Chemistry: electrical current producing apparatus – product – and – Having diverse cells or diverse removable cells in a support...
Patent
1984-03-05
1985-08-27
Weisstuch, Aaron
Chemistry: electrical current producing apparatus, product, and
Having diverse cells or diverse removable cells in a support...
136244, 136245, 136251, H01M 1200, H01L 3106
Patent
active
045378380
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
This invention relates to a system with several panels containing electrically interconnected photoelectric elements for the production of electric current.
Such panels are known in numerous embodiments with a varying number of photoelectric elements. Depending on the number of elements and their hookup, one panel by action of light provides a maximum electric output at a specific voltage and a specific current.
In many cases when such panels are used, a voltage or current delivery is desired which exceeds the capacity of a single panel several times over. Consequently, several panels are electrically interconnected in series and/or parallel connection; however, adversely complicated cable connections susceptible to breakdown are necessary, which, moveover, make transporting the interconnected panels at least considerably more difficult if not impossible.
This invention aims at creating a system of the kind indicated in the beginning, in which several panels are connected without using wires, convenient transportation of the connected panels is made possible and the panels of the system can be replaced without using wires.
To achieve this aim, the system according to the invention displays the features cited in the characteristic pair of claim 1.
Embodiments of the object of the invention are explained below on the basis of the accompanying drawings.
FIG. 1 displays a diagrammatic section through a repeatedly folded pocket into which panels with photoelectric elements have been inserted;
FIG. 2 is a top view of an opened compartmented folding pocket with four panels containing photoelectric elements, whereby the panels are connected in series;
FIG. 3 is a top view of an opened compartmented folding pocket with four panels containing photoelectric elements, whereby the panels are connected in parallel;
FIG. 4 is a top view on a larger scale of the area of a panel of the compartmented folding pocket of FIG. 2 or 3 with details of the electrical connection elements;
FIG. 5 is a section along the V--V line in FIG. 4;
FIG. 6 is a top view of an opened compartmented folding pocket with three panels containing photoelectric elements in another embodiment;
FIG. 7 is a section on a larger scale through the compartmented folding pocket of FIG. 6;
FIG. 8 is a top view on a larger scale of part of the compartmented folding pocket of FIG. 6 according to arrow VIII in FIG. 7;
FIG. 9 is a section through a contact socket of the compartmented folding pocket of FIG. 6;
FIG. 10 is a diagrammatic representation of two series or parallel connected compartmented folding pockets according to FIG. 6; and
FIGS. 11 to 13 are diagrammatically different possibilities for connections of six compartmented folding pockets each according to FIG. 6.
As is evident from FIG. 1, this system provides a compartmented folding pocket 1 from a width of material made of flexible insulating material, e.g., a width of plastic. The width of the compartmented folding pocket 1 in its longitudinal direction at intervals is provided with several, namely six, panels 5, which consist of a sizable number of photoelectric elements that are electrically interconnected. As is also evident from FIG. 1, the individual sections of the width of the compartmented folding pocket 1 containing a panel each are folded in a zigzag pattern in the transport or storage condition of this system, whereby clamping locks or Velcro strip fasteners 11 have closed the compartmented folding pocket 1, so that it can be conveniently and safely transported or stored.
In FIGS. 2 and 3, the top view of an opened compartmented folding pocket 1, which contains four panels, is shown. In the presented embodiments, every panel 5 consists, in a manner known in the art, of a sizable number of individual photoelectric elements 2, which, in a manner also known in the art, are electrically connected in series and parallel or--more rarely--parallel. One terminating element 2a and 2b each hereby form the negative and positive terminating or connection element, respectively, of panel 5. As tapping
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Jetter Heinz
Jetter Rudolf
Hartag AG
Weisstuch Aaron
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