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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 10, 2019
Filed:
Jun. 13, 2017
Solaria Corporation, Fremont, CA (US);
Kevin R. Gibson, Redwood City, CA (US);
Aureo Parilla, Hayward, CA (US);
Manny Castro, San Jose, CA (US);
SOLARIA CORPORATION, Fremont, CA (US);
Abstract
In an example, a method includes providing a photovoltaic string comprising a plurality of from 2 to 45 strips, each of the plurality of strips being configured in a series arrangement with each other, each of the plurality of strips being coupled to another one of the plurality of strips using an electrically conductive adhesive (ECA) material, detecting at least one defective strip in the photovoltaic string, applying thermal energy to the ECA material to release the ECA material from a pair of photovoltaic strips to remove the defective photovoltaic strip, removing any residual ECA material from one or more good photovoltaic strip, aligning the photovoltaic string without the damaged photovoltaic strip, and a replacement photovoltaic strip that replaces the defective photovoltaic strip, and curing a reapplied ECA material on the replacement photovoltaic strip to provide the photovoltaic string with the replacement photovoltaic strip.