Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Photovoltaic module stackable corner protector
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Application No.: US14941438Application Date: 2015-11-13
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Publication No.: US09669985B1Publication Date: 2017-06-06
- Inventor: Tyrus Hudson , Kyle Tripp , William Buchanan
- Applicant: SolarCity Corporation
- Applicant Address: US CA San Mateo
- Assignee: SolarCity Corporation
- Current Assignee: SolarCity Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US CA San Mateo
- Agency: Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP
- Main IPC: B65D81/02
- IPC: B65D81/02 ; B65D85/48 ; B65D81/05 ; H02S40/00 ; F24J2/52

Abstract:
The disclosure describes various stackable corner protector configurations. The corner protectors can have curved lateral surfaces that allow the corner protectors to be decoupled from a photovoltaic module to which they are coupled to by rotating one end of the corner protectors away from the object. This removal process works even more efficiently with multiple stacked corner protectors as the stacked corner protectors can be concurrently removed from the object by rotating the stacked corner protectors away from the object together. The corner protector can also include one or more attachment features for securing the corner protector to the object. For example, when the corner protector is installed on a photovoltaic module, the attachment feature can engage a lip defined by a recess or channel of the photovoltaic module.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170137200A1 PHOTOVOLTAIC MODULE STACKABLE CORNER PROTECTOR Public/Granted day:2017-05-18
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