Modular Cable And Pipe Routing Blocks for Compact Fire Sealing
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing routing devices for lines, pipes, and cables through building components often result in non-optimized loading and undesirably large mounting cross sections due to uniform device sizes, leading to inefficient sealing and space utilization.
Innovation Solution
A set of devices with varying cross-sectional dimensions, allowing for detachable connection and adjustable frames, enabling optimized loading and sealing for different applications by utilizing devices with different ratios of height and width, and allowing for flexible arrangement within a defined space.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Device complexity
If identically designed devices are combined in one mounting flange, then the mounting structure is simplified, but the loading optimization and sealing performance deteriorate due to uniform device sizes
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the mounting flange into multiple individual mounting elements, each capable of holding a routing device. This allows each mounting element to be independently positioned and sized to accommodate devices of different cross-sectional dimensions, enabling optimal loading and sealing performance while maintaining a relatively simple overall mounting structure.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent applies local quality by providing mounting elements with different geometries and positions within the mounting flange. Each mounting element can be tailored to the specific dimensions of the routing device it accommodates, ensuring optimal sealing and loading for each local position while maintaining structural simplicity.
2Ease of manufacture
If identically designed devices are used, then the manufacturing and mounting process is simplified, but the total mounting cross section increases due to non-optimized space utilization
Solution Approach 1:
The patent changes the parameters of the mounting elements (position, geometry, size) to accommodate routing devices with different cross-sectional dimensions. This allows optimized space utilization and reduced total mounting cross section while maintaining relatively simple manufacturing and mounting processes through standardized mounting flange design.
3Reliability
If devices with different cross sections are used, then the loading optimization and sealing performance improve, but the device complexity and variety increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies universality by designing a standardized mounting flange structure that can accommodate multiple types of routing devices with different cross sections. The mounting elements are designed to be universally applicable to various device sizes and shapes, reducing the complexity of managing device variety while maintaining optimal sealing and loading performance.
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AI summary
The invention relates to a set of devices (50) containing at least two devices (1, 52, 53, 54) for routing lines, pipes and/or cables through a building part, each containing a housing with a housing wall, wherein the housing has an axial passage channel which is delimited by the housing wall, extends in the longitudinal direction (L) and has an opening (12) at each opposite end (10), wherein the devices have a length (L1, L2, L3) in the longitudinal direction (L) and each have a rectangular cross section, which is arranged perpendicularly to the longitudinal direction (L), with a width (B1, B2, B3) in a transverse direction (B) and a height (H1, H2, H3) in a vertical direction (H). A first device (1, 52, 53, 54) has a first width (B1), a first height (H1) and a first length (L1), and a second device (1, 52, 53, 54) has a second width (B2), a second height (H2) and a second length (L2). A ratio of the second height (H2) to the first height (H1) is n1:x1, wherein n1 and x1 are from the set of natural numbers and are not identical, and/or a ratio of the second width (B2) to the first width (B1) is n2:x2, wherein n2 and x2 are from the set of natural numbers and are not identical. The at least two devices (1, 52, 53, 54) can be detachably connected to one another.