SOLAR GREENHOUSE STRUCTURE

• US 20120137577A1
• Filed: 01/18/2011
• Published: 06/07/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 12/01/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Lite-On Green Technologies, Inc. (Lite-On Technology Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Lite-On Green Technologies, Inc. (Lite-On Technology Corporation)
• Inventors: CHUANG, Mei-Chen
• Application Number:
  US13/008,096
• Publication Number:
  US 20120137577A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 47/17
• CPC Class Codes: A01G 9/243 Collecting solar energy in general F24S
• CPC Class Codes: Y02A 40/25 Greenhouse technology, e.g. cooling systems therefor
• CPC Class Codes: Y02P 60/12 using renewable energies, e.g. solar water pumping

Abstract

A solar greenhouse structure includes a plurality of supporting frames, a light-permitting roof supported by at least one supporting frame, and at least one solar panel disposed below the roof and near the bottom surface thereof. The instant disclosure uses thinner solar panels, where the supporting frames can be less rigid, in lowering the solar greenhouse cost.

Claims

1. A solar greenhouse structure, comprising:

a plurality of supporting frames;

a light-permitting roof structure having at least one roof panel supported by at least one of the supporting frame, the roof panel having a top surface and a bottom surface; and

at least one solar panel disposed below the roof structure and near the bottom surface of the roof panel.

2. The solar greenhouse structure of claim 1, wherein the at least one solar panel is hung off the supporting frame.

3. The solar greenhouse structure of claim 1, wherein the at least one solar panel is disposed on the bottom surface of the roof structure.

4. The solar greenhouse structure of claim 1, wherein the plurality of solar panels are spaced apart from each other under the roof structure and near the bottom surface of the roof panel.

5. The solar greenhouse structure of claim 1, wherein the solar panel is a semi-transparent thin film solar module.

6. The solar greenhouse structure of claim 1, wherein the solar panel is a dye-sensitized solar cell.

7. The solar greenhouse structure of claim 1, wherein the solar panel is a transparent solar module.

8. The solar greenhouse structure of claim 4, wherein the roof structure includes at least one selectively operable ventilation port.