Sumitomo Electric Industries, Limited

Hiroyuki Konaka

Kenji Saito

Masao Moriguchi

Koji Mori

Kazumasa Toya

Makoto Yamashita

Kazushi Iyatani

Norio Yasuoka

Toshio Kometani

Seiji Yamamoto

Akio Konda

Shigeru Kato

Takeshi Umehara

Masataka Kobayashi

A mounting structure for a photovoltaic module, the photovoltaic module including: a plurality of power generating elements; and a housing having a metal bottom plate on which the plurality of power generating elements are arrayed, and a resin side wall frame standing along an outer edge of the bottom plate, the mounting structure including: a support plate having a support face configured to be in contact with an outer face of the bottom plate to support the photovoltaic module; a washer to be disposed on one face which is an inner face of the bottom plate or a face, of the support plate, at a side opposite to the support face; and a rivet having a shank portion and a head, the shank portion being configured to be passed through the support plate and the bottom plate to be inserted into the washer, the head formed at one end portion of the shank portion, the rivet being configured to sandwich and fasten the support plate and the bottom plate between the washer and the head by an other end portion of the shank portion being deformed so as to have an enlarged diameter.

Mounting structure for photovoltaic power generation module, photovoltaic power generation module, photovoltaic power generation panel, and photovoltaic power generation device

Casing for concentrator photovoltaic module

There is provided a method and apparatus of detecting minute impurities in the entire body of a fluid. Part of the passage through which the fluid flows is constituted by a transparent member. Light is emitted in a direction substantially parallel to the longitudinal axis of this part of the fluid passage so as to envelop the same. Light scattered by impurities in the fluid is observed from a direction substantially perpendicular to the direction of the passage to detect any minute impurities in the fluid. The method and apparatus is well-suited for use in systems which extrude molten resin in the formation of plastic products used in an electrical environment in order to detect impurities in the resin which could adversely affect the performance of the products.

Method and apparatus of detecting impurities in fluid

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Osaka, Japan

Hiroyuki Konaka