Systems, circuits, and methods for reconfiguring solar cells of an adaptive solar power system
AssigneeSaful Consulting
InventorNagendra Srinivas Cherukupalli
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
A back sheet comprises an interconnect circuit coupling a plurality of solar cell tiles. A tiled solar cell, comprising a solar cell and encapsulating and glass layers, is inserted into the solar cell tiles. Each solar cell is individually monitored and addressed through the use of the interconnect circuit. As such, each solar cell and the interconnect circuit may be programmed or reconfigured through reconfiguration of the interconnect circuit.
Claims19
A system for configuring and re-configuring solar cells integrated on a back sheet, the system comprising:
- an interconnect circuit integrated onto the back sheet for interconnecting a plurality of solar cells so as to provide an array of individually addressable and individually re-configurable solar cells;
- a monitoring circuit, integrated on the back sheet and coupled to the interconnect circuit, for monitoring one or more conditions at the individually addressable solar cells;
- and
- a control circuit, coupled to the interconnect circuit, for configuring the interconnect circuit to exclude solar cells that are outside a specification based on the conditions at the individually addressable solar cells, for configuring the interconnect circuit to harvest power from one or more of the excluded solar cells on a parallel bus within the interconnect circuit and for integrating the power from the parallel bus to the output.
A system for configuring and re-configuring solar cells integrated on a back sheet, the system comprising:
- an interconnect circuit integrated onto the back sheet for interconnecting a plurality of solar cells so as to provide an array of individually addressable and individually re-configurable solar cells;
- a control circuit, coupled to the interconnect circuit, for configuring the interconnect circuit to exclude solar cells that are outside a specification;
- and
- a DC/DC converter to integrate energy harvested from one or more excluded solar cells in order to additively include energy from the excluded solar cells to the output.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.