Patent Yard Sign in
Expired Canadian patentCanada

Photovoltaic device

CA 1212444 A · Owner: Kanegafuchi Kagaku Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha · Inventors: Tsuge, Kazunori; Tawada, Yoshihisa

CIPO record

Overview

Drawings and full text

Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.

Open the CIPO record

Abstract From the Canadian patent

A PIN junction photovoltaic device using a P-type or N-type semiconductor having an optical band gap of not less than about 1.8 eV and a dark conductivity of not less than about 10-8 (.OMEGA..cm)-1 at 20°C. in the layer positioned on the opposite side to incidence of light. The photovoltaic device has an improved efficiency.

Read the whole patent

Listed from its CIPO record in Patent Yard's archive of Canadian patents past their term. Its claims, description and drawings are in the CIPO record and on Google Patents, and the Claude kit works from them.

Why it's free to use

  • Granted October 7, 1986. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended October 7, 2003.
  • We check Canadian rights only. A patent in its family in another country could still be in force: check its family on Google Patents.
FiledNovember 28, 1983
GrantedOctober 7, 1986
Term endedOctober 7, 2003
Patent numberCA 1212444 A
Classification (IPC)H01L31/03

Timeline

Timeline From CIPO dates

1984198619881990199219941996199820002002Application filedNov 28, 1983Patent grantedOct 7, 1986Term endedOct 7, 2003

Sources & verification

Everything on this page comes from the CIPO record linked above. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada.