US Patent Issued to KANEKA on May 6 for "Solar cell and method for producing solar cell" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,182, issued on May 6, was assigned to KANEKA Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Solar cell and method for producing solar cell" was invented by Junichi Nakamura (Settsu, Japan) and Shimpei Okamoto (Settsu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A solar cell comprising a semiconductor substrate, first semiconductor layers, second semiconductor layers, a band-like first base electrode stacked on the first semiconductor layer, a band-like second base electrode stacked on the second semiconductor layer, a first electrode insulation stacked on the first base electrodes, a second electrode insulation stacked on the second base electrodes, an intermediat...