Patent ID: 9410325
Filing Date: 2016-08-09
CPC Classification: E04D,F24S,H02S,Y02B,Y02E

Claim Text:
1. A roofing system for mounting onto a roof deck, wherein a plurality of roofing shingles or tiles are arranged in courses on said roof deck, comprising: a plurality of roof-integrated solar panels installed on said roof deck in place of a plurality of roofing shingles or tile, the roof-integrated solar panels being configured to match or complement the surrounding roofing shingles or tiles, each comprising: wherein said roof-integrated solar panels are laid out in at least two courses wherein an upper course overlaps a lower course wherein sidewalls of an upper exhaust hood at a lower edge of a frame on said upper course have hooks that catch onto a lower exhaust hood on the top side of a frame on said lower course, thereby interlocking together said roof-integrated solar panels, and wherein said air is exhausted through said exhaust vents of a lower course and out of said nose vents of said overlapping upper course, thereby cooling said photovoltaic solar panels.