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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 25, 2020
Filed:
Dec. 04, 2018
Unirac Inc., Albuquerque, NM (US);
Steve Bauer, Albuquerque, NM (US);
Bill Vaught, Albuquerque, NM (US);
Kim Weaver, Edgewood, NM (US);
Caitlin Purigraski, Albuquerque, NM (US);
Stacy Harris, Albuquerque, NM (US);
Charles Stubbs, Tijeras, NM (US);
David Saenz Alvarez, Albuquerque, NM (US);
Unirac Inc., Albuquerque, NM (US);
Abstract
An integral, monolithic mounting bracket supports a corner of a photovoltaic module. The bracket includes a ballast tray for holding one or more ballast blocks, and includes a plurality of monolithic support legs that are disposed at acute angles from a plane of the ballast tray and that are integral with the ballast tray. The bracket can be manufactured by stamping at least two identical sections of metal from the sheet and then bending-up each section on its remaining uncut fourth side into a near-vertical position, so that each bent-up section forms a monolithic support leg.