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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 03, 2015
Filed:
Feb. 24, 2011
Hiroaki Hayashi, Minato-ku, JP;
Ryuichi Shiratsuchi, Kitakyushu, JP;
Suehiro Ohkubo, Kitakyushu, JP;
Shuzi Hayase, Kitakyushu, JP;
Taiichi Mure, Kitakyushu, JP;
Yasuhiro Shishida, Kitakyushu, JP;
Hiroaki Hayashi, Minato-ku, JP;
Ryuichi Shiratsuchi, Kitakyushu, JP;
Suehiro Ohkubo, Kitakyushu, JP;
Shuzi Hayase, Kitakyushu, JP;
Taiichi Mure, Kitakyushu, JP;
Yasuhiro Shishida, Kitakyushu, JP;
Tokyo Electron Limited, Tokyo, JP;
Kyushu Institute of Technolgy, Kitakyushu-shi, JP;
Abstract
In an apparatus for manufacturing a dye-sensitized solar cell, a photosensitization dye solution makes contact with an electrode material layer that functions as a working electrode of a dye-sensitized solar cell so that the photosensitizing dye is adsorbed on the layer. Such an apparatus for manufacturing a dye-sensitized solar cell has a substrate housing section to house a substrate with the electrode material layer formed on its surface, and a circulation mechanism to circulate the photosensitization dye solution in such a way that the solution passes a surface of the substrate housed in the substrate housing section. In such an apparatus, a cross-sectional area of a flow path for the photosensitization dye solution in a portion facing the substrate in the substrate housing section is set smaller than a cross-sectional area of a flow path for the photosensitization dye solution in other portions.