Kyocera Announces Technology Licensing Agreement With Hanwha Q CELLS Japan

Kyocera Corporation

today announced that it has concluded a technology licensing agreement with Hanwha Q CELLS Japan Co., Ltd.

. The agreement features a license for Kyocera's Japanese patent related to a "three-bus-bar electrode structure" that increases energy conversion efficiency in solar modules (Japanese patent no. 4953562), and also includes a mutual exchange of patent licenses between the two companies to be executed in the future. Under the terms of the agreement, Kyocera has withdrawn its lawsuit against Hanwha Q CELLS Japan Co., Ltd. relating to the above-cited patent as of October 6, 2015. Kyocera has conducted R&D in the field of solar energy