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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 02, 2025
Filed:
Oct. 18, 2017
Applicant:
The Boeing Company, Chicago, IL (US);
Inventor:
Eric Rehder, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Assignee:
THE BOEING COMPANY, Arlington, VA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H10F 19/90 (2025.01); H10F 19/00 (2025.01); H10F 19/70 (2025.01); H10F 77/00 (2025.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H10F 19/902 (2025.01); H10F 19/00 (2025.01); H10F 19/70 (2025.01); H10F 77/935 (2025.01);
Abstract
A solar cell array comprised of one or more solar cells attached to a substrate. The substrate includes one or more electrical connections to the solar cells and one or more switches for changing a string length for one or more of the solar cells by altering a current flow path between the one or more of the solar cells and one or more of the electrical connections.