge side cover member for filling a gap between said roof tile-integrated solar battery module and a roof tile positioned adjacently to a ridge side of said roof tile-integrated solar battery module, in a state where said roof tile-integrated solar battery module is provided at the roof, wherein

each of said eaves edge cover member and said ridge side cover member has a portion having a surface shape conforming to a surface shape of said roof tile.

7. The roof tile-integrated solar battery module according to claim 6, wherein a shock-absorbing member having waterproof function is provided at least one of said eaves edge cover member and said ridge side cover member.

8. The roof tile-integrated solar battery module according to claim 1, wherein a colored layer is formed at a surface of said exterior member.

9. The roof tile-integrated solar battery module according to claim 1, wherein

a shape of each of said one exterior plate and said other exterior plate is determined such that, when said one exterior plate and said other exterior plate are combined, an opening through which said solar battery power generating body can be removed is formed on a side of said eaves when said roof tile-integrated solar battery module is provided at the roof, and

said exterior member further includes an eaves side exterior plate blocking said opening and detachably and attachably provided to said one exterior plate and said other exterior plate.