公开(公告)号：US06841728B2

公开(公告)日：2005-01-11

申请号：US10125329

申请日：2002-04-18

申请人： Bernard D. Jones ,  Eric de Rivera ,  Alleppey V. Hariharan ,  Steven T. Slavsky ,  Thomas S. McGee ,  David W. Lackey ,  Thomas N. Kirchner

发明人： Bernard D. Jones ,  Eric de Rivera ,  Alleppey V. Hariharan ,  Steven T. Slavsky ,  Thomas S. McGee ,  David W. Lackey ,  Thomas N. Kirchner

IPC分类号： B23P19/00 ,  B23P21/00 ,  H01L25/00 ,  H01L31/18 ,  H01P11/00

CPC分类号： H01L31/188 ,  Y02E10/50 ,  Y10S136/293 ,  Y10T29/5136 ,  Y10T29/5137 ,  Y10T29/5138 ,  Y10T29/53048 ,  Y10T29/53061 ,  Y10T29/5313 ,  Y10T29/53135

摘要： A machine for the automated assembly of wafers such as solar cells into strings, comprising a control system, a cell loader with wafer inspection station, a cell tab loader, a string assembly station, and a platen with adjacent pairs of individual cell, opposing edge grippers having multiple sets of vertically operable pincer action fingers for holding cells in string alignment during soldering. The string assembly station has a cooperating cell support and tab tail support mechanism providing for a tab tail hand off from one to the other with a platen indexing movements of cell pitch distance. The platen moves from the string assembly station through a soldering station consisting of a preheat, soldering, and cooling zones spaced a cell pitch distance apart. A string unloader moves completed strings through a string inspection station placing strings in a good or bad string holding area.

摘要翻译： 一种用于将诸如太阳能电池的晶片自动组装成串的机器，包括控制系统，具有晶片检查站的电池装载器，电池片装载器，串组件站和具有相邻单独电池单元的相对边缘的压板 夹具具有多组可垂直操作的夹紧动作指状物，用于在焊接期间将细胞保持为串联对齐。 弦组合站具有配合的单元支撑和翼片尾部支撑机构，其通过压板分度移动单元间距距离从一个到另一个提供翼片尾部手。 压板从弦组装工位通过由预热，焊接和冷却区组成的焊接站移动，隔离间隔距离。 字符串卸载程序通过字符串检查站移动完成的字符串，将字符串放置在好或坏的字符串保存区域中。