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US 2018/0122973 A1Published application
Obscuring, color matching, and camouflaging solar panels
AssigneeTesla Motors, Inc.
InventorsMichael Pilliod, Christos Gougoussis, Oliver Lefevre, Mike Laurin, John Liu
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Abstract
A solar panel includes a backsheet layer, a bottom encapsulant layer adjacent the backsheet layer, a plurality of photovoltaic cells adjacent the bottom encapsulant layer, a top encapsulant layer adjacent the plurality of photovoltaic cells having a plurality of louvers constructed therein to block side view of the plurality of photovoltaic cells, and a top layer adjacent the top encapsulant layer.
Claims22
A solar panel comprising:
- a backsheet layer;
- a bottom encapsulant layer adjacent the backsheet layer;
- a plurality of photovoltaic cells adjacent the bottom encapsulant layer;
- a top encapsulant layer adjacent the plurality of photovoltaic cells having a plurality of louvers constructed therein to block side view of the plurality of photovoltaic cells;
- and
- a top layer adjacent the top encapsulant layer.
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A solar panel comprising:
- a topsheet;
- a photovoltaic layer adjacent the topsheet comprising a plurality of photovoltaic cells encapsulated in a photovoltaic layer material;
- and
- a backsheet adjacent the photovoltaic layer including:
- n+1 dielectric layers;
- and
- n metallic layers, each of which is sandwiched between two of the n+1 dielectric layers, wherein n is an integer.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.