Solar cell module

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10224448-B2
Application number	US-201615374291-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 9, 2016
Priority date	Jun 13, 2014
Publication date	Mar 5, 2019
Grant date	Mar 5, 2019

Abstract

A solar cell module including: a solar cell; a first protection member provided on the light receiving surface side of the solar cell; a second protection member provided on the rear surface side of the solar cell; an encapsulant layer, including a first encapsulant layer disposed between the solar cell and the first protection member, and a second encapsulant layer disposed between the solar cell and the second protection member, which seals the solar cell; and a wavelength conversion substance, contained in at least the first encapsulant layer, which absorbs light having a specified wavelength, and converts the wavelength. The concentration of the wavelength conversion substance is higher in the first encapsulant layer than in the second encapsulant layer, and a resin constituting the second encapsulant layer has a smaller diffusion coefficient of the wavelength conversion substance than the diffusion coefficient of a resin constituting the first encapsulant layer.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A solar cell module comprising:
a solar cell;
a first protection member provided on a light receiving surface side of the solar cell;
a second protection member provided on a rear surface side of the solar cell;
an encapsulant layer that includes a first encapsulant layer disposed between the solar cell and the first protection member, and a second encapsulant layer disposed between the solar cell and the second protection member, and that seals the solar cell; and
a wavelength conversion substance that is contained in the first encapsulant layer and in the second encapsulant layer, and that absorbs light having a specified wavelength, and converts the wavelength, wherein
concentration of the wavelength conversion substance in the first encapsulant layer is higher than concentration of the wavelength conversion substance in the second encapsulant layer, and
resin constituting the second encapsulant layer has a smaller diffusion coefficient of the wavelength conversion substance than the diffusion coefficient of resin constituting the first encapsulant layer.

2. The solar cell module according to claim 1 , wherein
the resin constituting the second encapsulant layer has a higher storage elastic modulus at 25° C. to 90° C. than that of the resin constituting the first encapsulant layer.

3. The solar cell module according to claim 1 , wherein
the resin constituting the second encapsulant layer has a smaller intermolecular void size at 25° C. to 90° C. than that of the resin constituting the first encapsulant layer.

4. The solar cell module according to claim 1 , wherein
the wavelength conversion substance is an inorganic semiconductor nanoparticle.

5. The solar cell module according to claim 1 , wherein
the wavelength conversion substance is a luminescent metal complex.

6. The solar cell module according to claim 1 , wherein
the wavelength conversion substance is a fluorescence dye.

7. The solar cell module according to claim 1 , wherein
concentration of the wavelength conversion substance in a first region of the first encapsulant layer closer to the first protection member is higher than in a second region of the first encapsulant layer closer to the solar cell.

Assignees

• Panasonic Ip Man Co Ltd

Inventors

• Ishiguro Tasuku
• IMADA Naoto
• Irikawa Junpei
• Maekawa Akimichi

Classifications

• B32B3/266

  characterised by an apertured layer, the apertures going through the whole thickness of the layer, e.g. expanded metal, perforated layer, slit layer regular cells B32B3/12 · CPC title

• B32B27/40

  comprising polyurethanes · CPC title

• B32B15/092

  comprising epoxy resins · CPC title

• B32B2457/12

  Photovoltaic modules · CPC title

• Y02E10/50

  Photovoltaic [PV] energy · CPC title