Patents by Inventor Eddie Bugg

Eddie Bugg has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 10130165
    Abstract: A solar panel cleaning brush assembly including a trolley frame having parallel first and second side frame members. A first guide member is connected to the first side frame member. A second guide member is connected to the second side frame member. A first belt rotatably disposed about a perimeter of the first guide member directly contacts a first array edge of a solar panel array. A second belt rotatably disposed about a perimeter of the second guide member directly contacts a second array edge of the solar panel array. At least one brush set is connected to the trolley frame, the at least one brush set having multiple fixed, non-rotating brushes each frictionally contacting and spanning across a module face of individual ones of multiple solar panel modules defining a solar panel array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: FIRST SOLAR, INC.
    Inventor: Eddie Bugg
  • Patent number: 9395103
    Abstract: A support structure for orienting and supporting at least one solar panel includes a lock rail and a support rail that are engaged together through a locking mount. The locking mount has a retaining pin that permits the locking rail to be connected to the support rail without tools. The locking mount may provide a permanent or a releasable connection that retains the solar panel to the support structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: First Solar, Inc.
    Inventors: Joshua Conley, Thomas Truman, Eddie Bugg
  • Publication number: 20160065121
    Abstract: A method of installing photovoltaic modules in a solar array is provided. The method includes the steps of forming one or more universal cassettes, each having a plurality of photovoltaic modules attached to one or more rails, positioning the one or more universal cassettes in a curing apparatus, securing the curing apparatus with a vehicle, moving the curing apparatus along rows of installed mounting hardware and deploying the universal cassettes from the curing apparatus and attaching the universal cassettes to the installed mounting hardware.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2015
    Publication date: March 3, 2016
    Inventors: Eddie Bugg, Ken Fisher, Jeffrey Lamb, John Perkins
  • Publication number: 20160015164
    Abstract: A solar panel cleaning brush assembly including a trolley frame having parallel first and second side frame members. A first guide member is connected to the first side frame member. A second guide member is connected to the second side frame member. A first belt rotatably disposed about a perimeter of the first guide member directly contacts a first array edge of a solar panel array. A second belt rotatably disposed about a perimeter of the second guide member directly contacts a second array edge of the solar panel array. At least one brush set is connected to the trolley frame, the at least one brush set having multiple fixed, non-rotating brushes each frictionally contacting and spanning across a module face of individual ones of multiple solar panel modules defining a solar panel array.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2015
    Publication date: January 21, 2016
    Inventor: Eddie Bugg
  • Publication number: 20140263902
    Abstract: A support structure for orienting and supporting at least one solar panel includes a lock rail and a support rail that are engaged together through a locking mount. The locking mount has a retaining pin that permits the locking rail to be connected to the support rail without tools. The locking mount may provide a permanent or a releasable connection that retains the solar panel to the support structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: FIRST SOLAR, INC.
    Inventors: Joshua Conley, Thomas Truman, Eddie Bugg