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Date of Patent:
May. 18, 2021

Filed:

Oct. 11, 2017
Applicants:

Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., Erlanger, KY (US);

Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota, JP;

Inventors:

Debasish Banerjee, Ann Arbor, MI (US);

Yuki Kudo, Shizoka, JP;

Taizo Masuda, Kanagawa, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 31/048 (2014.01); H02S 20/26 (2014.01); H01L 31/054 (2014.01); H02S 20/30 (2014.01); H02S 40/22 (2014.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 31/048 (2013.01); H01L 31/054 (2014.12); H01L 31/0547 (2014.12); H02S 20/26 (2014.12); H02S 20/30 (2014.12); H02S 40/22 (2014.12); Y02E 10/52 (2013.01);
Abstract

A colored solar module includes a light incident side, a backside, and a photovoltaic cell positioned between the light incident side and the backside. A color layer extends across the light incident side of the colored solar module. The color layer includes a clear paint and a plurality of opaque reflecting pigments disposed within the clear paint. The composition of the opaque reflecting pigments in the color layer is between about 0.25 weight percent (wt %) and about 5.0 wt % and a comparative solar cell efficiencyof the colored solar module is equal to or greater than 70 %. A color difference between a first portion of the color layer positioned directly over the photovoltaic cell and a second portion of the color layer not positioned directly over the photovoltaic cell as measured in CIELAB color space is less than about 5.0.


Find Patent Forward Citations

Banerjee, Debasish. (2021). Colored solar panels and structures comprising the same (U.S. Patent No. 11011657). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/11011657

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