Sumitomo Electric Industries, Limited

Sumitomo Chemical Company, Limited

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Sumika Fine Chemicals, Co.,ltd.

Sumitomo Seika Chemicals Co., Ltd.

Sekisui House, Ltd.

Kenji Saito

Youichi Nagai

Takashi Iwasaki

Kazumasa Toya

Makoto Inagaki

Koji Mori

Rui Mikami

Yoshiya Abiko

Hiroshi Yamachika

Yoshiaki Oda

Sanshiro Matsuo

Kazushi Iyatani

Akihiko Kojima

Gohfu Suzukamo

Yukio Yoneyoshi

Kenichi Hirotsu

Takeshi Yamana

Norio Kometani

Yukihisa Takisawa

Tomohiro Nemoto

Ryusuke Imai

Azusa Fujiwara

Hideaki Nakahata

Yoshiki Kuhara

Masao Moriguchi

Masahito Sekiguchi

Kazuya Minamisaka

Hiroyuki Konaka

Shinzo Seko

Hiroshi Ikeda

Munetsugu Ueyama

Kazuhiko Takahashi

Hiroyuki Matsuyama

Shinzaburo Masaki

Hiroshi Yoshihara

Nobuharu Kono

Kazuyoshi Yamashita

Takashi Kawai

Yukio Koike

Shougo Asai

Yoshikazu Kogetsu

An example outdoor structure incorporates: an outer wall surface for zoning into indoor space of a building and the outdoors; an outdoor ceiling part projecting outdoors from the outer wall surface; two side walls substantially parallel to each other projecting outdoors from opposite sides of the outer wall surface and each having an upper end connected to the outdoor ceiling part; and a blocking part separated outdoors from the outer wall surface in such a manner as to face the outer wall surface, and used for blocking eyes from outside, wherein the blocking part has a breadth less than a distance between the two side walls and has an upper end connected to the outdoor ceiling part.

Outdoor structure

This photovoltaic module includes: a power generating element configured to receive sunlight to generate power; and a housing which is closed, the housing having: a concentrating portion provided with a lens configured to concentrate sunlight; a bottom portion in which the power generating element is disposed; and a side wall serving as an outer frame for the bottom portion and supporting the concentrating portion. The side wall is a resin molded body including a resin and glass fibers dispersed in the resin, the resin is one of PET (Polyethylene terephthalate), PBT (Polybutylene Terephthalate), and PP (Polypropylene), and the glass fibers are orientated, in the resin, along a crossing direction that crosses a direction of an optical axis of the lens.

Photovoltaic module, photovoltaic panel, and production method for photovoltaic module

This inspection system for a concentrator photovoltaic apparatus includes: a module; a tracking mount configured to track the sun, the tracking mount having mounted thereto an array formed by assembling a plurality of the modules; an inverter apparatus to extract a direct-current power generated by the array, convert the direct-current power into an alternating-current power, and output the alternating-current power; and an imaging apparatus being positioned between the sun and the array tracking the sun, the imaging apparatus taking an image of the array from a direction orthogonal to a surface of the array. While the array is tracking the sun and is causing sunlight to be concentrated on the cell, the inverter apparatus produces a state where extraction of a power from the array is restricted, to cause the cell to spontaneously emit light, and the imaging apparatus takes an image of the emitted light of the cell.

Inspection system for concentrating photovoltaic apparatus and inspection method for light receiving part

A method for manufacturing a concentrator photovoltaic module including: power generating elements whereon sunlight is concentrated by condenser lenses; and a housing accommodating the power generating elements. The housing includes a resin frame body, a metal bottom plate closing a bottom-side opening of the frame body and an inner surface wherein power generating elements are disposed. The method includes: a peripheral edge of the inner surface of the bottom plate connected to a bottom end surface of the frame body, fixing the bottom plate to the frame body creating the housing; and fixing the housing to a transport jig for transporting the housing horizontally. The transport jig includes a support portion corresponding to the bottom end surface of the frame body, and supports the housing. The housing is fixed to the transport jig, with the support portion attached to a peripheral edge of an outer surface of the bottom plate.

Method for manufacturing concentrator photovoltaic module, and transport jig

This method for detecting a poor module-mounting-state in a concentrator photovoltaic apparatus includes: photographing a surface of an array by an imaging device; obtaining an image in which a virtual image, magnified through a condenser lens, of a light receiving portion including a cell and a vicinity thereof is formed, and a collection of pixels of the virtual image forms a composite virtual image of an entirety of the light receiving portion, the composite virtual image being projected over a plurality of modules; and detecting a poor module-mounting-state based on a form of the composite virtual image.

Method for detecting poor mounting state of module, and array

A concentrator photovoltaic module includes: a concentrating portion configured by arranging a plurality of Fresnel lenses that concentrate sunlight; a plurality of power generating elements arranged at positions corresponding respectively to the plurality of Fresnel lenses; a plurality of ball lenses corresponding respectively to the plurality of power generating elements and guide the sunlight concentrated by the plurality of Fresnel lenses to the plurality of power generating elements; and a housing that contains the plurality of ball lenses and the plurality of power generating elements. The housing includes a resin frame body, and a metal bottom plate that is fixed to the frame body, and on the inner surface of which the plurality of ball lenses and the plurality of power generating elements are arranged. The groove portion for reducing thermal expansion of the inner surface side of the bottom plate is on the inner surface of the bottom plate.

Concentrator photovoltaic module, concentrator photovoltaic panel, and concentrator photovoltaic apparatus

When upper-lower positional relationship on an optical path is defined such that the primary concentrating portion is at an upper position than the secondary concentrating portion, the secondary concentrating portion includes: a secondary lens provided above the power generating element; a lens supporting portion configured to support the secondary lens; and a shielding plate being a flat-plate-shaped member preventing sunlight to pass therethrough whereas allowing an upper portion of the secondary lens to be exposed from a hole formed in the flat-plate-shaped member, the shielding plate being fixed in a state of being mounted to the lens supporting portion, the shielding plate being configured to block light converging at a position outside the secondary lens.

Concentrator photovoltaic unit, concentrator photovoltaic module, concentrator photovoltaic panel, and concentrator photovoltaic device

This wiring module includes: a wiring substrate; a base portion at which the wiring substrate is placed; and an adhesive layer configured to adhere the wiring substrate to the base portion, wherein the wiring substrate includes: a land portion configured to have a power generating element mounted thereto; and a wire portion configured to be electrically connected to the power generating element, the adhesive layer has: a land adhesion region configured to adhere the land portion to the base portion; and a wire adhesion region configured to adhere the wire portion to the base portion, and a width of the wire adhesion region is smaller than a width of the land adhesion region.

Wiring module

This power generation module includes: a power generating portion () including a power generating element (); and a wiring substrate. The wiring substrate includes: a reinforcement plate; and a flexible printed circuit () provided above the reinforcement plate. The flexible printed circuit () has: an FPC land portion () configured to have the power generating portion () mounted thereto; and a FPC wire portion () connected to the FPC land portion (). The width of the FPC wire portion () is smaller than the width of the FPC land portion ().

Power generation module and wiring substrate

Provided is a flexible printed circuit including: a film-shaped insulating base material having flexibility and having a withstand voltage value of at least 2000 V; and an electric conductor layer formed on the insulating base material and forming a circuit pattern, wherein with respect to the insulating base material, a principal component thereof is a polyimide and a filler content thereof is 0%. Thus, a flexible printed circuit can be obtained that has an insulating base material which suppresses decrease in withstand voltage performance even in a high humidity environment.

Flexible printed circuit, and concentrator photovoltaic module and concentrator photovoltaic panel using same

Casing for a concentrator photovoltaic module

This photovoltaic module includes: a power generating element configured to receive light to generate power; and a housing which is closed, the housing having: a concentrating portion provided with a lens configured to concentrate sunlight; a bottom portion in which the power generating element is disposed; and a side wall serving as an outer frame for the bottom portion and supporting the concentrating portion. The side wall is formed from a resin and has at least one vent hole.

Photovoltaic module and photovoltaic panel

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

A concentrator photovoltaic module according to one embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a case; a substrate disposed on a bottom surface of the case and having a plurality of stacked wiring layers; and concentrator photovoltaic elements disposed on the substrate and connected to the wiring layers. The concentrator photovoltaic elements connected to different wiring layers are connected to each other in parallel. According to the concentrator photovoltaic module according to the one embodiment of the present disclosure, output voltage can be decreased.

Concentrator photovoltaic module, concentrator photovoltaic device, and hydrogen generating system

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

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Osaka, Japan

Kenji Saito