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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 25, 2019
Filed:
Sep. 01, 2016
Sunpower Corporation, San Jose, CA (US);
Tyler Grushkowitz, Hayward, CA (US);
Brian Wares, San Francisco, CA (US);
Zachary Z. Judkins, Oakland, CA (US);
Mark Adam Schimelpfenig, Hayward, CA (US);
Richard Joseph Erb, San Francisco, CA (US);
Nicholas James McKibben, Oakland, CA (US);
SunPower Corporation, San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A multi-drive solar-tracking photovoltaic (PV) system having several PV modules mounted on a torque tube is described. In an example, several motor drives input torque to the torque tube, and the motor drives are controlled by a single controller. The torque tube may include several sections joined by a torque tube coupler. For example, the torque tube coupler may having a medial section and end sections to join to the torque tube sections. The medial section and the adjoined torque tube sections may have a same outer diameter.