Patent ID: 8604819

Claim:
An inspecting apparatus for a photovoltaic devices, wherein the inspecting apparatus inspects a photovoltaic devices by applying a current to an inspecting object, which is the photovoltaic devices, in a forward direction to make the inspecting object emit an electro-luminescence light and the emitted electro-luminescence light is photographed and defects of the photovoltaic devices are inspected from a photographed image, the inspecting apparatus comprising: a darkroom provided with an upper surface having an opening portion; a support means provided at the upper surface of the darkroom to support the photovoltaic devices as the inspecting object on the opening portion; a plurality of cameras disposed inside the darkroom to photograph the inspecting object, and a shading means covering the inspecting object, the opening portion, and the support means; wherein the inspecting object is divided into a plurality of allocated parts, the plurality of cameras are respectively disposed with respect to the plurality of allocated parts, and each of the allocated parts is photographed by each of the plurality of cameras in a manner that a boundary of an image with a boundary of another adjacent image are overlapped, so that an entire image of the photovoltaic devices is formed.