Cavity Floor Panel with Guide Element for Cleaning Hose Deflection
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing temperature-controlled cavity floors face difficulties in cleaning the air flow cavity, leading to potential hygienic impairments of the supplied fresh air.
Innovation Solution
A floor panel design featuring a base body with an air flow cavity, an inlet shaft, an outlet shaft, and a guide element that deflects cleaning hoses into separate partial areas, allowing for easy cleaning and reinforcement while ensuring easy installation of a surface temperature control system.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a cavity is provided in the floor panel for air flow, then temperature control and ventilation are enabled, but the cavity becomes difficult or impossible to clean leading to hygiene problems
Solution Approach 1:
The cavity is divided into multiple sub-sections by guide elements with deflection elements, allowing separate cleaning access to each section through the inlet and outlet shafts. This segmentation enables thorough cleaning of the entire cavity volume without requiring disassembly.
Solution Approach 2:
Instead of providing cleaning access from the top or sides of the cavity, the invention enables cleaning access from the bottom through the inlet and outlet shafts by using deflection elements that redirect cleaning hoses into the cavity sub-sections. This inverted cleaning approach solves the hygiene problem while maintaining the cavity's ventilation function.
2Object-affected harmful factors
If the cavity is sealed to maintain hygiene, then fresh air quality is preserved, but cleaning access is completely blocked
Solution Approach 1:
The guide element with deflection elements acts as an intermediary mechanism that allows cleaning hoses to be directed into the cavity sub-sections through the inlet and outlet shafts. This intermediary structure enables cleaning access while maintaining the sealed nature of the cavity for hygiene purposes.
3Ease of operation
If a guide element is added to deflect cleaning hoses, then cleaning accessibility is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The guide element serves multiple functions: it divides the cavity into sub-sections for systematic cleaning, deflects cleaning hoses into the cavity through deflection elements, and potentially guides air flow. This multi-functionality reduces the need for additional separate components, thereby limiting the increase in device complexity.
4Productivity
If inlet and outlet shafts are positioned on opposite sides, then air flow path is optimized, but cleaning hose access becomes more difficult
Solution Approach 1:
Instead of requiring direct access to the cavity from the sides or top, the invention enables cleaning access through the inlet and outlet shafts located on opposite sides by using deflection elements that redirect the cleaning hoses into the cavity sub-sections. This inverted cleaning approach maintains the optimized air flow path while enabling effective cleaning.
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
The design facilitates easy cleaning of the air flow cavity, enhances heat transfer through turbulence, and provides effective footfall sound insulation, improving indoor climate and reducing operational costs by eliminating the need for additional heating registers.
Implementation Method 1
the guide element deflects a cleaning hose inserted into the inlet shaft into the first part of the cavity and deflects a cleaning hose inserted into the outlet shaft into the second part of the cavity
Implementation Method 2
a base body for transferring a load from a top floor arranged above the floor panel to a bottom floor arranged below the floor panel
Implementation Method 3
a thermal insulation layer arranged on the subfloor, a number of fluid-flowing heating/cooling pipes arranged thereon
Implementation Method 4
at least one heat exchanger made of thermally conductive material is applied to the thermal insulation layer in at least partial zones, which carries partial sections of the heating/cooling pipes on its upper side, is in thermally conductive contact with the screed layer
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AI summary
The invention relates to the floor panel (1), in particular for constructing a temperature-controlled cavity floor, comprising: - a base body (2) for transferring a load from an upper floor arranged above the floor panel (1) to a lower floor (21 ); - A first cavity (7) arranged in the floor panel (1); - An inlet shaft (8) via which an air flow can be introduced into the first cavity (7); - An outlet shaft (9) via which the air flow can be discharged from the first cavity (7); and - a guide element (10) arranged in the first cavity (7) and dividing the cavity (7) into a first partial area (15) and a second partial area (16), the guide element (10) being designed such that it deflects a cleaning hose (17) inserted into the inlet shaft (8) into the first section (15) of the cavity (7) and deflects a cleaning hose (18) inserted into the outlet shaft (9) into the second section (16) of the cavity (7) distracts.