Patent ID: 6812397
Filing Date: 2004-11-02
Classification: E04F,E04H,H02S,Y02B,Y02E,Y10S

Abstract:
A device intended to be used as a shade, awning, blind and swimming pool or pond cover, comprising a photocurrent-generating fabric and a support for winding and storing said fabric, wherein the support is formed by an axisymetric tube of regular polygonal cross section, the fabric is wound around a periphery of the tube and the photocurrent-generating fabric comprises a layer of interconnected photovoltaic cells, said photovoltaic cells being distributed over the fabric in a succession of rows, spacing between two adjacent rows being chosen in such a way that storage of said fabric on the tube of polygonal cross section allows the cells to be kept in a plane parallel to one of sides of a polygon formed by said regular polygonal cross section.