Adhesive-Reinforced Glass Package Units for Hermetic Rigidity
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing glass package units have low rigidity and are susceptible to depressurization in aggressive environments, requiring additional structures for installation and complicating production, limiting their use in construction and decoration.
Innovation Solution
A glass package unit with a distance frame having a perimeter smaller than the glass sheet, using an adhesive layer between the glass sheets to form a hermetic chamber, which also serves as a basis for fastening, increasing strength and rigidity without additional structures.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If sheets of glass are hermetically adhesived to an empty metal spacer frame using thiokol sealant, then the glass package unit achieves hermetic sealing, but the structure has low rigidity and requires additional reinforcing profiles for installation
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies composite materials by combining glass sheets with a distance frame made of composite or reinforced material that integrates both sealing and structural functions. The distance frame is designed as a composite structure that provides both hermetic sealing through adhesive bonding and sufficient rigidity to eliminate the need for additional reinforcing profiles.
2Reliability
If thiokol sealant is used for hermetic sealing, then the glass package unit achieves sealing, but the sealant loses its properties under aggressive environment impact causing depressurization
Solution Approach 1:
The patent changes the material parameter of the sealing substance from thiokol sealant to a more chemically resistant adhesive or sealant material that maintains its sealing properties under aggressive environmental conditions. This parameter change in material composition provides resistance to chemicals, moisture, and temperature variations while maintaining hermetic sealing.
3Strength
If additional plastic and aluminum reinforcing profiles are used for installation, then the glass package unit gains sufficient strength, but the production process is complicated and the probability of defects increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the functions of the spacer frame and reinforcing profile into a single integrated distance frame structure. The distance frame is designed to provide both the necessary spacing for hermetic sealing and the structural reinforcement needed for installation, eliminating the need for separate plastic and aluminum reinforcing profiles and simplifying the production process.
4Device complexity
If the distance frame has the same perimeter as the glass sheet, then the structure is simple, but the adhesive layer cannot serve as a basis for fastening elements
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies asymmetry by designing the distance frame with a perimeter that is intentionally smaller than the perimeter of the glass sheet. This asymmetric design creates an extended adhesive layer area on the glass sheet surface, which can serve as a basis for mounting fastening elements, brackets, or other attachment devices, thereby providing fastening capability while maintaining structural integrity.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
The solution enhances the glass package unit's strength and rigidity, allowing direct installation on surfaces without preliminary treatment, and maintains integrity under aggressive conditions, while simplifying production and enabling diverse applications like room zoning and transparent structures.
Implementation Method 1
the hermetic chamber is formed by joining the sides of the distance frame to two sheets of glass with an adhesive
Implementation Method 2
after drying, the adhesive layer transmits its inherent rigidity to the sheet of glass on which it is applied
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AI summary
The claimed technical solution belongs to the means used in frame doors, windows or other locking elements, facade elements or internal partitions. The field of application of the claimed technical solution is construction, in particular, decoration of the facade, arrangement of the interior of the premises. In the inner part of the hermetic chamber, a layer of adhesive is applied to each sheet of glass, where the layer is applied in a continuous strip, which has a depth greater than the size of the fastening element used when installing the glass package unit. This ensures an increase in the strength and rigidity of the glass package unit.