FR2497563A1 - Solar panel support frame - is in form of door or window shutter with insulating surround - Google Patents

Abstract

The solar panel support consists of a box section with a base (1) and four sides (2). The structure is fixed to the edge of the opening by a hinge. During periods when the building is not in use the solar panel, in the support, can be closed over the opening. The solar panel consists of a surrounding layer of insulation (5) an absorber and a glass cover. In the closed position, the absorber is insulated from the solar radiation by the base.

Description

The present invention relates to a collector support
of solar energy.

The different types of solar energy collector are cons
with a box with the long side facing the sun open
while inside said box are arranged the elements intended
born to absorb solar radiation and transmit the heat produced to a thermofluid. The boxes are fixedly arranged
or rotary on suitable supports generally on the roof for instructions or independently on the ground.

 The disadvantage of these maintenance methods is that during the night or when the accommodation is not used, the collectors are subject to deterioration due to weather conditions, humidity, rain, fog, frost, etc.

 The object of the invention is to overcome the drawback previously explained.

 The subject of the invention is a support for a solar energy collector, characterized in that it consists of a movable panel such as a door, a shutter, etc. . , articulated at at least one lateral end, on one face of which is kept a box comprising the elements intended to absorb solar radiation and transmit the heat produced to a thermofluid, said box being directly fixed on the panel or is inserted between perpendicular elements continuous or discontinuous integral with the panel, attached to the circumference of said panel or arranged intermediately; the face of the movable panel receiving the box being that said interior when the movable panel closes the opening of the construction.

Other characteristics and advantages of the invention will emerge more clearly from the description which follows, given with regard to the attached drawings given by way of nonlimiting example, where:
FIG. 1 is a cross section of a support panel, the insulated solar energy collection box,
- Figure 2, a loggitudinal section of a support panel,
- Figure 3, a movable panel the solar energy collector box facing the sun,
- Figure 4, a variant of fixing the box.

 As shown in Figures 1 and 2, the movable panel 1 such as door, flap, etc. . , is provided on its periphery with a perpendicular element 2 attached and maintained by any appropriate means according to the material constituting said panel 1, element 2 according to a variant not shown can be produced in the mass of the panel at least on the blades between the upper and lower banks and crossbars. Between the elements 2, the box 3 is inserted inside which the elements intended for collecting solar energy are placed, the box 3 is maintained on the elements 2 by any appropriate means such as as screws, bolts, etc. as shown, it can be arranged between the faces of the box 3 and the perpensicular elements 2 and the facing 4 of the movable panel 1 a compressible insulation 5 on the one hand to perfect insulation and on the other hand to compensate for the deformations due to expansion. The facing 4 of the panel 1 receiving the collector being that which is said to be interior when the movable panel closes the opening of the construction, the energy collector ie solar is oriented facing the sun when opening doors, shutters etc. said collector being soled when the doors, shutters, etc., are closed, the pipes of the collectors in which the thermofluid circulates are connected by means of flexible pipes a or any other with the pipes of the exchanger.

 Without departing from the scope of the invention; the movable panel 1 and its perpendicular elements 2 can constitute the box of the solar energy collector, the elements of said collector being fixed on the latter, it is also possible to maintain the box 3 by perpendicular elements 2 discontinuous.

 According to the variant shown in Figure 5, the box 3 of the solar energy collector can be. maintained by means of intermediate tabs 6, these being discontinuous around the periphery of the box and fixed to the mobile panel, they can be continuous and constitute an open box receiving the box from the solar energy collector or constitute the latter as previously described.

Claims (5)

CLAIMS SEE INTERMEDIATE. or is inserted and maintained between continuous or discontinuous perpendicular elements integral with the panel on its periphery or available thermofluid, said box being directly fixed on the panel the solar radiation and transmitting the heat produced to a maintained a box comprising the elements intended to absorb which when the panel closes the opening of the construction is caked on at least one lateral end, on the so-called interior face that it consists of a movable panel such as door, shutter, etc. ., arti  1 ") Solar collector support characterized by the fact  2) Support for solar energy collector according to claim 1 characterized by the perpendicular elements of the panel constituting the box of the solar energy collector.  3) Support for solar energy collector according to claim 1 characterized by a compressible insulation inserted between the box of the solar energy collector and the perpendicular elements and the facing.  4) Support for solar energy collector according to claim 1 characterized by the solar energy collector oriented facing the sun when opening doors, shutters, etc.  5) Support for solar energy collector according to claim 1 characterized by the solar energy collector isolated when closing the shutters.