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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jun. 06, 2017

Filed:

Nov. 09, 2015
Applicant:

Solarcity Corporation, San Mateo, CA (US);

Inventors:

Kyle Tripp, San Rafael, CA (US);

Tyrus Hudson, San Rafael, CA (US);

Assignee:

SOLARCITY CORPORATION, San Mateo, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H02S 30/10 (2014.01); H02S 20/23 (2014.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H02S 30/10 (2014.12); H02S 20/23 (2014.12);
Abstract

A photovoltaic array skirt assembly, where the array skirt has a double-groove structure which can accommodate both a splice and a photovoltaic module mounting device. The splice is mounted within the inner channel of the double-groove structure to connect adjacent array skirt sections, and can be locked into the double groove structure to prevent adjacent array skirt sections from uncoupling. One or more photovoltaic module mounting devices are also located in the groove structure, within the outer channel of the double-groove structure, each of which can be further secured in the array skirt with anti-rotation element.


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