APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CLEANING THIN FILM SOLAR CELL PANEL BY JETTING HIGH-PRESSURE LIQUID

摘要

Provided is a high-pressure liquid jet cleaner which is capable of assuredly removing particles adhered to the inside of a large number of scribe lines formed at consistent intervals in a thin film solar cell panel and which eliminates a fear that the surface of a thin film formed at the surface of the solar cell panel may be damaged or that the thin film may be detached. Jet nozzles are arranged at consistent intervals in the longitudinal direction of a nozzle holder, corresponding to the positions of the respective scribe lines of the thin film solar cell panel. The nozzle holder is supported by supports provided at both ends of the nozzle holder in a manner to allow the nozzle holder to move in the longitudinal direction of the nozzle holder. While the solar cell panel is conveyed in relation to the nozzle holder in parallel to the scribe lines, a high-pressure liquid is jetted out in a straight line from the jet nozzles of the nozzle holder to the large number of respective scribe lines of the solar cell panel for cleaning, such that the high-pressure liquid jetting direction of each jet nozzle is parallel to that of the other jet nozzles.