Novasonics, Inc.

The Gillette Company

Smash Solar, Inc.

Spectragenics, Inc.

Neil Goldberg

Imraan Aziz

Ian Felix

Gene Zierdt

Florina Winter

Adam J Richardson

Salvatore Bondi

Derek Debusschere

David Vivian Tyndall

Troy Douglas Tyler

David Mathew Johnson

Mark V Weckwerth

Robert E Grove

Tobin C Island

David Sheldon Schultz

Eugene Ezekiel Kim

Miguel Martinho Lopes Praca

Steven Nersesian

Bron Davis

John Wolfe

A preassembled solar panel module includes a solar panel configured for receiving and converting solar radiation to produce electrical power. Multiple panel rails are coupled in preassembly to a backside surface of the solar panel, including at least two panel rails disposed halfway or more along opposing longest edges of the solar panel. Multiple snap connector components are each coupled to one of the at least two rails and are each configured to couple with a complimentary snap connector component of an adjacent preassembled solar panel module or of a wind deflector accessory, or both. One or more mounting feet are each coupled at a selected location to one of the at least two panel rails and are each configured for coupling at a selected location to a roof or to other sunlight receiving surface.

Sensing, interlocking solar panel system and installation method

A solar module system is coupled directly to a fixed structure either individually or collectively as an array. Universal mounting brackets attached to the back of each solar panel module each connect to one or more other brackets of adjacent solar panels and/or to mounting feet that anchor to the fixed structure. Mounting brackets interlock with mounting brackets on adjacent solar modules and include a flexible snap coupling mechanism including a locking feature to selectively flexibly connect to and disconnect from other mounting brackets of adjacent solar panels.

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Berkeley, CA, United States of America

Neil Goldberg