Photovoltaic textile
AssigneeSaint-Gobain Adfors Canada, Ltd.
InventorsDonald G. Parent, Sean L. Sweeney, Nancy E. Brown, Jackson A. Ivey, Sahas Rathi
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Abstract
A textile includes a flexible substrate and a photovoltaic tape adjacent to the flexible substrate. The textile may have at least one of the following properties: a power to weight ratio of at least 10 Watts per pound, a total weight to surface area of not greater than 500 grams/square-meters, and an interconnect located at an end of the photovoltaic tape. In an embodiment, the photovoltaic tape is rollable on a length of the photovoltaic tape. In an embodiment, the flexible substrate is foldable along a length contiguous to an outside edge of the photovoltaic tape.
Claims20
A textile comprising:
- a flexible substrate;
- and
- a photovoltaic tape adjacent to the flexible substrate;
- wherein the textile has a power to weight ratio of at least 10 Watts per pound (W/lb).
A textile comprising:
- a flexible substrate comprising a nonwoven scrim and a nonwoven mat directly in contact with the nonwoven scrim;
- and
- a photovoltaic tape adjacent to the flexible substrate,
A textile comprising:
- a flexible substrate;
- a photovoltaic tape directly in contact with the flexible substrate;
- and
- an interconnect located at an end of the photovoltaic tape.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.