公开(公告)号：US20230116994A1

公开(公告)日：2023-04-20

申请号：US17793515

申请日：2021-01-13

Applicant: DOWA ECO SYSTEM CO., LTD.

Inventor： Shota TAHATA ,  Hisashi SASAKI ,  Ryoei WATANABE

IPC: B09B3/35 ,  B07B4/00 ,  B02C23/20 ,  C22B7/00

Abstract: A metal recovery method includes crushing a photovoltaic module or a photovoltaic sheet-like structure to form debris; and sorting the debris, wherein the photovoltaic sheet-like structure is obtained by removing a glass substrate and a frame member from the photovoltaic module, and includes at least a photovoltaic cell, a metal pattern wired from the photovoltaic cell, and an encapsulant to encapsulate the photovoltaic cell and the metal pattern.