US 11,894,804 B2
Photovoltaic module, photovoltaic panel, and production method for photovoltaic module
Makoto Inagaki, Osaka (JP); Youichi Nagai, Osaka (JP); Kenji Saito, Osaka (JP); Takashi Iwasaki, Osaka (JP); Rui Mikami, Osaka (JP); and Tomohiro Nemoto, Osaka (JP)
Assigned to Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., Osaka (JP)
Filed by Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., Osaka (JP)
Filed on Jan. 5, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/141,917.
Application 17/141,917 is a continuation in part of application No. 15/320,709, abandoned, previously published as PCT/JP2015/067817, filed on Jun. 22, 2015.
Claims priority of application No. 2014-132501 (JP), filed on Jun. 27, 2014; and application No. 2014-182362 (JP), filed on Sep. 8, 2014.
Prior Publication US 2021/0126579 A1, Apr. 29, 2021
Int. Cl. H02S 20/10 (2014.01); H02S 30/10 (2014.01); H02S 40/22 (2014.01); H01L 31/054 (2014.01); H01L 31/048 (2014.01)
CPC H02S 40/22 (2014.12) [H01L 31/048 (2013.01); H01L 31/0543 (2014.12); H02S 20/10 (2014.12); H02S 30/10 (2014.12)] 3 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A photovoltaic module comprising:
a power generating element configured to receive sunlight to generate power; and
a housing which is closed, the housing having: a concentrating portion provided with a lens configured to concentrate sunlight; a bottom portion in which the power generating element is disposed; and a side wall serving as an outer frame for the bottom portion and supporting the concentrating portion, wherein
the side wall is a resin molded body including a resin and glass fibers dispersed in the resin,
the resin is one of PET (Polyethylene terephthalate), PBT (Polybutylene Terephthalate), and PP (Polypropylene),
the glass fibers are orientated, in the resin, along a crossing direction that crosses a direction of an optical axis of the lens,
the side wall has a rectangular frame shape including four wall portions,
the four wall portions each have a rectangular shape with its longitudinal direction crossing the direction of the optical axis and include a pair of gate marks being a trace of a gate used at injection molding, and
the pair of gate marks is provided at each of both end portions in the longitudinal direction of an outer face of each of the four wall portions.