Panel connected body, power generation module connected body, and power generation device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2023238916-A1
Application number	US-202318192640-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Mar 30, 2023
Priority date	Jan 27, 2017
Publication date	Jul 27, 2023
Grant date	—

Abstract

A panel connected body includes a plurality of flat panels arranged in a matrix of m rows and n columns, where m≥3 and n≥3; and a plurality of row-direction connection portions and column-direction connection portions which connect together panels that are adjacent in a row direction and column direction, respectively. A first type row satisfying relationships D 1 ≥2L and D y ≥D y−1 −2L and a second type row satisfying relationships D n ≥2L and D y ≥D y+1 +2L are alternately included, where D y is a length along the column direction of the column-direction connection portions in a y-th column, and L is a thickness of the panels. The relationship E≤W C −L is satisfied, where W C is a length along the column direction of the panels and E is a length along the column direction of the row-direction connection portions.

First claim

1 . A panel connected body, comprising:
a plurality of flat panels arranged in a matrix of m rows and n columns, where m≥3 and n≥3; a plurality of row-direction connection portions which connect together the panels that are adjacent in a row direction; and a plurality of column-direction connection portions which connect together the panels that are adjacent in a column direction, wherein the panel connected body is foldable between adjacent panels of the plurality of panels, a first type row satisfying relationships D 1 ≥2L and D y ≥D y−1 +2L and a second type row satisfying relationships D n ≥2L and D y ≥D y+1 +2L are alternately included, where D y is a length along the column direction of the column-direction connection portions in a y-th column of the column-direction connection portions, and L is a thickness of the panels, a first type column satisfying relationships C 1 ≥2L and C x ≥C x−1 2L and a second type column satisfying relationships C m ≥2L and C x ≥C x+1 +2L are alternately included, where C x is a length along the row direction of the row-direction connection portions in an x-th row of the row-direction connection portions, the panel connected body satisfies a relationship E≤W C −L, where W C is a length along the column direction of the panels, and E is a length along the column direction of the row-direction connection portions, and opposing ends in the column direction of the row-direction connection portions do not protrude outward in the column direction beyond any of the panels connected together with the row-direction connection portions.

2 . The panel connected body according to claim 1 , wherein
the panel connected body satisfies a relationship E≤W C −L×(n−1) and opposing ends in the column direction of the plurality of row-direction connection portions arranged in the same row are aligned along the row direction.

3 . The panel connected body according to claim 1 , wherein
a first row is the first type row and a first column is the second type column, or the first row is the second type row and the first column is the first type column.

4 . The panel connected body according to claim 3 , wherein
the panel connected body satisfies a relationship F≤W R −L, where W R is a length along the row direction of the panels and F is a length along the row direction of the row-direction connection portions, and and opposing ends in the row direction of the column-direction connection portions do not protrude outward in the row direction beyond any of the panels connected together with the column-direction connection portions.

5 . The panel connected body according to claim 4 , wherein
the panel connected body satisfies a relationship F≤W R −L×(m−1) and opposing ends in the row direction of the plurality of column-direction connection portions arranged in the same column are aligned.

6 . A power generation module connected body, comprising
the panel connected body according to claim 1 wherein the panels are power generation modules, and at least one of the row-direction connection portion and the column-direction connection portion comprises a conductor electrically connecting the power generation modules.

7 . The power generation module connected body according to claim 6 , wherein
at least one of the row-direction connection portion and the column-direction connection portion is located along a bottom end of the power generation module connected body, and further comprises a conductor layer including the conductor and a protective layer stacked in a vertical direction, and the protective layer is located closer to the bottom end than the conductor layer.

8 . The power generation module connected body according to claim 6 , wherein
the power generation modules are photoelectric conversion modules.

9 . A power generation device, comprising:
the power generation module connected body according to claim 6 ; and a main body electrically connected to the power generation module connected body.

Assignees

• Zeon Corp

Inventors

• Hayashi Yuki
• Kojima Kiyoshige
• Yoshida Masayoshi

Classifications

• H10F19/85

  Protective back sheets · CPC title

• H10F19/80

  Encapsulations or containers for integrated devices, or assemblies of multiple devices, having photovoltaic cells · CPC title

• H10F19/00

  Integrated devices, or assemblies of multiple devices, comprising at least one photovoltaic cell covered by group H10F10/00, e.g. photovoltaic modules · CPC title

• H02S30/20 Primary

  Collapsible or foldable PV modules · CPC title

• H01L31/048

  Electricity · mapped topic