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US 11,637,212 B2Granted
Apparatus and method for manufacturing a solar cell arrangement, and solar cell arrangement
AssigneeApplied Materials Italia S.R.L.
InventorsMarco Galiazzo, Luigi De Santi
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Abstract
An apparatus includes a first processing line. The first processing line includes a cleaving station adapted for separating a solar cell into two or more solar cell pieces. The apparatus includes a second processing line. The second processing line includes a storing station adapted for storing a plurality of solar cell pieces. The second processing line includes a transportation system adapted for transporting a solar cell piece from the storing station to the first processing line.
Claims17
An apparatus, comprising:
- a scribing station for scribing a solar cell to provide the solar cell with at least one scribed portion;
- a cleaving station adapted for breaking the solar cell into two or more solar cell shingles at at least one breaking location defined by the at least one scribed portion of the solar cell;
- an assembling station adapted for assembling a shingled solar cell arrangement comprising a plurality string of partially overlapping solar cell shingles, wherein adjacent solar cell shingles of the shingled solar cell arrangement are electrically connected to each other in an overlapping region via an electrically conductive adhesive;
- a first transportation system adapted for transporting solar cell shingles from the cleaving station to the assembling station;
- a storing station adapted for storing a plurality of solar cell shingles, wherein each solar cell shingle of the stored plurality of solar cell shingles does not include an electrically conductive adhesive for connecting the solar cell shingle to a further solar cell shingle;
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- a second transportation system adapted for transporting solar cell shingles from the storing station to the first transportation system.
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A method for manufacturing a shingled solar cell arrangement, comprising:
- scribing a solar cell to provide the solar cell with at least one scribed portion;
- separating a solar cell into two or more solar cell shingles by breaking the solar cell at at least one breaking location defined by the at least one scribed portion of the solar cell, the two or more solar cell shingles including a first solar cell shingle;
- transporting the first solar cell shingle to an assembling station;
- storing a second solar cell shingle in a storing station, wherein, during the storing, the second solar cell shingle does not include an electrically conductive adhesive for connecting the second solar cell shingle to a further solar cell shingle;
- transporting the second solar cell shingle from the storing station to the assembling station;
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- assembling a shingled solar cell arrangement comprising a string of partially overlapping solar cell shingles, wherein adjacent solar cell shingles of the shingled solar cell arrangement are electrically connected to each other in an overlapping region via an electrically conductive adhesive, the shingled solar cell arrangement including the first solar cell shingle and the second solar cell shingle.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.