Sumitomo Electric Industries, Limited

Akihiko Kojima

Youichi Nagai

Kenji Saito

Takashi Iwasaki

Makoto Inagaki

Yoshiya Abiko

Koji Mori

Rui Mikami

Tomohiro Nemoto

A concentrator photovoltaic module including: a concentrating portion formed by arranging a plurality of lens elements each configured to concentrate sunlight; and a housing configured to accommodate a plurality of power generating elements disposed at positions respectively corresponding to the lens elements, wherein the housing includes: a frame body formed from resin; and a bottom plate formed from metal, the bottom plate being mounted to the frame body and having the power generating elements mounted thereto, and the frame body includes: a frame body portion forming an outer frame; and a liner portion extending along an upper surface of the bottom plate at an inner side of the frame body portion, the liner portion having both end portions thereof formed integrally with the frame body portion.

Concentrating solar power generation module, concentrating solar power generation panel, and concentrating solar power generation device

Casing for concentrator photovoltaic module

An enclosure for a concentrator photovoltaic device according to the present disclosure includes a side wall having an upper end, a lower end, an inner surface, and an outer surface, the side wall being composed of a resin, the side wall being provided with an air hole extending through the inner and outer surfaces of the side wall, the air hole being inclined from the inner surface of the side wall to the outer surface of the side wall in a direction from the upper end of the side wall toward the lower end of the side wall. According to the present disclosure, power generation efficiency of a photovoltaic module can be further increased, and the photovoltaic module can be suppressed from being decreased in performance due to entrance of undesired matters to inside of the case, such as dusts, water droplets, and foreign matters.

Enclosure for concentrator photovoltaic device and concentrator photovoltaic device using same

A mounting structure of a housingfor a concentrator photovoltaic moduleM includes: a bottom plateframed from an electric conductor and having a plurality of cellsarrayed thereat; a side wall framemade of resin, the side wall framestanding along the outer edge of the bottom plateand configured to hold a concentrating portionso as to face the bottom plate; a pair of the frames(support member) each being a grounded electric conductor, the pair of the framesconfigured to be in contact with the bottom plateto support the moduleM; and boltsand nuts, as a fastening member, configured to fasten the pair of the framesand the bottom plateto each other thereby to fix the moduleM to the pair of the frames, the boltsand the nutseach being an electric conductor thereby to serve as paths for electric connection from the bottom plateto the pair of the frames

Mounting structure for concentrated photovoltaic module housing, concentrated photovoltaic module, concentrated photovoltaic panel, and concentrated photovoltaic device

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Osaka, Japan

Akihiko Kojima