Patent Document ID: 8916811
Application ID: 13227652
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. An integrated electronics housing containing both system electronics and power generation circuits for a two-axis tracker assembly having a Concentrated PhotoVoltaic (CPV) solar array; comprising: one or more Alternating Current (AC) inverter circuits with switching devices that generate three-phase AC voltage supplied to a utility power grid interface transformer, where each inverter receives a bipolar DC voltage supplied from its own set of CPV cells; one or more motion control circuits configured to move the CPV cells of the two-axis solar tracker mechanism to angular coordinates resulting from a solar tracking algorithm; and a backplane communication bus connecting to the motion control circuits and the inverter circuits to facilitate communications of information including parameters of power being generated by the inverter circuits between the motion control circuits and the AC inverter circuits to fine tune an AC power generated out of the two axis tracker mechanism, and where the integrated electronics housing contains at least the communication bus, the motion control circuits, and the inverter circuits, and acts as the local system control point for the two-axis solar tracker mechanism.