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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Patent No.:

US 11881361 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Jan. 23, 2024

Filed:

Jul. 13, 2018

Photovoltaic apparatus and method

Applicant:

Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Australian Capital Territory, AU;

Inventors:

Doojin Vak, Victoria, AU;

Karl Weber, Victoria, AU;

Andrew Faulks, Victoria, AU;

RĂ©gine Chantler, Victoria, AU;

Assignee:

Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Australian Capital Territory, AU;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:

Michael Y Sun

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 31/05 (2014.01); H01G 9/20 (2006.01); H01G 9/00 (2006.01); H01L 31/02 (2006.01); H01L 31/0384 (2006.01); H01L 31/0392 (2006.01); H01L 31/18 (2006.01); H10K 30/30 (2023.01); H10K 71/13 (2023.01); H10K 71/60 (2023.01); H10K 77/10 (2023.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01G 9/2081 (2013.01); H01G 9/0036 (2013.01); H01G 9/2009 (2013.01); H01G 9/2095 (2013.01); H01L 31/0201 (2013.01); H01L 31/03845 (2013.01); H01L 31/03926 (2013.01); H01L 31/0504 (2013.01); H01L 31/1876 (2013.01); H10K 30/30 (2023.02); H10K 71/13 (2023.02); H10K 71/611 (2023.02); H10K 77/111 (2023.02);
Abstract

The invention is directed to a photovoltaic apparatus comprising a carrier substrate. The carrier substrate carries printed structures comprising: a plurality of photovoltaic modules, each module including first and second terminals and a plurality of photovoltaic cells electrically connected between the first and second module terminals; a first bus bar extending along one side of the photovoltaic modules; a second bus bar extending along an opposite side of the photovoltaic modules; and a plurality of intermodule rails, each inter-module rail being associated with a photovoltaic module. The apparatus includes a plurality of selectively configurable junctions, one or more of the junctions being configurable to enable a photovoltaic module to be selectively connected to or disconnected from an adjacent photovoltaic module via one or more inter-module rails, and/or enable a module terminal to selectively connect with or disconnect from one of the first and second bus bars, such that the photovoltaic modules can be selectively electrically connected in series and/or parallel on demand.

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