Patent ID: 11955926
Assignee: ARRAY TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Field: Thermal processes and apparatus (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC F  H  Y | IPC F  H

Claim 0:
1. A bifurcated bearing housing for mounting photovoltaic (PV) modules to a support structure in a solar tracking system comprising:
a first component defining a first portion of an aperture configured to house a first portion of a rotating bearing, wherein:
the first component includes a first structural ridge and a second structural ridge,
the first and second structural ridges run in longitudinal directions that would be approximately parallel if the first component was flattened into a single plane, and
the second structural ridge laterally overlaps a portion, but not the entirety, of the first structural ridge;

a second component defining a second portion of the aperture configured to house a second portion of the rotating bearing; and
a connection interface between the first and second components, wherein, when the first and second components are in an attached configuration, the connection interface lies on a plane that is below a centerpoint of the aperture defined by the first and second components.