Photovoltaic module connector for solar tracker

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 11190129
APP PUB NO 20170294869A1
SERIAL NO

15092602

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Photovoltaic modules are mounted onto a solar tracker array torque tube via pairs or left-handed and right-handed photovoltaic array connectors or brackets. The left-handed and right-handed photovoltaic array connectors have orientation projections that couple with and extend into the interior body of the torque tube. Pairs of left-handed photovoltaic array connectors and pairs of right-handed photovoltaic array connectors of adjacent photovoltaic modules can further be fastened together, thereby securing the photovoltaic modules to the torque tube and distributing the load of the overall number of photovoltaic modules mounted on the solar tracker array.

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  • TESLA, INC.

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Almy, Charles Bernardo Berkeley, US 11 37
Pesce, Kathryn Austin San Francisco, US 11 79

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