An object of the present invention is to provide, at a low cost, a system and a method for manufacturing a solar cell having high conversion efficiency. A solar cell according to the present invention is characterized by including a passivation film that protects a semiconductor substrate, a first finger electrode connected to the semiconductor substrate on a main surface of the semiconductor substrate, a first bus bar electrode that intersects the first finger electrode, and an intermediate layer provided in an intersecting position of the first finger electrode and the first bus bar electrode . The solar cell is characterized in that the first finger electrode and the first bus bar electrode are electrically connected to each other via the intermediate layer.

The application relates to a grounding conductor and an electrical system including such a grounding conductor including a plurality of conductive aluminium strands where each such strand is provided with at least one sheath of an electrically conductive polymer material having a volume resistivity (ρ) below 100 Ω.Math.cm.

The purpose of the present invention is to provide a cable used to at least moor a moving body to be moored and supply power thereto, such that weight of the whole cable can be reduced. A cable according to the present invention connects a moving body to be moored to a unit assembly including a power supply unit. The cable is used to at least moor the moving body to be moored to the unit assembly and supply power from the power supply unit to the moving body to be moored. The cable includes a conductor constituted with element wires, and at least part of the element wires is a high-strength aluminum-based conductor.

Clamps and methods disclosed herein can help to provide efficient electrical communication between a first conductor and a second conductor. An example clamp includes a main housing portion that includes a first surface, a second surface, a body, and an insert, the insert providing electrical communication between the first surface and the second surface; a clamp member; and a fastener.

Disclosed herein is a flexible conductive substrate. According to the present invention, the flexible conductive substrate comprises a fabric substrate, a first film formed of metal or metal oxide on the fabric substrate, a second film formed of ITO film including tin oxide on the first film, and a third film formed of ITO film including tin oxide on the second film. A content of tin oxide included in the second film is smaller than that of oxide included in the third film.

Methods and devices for producing reinforced 2212 multifilament superconducting wire with low aspect shape. More specifically, methods and devices for producing reinforced round or rectangular wire with reinforcement strips. Methods and devices for producing cable using the reinforced 2212 multifilament superconducting wire as well as for producing reinforced 2223 Silver tape-based cable.

A thermal conducting sheet having a high adhesion between layers even if the thermal conducting sheet has a multilayer structure is provided. The thermal conducting sheet including a low-hardness layer and a reinforcing layer laminated on one side or both sides of the low-hardness layer. The reinforcing layer having a hardness greater than a hardness of the low-hardness layer. The low-hardness layer comprises: acrylic polymer, silicon carbide, aluminum hydroxide, magnesium hydroxide, and plasticizer.

A coated transparency includes: a transparency; a base layer on the transparency, the base layer comprising at least one selected from an organic compound, an organosilicon compound, and a polysiloxane compound; a metal layer physically contacting the base layer; and a metal oxide layer on the metal layer, the metal oxide layer comprising aluminum doped zinc oxide (AZO).

Twisted pair cables incorporated separators with cooling channels are described. A cable may include a plurality of twisted pairs of individually insulated electrical conductors, and a separator extending lengthwise along a longitudinal length of the cable may be positioned between at least two of the plurality of twisted pairs. The separator may include a flexible body configured to maintain the at least two pairs in a predetermined configuration. A first channel extending lengthwise may define a longitudinal cavity through the separator, and at least one second channel may extend from the first channel through the flexible body to an outer surface of the separator. Additionally, the cable may include a jacket formed around the plurality of twisted pairs and the separator.

An aluminium-based conductive material used in a driving part of robots or various devices and used, for example, in a wiring that is loaded with cyclic bending, as well as an electric wire and a cable using the same, contains 0.1 to 1.0 mass % of scandium and further contains, as a rest part, aluminium and unavoidable impure substances and is formed of a metal texture 10 having crystal grains 11 with an average grain size of 2 μm or less and aluminium-scandium series nanoprecipitates generated in a grain boundary 12 of the crystal grains 11. Further, it is preferable that the metal texture 10 contains the crystal grains 11 of 1 μm or less at a cross sectional ratio of 15% or more.