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The patents on photovoltaic cells are concentrated in the area of semiconductors for the conversion of solar radiation into electric energy, in the area of generators for the direct conversion of light energy into electric energy and in the area of solar panels adapted for roof structures.
This family (representative patent US #7,863,084) describes back contact solar cells. It is linked to 18 earlier SETO-funded patent families, including MRIGlobal patents for CIGS cells, Stanford patents describing bi-level PV cells, and Sandia patents outlining solar cell encapsulation.
The patents that stand out in this TR are: US20040200520A1 (Metal contact structure for solar cell and method of manufacture), US20050016585A1 (Manufacturing a solar cell with backside contacts), US20060130891A1 (Back-contact photovoltaic cells) and US20070186970A1 (Solar cell and method of fabricating the same).
The TR of Mechanisms for Assembling Solar Modules ( Fig. 5) is made up of 35 patents, extracted from a cluster of 11,830 patents and 24,174 citations, all of them protected in the USA, and more recently protected in China, EPO, Japan, Canada and the United Kingdom (UK).
They include Schott Solar, SunPower and PowerLight patents for PV mountings and shingles, a Stanford patent describing a bi-level contact PV cell, a DOE patent for multi-junction PV cells, and Abacus Controls and MRIGlobal (National Renewable Energy Laboratory) patents for PV power management and storage.
In 1941, Russell S Ohl at Bell Labs invented the first silicon solar cell, securing US patent no 2,402,662 on his invention. In the ’662 patent, Ohl described a process of forming a silicon ingot using silicon of a high degree of purity, ideally around 99.85%.
But perovskites have stumbled when it comes to actual deployment. Silicon solar cells can last for decades. Few perovskite tandem panels have even been tested outside. The …
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• In PV technology, in the period 1976-2018, we identified a total of 63,172 patents (22,162 …
Maxeon solar cells feature a patented technology manufactured by Maxeon Solar; these cells are used to manufacture PV modules sold by Maxeon Solar and SunPower. In this section, we will …
These patent assets span various solar cell and solar module technologies, including Interdigitated Back Contact (IBC) and TOPCon solar cell technologies, as well as Shingled Hypercell solar module technology. ...
In what concerns the technological distribution, Fig. 5 b shows that 39% of …
Solar cell technology has seen exponential growth over the last two decades. It has evolved from serving small-scale niche applications to being considered a mainstream …
High-Temperature Performance. The power temperature coefficient is the amount of power loss as cell temperature increases. All solar cells and panels are rated using …
Solar Inventions has patented technology that could save between $2 million and $5 million per gigawatt in solar projects, while also raising rated power output.
A solar panel arrangement for capturing solar energy and supplying power for use in a building. Solar cells are embedded in a window pane and generate electrical direct current that is …
In patent application US9171991B2, Dow Global Technologies LLC disclosed a highly automated method of interconnecting flexible solar cells to form solar modules with a …
Solar cell shingling, an approach first introduced in the 1950s, targets the reduction of CTM losses mainly by: 1) eliminating the cell spacing through the overlapping of neighbouring cells; 2)
JinkoSolar has been granted a patent for a photovoltaic tile system that features interconnected color steel tiles. Each tile includes male and female ribs, a folding portion, and …
Search for Solar Energy Type Patents and Patent Applications (Class 136/206) Filed with the USPTO ... other and the individual reinforcements are spaced apart from each …
The patents on photovoltaic cells are concentrated in the area of semiconductors for the conversion of solar radiation into electric energy, in the area of …
Organic materials have promised affordable and highly tailorable solar cells which can be manufactured to absorb at specific wavelengths, including in the infrared, and be …
In what concerns the technological distribution, Fig. 5 b shows that 39% of the global patents belongs to solar cell technologies. The solar panels group forms the second …
• In PV technology, in the period 1976-2018, we identified a total of 63,172 patents (22,162 U.S. patents, 16,837 EPO patents and 24,173 WIPO patents). We grouped these patents into …
According to the invention there is provided a solar panel arrangement in a window pane …
The patents on photovoltaic cells are concentrated in the area of …
According to the invention there is provided a solar panel arrangement in a window pane comprising a number of solar cells and an electrical circuit permanently connected electrically …
The modern age of solar cells. Today, there are thousands of issued patents, both US and worldwide, on various solar cell technologies. Accompanying this explosion in …
The technological knowledge basis of this route is constituted by patents on solar cells with an integrated diode and bypass method, passing through photovoltaic panels with …
The modern age of solar cells. Today, there are thousands of issued patents, both US and worldwide, on various solar cell technologies. Accompanying this explosion in green technological innovation, cumulative …
The technology claims to increase the overall energy output of a solar cell by up to 60% and can be applied to any solar cell during the manufacturing process, creating a high …