Offset Mounting Bracket With Clips for Stable Solar Power Devices
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing power device mounting solutions in solar power systems lack effective mechanisms to securely attach and stabilize power devices like optimizers and junction boxes to photovoltaic panels, leading to potential movement and instability during operation.
Innovation Solution
The use of brackets with a base and plate configuration, including connecting elements and clips with spikes, that attach to the power device housing and photovoltaic panel frames, providing secure attachment and limiting movement by abutting shelves and clips to the rail surfaces.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If existing mounting solutions are used, then power devices can be installed on photovoltaic panels, but the power devices lack secure attachment and exhibit movement and instability during operation
Solution Approach 1:
The mounting bracket is divided into multiple functional components: a base portion that contacts the power device, a plate portion that attaches to the photovoltaic panel frame, and a connecting element that links them. This segmentation allows each component to perform its specific function optimally, with the base providing secure contact with the power device and the plate providing stable attachment to the frame.
Solution Approach 2:
The bracket extends in multiple spatial dimensions to provide comprehensive stabilization. The connecting element positions the base offset from the plate in three-dimensional space, creating a rigid spatial structure that prevents movement in multiple directions simultaneously.
2Ease of operation
If a simple mounting structure is used, then installation is easier, but the mounting structure cannot effectively limit movement of the power device
Solution Approach 1:
The bracket design allows for straightforward installation where the base naturally contacts and secures to the power device housing, and the plate attaches to the frame, with the connecting element automatically positioning components in the correct spatial relationship during assembly.
3Manufacturing precision
If offset positioning is implemented, then the base is properly positioned relative to the plate, but the structural complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The base portion, plate portion, and connecting element are merged into a single integrated bracket assembly that functions as one unified mounting structure, simplifying installation and reducing the number of separate components that must be managed.
Data Source
AI summary
A bracket for attaching a power device to a power generation system may include a base configured to connect to a housing of a power device, a plate configured to attach to a support rail of the system, and a connecting element. The connecting element may extend between the base and the plate, and may position the base at an offset in relation to the plate. The plate may include at least one shelf protruding from the plate for abutting a second surface of the rail. A bracket may include one or more clips for attaching to an attachment point of a power generation system, such as frames, rails, flanges, or protrusions of the system. The clips may include opposing structures for clamping the bracket to the attachment point, and one or more spikes configured to apply additional localized clamping force to sections of the attachment point.