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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 21, 2025
Filed:
Oct. 04, 2024
Gaf Energy Llc, Parsippany, NJ (US);
Thierry Nguyen, San Francisco, CA (US);
Lewis Abra, San Francisco, CA (US);
Babak Farhangi, Kew Gardens Hills, NY (US);
Kishan Gondalia, San Jose, CA (US);
Richard Perkins, San Jose, CA (US);
GAF Energy LLC, Parsippany, NJ (US);
Abstract
A system includes photovoltaic modules including a plurality of substrings installed on a roof deck. A printed circuit board of the system includes a bypass diode, a plurality of solder pads, and first and second low melting alloys connecting first and second solder pads. When the first and second low melting alloys reach a threshold temperature based on the occurrence of an event affecting the bypass diode, the first and second low melting alloys melt towards each other in a channel such that the first and second low melting allows connect to each other to form a continuous path between the first and second solder pads. The formed continuous path causes shorting of circuitry connecting at least one of the plurality of photovoltaic substrings to the first and second solder pads to provide a failsafe for at least one of the plurality of substrings.