Manufacturing of photovoltaic subassemblies

US8101039B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Cardinal IG Company · US

Inventors

• Curtis Lee Queck · Spring Green, US
• Jacobus P. Pretorius · Lone Rock, US
• Robert C. Buchanan · Wilmington, US
• Robert C. Grommesh · St. Louis Park, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 17, 2008
• Grant date: Jan 24, 2012
• Expiry date: Feb 22, 2030

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T156/1734

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.