Modular Sandwich Panel with Pre-Assembled Gaskets
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Solution Overview
Problem
Modular building covering systems face challenges in achieving consistent air- and water-tightness, thermal insulation, and fire resistance due to external weather conditions and human installation errors, particularly at corners and curved sections, leading to issues like water leakage, corrosion, and reduced energy efficiency.
Innovation Solution
A self-supporting modular sandwich panel system with pre-assembled gaskets and reinforcement elements, designed for easy installation and adaptable to various angles, featuring specially shaped corner gaskets and transverse connections that compensate for temperature changes and assembly tolerances, ensuring high air- and water-tightness and aesthetic appeal.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If modular panels are assembled on-site under varying external weather conditions, then installation flexibility is improved, but dimensional precision and tightness of joints deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The gaskets are pre-assembled onto the modular panels during manufacturing under controlled factory conditions, ensuring precise positioning and consistent quality. This preliminary action eliminates the need for on-site gasket installation, which is susceptible to weather variations and human error, thereby maintaining both installation flexibility and joint precision
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces specially designed gaskets as intermediary elements between modular panels. These gaskets compensate for dimensional variations and tolerances that occur during on-site assembly under different weather conditions, maintaining joint tightness and sealing effectiveness while allowing installation flexibility
2Adaptability or versatility
If corner and curved panels are cut and sealed on-site, then adaptability to building geometry is improved, but water-tightness and air-tightness deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
Corner and curved panels are pre-cut and pre-assembled with specialized corner gaskets in the factory under controlled conditions. This preliminary preparation ensures precise geometry and proper sealing configuration, eliminating on-site cutting and sealing operations that are prone to errors and compromise water-tightness and air-tightness
Solution Approach 2:
The patent employs specialized corner gaskets with specific geometries designed for corner and curved panel applications. These locally optimized gaskets provide enhanced sealing at critical corner joints, maintaining water-tightness and air-tightness while adapting to various building geometries
3Ease of manufacture
If traditional sealant application and painting are used for severed edges, then ease of manufacture is improved, but corrosion resistance and aesthetic quality deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces pre-assembled gaskets as intermediary sealing elements that replace traditional sealant application and painting methods. These gaskets provide reliable sealing and corrosion protection at cut edges and joints, eliminating the variability and potential failures associated with manual sealant application and painting
Solution Approach 2:
The gaskets are made from composite materials that combine sealing, corrosion resistance, and aesthetic properties in a single component. This eliminates the need for separate sealant application and painting steps, maintaining ease of manufacture while significantly improving corrosion resistance and aesthetic quality
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 system provides reliable air- and water-tightness, thermal insulation, and fire resistance across different installation methods, reducing the impact of external influences and human errors, while allowing for rapid and aesthetically pleasing installation with minimal material waste and enhanced durability.
Implementation Method 1
deviations in tolerances for various temperatures
Data Source
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AI summary
Modular system of sandwich panels and its installation in multi functional building covering is self-carrying and does not require load-bearing walls or additional substructures while meeting the requirements for fire resistance, air- and water-tightness and thermal insulation at no additional risks from external impacts and effects of the human element during installation in different ways (modes) of installation. Also gasket is fitted during manufacturing stage thus resolving the technical problem of quality and sustainability of leakage due to external influences and impacts the human element during installation. Modular sandwich panels are linear modular components suitable for installation meeting the requirements of architects for perfect appearance of the modules - screens in facades. Modular sandwich panel (1) is comprised of lower plate (9), the internal joint gasket (10), an insulating core (8), the cover (5), the longitudinal connection gasket on the outer side (11), a corner-gasket "man" (6), two corner-gaskets "woman" (7) and the rest of parts integrated into the cover. In pre-assembled element of modular panel have also been fitted all gaskets of longitudinal connections and also in corner connections which are key elements for air-and water-tightness facades in different directions and were developed specifically for this purpose. Moreover, in pre-assembled modular panel has also reinforcement elements built in transverse direction that contribute to self-carrying ability of modular panels and quick and easy installation.