Dow Global Technolgoies LLC

Eovations, LLC

Claude Brown, Jr

James Keenihan

Michelle L Boven

Ryan S Gaston

Michael E Hus

Bruce A Malone

Robert J Cleereman

Kevin Louis Nichols

Brett M Birchmeier

Gerald K Eurich

Joe A Langmaid

Timothy Plum

Stan Lickly

Mike Lesniak

A building product and method for manufacturing a building product made from an oriented polymer composition which can be split to provide a surface of the building product with a plurality of visible fibrils to form an aesthetic representative of split wood.

Building product and method of manufacture and use

The present invention is premised upon a photovoltaic device suitable for directly mounting on a structure. The device includes an active portion including a photovoltaic cell assembly having a top surface portion that allows transmission of light energy to a photoactive portion of the photovoltaic device for conversion into electrical energy and a bottom surface having a bottom bonding zone; and an inactive portion immediately adjacent to and connected to the active portion, the inactive portion having a region for receiving a fastener to connect the device to the structure and having on a top surface, a top bonding zone; wherein one of the top and bottom bonding zones comprises a first bonding element and the other comprises a second bonding element, the second bonding element designed to interact with the first bonding element on a vertically overlapped adjacent photovoltaic device to bond the device to such adjacent device or to the structure.

Direct mounted photovoltaic device with improved adhesion and method thereof

The present invention is premised upon a photovoltaic assembly system for securing and/or aligning at least a plurality of vertically adjacent photovoltaic device assemblies to one another. The securing function being accomplished by a clip member that may be a separate component or integral to one or more of the photovoltaic device assemblies.

Direct mounted photovoltaic device with improved side clip

The present invention is premised upon a photovoltaic assembly system for securing and/or aligning at least a plurality of vertically adjacent (overlapping) photovoltaic device assemblies to one another. The securing function being accomplished by a clip member that may be a separate component or integral to one or more of the photovoltaic device assemblies.

Direct mounted photovoltaic device with improved front clip

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Saginaw, MI, United States of America

Claude Brown, Jr