Erection system for solar panels

US9188366B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Krinner Innovation GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Gunther Thurner · Straßkirchen, DE
• Martin Thurner · Geisingen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: May 31, 2013
• Grant date: Nov 17, 2015
• Expiry date: Feb 21, 2034

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02E10/50
• WIPO field: Thermal processes and apparatus
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

An erection system for the attachment of solar panels arranged areally adjacent one another and inclined toward the sun. The solar panels are held in rows by a multiplicity of holding members that are fastened to posts anchored in the ground by base members arranged substantially orthogonally with respect to the holding members and which have downwardly open U-profiles. The base members can be connected to the posts via mounting units. Each mounting unit has two clamping shells with semicircular recesses for abutment against the posts and substantially planar abutment surfaces for abutment against the side surfaces of the U-profile. Bores are arranged in the abutment surfaces of the clamping shells and corresponding bores are arranged in the side surfaces of the base member such that the base members can be fixed in a frictionally locking and/or positively locking manner to the posts by screw connections extending through the bores.