Solar cell module and manufacturing method thereof

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9484479-B2
Application number	US-201214352114-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 17, 2012
Priority date	Nov 9, 2011
Publication date	Nov 1, 2016
Grant date	Nov 1, 2016

Abstract

A solar cell module in the present invention includes: a wiring member electrically connecting solar cell elements to each other; and a structure in which a solder bonding portion is formed by bonding a collecting electrode, which is provided on a light receiving surface of the solar cell element, extends in a first direction parallel to the wiring member, and has a width smaller than that of the wiring member in a cross section vertical to the first direction, and the wiring member together by melting solder, a cross-sectional shape of the solder bonding portion vertical to the first direction has a shape that gradually narrows toward the collecting electrode from a lower surface of the wiring member, and a side surface of the solder bonding portion and a side surface of the wiring member are covered with a thermosetting resin.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A solar cell module comprising:
a wiring member that electrically connects a plurality of solar cell elements to each other;
a collecting electrode, which is provided on a light receiving surface of the solar cell element, extends in a first direction parallel to the wiring member, and has a width smaller than that of the wiring member in a cross section vertical to the first direction;
a region of solder that is formed by bonding the collecting electrode and the wiring member together by melting solder; and
a thermosetting resin that covers a side surface of the region of solder,
wherein a cross-sectional shape of the region of solder vertical to the first direction has a shape that gradually narrows toward the collecting electrode from a lower surface of the wiring member, and the solder spreads to a side surface of the collecting electrode, and
wherein portions of the wiring member not facing the collecting electrode are covered with the thermosetting resin.

2. The solar cell module according to claim 1 , wherein the collecting electrode is arranged in a state of being divided into a plurality of portions.

3. The solar cell module according to claim 1 , further comprising a plurality of thin wire electrodes each of which extends in a second direction vertical to the first direction on the light receiving surface and is connected to the collecting electrode at a position at which each of the plurality of thin wire electrodes intersects with the collecting electrode, wherein
the collecting electrode is divided between a plurality of connecting portions in which the collecting electrode is connected to each of the plurality of thin wire electrodes.

4. A manufacturing method of a solar cell module in which a plurality of solar cell elements are electrically connected to each other by a wiring member, comprising:
a first step of arranging a thermosetting resin composition on a collecting electrode, which is formed on a light receiving surface of the solar cell element so as to extend in a first direction parallel to the light receiving surface;
a second step of, while heating at a softening temperature of the thermosetting resin composition, bringing the collecting electrode and the wiring member into contact with each other by pressing the wiring member, which is covered with solder and has a width larger than that of the collecting electrode in a cross section vertical to the first direction, toward the collecting electrode from above the thermosetting resin composition arranged in the first step, and moving the thermosetting resin composition to a lateral side of the collecting electrode; and
a third step of, while heating the collecting electrode and the wiring member that are brought into contact with each other in the second step and the thermosetting resin composition that is moved in the second step to a temperature that is equal to or higher than a curing start temperature of the thermosetting resin composition and is equal to or higher than a melting point of the solder, forming a region of solder by bonding the collecting electrode and the wiring member with molten solder such that a cross-sectional shape of the region of solder has a shape that gradually narrows toward the collecting electrode from a lower surface of the wiring member, and forming a thermosetting resin on a side surface of the region of solder bonding portion by causing a thermosetting resin composition that is exuded to a side surface of the region of solder to cure,
wherein portions of the wiring member not facing the collecting electrode are covered with the thermosetting resin.

5. The manufacturing method of a solar cell module according to claim 4 , wherein
the first step includes arranging the thermosetting resin composition to protrude onto the light receiving surface, and
the second step includes moving a softened thermosetting resin composition to cover part of a side surface of the wiring member.

6. The manufacturing method of a solar cell module according to claim 4 , further comprising, after the third step, a fourth step of advancing cure by heating at a temperature equal to or higher than a curing start temperature of the thermosetting resin composition.

7. The manufacturing method of a solar cell module according to claim 4 , wherein a lamp is used for a method of melting and heating solder in the third step.

8. The solar cell module according to claim 1 , wherein a lateral side surface of the wiring member is covered with the thermosetting resin.

Assignees

• Hamaguchi Tsuneo
• Yabugaki Yoshimi
• Echizenya Daisuke
• Fujita Jun
• Takayama Tomoo
• Miyamoto Shinsuke
• Mitsubishi Electric Corp

Inventors

• Hamaguchi Tsuneo
• Yabugaki Yoshimi
• Echizenya Daisuke
• Fujita Jun
• Takayama Tomoo
• Miyamoto Shinsuke

Classifications

• Y02E10/50

  Photovoltaic [PV] energy · CPC title

• H01L31/0512

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H01L31/05 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H10F19/906 Primary

  characterised by the materials of the structures · CPC title

• H10F19/90 Primary

  Structures for connecting between photovoltaic cells, e.g. interconnections or insulating spacers (between thin-film photovoltaic cells on a single substrate H10F19/35) · CPC title