Sumitomo Electric Industries, Limited

Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Other

Youichi Nagai

Kenji Saito

Takashi Iwasaki

Kazumasa Toya

Yasuhiro Iguchi

Makoto Inagaki

Rui Mikami

Hiroshi Inada

Yoshiya Abiko

Koji Mori

Katsushi Akita

Hideaki Nakahata

Kei Fujii

Takashi Ishizuka

Koji Katayama

Takao Nakamura

Koji Uematsu

Makoto Kiyama

Hiroyuki Kitabayashi

Ayako Ikeda

Akihiko Kojima

Hiroki Mori

Kiyoshi Kobashi

Hiromichi Yanagihara

Takashi Sakurada

Kenichi Hirotsu

Takeshi Yamana

Susumu Yoshimoto

Kouhei Miura

Tomohiro Nemoto

Seiji Nakahata

Tomohiko Ihara

Kohei Miura

Shunsuke Ban

Kazushi Iyatani

Syunsuke Ban

Ryusuke Imai

Yoshiki Kuhara

Yasushi Araki

Yoshimasa Watanabe

Hirohisa Saito

Kohei Shimoda

Munetsugu Ueyama

Kazuhiko Shiratani

Tatsuya Tanabe

Hiroyuki Matsuyama

Zenichiro Kato

Masaki Migita

Satoru Itsuaki

Yoshimitu Henda

Shougo Asai

Kazutoshi Shibutani

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

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

Shield for concentrator photovoltaic module

This power generation circuit unit includes a wiring substrate and a plurality of power generating elements mounted to the wiring substrate. The wiring substrate includes: a first substrate (E) and a second substrate (F) to each of which the power generating element is mounted; and a coupling portion (L) configured to couple the first substrate (E) and the second substrate (F) together. The first substrate (E) can be disposed at least two positions of: a first position separated from the second substrate (F) by a first distance; and a second position separated from the second substrate (F) by a second distance being greater than the first distance. The coupling portion (L) has an FPC (flexible printed circuits). In a state where the first substrate is disposed at the second position, at least a part of the coupling portion (L) is twisted.

Power generation circuit unit

In a concentrator photovoltaic unit configured to guide sunlight concentrated by a primary concentrating portion to a power generating element by means of a secondary concentrating portion, the secondary concentrating portion includes: a secondary lens having a three-dimensional shape; and a cover portion being translucent and having a refractive index higher than that of air and lower than that of the secondary lens, the cover portion covering at least a surface on which the sunlight is incident in a surface of the secondary lens, in a thin film shape extending along the surface on which the sunlight is incident. By arranging a large number of the units, a concentrator photovoltaic module can be configured. By arranging a large number of the concentrator photovoltaic modules, a concentrator photovoltaic panel can be configured. By further providing a driving device for tracking the sun, a concentrator photovoltaic apparatus can be configured.

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

Flexible printed wiring board for a module

Jig for attaching flexible printed wiring board

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Osaka, Japan

Youichi Nagai