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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 06, 2014
Filed:
Mar. 30, 2012
Sean Timothy Halloran, Denver, CO (US);
James Victor Schaefer, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Frank Sanford Prescott, Berthoud, CO (US);
Sean Timothy Halloran, Denver, CO (US);
James Victor Schaefer, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Frank Sanford Prescott, Berthoud, CO (US);
First Solar, Inc., Tempe, AZ (US);
Abstract
A method for gapping substrates conveyed through a vacuum chamber is disclosed. The method may include positioning an upstream substrate outside the vacuum chamber as a downstream substrate is conveyed within the vacuum chamber, detecting a position of the downstream substrate within the vacuum chamber and conveying the upstream substrate into the vacuum chamber at a conveyance rate greater than a conveyance rate of the downstream substrate to set a gap between the downstream substrate and the upstream substrate.