US Patent Issued to TRINA SOLAR SPAIN, S.L.U. on Jan. 27 for "Passive locking system for solar tracker" (Spanish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,476, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to TRINA SOLAR SPAIN, S.L.U. (Madrid).

"Passive locking system for solar tracker" was invented by Daniel Gonzalez Garcia (Madrid) and Felix Sabando Fraile (Madrid).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A passive locking system for solar trackers having a connecting rod (110), a guide lock (120) and a suspension mechanism applied to a pin (116) integral with the connecting rod (110). The connecting rod (110) is joined at a first end (112) to a rotation profile (200) of the solar tracker. The second end (114) of the connecting rod (110) has the aforementioned pin (116). The guide lock (120) is elongated, fi...