Patent ID: 8534018

Claim:
A ventilated structural panel comprising: a first sheet, defining a first plane, and having edges that define a horizontal axis with a first horizontal edge and a second horizontal edge, and vertical axis with a first vertical edge and a second vertical edge; a second sheet, defining a second plane, and having substantially a same horizontal and vertical dimensions as the first sheet and having edges that define a horizontal axis and vertical axis, with a first horizontal edge and a second horizontal edge and a first vertical edge and a second vertical edge; the first and the second plane being parallel; a plurality of spacing structural elements, at least one of the plurality of spacing structural elements being of unitary construction with and formed integrally with at least one of the first and the second sheet, wherein the spacing structural elements are comprised of rectangular shaped elongated members arranged in a matrix, the plurality of spacing structural elements fixedly attaching the first sheet to the second sheet, such that a strength of the combined panel is greater than a combined individual strengths of the first and the second sheet; spacing between adjacent spacing structural elements in a same layer defining a plurality of unobstructed pathways allowing air to move from at least one edge of the panel to at least one of an opposite and an adjacent edge of the panel, and being arranged to provide integral ventilation through the panel and between the first and the second sheet; wherein the first and the second sheets are each between 0.125 inches and 1.0 inches in thickness, not including the thickness of any integral spacing structural elements, and are between 3.5 and 4.5 feet by between 7.5 and 8.5 feet in planar dimensions; and wherein the elongated members arranged in the matrix are comprised of at least one layer of elongated members, whereby each elongated member in each layer is coplanar, parallel, and equidistance from each neighboring elongated member in the same layer, and each layer is arranged parallel in plane, and each elongated member of a first layer being perpendicular in orientation to each elongated member of any second adjacent layers.