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US 5,409,549 AGranted
Solar cell module panel
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorMasahiro Mori
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Abstract
An object of the present invention is to provide a solar cell module panel which is mounted on a roof of a building and united with roof rafters at low cost, whose installation and maintenance can be easily done, and which has long term reliability, especially with respect to protection of the solar cell modules. The solar cell modules of the solar cell module panel are mounted and fixed on the roof rafters, wherein at least one side edge portion of each solar cell module is held and fixed between the roof rafter and a solar cell module fastener member fixed to the roof rafter.
Claims6
A solar cell module panel comprising:
- a substrate;
- a plurality of solar cell modules formed on said substrate;
- connecting members for electrically connecting said solar cell modules with each other;
- and
- fastener members for mounting said solar cell modules to a roof structure,
- wherein said connecting members are contained in said fastener members, and edge portions of said solar cell modules are held between said substrate and said fastener members which are fixed thereto.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.