US Patent Issued to IDEMITSU KOSAN on July 21 for "Photoelectric conversion element, method for manufacturing photoelectric conversion element, solar cell module, and paddle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,690,290, issued on July 21, was assigned to IDEMITSU KOSAN Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Photoelectric conversion element, method for manufacturing photoelectric conversion element, solar cell module, and paddle" was invented by Kyohei Horiguchi (Tokyo), Mikio Hamano (Tokyo) and Yoshihide Miyagawa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photoelectric conversion element includes: a back electrode layer formed on a substrate; a photoelectric conversion layer facing a light receiving surface side of the back electrode layer and containing a chalcogen semiconductor; and a current collector electrically connected to the light receiving surface side of t...