US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on April 14 for "Solar cell module and method for manufacturing solar cell module" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,604,539, issued on April 14, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Solar cell module and method for manufacturing solar cell module" was invented by Shoichi Iwamoto (Fuji, Japan), Taizo Masuda (Yokohama, Japan), Yuya Okuda (Nisshin, Japan), Ryota Morikawa (Osaka, Japan), Shinya Iwasaki (Mizuho, Japan) and Shintaro Hinata (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A curved plate-shaped solar cell module includes a front surface layer, a back surface layer, first and second solar cell units, and an sealing material, wherein the first solar cell unit includes a plurality of strip-shaped first cells, each first cell inclu...