CEO Elon Musk has already drawn the attention of investors and potential buyers that the new tiles manufactured by Tesla, is a high-tech design with a lot of innovations, but the details were not disclosed. Now, with the publication of the patent application, everything became much clearer.
The patent was filed by the company Solar City last spring, around the time Elon Musk started talking about its merger with Tesla. Apparently, after reviewing the idea, he decided to unite the efforts of the two manufacturers. Now, when the patent rights are owned by Tesla, and the roof have already started to mount on the homes of some employees, the opportunity to see the design of the shingles.
Private Sunny roof elements are attached to each other “ladder” using a special conductive glue that reacts to heat. This allows not only to quickly attach to one another without the use of wires, but also to replace defective modules. In addition, the simple design significantly reduces the cost of manufacture and installation. However, whether you use the mounting method now, is unknown, because of the filing of the patent has been more than a year, and this means that engineers from both companies could be made to the design a number of changes.
The Tesla patent disclosed a principle of installation of solar roofs
Vyacheslav Larionov