Mitsubishi Electric Corporation

Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha

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Seiko Epson Corporation

Mitsubishi Denki Kabuhsiki Kaisha

Hidetada Tokioka

Mitsuo Inoue

Masafumi Agari

Tetsuya Ogawa

Mitsutoshi Miyasaka

Ryuichi Hashido

Yukio Sato

Tomohiro Sasagawa

Masashi Okabe

Takayuki Morioka

Hiroya Yamarin

Takahiro Urakabe

Shinsuke Yura

Mutsumi Tsuda

Junichi Nishimae

Hiroyuki Murai

Tae Orita

Tatsuki Okamoto

Takanori Okumura

Hiroaki Jiroku

Manabu Iwakawa

Hiroyuki Fuchigami

Hirofumi Konishi

Akira Yamashita

Shinsaku Yamaguchi

Kazumasa Katayama

Toshiyuki Tanaka

Akihiko Furukawa

Naoki Nakagawa

Tsutomu Matsuura

Kaoru Motonami

Masami Hayashi

Seiji Oka

Masaomi Tsuru

Nobuo Fujiwara

Mikio Yamamuka

Tsuyoshi Kawakami

Yukihiro Homma

Kunihiko Nishimura

Takehiko Sato

Kyozo Kanamoto

Keisuke Furuta

Yasutoshi Yashiki

Yasushi Fujioka

Yukio Satoh

Atsufumi Inoue

Suehiro Gotoh

Suehiro Goto

Shinya Nishimura

Maho Utsumi

Aya Nishiyama

The present disclosure has an object to hinder reduction of a yield due to a failure in an LED element or a mounting failure in a self light emitting apparatus. In a self light emitting apparatus, each pixel includes one basic cell and at least one redundant cell as a subpixel. The redundant cell includes an LED element that emits light of a color the same as at least one LED element out of LED elements included in the basic cell. A plurality of subpixels included in each pixel are configured as a subpixel group being an assembly that includes a plurality of LED elements being integrated. An array pitch of the subpixels in the subpixel group is smaller than an array pitch of the subpixels in adjacent ones of a plurality of subpixel groups.

Self light emitting apparatus, liquid crystal display apparatus, and manufacturing method for self light emitting apparatus

A failure diagnosis device for a solar battery string includes a plurality of solar battery modules having solar power generation parts and conductive frames, wherein the plurality of solar battery modules are electrically connected in series, and the frames of the plurality of solar battery modules electrically have common connection. The failure diagnosis device includes: a voltage supply part applying DC voltage between a positive electrode and a negative electrode of the plurality of solar battery modules connected in series; a measurement part measuring potential, generated by applying the DC voltage, between the positive electrode or the negative electrode of the plurality of solar battery modules connected in series and each of the frames; and a failure determination part determining a position of a faulty solar battery module in the solar battery string based on the potential measured by the measurement part.

Failure diagnosis device for solar battery string, solar power generation system equipped with same, and failure diagnosis method for solar battery string

A deterioration diagnosis device for a solar cell string and a photovoltaic power generation system includes an impedance measuring instrument to measure a frequency characteristic of a first impedance between solar power generation units connected in the solar cell string and to measure a frequency characteristic of a second impedance, an analysis unit to calculate a first increment from an initial value of a series resistance component, and to calculate a second increment from an initial value of a resistance component between the first end of the plurality of solar power generation units connected in series and the frames in the solar cell string based on the frequency characteristic of the second impedance, and a deterioration determining unit to determine a position of a solar cell module having an increased resistance in the solar cell string based on the first increment and the second increment calculated by the analysis unit.

Deterioration diagnosis device for solar cell string and photovoltaic power generation system provided with the same

A time required to manufacture a self-luminous body for a display apparatus is shortened. A self-luminous body for a display apparatus includes a backplane and a plurality of stacks. The plurality of stacks are arranged on a backplane. Each stack includes a plurality of integrated self-luminous elements. The plurality of self-luminous elements in each stack include at least two self-luminous elements that are arranged at a first pitch and emit light of the same color. The plurality of stacks include a first stack and a second stack adjacent to each other. The self-luminous element of the first stack and the self-luminous element of the second stack that emits light of the same color as a color of light emitted by the self-luminous element of the first stack are arranged at a second pitch larger than the first pitch.

Self-luminous body for display apparatus, self-luminous display apparatus, backlight, liquid crystal display apparatus, and method for manufacturing self-luminous body for display apparatus

A rectenna controller connected to a rectenna that receives radio frequency power and converts the radio frequency power into direct current power, the rectenna controller controlling the direct current power received from the rectenna and supplying the controlled direct current power to a load, the rectenna controller including: an input terminal receiving the direct current power converted by the rectenna; an output terminal supplying the controlled direct current power to the load; a first switching element disposed in a current path connecting the input terminal to the output terminal; and a controller controlling the first switching element, wherein when the controller does not operate, the first switching element becomes conducting to render the current path conductive.

Rectenna controller and rectenna apparatus including the same

A technique that ensures proper failure diagnosis of a solar cell string. A failure diagnostic method and a failure diagnostic device of the solar cell string include an impedance measure, an analyzer, and a determination processor. The analyzer obtains the inductance of the solar cell string based on a relational expression containing an impedance, an inductance, and a frequency in a predetermined equivalent circuit of the solar cell string, and the frequency characteristic of the first impedance measured by the impedance measure. The determination processor conducts failure diagnose for the solar cell string based on the inductance obtained by the analyzer.

Failure diagnostic method and failure diagnostic device of solar cell string

A thermoelectric conversion module includes a plurality of thermoelectric conversion elements formed on a first main surface of an inner tube, and a plurality of projections formed on a second main surface of an outer tube. The thermoelectric conversion element includes an interconnection, and an electrode formed at a first distance from the second main surface in a second direction. When the thermoelectric conversion module is seen from a first direction, the projections include a first projection and a second projection formed at a spacing therebetween in a third direction. A shortest distance between a first lateral surface and a top portion of the first projection and a shortest distance between a second lateral surface and a top portion of the second projection are smaller than the first distance.

Thermoelectric conversion module and method of manufacturing the same

A power semiconductor device includes an emitter electrode disposed on a semiconductor substrate and through which a main current flows, a conductive layer that is disposed on the emitter electrode and is not a sintered compact, and a sintered metal layer that is disposed on the conductive layer and is a sintered compact. The sintered metal layer has a size to cover all the emitter electrode in plan view, and has higher heat conductivity than the conductive layer. The power semiconductor device can improve heat dissipation performance and adhesion.

Power semiconductor device

A thermoelectric converter includes a substrate and two thermoelectric elements that may include a flat portion and a concave portion. The thermoelectric elements each include one end that contacts with the thermoelectric element and an other end that contacts with thermoelectric element at a bottom surface of the concave portion. The thermoelectric elements are each positioned to be suspended across a space defined by the concave portion. The thermoelectric converter can be manufactured through photolithographic process, and can be incorporated into an exhaust gas recirculation device.

Thermoelectric converter and manufacturing method for manufacturing thermoelectric converter

A photoelectric conversion device includes an n-type semiconductor layer and a p-type semiconductor layer, a collecting electrode formed on the n-type semiconductor layer, and a collecting electrode formed on the p-type semiconductor layer, on a back surface opposite to a light receiving surface of an n-type crystalline silicon substrate, and an n-type semiconductor region on a surface on a light receiving surface side of the n-type crystalline silicon substrate, wherein in the n-type semiconductor region, an n-type semiconductor region that is opposed to the n-type semiconductor layer with the n-type crystalline silicon substrate therebetween and an n-type semiconductor region that is opposed to the p-type semiconductor layer with the n-type crystalline silicon substrate therebetween have different average impurity concentrations.

Photoelectric conversion device, manufacturing method thereof, and photoelectric conversion module

To provide a solar cell that reduces occurrence of a defect and has high photoelectric conversion efficiency. The solar cell includes a silicon substrate such as an n-type single-crystal silicon substrate single crystal with pyramid-shaped irregularities P formed thereon, and an amorphous or microcrystal semiconductor layer formed on the single-crystal silicon substrate. A flat part F is formed in a valley portion of the pyramid-shaped irregularities P provided on a surface of the single-crystal silicon substrate. With this configuration, a steep angle of 70&#xb0; to 85&#xb0; of a concave portion formed by a substantially (111) surface can be widened to between 115&#xb0; and 135&#xb0;. Accordingly, a change of atomic step morphology attributable to a rounded shape can be eliminated, thereby enabling to reduce epitaxial growth and defects in the amorphous or microcrystal semiconductor layer.

Solar cell and manufacturing method thereof

A thin-film photoelectric converter in which a first electrode layer formed of a transparent conductive material, a photoelectric conversion layer for photoelectric conversion, and a second electrode layer formed of a conductive material that reflects light are stacked in that order on an insulating light-transmitting substrate. The photoelectric conversion layer and the second electrode layer are divided by dividing grooves into islands that form a plurality of photoelectric conversion cells separated from each other, adjacent ones of the plurality of photoelectric conversion cells separated by the dividing grooves being electrically connected in series. The photoelectric conversion layer includes: a first semiconductor layer including a microcrystalline structure; and a second semiconductor layer including an amorphous structure, the second semiconductor layer being disposed so as to surround all side wall portions of the first semiconductor layer that extend in in-plane directions of the insulating light-transmitting substrate.

Thin-film photoelectric converter

A back contact heterojunction photoelectric conversion device, that obtain junctions that are nearly ohmic contacts by integrally forming a transparent conductive film including an electrode directly on a p-type amorphous silicon film and a transparent conductive oxide directly on an n-type amorphous silicon film. A method of manufacturing the device includes: integrally forming an oxide electrode layer on the n-type amorphous silicon film and the p-type amorphous silicon film; and applying plasma, under a condition that a mask is disposed on the transparent conductive film covering either the n-type amorphous silicon film or the p-type amorphous silicon film, to exposed portions of transparent conductive film.

Photovoltaic element and method of manufacturing the same, and solar battery module

A photoelectric conversion device includes a front electrode, a photoelectric conversion layer formed of a semiconductor material, a transparent conductive layer formed of a transparent conductive oxide, a back electrode formed of a metal material, and a conductive layer formed of a semiconductor material primarily of silicon and having a refractive index higher than the transparent conductive layer contactually sandwiched between the transparent conductive layer and the back electrode. The photoelectric conversion device exhibits a high photoelectric conversion efficiency by keeping low the electrical resistance between the semiconductor layer and the back electrode and by increasing reflectance for light having passed though the semiconductor layer.

Photoelectric conversion device

A photoelectric conversion device is provided in which a first photoelectric conversion module having a plurality of first photoelectric conversion elements formed on one surface of a first translucent insulated substrate and a second photoelectric conversion module having a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements formed on one surface of a second translucent insulated substrate are bonded together with the first photoelectric conversion elements and the second photoelectric conversion elements placed on an inner side. The photoelectric conversion device includes a plurality of photoelectric conversion element pairs formed by electrically connecting, in series, the first photoelectric conversion elements and the second photoelectric conversion elements arranged in positions opposed to each other. All the photoelectric conversion element pairs are electrically connected in series.

Photoelectric conversion device and method of manufacturing the same

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