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US 11,114,577 B2Granted
Photovoltaic power generation device
AssigneePanasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
InventorsKoichi Kubo, Tomohide Yoshida, Mamoru Arimoto, Naofumi Hayashi, Minoru Higuchi
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Abstract
This photovoltaic power generation device is provided with: a mounting bracket which is fixed to a roof and on which a frame, arranged on the ridge-side end of a solar cell module, and a frame, arranged on the eave-side end of a solar cell module, are mounted; and a fixing bracket which is arranged in the space between the frame and the frame, and which is fixed to the mounting bracket and holds said frames from above.
Claims12
A photovoltaic power generation device comprising:
- a first solar cell module including a first solar cell panel and a first frame installed at an edge portion of the panel;
- a second solar cell module including a second solar cell panel and a second frame installed at an edge portion of the panel, the second solar cell module being disposed next to and on a ridge-side of the first solar cell module with a space therebetween;
- a mounting bracket to be fixed to a roof, the mounting bracket allowing a part of the first frame that is installed at a ridge-side edge portion of the first solar cell module, and a part of the second frame that is installed at an eave-side edge portion of the second solar cell module, to be mounted thereon;
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- a fixing bracket disposed at the space to straddle between the first frame and the second frame, the fixing bracket being fixed to the mounting bracket to press the frames from above,
- wherein the photovoltaic power generation device further comprises a base bracket to which a bolt for fixing the fixing bracket is fastened,
- the mounting bracket includes a guide rail portion that slidably supports the base bracket such that the base bracket is slidable along a eave-ridge direction of the roof,
- the fixing bracket is fixed to the mounting bracket via the base bracket inserted into the guide rail portion, and
- wherein the first frame includes a first inner flange portion extending to an inner side of the first solar cell module, and
- the base bracket includes an engaging portion that protrudes higher than the top of the mounting bracket and engages with the first inner flange portion.
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A photovoltaic power generation device comprising:
- a first solar cell module including a first solar cell panel and a first frame installed at an edge portion of the panel;
- a second solar cell module including a second solar cell panel and a second frame installed at an edge portion of the panel, the second solar cell module being disposed next to and on a ridge-side of the first solar cell module with a space therebetween;
- a mounting bracket to be fixed to a roof, the mounting bracket allowing a part of the first frame that installed at a ridge-side edge portion of the first solar cell module, and a part of the second frame that is installed at an eave-side edge portion of the second solar cell module, to be mounted thereon;
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- a fixing bracket disposed at the space to straddle between the first frame and the second frame, the fixing bracket being fixed to the mounting bracket to press the frames from above, wherein
- the photovoltaic power generation device further comprises a base bracket to which a bolt for fixing the fixing bracket is fastened,
- the mounting bracket includes a guide rail portion that slidably supports the base bracket such that the base bracket is slidable along an eave-ridge direction of the roof, and
- the fixing bracket is fixed to the mounting bracket via the base bracket inserted into the guide rail portion,
- wherein the second frame includes a second inner flange portion extending to an inner side of the second solar cell module, and
- the base bracket includes a ridge-side wall portion that protrudes higher than the top of the mounting bracket and is disposed to oppose an edge of the second inner flange portion.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.