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AssigneeMorgan Solar Inc.
InventorsPhilip M. Chang, Jayiesh Singh, Sandy Li, Eric Morgan, Asif Ansari, Trevor Vaughan, Stephen Caelers
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A solar tracker assembly for mounting one or more solar tracking units, which can be adapted for use with various solar energy modules such as photovoltaic modules and heliostat mirrors, is provided. Each assembly comprises a frame of four sides connected at leg assemblies, each leg assembly being adapted for mounting a solar tracking unit. The frame may be configured as an oblique-angled, rhombus or diamond frame with a cross member extending between the closer-spaced leg assemblies. A set of frames may be arranged in the field with adjacent sides of adjacent frames being parallel, with spacing arms of predefined lengths interconnecting adjacent pairs of frames, to provide a desired hexagonal grid spacing.
A field of interconnected solar tracking units, the field comprising:
The field of interconnected solar tracking units of claim 2, the field thus comprising a plurality of frames, each frame comprising four leg assemblies connected by sides of substantially equal length, the leg assemblies being adapted for mounting a corresponding solar tracking unit, the frame comprising a greater diagonal defined by a distance between two of the four leg assemblies separated by a greater distance and a lesser diagonal defined by a distance between a remaining two of the four leg assemblies separated by a lesser distance.
The field of interconnected solar tracking units of claim 3, each frame of the plurality of frames being interconnected by at least one spacing arm of predetermined length to an adjacent frame, the at least one spacing arm thus maintaining a regular spacing among the plurality of solar tracking units to provide the hexagonal grid arrangement.
A field of interconnected solar tracking assemblies, the field comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.