Patent ID: 9577131
Date: 2017-02-21
CPC Classifications: H01L,H02S,Y02E

Claim:
1. A concentrator photovoltaic module comprising: a housing formed in a vessel shape and having a bottom surface; a flexible printed circuit provided in contact with the bottom surface, the flexible printed circuit including a ribbon shaped base in which, except for a thickness direction, a large dimension is a longitudinal direction and a short dimension is a widthwise direction; and a concentrating portion attached to the housing and formed by a plurality of lens elements being arranged, each lens element concentrating sunlight, wherein the flexible printed circuit includes: a pattern having conductivity and provided on the insulating base material, the pattern having a width smaller than a width of the insulating base material to thereby secure a creepage distance between both ends of the insulating base material and respective ends of the pattern in the widthwise direction;