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| 20090254535 | SEARCH ENGINE TO IMPROVE PRODUCT RECALL TRACEABILITY ACTIVITIES - The present invention provides an improved method of handling product recall activities through traceability. One embodiment of the present invention involves gathering data in a multi-layered database architecture containing supply, process, test, and customer layers. The data is supplied to a traceability module which contains a search engine to link and access the data. The search engine enables a search by part number, lot number, serial number, time stamp, and date/time frame. A traceability analysis is generated from the search, allowing failure analysis of the data. This analysis is performed through an event list over the entire supply, manufacturing, and customer data, facilitating backward and forward traceability of parts and components of the parts. This failure analysis further facilitates automatic response such as automatic warning and automatic recall to manufacturers and customers. | 10-08-2009 |
| 20100037936 | SOLAR CELL ASSEMBLIES AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SOLAR CELL ASSEMBLIES - Solar cell assemblies and method of making solar cell assemblies. The method, including: fabricating solar cell chips on solar cell wafers; dicing the solar cell wafers into individual solar cell chips; packaging the individual solar cell chips in molded plastic packages to form solar cell chip packages; and mounting on and electrically connecting one or more of the solar cell chip packages to a printed circuit board. The assemblies including a printed circuit board; one or more solar cell chip packages mounted on and electrically connected to the printed circuit board, each of said one or more solar chip packages comprising a solar cell chip and a lead frame encapsulated in a molded plastic body, top surfaces the solar cell chips exposed in top surfaces of the molded plastic bodies. | 02-18-2010 |
| 20100037939 | METHODS OF FABRICATING SOLAR CELL CHIPS - A method of fabricating solar cell chips. The method includes creating an integrated circuit chip process route for fabricating integrated circuit chips using integrated circuit wafers in an integrated circuit fabrication facility; creating a solar cell process route for fabricating solar cells using solar cell wafers in the integrated circuit fabrication facility; releasing integrated circuit chip wafers and solar cell wafers into tool queues of tools of the an integrated circuit fabrication facility; and processing the solar cell wafers on at least some tools of the integrated circuit fabrication facility used to process the integrated circuit wafers. Also the process used to fabricate the solar cell chips. | 02-18-2010 |
| 20100050428 | Method for Manufacturing a Solar Module - A method for manufacturing a solar concentrator cell module assembly within an integrated circuit process, which solar concentrator cell module assembly includes at least one solar device and which solar device includes one printed circuit board and one Fresnel lens. A printed circuit board is assembled according to a pre-defined circuit board base design layout that allows pick and place of a single solar concentrator cell chip onto a circuit board base. Connections are provided for the solar concentrator cell chip in a serialized or a parallelized arrangement on the circuit board base, and a plurality of openings are formed in the circuit board base below a backside of the solar concentrator chip to enable attachment of cooling fingers. A solar device based on a solar device layout is assembled using the assembled circuit board base and one Fresnel lens, the solar device having a solar concentration ratio by modifying the solar device surface versus the solar cell surface and covering a full extension of the circuit board base, which circuit board base provides means for interconnecting a plurality of the solar devices to one another to form the solar concentrator cell module assembly. | 03-04-2010 |
| 20100070890 | Method for Providing a Manufacturing Execution System (MES) Service to Third Parties - A computer-implemented method for providing on-demand manufacturing execution systems for clients in which a response to a questionnaire from a client with information relative to identification of a business and production process, a determination of process steps, and an identification of process step requirements is evaluated by the service provider according to GUI requirements for each one of a number of individual process steps. Based on the evaluation, a GUI is defined for each of the individual process steps by the service provider and provided to the client for installation on client computing devices in a manufacturing line of the client. Data is collected for each of the individual process steps via each GUI and sent to the service provider for storage and evaluation. | 03-18-2010 |
| 20100132760 | BACKSIDE CONTACTING ON THIN LAYER PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS - A method of backside contacting of thin layer photovoltaic cells having Si elements as well as thin film cells, like CIGS, is provided, including the following steps:
| 06-03-2010 |
| 20100297802 | SOLAR CELL ASSEMBLIES AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SOLAR CELL ASSEMBLIES - Solar cell assemblies and method of making solar cell assemblies. The method, including: fabricating solar cell chips on solar cell wafers; dicing the solar cell wafers into individual solar cell chips; packaging the individual solar cell chips in molded plastic packages to form solar cell chip packages; and mounting on and electrically connecting one or more of the solar cell chip packages to a printed circuit board. The assemblies including a printed circuit board; one or more solar cell chip packages mounted on and electrically connected to the printed circuit board, each of said one or more solar chip packages comprising a solar cell chip and a lead frame encapsulated in a molded plastic body, top surfaces the solar cell chips exposed in top surfaces of the molded plastic bodies. | 11-25-2010 |
| 20100304519 | METHOD OF FABRICATING SOLAR CELL CHIPS - A method of fabricating solar cell chips. The method includes creating an integrated circuit chip process route for fabricating integrated circuit chips using integrated circuit wafers in an integrated circuit fabrication facility; creating a solar cell process route for fabricating solar cells using solar cell wafers in the integrated circuit fabrication facility; releasing integrated circuit chip wafers and solar cell wafers into tool queues of tools of the an integrated circuit fabrication facility; and processing the solar cell wafers on at least some tools of the integrated circuit fabrication facility used to process the integrated circuit wafers. Also the process used to fabricate the solar cell chips. | 12-02-2010 |
| 20110100451 | Silicon solar cell manufacture - A silicon solar cell is manufactured by providing a carrier plate, and by applying a first contact pattern to the carrier plate. The first contact pattern includes a set of first laminar contacts. The silicon solar cell is further manufactured by applying a multitude of silicon slices to the first contact pattern, and by applying a second contact pattern to the multitude of silicon slices. Each first laminar contact of the set of first laminar contacts is in spatial laminar contact with maximally two silicon slices. The second contact pattern includes a set of second laminar contacts. Each second laminar contact of the set of second laminar contacts is in spatial laminar contact with maximally two silicon slices. | 05-05-2011 |
