Abstract:
A mounting assembly comprises a fastener that includes a bolt and a nut. The bolt includes a threaded distal end and a polygonal headed proximate end that extends along a fastener axis. The assembly also includes a mounting base, and a first reinforcement channel nested around a first base of a hat-shaped channel. The hat-shaped channel is nested around a second base of a second reinforcement channel that nests around a load distributing channel. The mounting base, the first and second reinforcement channels, the hat-shaped channel and the load distributing channel are removable with respect to the fastener along the fastener axis. The bolt is received through coaxial apertures located within the mounting base, the first and second reinforcement channels, the hat-shaped channel and the load distributing channel, such that the polygonal headed proximate end rests within a channel of the load distributing channel.
Abstract:
FIG. 1 is an isometric view of a pavilion; FIG. 2 is a left side view of the pavilion shown in FIG. 1, FIG. 3 is a the right side view of the design for the pavilion shown in FIG. 1; FIG. 4 is a front view of the design for the pavilion shown in FIG. 1; FIG. 5 is a rear view of the design for the pavilion shown in FIG. 1; FIG. 6 is a top view of the design for the pavilion shown in FIG. 1; and, FIG. 7 is a bottom view of the design for the pavilion shown in FIG. 1. The broken lines depict portions of the pavilion that form no part of the claimed design.
Abstract:
A calibration process of a solar panel installation measures current from a plurality of tracker tables, and based upon the time of day of the detected shade transitions, day of the year and the location of the solar panel installation, the time difference of the detected shade transition for each tracker panel can be used to determine the relative elevation of adjacent tracker tables. The calculation is performed using the known angle of the tracker and the elevation of the sun when the transition occurred to calculate the height offset of the tables. This transition of charging current marks the point where shading ended and the sun elevation is used to calculate the height offset of adjacent tables. This calculation uses the known angle of the tracker and the elevation of the sun when shading ended to calculate the height offset of the tables.
Abstract:
A method of installing a solar panel assembly that includes a first beam, a second beam and a third beam where the first and second beams are parallelly spaced and perpendicular to the third beam, and further includes a plurality of purlins, a semicircular ring fastened to the third beam, and a plurality of photovoltaic panels between adjacent ones of the plurality of purlins to form the solar panel assembly, the method comprising lifting the solar panel assembly and rotatably attaching it to a post by inserting a pin into a first bore in a flange extending from the third beam and into a second bore in the post, where the first and second bores are coaxial such that the solar panel assembly has a range of rotational motion about the pin, and fastening proximate and distal ends of the first and second beams to distal and proximate ends of adjacent solar panel assemblies.
Abstract:
A hanger device comprises a plurality of cable supports, each comprising a parallel sidewall and a lateral shape retention sidewall where the parallel sidewalls and the lateral shape retention sidewall are separated by a wire engagement surface for holding one or more of the plurality of cables, where each of the lateral shape retention sidewalls includes a hook that comprises first and second hook sidewalls and a radiused surface that separates the first and second hook sidewalls, where each of the hooks opens in an exterior opposing direction; and a hanger surface that separates the parallel sidewalls, where the hanger device is hung on the hanger carrier by placing the hanger surface on the hanger carrier and the lateral shape retention sidewalls are pressed inwardly towards the parallel sidewalls and about the engagement surfaces so both hooks opposingly engage the cable.
Abstract:
A bolt comprises a first shank segment axially comprising an externally threaded segment at a proximate axial end of the bolt. The bolt also includes a second shank segment, a flange extending perpendicularly a first distance from the first shank segment and axially located between a distal axial end of the first shank segment and a proximate axial end of the second shank segment, and a head axially adjacent to a distal axial end of the second shank segment, where the head is longer than the flange in a first direction perpendicular to the first shank segment but shorter than the flange in a second direction perpendicular to the first shank segment.
Abstract:
An apparatus comprises a plurality of power sources, one or more processors embedded with the plurality of power sources, and memory storing processor executable instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the apparatus to modify duty cycles of the power sources, and to modify timing for each phase of a multiphase cycle. In some cases, the apparatus: transfers, for each phase of the multiphase cycle, power from a different power source of a plurality of power sources to a load; determines, for each phase of the multiphase cycle, an input voltage associated with the transferred power, an output voltage associated with the transferred power, and current from the power source associated with the transferred power; determines a duty cycle associated with the power source; modifies duty cycles of the power sources; and modifies timing for each phase of the multiphase cycle.