Patent ID: 7858874
Filing Date: 2010-12-28
Classification: E04D,H01R,H02S,Y02B,Y02E

Abstract:
1. A solar roofing shingle system including continuous bands housing positive and negative electrical leads that span across and make contact with multiple shingles, said bands dividing groups of shingles into isolated electrical zones, and shingles having top and bottom faces with electrical contacts and tab sections and mounting sections, said tab sections having a plurality of slots forming a plurality of tabs, said tabs having photovoltaic devices, said solar roofing shingle system including a variety of shingle shapes needed to create flush roof edges, said shingles having positive and negative electrical leads from said photovoltaic devices extending to positive and negative electrical contacts on said shingle faces positioned such that when a plurality of said shingles are secured in rows staggered by one half tab width in a by any known method to form a shingled roof, said positive electrical contacts of one row align with said positive electrical contacts of the next row and said negative electrical contacts of said one row align with said negative electrical contacts of said next row to form positive and negative electrical connectivity among said shingles of said solar roofing shingle system, said electrical connectivity made redundant by positive and negative electrical connectivity along roof edges and continuous bands in addition to positive electrical connections made diagonally from row to row in one direction across the roof and negative electrical connections made diagonally from row to row in the direction substantially perpendicular to said one direction with all positive and negative electrical connections terminating at said continuous bands.