CONTAINER FOR SOLAR STRING TRANSPORTATION
A container for solar string transportation includes, on the inside of a solar-string storing section, a long-side side plate, and a short-side side plate, and has an upper opening of the solar-string storing section for loading and unloading, and a pair of solar-string lifting/lowering devices along the inner wall of the long-side side plate. The solar-string lifting/lowering device includes a driving gear section set on the bottom plate side, an endless chain member that revolves around a direction changing gear section set on the upper opening side, a plurality of solar-string placing devices fixed to the endless chain member and including, on the outer side thereof, a projecting section for placing the lower surface of an end edge of the solar string, and a shock absorbing member fixed to the back of the solar-string placing devices. The shock absorbing member holds the end edge upper surface of the solar string.
» Number: US2017137210A1 (A1)
» Publication Date: 18/05/2017
» Applicant: CLEAN ENERGY FACTORY CO LTD?[JP]; MERS FORS CO LTD?[JP]
» Inventor: KAMATA HIROYUKI?[JP]
This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement Nº 768737