Electric, water vapor diffusion resistant pin-and-socket connector
AssigneeConcentrix Solar GmbH
InventorsGerrit Lange, Karl-Friedrich Haarburger
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Abstract
A nonconductive plate that is plated-through with an electric pin-and-socket connector in a water vapor diffusion resistant manner as well as its use as back side or side wall of a photovoltaic module is provided. The electric pin-and-socket connector includes a push-through element and a pressing element as well as a sealing element located on the pressing element and made of a material with a low water vapor diffusion rate. By the engagement of the push-through element into a retention element on a second side of the nonconducting plate, the sealing element is pressed against the first side of the plate by the pressing element and thus seals the bore in the plate in a water vapor diffusion resistant manner.
Claims25
1-24. (canceled)
An apparatus for providing water vapor diffusion resistance in a photovoltaic module comprising:
- a nonconducting plate having a first side and a second side;
- an electric pin-and-socket connector plating-through the nonconducting plate in a vapor diffusion resistant manner and comprising a pressing element and a push-through element;
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- a first sealing element arranged in a compressed manner between the pressing element and the first side and comprising a water vapor diffusion stable material,
- wherein the push-through element is configured to be pushed from the first side partially through a bore in the nonconducting plate at an angle.
The apparatus of claim 40, wherein the first sealing element has a water vapor diffusion rate of about 0.25 g/(m2d) or less.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.