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Solar battery module
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Inventors: Yoshikawa, Masato; Noguchi, Tomoko; Kato, Nobuko;
Assignee: Bridgestone Corporation (Tokyo, JP)
Primary Examiner: Nguyen; Nam
Assistant Examiner: Miggins; Michael C.
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Sughrue, Mion, Zinn Macpeak & Seas, PLLC
Disclosed is a solar battery module including: a solar battery cell; and a surface material laminated to cover a surface of said cell; wherein a photocatalyst layer is formed on said surface material. With this module, it is possible to prevent contamination to the surface material of a solar battery module and prevent loss of sunlight irradiation energy to the solar battery, and hence to maintain an electric generation power for a long time. |
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DETAILED DESCRIPTION An object of the present invention is to provide a solar battery module capable of preventing contamination to a surface material as much as possible thereby maintaining a high electric generation power over a long period of time.
To achieve the above object, according to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a solar battery module including: a solar battery cell; and a surface material laminated to cover a surface of said cell; wherein a photocatalyst layer is formed on the surface material.
According to a second aspect of the present invention, in addition to the configuration of the first aspect, the above photocatalyst layer is formed on the surface material directly or by way of an underlying layer.
According to a third aspect of the present invention, in addition to the configuration of the first aspect, the above module further includes a photocatalyst film in which a photocatalyst layer is formed on one surface of a substrate directly or by way of an underlaying layer, and a pressure sensitive adhesive layer is formed on the other surface of said substrate; wherein said pressure sensitive adhesive layer is stuck on said surface material, to form a photocatalyst layer on said surface material.
According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, in addition to the configuration of any one of the first to third aspects, the above photocatalyst layer includes a metal oxide layer obtained by disposing a substrate on the side of a sputtering space between targets facing to each other, and forming a sputter layer on said substrate by reactive sputtering in an inert gas containing an oxygen molecule-containing gas using an facing target sputtering apparatus.
According to a fifth aspect of the present invention, in addition to the configuration of any one of the first to fourth aspects, the photocatalyst layer is a titanium oxide layer.
According to the present invention, since the photocatalyst layer made of titanium oxide or the like is formed on the surface material, even when contaminates such as dusts or finger prints are deposited to the photocatalyst layer on the surface, the photocatalyst is exited by photoirradiation by a light, for example, from the solar battery cell, and various contaminates deposited to the photocatalyst layer on the surface are decomposed and eliminated to prevent contamination as mush as possible
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