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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 24, 2012
Filed:
Dec. 17, 2008
Curtis L. Queck, Spring Green, WI (US);
Jacobus P. C. Pretorius, Lone Rock, WI (US);
Robert C. Buchanan, Spring Green, WI (US);
Robert C. Grommesh, St. Louis Park, MN (US);
Curtis L. Queck, Spring Green, WI (US);
Jacobus P. C. Pretorius, Lone Rock, WI (US);
Robert C. Buchanan, Spring Green, WI (US);
Robert C. Grommesh, St. Louis Park, MN (US);
Cardinal IG Company, Eden Prairie, MN (US);
Abstract
Some methods, and corresponding apparatus, for manufacturing photovoltaic subassemblies cause a plurality of desiccant beads to be adhered to an adhesive surface of sheet-like material; the sheet-like material is then, preferably, adhered to an exposed surface of a flexible and electrically non-conductive film, that covers a photovoltaic coating of a first substrate of the subassembly, such that the desiccant beads are held between the sheet-like material and the exposed surface. Some other methods, either alternatively or in addition to the above, include steps for applying the film, that covers the photovoltaic coating, wherein an opening, through the film, is cut, and then aligned, with lead wires of the photovoltaic coating, in the midst of applying the film.