ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,038, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to KANEKA Corp. (Osaka, Japan).
"Solar battery module" was invented by Junichi Nakamura (Settsu, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A solar battery module capable of suppressing a large load from being applied on a cut end section of a solar battery cell. This solar battery module has a curved surface shape and comprises flat solar battery cells arranged using a singling method. Each of the solar battery cells is a half-cut cell obtained by cutting a predetermined-sized substrate into two pieces, has a cut end section and a non-cut end section as two end sections facing each other in the arran...