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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 14, 2020
Filed:
Apr. 06, 2016
Solarcity Corporation, San Mateo, CA (US);
Kathryn Austin Pesce, San Francisco, CA (US);
Charles Bernardo Almy, Berkeley, CA (US);
SolarCity Corporation, San Mateo, CA (US);
Abstract
Photovoltaic modules are mounted onto a solar tracker array torque tube via pairs or left-handed and right-handed photovoltaic array connectors having spring latch assemblies. 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. The orientation projections on the spring latch assemblies of each pair of left-handed and right-handed photovoltaic array connector allow for the photovoltaic array connectors to fit over and settle on a torque tube, and thereby support and mount a photovoltaic module as part of a solar tracker array.