Patents Assigned to Kyushu Institute of Technolgy
  • Patent number: 8969123
    Abstract: In an apparatus for manufacturing a dye-sensitized solar cell, a photosensitization dye solution makes contact with an electrode material layer that functions as a working electrode of a dye-sensitized solar cell so that the photosensitizing dye is adsorbed on the layer. Such an apparatus for manufacturing a dye-sensitized solar cell has a substrate housing section to house a substrate with the electrode material layer formed on its surface, and a circulation mechanism to circulate the photosensitization dye solution in such a way that the solution passes a surface of the substrate housed in the substrate housing section. In such an apparatus, a cross-sectional area of a flow path for the photosensitization dye solution in a portion facing the substrate in the substrate housing section is set smaller than a cross-sectional area of a flow path for the photosensitization dye solution in other portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignees: Tokyo Electron Limited, Kyushu Institute of Technolgy
    Inventors: Hiroaki Hayashi, Ryuichi Shiratsuchi, Suehiro Ohkubo, Shuzi Hayase, Taiichi Mure, Yasuhiro Shishida