Photovoltaic system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9553543-B2
Application number	US-201314397171-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 26, 2013
Priority date	Apr 26, 2012
Publication date	Jan 24, 2017
Grant date	Jan 24, 2017

Abstract

A photovoltaic system includes a pole member which stands on an installation surface, a connecting support member disposed on an upper end section of the pole member, a rail member supported by the connecting support member, and a photovoltaic cell module disposed on the rail member, wherein the pole supporting member includes a lower section that covers at least a portion of an outer peripheral surface of the upper end section of the pole member.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A photovoltaic system comprising:
a pole member;
a pole supporting member connected to the pole member;
a fastening member that fixes the pole member on the pole supporting member;
a connecting support member disposed on an upper end section of the pole member;
a rail member supported by the connecting support member; and
a photovoltaic cell module disposed on the rail member,
wherein
the pole supporting member includes a bottom section, a wall section that is connected to the bottom section and covers at least a portion of an outer peripheral surface of the pole member, two elongate holes which extend in the longitudinal direction of the pole member on the wall section, and a fitting section that is provided on a back side of a surface of the wall section which faces the outer peripheral surface of the pole member or on an inner peripheral surface of the elongate holes,
the two elongate holes are separately located in a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the two elongate holes, and
the fastening member includes a contact surface that is in contact with the fitting section, the contact surface being provided with a section to be fitted that fits with the fitting section, located in the two elongate holes and two holes disposed on the pole member respectively to fix the pole member on the pole supporting member.

2. The photovoltaic system according to claim 1 , wherein the connecting support member includes a lower section that covers at least a portion of an outer peripheral surface of the upper end section of the pole member, the lower section of the connecting support member includes two opposite plate sections, and at least a portion of the outer peripheral surface of the upper end section of the pole member is located between the opposite plate sections.

3. The photovoltaic system according to claim 2 , wherein the two plate sections include a protrusion which protrudes from an inner surface of at least one of the plate sections so that a lower surface of the protrusion is in contact with the upper end section of the pole member.

4. The photovoltaic system according to claim 1 , wherein the pole member includes a tubular section in the longitudinal direction.

5. The photovoltaic system according to claim 1 , wherein a cross sectional shape of the pole member in a cross section perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the pole member is I-shape, T-shape or H-shape.

6. The photovoltaic system according to claim 1 , wherein the connecting support member includes an upper surface section and a projection or a recess formed at the upper surface section, and the rail member includes a lower surface section and a recess that corresponds to the projection or a projection that corresponds to the recess of the connecting support member.

7. The photovoltaic system according to claim 2 , further comprising another fastening member that fixes the connecting support member on the pole member, wherein the another fastening member is inserted into another elongate hole which extends in the longitudinal direction of the pole member on at least one of the two plate sections and another hole disposed on the upper end section of the pole member to fix the connecting support member on the pole member.

8. The photovoltaic system according to claim 7 , wherein the plate section includes a first fitting section on a back side of a surface which faces the outer peripheral surface of the pole member, and the first fastening member includes a contact surface that is in contact with the first fitting section, the contact surface being provided with a second fitting section that fits with the first fitting section.

9. The photovoltaic system according to claim 8 , wherein the first fitting section is a first serration section, and the second fitting section is a second serration section that is capable of fitting with the first serration section at a plurality of positions in the longitudinal direction of the pole member.

10. The photovoltaic system according to claim 1 , wherein the fitting section is a serration section, and the section to be fitted is another serration section that is capable of fitting with the serration section at a plurality of positions in the longitudinal direction of the pole member.

Assignees

• Kyocera Corp

Inventors

• Kitano Takahiro
• Uchida Kouki
• Fujikawa Yoshiyuki

Classifications

• Y02E10/47

  Mountings or tracking · CPC title

• F24J2002/5215

  Mechanical Engineering · mapped topic

• F24J2002/5226

  Mechanical Engineering · mapped topic

• F24J2002/4672

  Mechanical Engineering · mapped topic

• H02S20/00 Primary

  Supporting structures for PV modules · CPC title