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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 29, 1987
Filed:
Feb. 10, 1986
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Teijin Limited, Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L / ; H01L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
136244 ; 136249 ; 136258 ; 437-5 ; 437173 ; 437 67 ;
Abstract
An insulating strip is disposed between a top or/and bottom electrode layer and a photosensitive semiconductor layer, particularly an amorphous semiconductor layer, so that even if a groove traversing the top electrode layer and/or the semiconductor layer is formed along the insulating strip by laser scribing and damage occurs in respective layers, the damage does not affect the performance of the integrated solar cells. Thus, incorporation of a laser scribing process for dividing a solar cell is made practically possible. Moreover, application of a laser welding process for series-connection of divided parts of a solar cell is made practically possible.