Display device integrated into a photovoltaic panel
OwnerJoseph Christopher McCabeinventor
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Abstract
A display device comprising a photovoltaic (PV) panel adapted to simultaneously produce electrically needed to operate a display and form either the background or foreground of the said display. The PV panel comprises large continuous sheets of PV material provided with one or more openings. Either light for the display or the display mechanism itself pass through the openings in PV material. The device may include a computer or electrical circuit which will activate the display device responsive to temperature, moisture, light conditions or to a remote signal such as a pager.
Claims10
A display device comprising a photovoltaic panel having a front surface to be exposed to ambient light, a back surface and at least one hole in said photovoltaic panel and at least one light emitting device passing through said hole such that said light emitting device is structurally integrated into said photovoltaic panel and said light emitting device emits light on said front surface of said photovoltaic panel whereby said photovoltaic panel forms a background for said light emitting device.
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