Patent ID: 9515214
Filing Date: 2016-12-06
CPC Classification: H01L,Y02E

Claim Text:
1. A solar battery module comprising: a plurality of solar battery cells, a plain shape of each being a substantial rectangle, and a ratio of a short side length and a long side length of the substantial rectangle being 1/n:1 (n is an integer equal to or larger than 2), includes a plurality of light-receiving-surface bus electrodes parallel to the short side of the substantial rectangle on a light receiving surface, and includes rear-surface bus electrodes each at a position on a non-light-receiving surface corresponding to each of the light-receiving-surface bus electrodes; and an interconnector that electrically connects the light-receiving-surface bus electrodes of a first one of the solar battery cells to the rear-surface bus electrodes of an adjacent second one of the solar battery cells, wherein a predetermined number of the solar battery cells are serially connected to each other, thereby configuring a cell string, n columns of the cell strings are connected in parallel by a first string connector at one end of the n columns, the n in the number of columns of the cell strings connected in parallel being equal to the n in the ratio of the long side length to the short side length, and the n-column parallel-connected cell strings are further serially connected to another n-column parallel-connected cell strings by a second string connector at an opposite end of the n columns, thereby configuring an entire cell array.