Reinforcing frame and solar battery module

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9537443-B2
Application number	US-201314386551-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 22, 2013
Priority date	Apr 23, 2012
Publication date	Jan 3, 2017
Grant date	Jan 3, 2017

Abstract

To obtain a reinforcing frame capable of securing sufficient reinforcing strength and adhesive strength while suppressing a manufacturing cost by omitting a rim-like frame. A reinforcing frame is adhered to a rear surface, which is a non-light receiving surface of a solar battery panel, and includes a cylindrical portion that has a cylindrical shape along a longitudinal direction of the reinforcing frame and on which an adhesive surface for adhering to the solar battery panel is formed, and protruding portions that protrude from end portions along a longitudinal direction of the adhesive surface and that are substantially parallel to the adhesive surface.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A solar battery module, comprising:
a solar battery panel;
a reinforcing rail adhered to a non-light receiving surface of the solar battery panel, wherein the reinforcing rail includes:
a beam having a hollow rectangular cross-section perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of the beam;
an adhesive surface adhered to the non-light receiving surface of the solar battery panel; and
protruding portions that protrude from end portions of the beam along the longitudinal direction of the adhesive surface and that are substantially parallel to the adhesive surface, wherein
the protruding portions each have a portion having a constant thickness and extending from the constant thickness portion to respective terminal ends of the protruding portions, portions having a smaller thickness as the smaller thickness portions become more separated from the end portions of the beam, and as the smaller thickness portions of the protruding portions become more separated from the end portions of the beam, upper surfaces, which are surfaces proximate the solar battery panel, become more separated from the non-light receiving surface of the solar battery panel, the upper surfaces of the smaller thickness portions meet respective lower surfaces of the protruding portions at points of the terminal ends of the respective protruding portions; and

an adhesive layer is formed between the adhesive surface of the beam and the non-light receiving surface of the solar battery panel, a portion of the adhesive layer formed over the smaller thickness portions from a terminal end of the protruding portions to the constant thickness portion being thicker than a portion of the adhesive layer between smaller thickness portions of the protruding portions.

2. The solar battery module according to claim 1 , wherein as the protruding portions become more separated from the beam, the lower surfaces, which are surfaces configured to be opposite to a side of the solar battery panel, are configured to become closer to a rear surface of the solar battery panel.

3. The solar battery module according to claim 1 , wherein
the reinforcing rail further comprises locking portions that protrude from the terminal end portions along a longitudinal direction of a side opposite to a side from which the adhesive surface is formed and that are locked on a fixing bracket for fixing the solar battery panel, and in which a screw hole for screwing the solar battery panel to the fixing bracket is formed.

4. The solar battery module according to claim 1 , wherein in the adhesive surface, a groove is formed along the longitudinal direction of the beam.

5. The solar battery module according to claim 1 , further comprising projections that are formed on the adhesive surface and extend along the longitudinal direction of the beam and that protrude to the rear surface of the solar battery panel.

6. The solar battery module according to claim 5 , wherein the projections are formed on both end portions along the longitudinal direction of the adhesive surface.

Assignees

• Mitsubishi Electric Corp

Inventors

• Sueda Taisuke
• Echizenya Daisuke
• Sakamoto Hiroo
• Michimori Atsushi

Classifications

• Y02E10/50

  Photovoltaic [PV] energy · CPC title

• H02S20/00 Primary

  Supporting structures for PV modules · CPC title

• F24J2/5233

  Mechanical Engineering · mapped topic

• F24J2/5203

  Mechanical Engineering · mapped topic

• Y02E10/47

  Mountings or tracking · CPC title