AU2009200578A1

AU2009200578A1 - Modular system for architecture integration on a saddle roof of photovoltaic or solar thermal modules

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Publication number: AU2009200578A1
Application number: AU2009200578A
Authority: AU
Inventors: Vittorio Gambale
Original assignee: Gambale Srl
Current assignee: Gambale Srl
Priority date: 2009-02-13
Filing date: 2009-02-13
Publication date: 2010-09-02

Description

S&F Ref: 894871 AUSTRALIA PATENTS ACT 1990 COMPLETE SPECIFICATION FOR A STANDARD PATENT Name and Address Gambale srl, of 538, Corso Italia, Mirabello , Ferrara, of Applicant: Italy Actual Inventor(s): Vittorio Gambale Address for Service: Spruson & Ferguson St Martins Tower Level 35 31 Market Street Sydney NSW 2000 (CCN 3710000177) Invention Title: Modular system for architecture integration on a saddle roof of photovoltaic or solar thermal modules The following statement is a full description of this invention, including the best method of performing it known to me/us: 5845c(1971069_1) I MODULAR SYSTEM FOR ARCHITECTURE INTEGRATION ON A SADDLE ROOF OF PHOTOVOLTAIC OR SOLAR THERMAL MODULES. In the field of covers for saddle roofs tiles are known of big dimensions to get a covering system with integrated photovoltaic module. In particular it is known the method described in the Patent EP 1 296 382 in where said covering is actuated in a single block, meaning for single block the creation of a single large tile including in its inside flat parts and accessories to place the photovoltaic panel to upper to said flat surface. Unfortunately, the integration of one or more photovoltaic panels onto the roof can be compromised and limited to different 0 factors. The dimensions or the numbers of the photovoltaic panels can, in fact, widely vary. In particular the dimensions of the photovoltaic panels can vary in considerable way depending to the different products. Moreover, the dimensions of the photovoltaic panels can, so, vary depending to the dimensions of the different manufacturing industries. The progress made by continuous 15 development of more efficient photovoltaic panels able to convert ever-increasing percentage of solar radiation and the increasing of the dimensions of the photovoltaic panels determine difficulties in the integration of said panels into the tiles of the roofs or into the sole tile containing the photovoltaic panel. In the case, instead, in which is requested an installation of a plant on the roof it is necessary 20 to have a cost per the building operation which is essential to support and to put in stable manner the photovoltaic panels. The simply placing of more tiles of big dimensions that contain the panel photovoltaic rarely correspond in exact and appropriate way to the dimensions of the photovoltaic panels to be mounted. Subject-matter of the present invention is a modular system to integrate onto a ?9 roof photovoltaic panels. Said system able to integrate into the roof any photovoltaic panel without needing for stone-works to break the cover or for placing works and arresting. The invented subject-matter permits, in fact, a modular adjusting, and so dimensional, on the base of the dimensional necessity of the plant or on the dimension evolution of the photovoltaic panels. The subject So matter, in fact, is capable by simply addition or removal of tiles and/or components to adapt itself to the required dimensions without needs of stone- 2 works onto the roof, with cutting of the costs for adjusting the plant to the. different necessities or to the new types of photovoltaic panels. The total modularity and versatility of the subject-matter so permits to integrate any type of photovoltaic panels or a different number of photovoltaic panels, keeping the integration of the photovoltaic panels onto the roof. Another aim of the subject matter is, in fact, to get a photovoltaic plant architecturally integrated in the roof in tiles, as planar with it. Moreover, the subject-matter is to be suitable for any kind of tile. The modular system is, moreover, to be applied also to other components to integrate in the covering with tiles. As known the architectural to integration of one or more photovoltaic panels to the covering greatly reduces the risk of lifting of the panels in case of strong wind and limits the load to which are subjected the metallic supports onto the under tiles. Moreover, since the subject matter has bases of the upper border high and without hindrance it favours the passage of air that, for convective motion, better licks and retroventilates the 15 lower part of the modules, so guaranteeing a good energetic efficiency even in presence of high temperatures in the hot periods. Other aim reached to the subject matter is determining a complete waterproof of the parts of the roof supporting the photovoltaic panel. In the traditional solutions are necessary works of drilling of the roof with fixing of brackets and consequently breaking of the covering. 2-o Such working, even if properly sealed, can be cause, with the repeated thermal expansion and the bad weather, of infiltration from the roof. The subject-matter is, instead, created with an anchoring system for photovoltaic panels with nuts drowned in the structure and metallic supports in steel coated with zinc, stainless steel or in aluminium connected to the nuts with screws in blind holes. The '2T subject-matter is illustrated in a merely indicative way in the drawings of sheets 1, 2 and 3. In sheet 1 - figure 1 is perspective view of the subject-matter without placed photovoltaic panels. In sheet 2- figure 2 is perspective view of a house with photovoltaic panels placed to the subject-matter modular system. In sheet 3 figure 3 is perspective view of an embodiment for plants for the sanitary hot water 30 production and/or for heating, i.e. a thermal solar plant. In a preferred version, but not exclusive, the subject-matter consists of a big dimension tile I with flat inside part 2. Said tile has to the lower border 3 upward joints 4 having the shape of the tiles in which the cover system in to be inserted by superimposition. The dimensions of the lower border 3 are multiple to the standard dimensions of the type of tiles in which was inserted the subject-matter. To the sides of the big 5- dimension tile 1, i.e. to the sides 5 and 6, are present from a side a rise 7 in where are placed, in superimposition to the border 5, the tiles 8 and to the other side a profile 9, of the same shape of the tiles 8, to put over other tiles or other tile of big dimension 1. The measures of the sides of the big dimension tile 1 are whole multiple of the standard measures of the type of tile in which in to be inserted the ro subject-matter. The top upstream part of the tile presents back border 10 able to obtain joint with the lower front border 11 of a tile 12 with inside flat part 13 that comes to be over for superimposition. This tile 12, having to the downward lower border 11 and to the upper border 14 the same liner dimensions of the tile 1, has sides of multiple measure of one or more tiles, with sides 15 and 16 of equal 15 shape to the sides 5 and 6, i.e. with rise 17 and border 18 with shapes and measures compatible with the standard tiles or with big dimension tile equal to the tile 12. The dimension of the tile 12, as well as all the modular system, so is multiple of the dimension of the tile in which is to be inserted and of the same type. So, may change the quantity or the dimension of the tiles 12 remaining, w however, always of whole multiple dimensions of the tile in which the roof is realized. Generally these tiles have measures and shapes standard. The modular system according to the invention is so easy to be adapt to all type of the known tiles. The upper side 19 of the tile 12 is arranged with border 20 to support with joint the lower border 21 of a tile of big dimension 22 equal to the tile I but with 2s- joints 23 having the shape and the tiles and placed to the upper border 24, with the tile 22 equipped with central flat part 25. On the tile 1, on the tile with inside flat part 12 and on the tile with joints 22 are present blind holes 26 with nuts 27 in which are to be inserted screws 28 to fix support fillets 29 or with equivalent fixing systems. In particular the fillets 29 may be changed with similar supporting 30 means or with joints of the photovoltaic panel directly onto the invented means, i.e., in other embodiment, without under fillets. The fillets 29 are equipped with holes 30 placed onto the upper face for the fixing by means of screws and nut of the photovoltaic panels 31 or of other metallic support parts 32. Said metallic parts, made in galvanized steel, stainless steel or aluminium, also they have fillets shape and have holes 33 onto the upper face to permit the complete modularity 5- with any type of photovoltaic panel. In the central part of the tile with inside flat part 12 is present a supporting rise 34 to bring to the same height the central fillets 29 with the fillets placed onto the upper part of the joints 4 and 23 of the tiles I and 22. In using phase the subject-matter provides the placing of one or more tiles 12 with inside flat part so to increase in vertical the flat surface able to contain the 1o photovoltaic panels 31. In this way is obtained the modularity of the flat surfaces 2, 13 and 25 and the increasing in vertical way changing the conventional tiles with corresponding tiles 12 with inside flat part on the base of the necessities of the different dimensions of the photovoltaic panels or to the different number of panels to integrate in the roof. The different measures in which the central tile 12 1s- is realized and the placing of more inside flat part tiles 12 permit to have flat surfaces able to integrate the photovoltaic panels to the roof on the base of any necessities. Other increasing of the fitness to all the using helped to the modular system is given, moreover, to the fillets 29 and 32 onto the big dimension tiles 1, 12 and 22 with the fillets having a lot of holes so to can place any photovoltaic '20 unit or any other application integrated in the covering; i.e. the fillets 29, by means of the wide regulation possibility given to the many holes present onto the fillets 32, can to be fixed exactly in the position requested to the photovoltaic unit also this is not exact multiple of the big dimension tiles 1, 12 and 22, with the central tiles 12 added or taken away on the base of the necessity. It is possible to '15 expand the areas able to accommodate the photovoltaic panels also in horizontal sense adding laterally, in substitution of to the tiles, other tiles of big dimension 1, 12 and 22 with possibility of adding in vertical sense, adding one or more tiles 12, to have wide area of flat surface onto which put the photovoltaic panels. In case of reduction of the surface necessary for the photovoltaic panels the tile 12 with '0 inside flat part is taken away and are placed again the tiles 8 onto the covering. In this way is obtained the possibility to integrate photovoltaic panels with bigger efficiency and with less dimensions onto the covering without expensive workings onto the roof but adjusting the covering on the base of the necessity simply changing modular components. The invented modular system is to be used, other to the cited photovoltaic panels, also to plants 35 for the production of sanitary hot 5' water, i.e. the thermal solar, with integration of this plants onto the roof, with the same advantages, aims and equal modularity of the invention to be adapted to the different type of plants, of different manufacturing and of different capacity so to permit also in this case to adapt the different dimensions and using at the roof without working and with architectonical integration of the thermal solar to the oa roof. In fact, it is possible to integrate onto the covering in tiles one or more plants of big dimension for the sanitary hot water and placed along the roof.

Claims

1. Modular system for architecture integration on a saddle roof of photovoltaic solar thermal modules characterized in that to consist of big dimension tiles 5 with fillets having holes so to can mount any photovoltaic panel onto the covering.

2. Modular system for architecture integration on a saddle roof of photovoltaic solar thermal modules characterized in that to consist of big dimension tiles with fillets having holes so to can mount plants for the sanitary hot water production integrated onto the roof. 10

3. Modular system for architecture integration on a saddle roof of photovoltaic solar thermal modules, as for any of the previous claims, characterized in that it permits the possibility of enlarging or reducing in vertical sense adding or taking away one or more tiles.

4. Modular system for architecture integration on a saddle roof of is photovoltaic solar thermal modules, as for any one of the previous claims, characterized in that it permits the possibility of enlarging or reducing in horizontal sense adding or taking away laterally other tiles of big dimension.

5. Modular system for architecture integration on a saddle roof of photovoltaic solar thermal modules, substantially as hereinbefore described with 20 reference to any one of the embodiments as that embodiment is shown in the accompanying drawings. Dated 12 February 2009 25 Gambale srl Patent Attorneys for the Applicant/Nominated Person SPRUSON & FERGUSON