Title:
PHOTOVOLTAIC ROOF TILES
Document Type and Number:
WIPO Patent Application WO/2024/003520
Kind Code:
A1
Abstract:
Photovoltaic roof tiles are known to replace conventional roof tiles in a single-lap arrangement. To prevent rain water from passing between adjacent tiles and leaking into the building below, such photovoltaic roof tiles are provided with interlocking edges; however, these can be expensive to manufacture and time-consuming to install. A more cost-effective option of tiling would be to use a double-lap tile arrangement. Because plain tiles have no interlocking edges, water can leak through the joins between tiles. This requires a third tile to be placed below the join to catch any water passing through. However, with double-lap tiles, a significant part of each tile remains covered after installation, such that a relatively small surface area is in view of the sun. This not an efficient use of expensive photovoltaic materials. The present invention provides a photovoltaic roof tile 302 for use with double-lap tiles 301, the photovoltaic roof tile 302 having a tile width equal to an integral multiple of the double-lap tile width. In this way, such photovoltaic roof tiles 302 may be arranged with conventional double-lap roof tiles 301 to increase the proportion thereof available to sunlight 305, 307, without risking ingress of water.
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Inventors:
BROATCH PETER (GB)
Application Number:
PCT/GB2023/051397
Publication Date:
January 04, 2024
Filing Date:
May 26, 2023
Export Citation:
Assignee:
BROATCH PETER (GB)
International Classes:
E04D1/12
Foreign References:
| EP2557605A2 | 2013-02-13 | |||
| US20180115275A1 | 2018-04-26 | |||
| JP2005207033A | 2005-08-04 | |||
| JP2003168816A | 2003-06-13 | |||
| JP2003347576A | 2003-12-05 | |||
| JP2005282053A | 2005-10-13 | |||
| US20060000178A1 | 2006-01-05 |
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
HANDSOME I.P. LTD (GB)
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