Metal Profile for Door Window Frames with Embedded Insulation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing door/window frame structures lack flexibility, require complex implementation, and have high production and installation costs, making them difficult to adapt to various design conditions and installation environments.
Innovation Solution
A metal profile for door/window frame structures that is flexible, durable, and easy to adapt, featuring a single-piece design with a central portion and end portions that can be easily coupled with insulating elements and frame components, reducing the need for multiple components and simplifying the manufacturing process.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If traditional door/window frame structures use multiple separate components (metal profiles, insulating elements, retaining pins), then the structure can provide thermal insulation and mechanical strength, but the device complexity increases and adaptability to different design conditions decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines the metal profile and insulating element into a single integrated unitary structure. The insulating element is permanently embedded within the metal profile during manufacturing, eliminating the need for separate retaining pins and complex assembly steps. This merging directly reduces device complexity while maintaining thermal insulation functionality and improving adaptability to various design conditions.
Solution Approach 2:
The integrated profile structure serves multiple functions simultaneously: the metal portion provides mechanical strength and structural support, while the embedded insulating element provides thermal insulation. The unified design allows the same component to fulfill both structural and thermal requirements, reducing the number of separate components needed and simplifying the overall device complexity.
2Ease of manufacture
If traditional frame structures use multiple separate components requiring precise assembly, then mechanical strength can be achieved, but manufacturing precision requirements increase and production costs rise
Solution Approach 1:
The insulating element is pre-positioned and permanently embedded within the metal profile during the manufacturing process, rather than being assembled separately during installation. This preliminary action ensures precise positioning is achieved during manufacturing when conditions are controlled, eliminating the need for high precision assembly operations during installation and reducing both manufacturing and installation costs.
Solution Approach 2:
By merging the metal profile and insulating element into a single unitary structure manufactured as one piece, the patent eliminates the need for precise alignment and assembly of separate components. The integrated manufacturing process reduces manufacturing precision requirements compared to assembling multiple separate components, thereby reducing production and installation costs.
3Productivity
If traditional structures use separate metal profiles and insulating elements, then thermal insulation can be provided, but the quantity of components increases and assembly time is extended
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the metal profile and insulating element into a single integrated component, reducing the quantity of separate components from multiple pieces (metal profiles, insulating elements, retaining pins) to a single unitary structure. This directly decreases the number of components to be handled and assembled, thereby improving productivity and reducing installation time and effort.
4Device complexity
If traditional door/window frames use bent metal sheets with open ends, then insulating elements can be inserted, but the structure requires additional locking mechanisms and increases device complexity
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the metal profile and insulating element into a single unitary structure where the insulating element is permanently embedded during manufacturing. This eliminates the need for separate locking mechanisms such as retaining pins or interference fits, reducing device complexity while ensuring reliable holding of the insulating element through permanent integration.
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AI summary
A metal profile (1) for door/window frame structure (S, S′) provided with a metal frame (A), an insulating element (C) and/or a linear gasket (G) arranged inside said frame (A). The profile (1) comprises an elongated body (6) that extends along a longitudinal extension direction (L), a first end portion (8) and a second end portion (9) of the elongated body (6). The first end portion (8) of the body (6) is suited to interact with the frame (A) and/or the linear gasket (G) of the door/window frame structure (S, S′) and the second end portion (9) of the body (6) is suited to be coupled with the insulating body (C) of the door/window frame structure (S, S′) to promote its holding with respect to a substantially transverse direction (T) and form a unitary assembly with it. A method for making a metal profile (1) for door/window frame structure (S, S′).