Solar Panel Field Array Support System and Apparatus and Method for Construction Use

摘要

A combined PV panel assembly jig and forklift transport pallet is used to assemble PV panels for transport to a field array from a protected manufacturing environment. The panels are assembled to have adhesively applied rails for transport by a robotic drone on a ground-support rack and are pre-wired. The PV panel assembly jig holds, protects, and aligns the PV panels in an upside down position, opposite to their operational position, for ease of wiring in order to decrease the manual labor required in the field. Once the pallet is transported to the load station at the end of a row of solar panel racks in the field array, a robotic loader lifts the upside down PV panels from the combined PV panel assembly jig and forklift transport pallet in an arcing overhead motion that lifts, tilts, and deposits the PV panels in an upright position at the loading station of a railed rack support as ground-mounted in a solar panel field array.

主权项

1. An assembly jig and fork-lift transport pallet arrangement for holding, supporting, and transporting solar panel modules comprising:
horizontal base members and stringers configured to form a rectangular pallet, the pallet being sized to closely approximate the size of a desired solar panel module comprising two or more PV solar panels, and being configured to accept the tines of a forklift truck, the assembly jig and fork-lift transport pallet comprising: upright supports on a long side of the rectangular pallet; pivotally attached upright supports on the two longitudinally-opposed shorter sides of the pallet; jig locating supports on the upright supports spaced apart for engaging with rails attached to the underside of a solar panel module, jig locating supports being positioned to support and hold a solar panel module in place relative to a second solar panel module.