US 12,395,115 B2
Structure for installation of solar power generation panel on roof
Hiroyuki Hashimoto, Gotemba (JP); Kiyoto Sasaki, Shizuoka-ken (JP); Shoichi Iwamoto, Fuji (JP); and Kosuke Suzuki, Shizuoka-ken (JP)
Assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed by TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed on Nov. 29, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/522,465.
Claims priority of application No. 2023-014542 (JP), filed on Feb. 2, 2023.
Prior Publication US 2024/0266988 A1, Aug. 8, 2024
Int. Cl. H02S 20/24 (2014.01)
CPC H02S 20/24 (2014.12) 6 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An installation structure for installing a solar power generation panel on a roof of a building, comprising:
a rectangular sheet; and
a plurality of button-shaped protruding portions disposed on the rectangular sheet, each of the protruding portions including an upper surface portion and a side surface portion surrounding the upper surface portion and extending downward from the upper surface portion, a lower edge of the side surface portion contacting an upper surface of the roof, and the upper surface portion being fixed to a bottom surface of the solar power generation panel, wherein
the protruding portions are arranged in first, second, and third rows along a central axis of the rectangular sheet in a long side direction of the rectangular sheet,
the first row of the protruding portions includes an even number of first protruding portions and is disposed on the central axis,
the second row of the protruding portions includes an odd number of second protruding portions and is disposed on an outside of the first row of the protruding portions in a short side direction of the rectangular sheet,
the third row of the protruding portions includes an even number of third protruding portions and is disposed on an outside of the second row of the protruding portions in the short side direction,
each of the second protruding portions is spaced the same distance from each of two adjacent first protruding portions from among the first protruding portions, and
each of the second protruding portions is spaced the same distance from each of two adjacent third protruding portions from among the third protruding portions.