Direct mounted photovoltaic device with improved adhesion and method thereof

Boven, Michelle L; Keenihan, James R; Lickly, Stan; Brown, Jr., Claude; Cleereman, Robert J; Plum, Timothy C

Title: Direct mounted photovoltaic device with improved adhesion and method thereof

Patent · Tue Dec 23 00:00:00 EST 2014

OSTI ID:1166019

Boven, Michelle L; Keenihan, James R; Lickly, Stan; Brown, Jr., Claude; Cleereman, Robert J; Plum, Timothy C

The present invention is premised upon a photovoltaic device suitable for directly mounting on a structure. The device includes an active portion including a photovoltaic cell assembly having a top surface portion that allows transmission of light energy to a photoactive portion of the photovoltaic device for conversion into electrical energy and a bottom surface having a bottom bonding zone; and an inactive portion immediately adjacent to and connected to the active portion, the inactive portion having a region for receiving a fastener to connect the device to the structure and having on a top surface, a top bonding zone; wherein one of the top and bottom bonding zones comprises a first bonding element and the other comprises a second bonding element, the second bonding element designed to interact with the first bonding element on a vertically overlapped adjacent photovoltaic device to bond the device to such adjacent device or to the structure.

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Research Organization:: Dow Global Technologies LLC, Midland, MI (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE

DOE Contract Number:: FC36-07G017054

Assignee:: Dow Global Technologies LLC (Midland, MI)

Patent Number(s):: 8,915,030

Application Number:: 12/908,055

OSTI ID:: 1166019

Resource Relation:: Patent File Date: 2010 Oct 20

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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