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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 30, 2016
Filed:
Jul. 04, 2013
Solar Frontier K.k., Tokyo, JP;
Hitachi Zosen Corporation, Osaka, JP;
Yoshiya Nishijima, Tokyo, JP;
Tetsuo Miyano, Tokyo, JP;
Hideo Tanaka, Tokyo, JP;
Ichiro Sakai, Osaka, JP;
Takuto Yamashita, Osaka, JP;
Hiroki Yamada, Osaka, JP;
Shigeaki Nakayama, Osaka, JP;
SOLAR FRONTIER K.K., Tokyo, JP;
HITACHI ZOSEN CORPORATION, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A method of manufacturing a thin-film photovoltaic module in which a photoelectric conversion element is deposited on a substrate, includes removing the photoelectric conversion element at a frame shape area from sides of the substrate toward inside with a predetermined width by a first removing step of scanning a first photoelectric conversion element removing device at the area along the sides of the substrate to remove the photoelectric conversion element for the predetermined width, and a second removing step of scanning a second photoelectric conversion element removing device within the area along the sides of the substrate to remove the photoelectric conversion element that is not removed in the first removing step at a width narrower than the predetermined width and without superimposing a center line of a scanning path on a center line of a scanning path of the first photoelectric conversion element removing device.