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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 30, 2021
Filed:
Apr. 06, 2016
Tesla, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Kathryn Austin Pesce, San Francisco, CA (US);
Charles Bernardo Almy, Berkeley, CA (US);
Tesla, Inc., Palo Alto, 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 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.