Cable hanger
AssigneeShoals Technologies Group, LLC
InventorDorothy Michael
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Abstract
In an example, a cable hanger includes a body and an upper portion. The body defines a cable retention channel. The upper portion extends from the body and is configured to suspend the cable hanger from structure of a solar array. In some embodiments, the upper portion includes a component retention clip having a base wall and two side walls that form a planar slot therebetween and the cable hanger further includes at least one grip element in the slot and coupled with at least one of the two side walls. In some embodiments, the upper portion is configured to indirectly suspend the cable hanger from the structure of the solar array and the upper portion includes a cable hanger slide-coupling element configured to couple with a discrete component retention clip that is couplable to the structure of the solar array.
Claims9
A cable hanger comprising:
- a body that defines a cable retention channel;
- an upper portion that extends from the body, the upper portion comprising a component retention clip having a base wall and two side walls that form a slot therebetween;
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- a grip element disposed in the slot and coupled with at least one of the two side walls, wherein:
- the component retention clip forms an aperture;
- the grip element includes a retention spur that protrudes into the aperture formed in the component retention clip to hold the grip element in the slot;
- the grip element includes one or more teeth to engage a planar substrate of a component when the planar substrate is slidably received in the slot to couple the cable hanger to the component.
A cable hanger system comprising:
- a cable hanger comprising:
- a body that defines a cable retention channel;
- and
- an upper portion that extends from the body, the upper portion comprising a cable hanger slide-coupling element configured to couple with a component retention clip that is couplable to structure of a solar array;
- and
- the component retention clip, comprising:
- a body having a base wall and two side walls forming a slot therebetween;
- a grip element in the slot and coupled with at least one of the two side walls;
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- at least two clip slide-coupling elements on an outer surface of at least one of the two side walls and each configured to independently couple with the cable hanger slide-coupling element of the cable hanger, each clip slide-coupling element having a tapered cross-sectional profile in a longitudinal plane that narrows in a sliding axis towards an edge of the respective side wall and having a trapezoidal cross-sectional profile in a lateral plane that is orthogonal with the longitudinal plane, the at least two clip slide-coupling elements including:
- a first clip slide-coupling element having a first longitudinal plane in a first sliding axis;
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- a second clip slide-coupling element having a second longitudinal plane in a second sliding axis that is at an angle with the first sliding direction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.