公开(公告)号：US20200220376A1

公开(公告)日：2020-07-09

申请号：US16736863

申请日：2020-01-08

申请人： SkyHook Solar Corp

发明人： Daniel Delano ,  William Gilmore ,  Joseph Goodman ,  Chris Needham ,  Frank Oudheusden

IPC分类号： H02J7/35 ,  H02S10/00 ,  H02S40/32 ,  H02S40/38 ,  H02S20/10 ,  H02S10/40

摘要： A solar powered charging station uses photovoltaic panels to generate electrical energy for use directly and/or for storage in electrical batteries for use during night operation. The station includes parallel electrical circuits which permit the station to operate during daylight hours in the event of a failure of the battery or the battery charging system. The station is designed to provide a kit embodiment having light weight, easily transportable components. The parallel circuitry is adaptable for use with other forms of electrical power generation having a minimal carbon footprint.

公开(公告)号：US10696451B2

公开(公告)日：2020-06-30

申请号：US15475095

申请日：2017-03-30

申请人： Eric Bramwell Britcher ,  Jeffrey Allen Moore ,  John Andrew Samuels

发明人： Eric Bramwell Britcher ,  Jeffrey Allen Moore ,  John Andrew Samuels

IPC分类号： B65D19/00 ,  B65D19/44 ,  H01L31/02 ,  H02S20/10 ,  H01L31/18 ,  F24S25/00 ,  H01L21/673

摘要： A combined PV panel assembly jig and forklift transport pallet is used to assemble PV panels for transport to a field array from a protected manufacturing environment. The panels are assembled to have adhesively applied rails for transport by a robotic drone on a ground-support rack and are pre-wired. The PV panel assembly jig holds, protects, and aligns the PV panels in an upside down position, opposite to their operational position, for ease of wiring in order to decrease the manual labor required in the field. Once the pallet is transported to the load station at the end of a row of solar panel racks in the field array, a robotic loader lifts the upside down PV panels from the combined PV panel assembly jig and forklift transport pallet in an arcing overhead motion that lifts, tilts, and deposits the PV panels in an upright position at the loading station of a railed rack support as ground-mounted in a solar panel field array.

公开(公告)号：US10666188B2

公开(公告)日：2020-05-26

申请号：US16118679

申请日：2018-08-31

申请人： LT 350, LLC

发明人： Jeffrey Thramann ,  Terence Davidovits ,  Steve Cook ,  John Slattebo ,  Walter Fallows, III

IPC分类号： H02S20/24 ,  F24S25/40 ,  F24S25/10 ,  H02S40/38 ,  H02S20/23 ,  H02S20/10 ,  E04H6/06 ,  F24S25/00 ,  E04H6/02

摘要： The present application provides methods for loading and unloading high capacity storage equipment to a solar power canopy. The methods and structures may include horizontal support members have mechanisms to engage corresponding mechanisms on a compartment housing the high capacity storage equipment. The mechanisms may include plates, flanged surfaces, rails, tracks, hook assemblies, and ridges. The methods and structures may include a superstructure that is coupled to an moves with respect to the solar power canopy frame. The superstructure may pivot and/or rotate to allow loading and unloading. The methods and structures also may include cabinets or cubicles sized to receive one or more compartments housing the high capacity storage equipment.

公开(公告)号：US10648190B2

公开(公告)日：2020-05-12

申请号：US14489800

申请日：2014-09-18

申请人： Anar Solar, LLC

发明人： James E. Mandry ,  Mark Pelletier ,  Raymond M. Bourque

IPC分类号： E04H14/00 ,  E04H12/22 ,  F24S25/16 ,  F24S25/65 ,  H02S20/10 ,  H02S20/30 ,  E04H12/00 ,  F24J2/52 ,  H02S20/24 ,  H02S40/36 ,  F24J2/54

摘要： A modular ballast system for supporting objects uses tubing such as pipes of appropriate size for the required ballast. Once in place, the empty pipes are filled with a watery mix (slurry) of sand, silt, gravel, soil, cement or other generally available material to generate a majority of the ballast weight. A two piece clamping mechanism provides fixed placement attachment points suitable for attachment by supported structures. The lower piece of the clamping mechanism sits under the ballast tubing and is designed to both support and disperse the anticipated weight of the objects with minimal impact on the surface beneath it. The upper piece of the clamping mechanism mates to the lower clamping piece and completes a full 360 degree collar around the ballast tubing to create a durable clamping mechanism that both captures the weight and position of the ballast tubing and prevents the ballast tubing from shifting.

公开(公告)号：US10608129B2

公开(公告)日：2020-03-31

申请号：US16047697

申请日：2018-07-27

申请人： TOUCHLIGHT INNOVATIONS

发明人： Swarnav Pujari

IPC分类号： H01L31/048 ,  H02S30/10 ,  H02S40/34 ,  H02S20/10 ,  F03G7/00 ,  H02S10/10

摘要： A power generation system is disclosed herein. The power generation system includes two or more tiles and at least one generator. Each tile of the two or more tiles is configured to house one or more solar cells. The at least one generator apparatus couples each of the two or more tiles together at a vertex of each tile. The at least one generator apparatus is configured to harvest mechanical energy as mass traverses each tile of the two or more tiles.

公开(公告)号：US10581375B2

公开(公告)日：2020-03-03

申请号：US15622882

申请日：2017-06-14

申请人： David C. Hood

发明人： David C. Hood

IPC分类号： H02S40/34 ,  H02S30/00 ,  H02S40/36 ,  H02S20/10 ,  F24S25/12 ,  F24S30/425 ,  H02S20/32 ,  F16B5/00

摘要： A mounting clip, mounting an element to a structure having trim with a thickness, includes a body having first and second legs with a gap therebetween sized for receiving the trim. The first leg is positionable against the element. The first and second legs have aligned, possibly threaded, through holes. The element can be fastened to the trim through the clips without penetrating the structure. The first leg has a distal end which can be curved to act as a trim engagement element. The mounting clip and fastener structure, such as a threaded fastener, can constitute a mounting clip assembly. A PV panel wire cover assembly includes a wire-covering housing having open ends and a mounting flange. Closed and open end cap mountable to the open ends prevent access to the housing interior when the housing is mounted to the panel, the open end cap having a wire passage opening.

公开(公告)号：US10566926B2

公开(公告)日：2020-02-18

申请号：US15405136

申请日：2017-01-12

申请人： Craig Bradley Edward Wildman

发明人： Craig Bradley Edward Wildman

IPC分类号： H02S20/32 ,  H02S40/22 ,  H02S40/44 ,  F24S50/20 ,  H02S20/10 ,  H02S20/30 ,  H02S30/10 ,  F24S30/40 ,  F24S23/71 ,  F24S20/00

摘要： Various embodiments of the present disclosure relate to systems and processes for collecting solar energy. According to particular embodiments, a solar collector device comprises a primary reflector, and a receiver assembly mounted on a frame structure. The receiver assembly comprises a heat transfer tube. The primary reflector comprises an elongated curved mirror mounted on a structural backing that is rotatably coupled to the frame structure such that the primary reflector may pivot around a pivot axis. The receiver assembly and/or the primary reflector may translate along the frame structure in a direction that is parallel to the pivot axis of the primary reflector. The one or more primary reflectors reflect light focused upon the receiver assembly such that heat energy from the reflected light is transferred to a heat transfer fluid in the heat transfer tube.

公开(公告)号：US10554168B2

公开(公告)日：2020-02-04

申请号：US15779821

申请日：2015-12-01

申请人： BOLYMEDIA HOLDINGS CO. LTD.

发明人： Xiaoping Hu

IPC分类号： H02N6/00 ,  H01L31/042 ,  H02S40/22 ,  H02S40/12 ,  H02S40/32 ,  H02S40/38 ,  H02S40/44 ,  G02B19/00 ,  H02S20/10 ,  H02S20/23 ,  F24S20/00 ,  H02S50/00

摘要： A light-concentrating, solar system, comprising: a first Fresnel lens (111) provided with at least one tooth face, wherein each tooth face contains at least one Fresnel unit; two reflective faces (112, 113) arranged to enable incident sunlight to converge via the first Fresnel lens (111), and then to irradiate to a first reflective face (112), and at least part of the incident sunlight to be reflected onto a second reflective face (113) by the first reflective face (112); and a photovoltaic panel (114) arranged to enable at least part of the sunlight reflected by the second reflective face (113) to directly irradiate to or be led to irradiate to the photovoltaic panel (114). Since a twice-reflection structure is adopted, on one hand, the system can provide a higher light-concentration ratio; on the other hand, the height of the system can be reduced; and at the same time, a structural design of the system has better flexibility, so that a peripheral design, such as heat dissipation or heat energy utilization, of a photovoltaic panel can be performed more easily.

公开(公告)号：US10541640B2

公开(公告)日：2020-01-21

申请号：US16028410

申请日：2018-07-06

申请人： Designer Direct, Inc.

发明人： Kerry Ira Levin

IPC分类号： F16M13/02 ,  H02S20/20 ,  H02S40/32 ,  H02S40/38 ,  E02B3/06 ,  H02S20/30 ,  H02J7/35 ,  H02J7/00 ,  H02S30/00 ,  H02S20/10 ,  F24S25/12 ,  H02S50/00 ,  H02S30/10 ,  H02S40/34 ,  H02S50/10 ,  E02B3/20 ,  H01R25/00

摘要： A structure includes a bracket affixed to a substrate. A bracket pole member is affixed to the bracket. A bracket back brace is affixed to the bracket. The bracket back brace is affixed to the substrate. In an embodiment, the bracket back brace includes a back brace member having a beveled end with a threaded bolt attached thereto. The threaded bolt being secured through the bracket via a nut. In an embodiment, the bracket back brace is affixed to a strut of the substrate, and the back brace member has a non-beveled end. The non-beveled end is inserted into either (i) a shackle coupling rotatably affixed to a hinge plate affixed to the strut, or (ii) a side-mount collar affixed to the strut.

公开(公告)号：US20190383051A1

公开(公告)日：2019-12-19

申请号：US16529375

申请日：2019-08-01

申请人： SUNPOWER CORPORATION

发明人： Nicholas J. MCKIBBEN ,  John Kapla ,  Sushrut G. Bapat ,  Elizabeth Schulte ,  Gary A. Rossi ,  Jeremy Mansell ,  Andrew R. Wolf

IPC分类号： E04H6/42 ,  H02S20/20 ,  E04H15/34 ,  H02S20/23 ,  H02S20/10 ,  E04H6/08

摘要： A solar power generation assembly includes a vertical support column; a canopy including a plurality of solar modules for solar power generation; a first brace and a second brace on a first side of the support column to support the canopy; a third brace and a fourth brace on a second side of the support column to support the canopy; and a gutter system integrated into the canopy and directing precipitation along one or more of the second brace and the fourth brace to the support column. One or more of the first brace and the third brace manage electrical cables extending from the canopy to the support column.