Electric interconnection system for solar cell of vehicle roof

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9641124-B2
Application number	US-201514918087-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 20, 2015
Priority date	Nov 4, 2014
Publication date	May 2, 2017
Grant date	May 2, 2017

Abstract

An electric interconnection system in a vehicle includes a fixed part of the vehicle and a movable part of the vehicle. The movable part has a solar cell module mounted thereon and includes at least one component that maintains contact with the fixed part when the moving part moves. One or more first electric wires extend from the solar cell module of the movable part. Each of the one or more first electric wires has an end that is fixed to one of the at least one component of the movable part. One or more second electric wires are installed on the fixed part. The one or more second electric wires maintain contact with the ends of the first electric wires when the movable part moves.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An electric interconnection system in a vehicle, the system comprising:
a fixed part of the vehicle;
a movable part of the vehicle, the movable part comprising a solar cell module mounted thereon and at least one component that maintains contact with the fixed part when the moving part moves;
one or more first electric wires extending from the solar cell module of the movable part, each of the one or more first electric wires having an end that is fixed to one of the at least one component of the movable part; and
one or more second electric wires installed on the fixed part, the second electric wires maintaining contact with the ends of the first electric wires when the movable part moves,
wherein the at least one component of the movable part is at least one tilt lever that is configured to tilt when the movable part moves, the fixed part is at least one guide rail slidingly joined with the at least one tilt lever and
wherein each of the at least one tilt lever has one end rotatably joined to the movable part and another end inserted into one of the at least one the guide rail, the other end having a contact slide member disposed thereon and configured to be guided along the one of the guide rail, and one of the ends of the first electric wires is fixed to the contact slide member.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the movable part is a part of a vehicle roof and is configured to open and close the roof.

3. The system of claim 2 , wherein the vehicle roof is a panorama roof in which a solar cell module is bonded to a roof glass of the fixed part.

4. The system of claim 3 , wherein when the vehicle roof is opened, the solar cell module mounted on the movable part is adjacent the roof glass of the fixed part which overlaps with the movable part.

5. The system of claim 3 , wherein the solar cell module is bonded to the inside of the roof glass of the fixed part.

6. The system of claim 1 , wherein the ends of the first electric wires are buried in the contact slide member and a conductive material is attached to, coated on, or buried in a buried portion of the ends of the first electric wires to form a contact terminal that is configured to connect to the second electric wires of the guide rail.

7. The system of claim 1 , wherein the second electric wires are formed by attaching, coating, or burying a conductive material along the guide rail.

8. The system of claim 1 , wherein the second electric wires comprise a conductive material in the form of a tape, a film, an electric cable, or a paste, and are formed by attaching, coating, or burying a conductive material along the fixed part.

9. The system of claim 8 , wherein the conductive material includes at least one of the following: metal such as iron (Fe), gold (Au), silver (Ag), aluminum (Al), copper (Cu), tin (Sn), or platinum (Pt), conductive polymers such as polyaniline, polypyrrole, polythiopene, polyacetylene, or PEDOT(poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene))-PSS(polystyrene sulfonate), carbon series conductive materials such as carbon nano tube (CNT), graphene, or carbon black, and one kind or two kinds or more of oxide series compounds such as ITO, FTO, ZnO, and AZO.

10. The system of claim 1 , wherein a rail cover made of an electric insulating material is attached to the second electric wires and a portion of the second electric wires is exposed on the surface of the rail cover so that the ends of the first electric wires are electrically connected to the second electric wires.

11. The system of claim 1 , wherein the one or more first electric wires include one (+) side electric wire and one (−) side electric wire that are each fixed to one of the at least one tilt lever and are each positioned at one of left and right sides of the vehicle, the one or more guide rails include left and right guide rails at left and right sides of the vehicle, respectively, wherein each tilt lever is slidingly joined with one of the left and right guide rails.

12. The system of claim 1 , wherein the one or more first electric wires include a (+) side electric wire and a (−) side electric wire that extend to one of the at least one tilt lever,
the one or more second electric wires include a (+) side electric wire and a (−) side electric wire installed on one of the at least one guide rail, and
the ends of the a (+) side electric wire and a (−) side electric wire of the first electric wires are respectively connected with the (+) side electric wire and the (−) side electric wire of the second electric wires installed in the one of the at least one guide rail.

13. The system of claim 1 , further comprising a second solar cell module mounted on the fixed part.

Assignees

• Hyundai Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Eo Moon Jung
• Kim Won Jung
• Park Hoo Sang
• Kim Sang Hak
• Kim Sol

Classifications

• H02S20/30 Primary

  Supporting structures being movable or adjustable, e.g. for angle adjustment · CPC title

• B60R16/033

  characterised by the use of electrical cells or batteries (for propulsion puposes B60K1/04; supplying batteries to, or removing batteries from, vehicles B60S5/06; testing of charge state G01R31/36) · CPC title

• H02S20/00

  Supporting structures for PV modules · CPC title

• B60J7/00

  Non-fixed roofs; Roofs with movable panels {, e.g. rotary sunroofs}(B60J10/00 takes precedence; window aspects B60J1/00; fixed roofs B62D25/06; mechanisms for operating wings E05F11/00, E05F15/00) · CPC title

• Y02T10/90

  Energy harvesting concepts as power supply for auxiliaries' energy consumption, e.g. photovoltaic sun-roof · CPC title