Modular Wooden Beam Space Limiting Device with Uniform Width
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing space delimitation devices, such as wooden building elements, face challenges in achieving improved construction efficiency, reduced complexity, and enhanced insulation properties while maintaining stability and safety, often requiring complex designs and material connections that increase weight and complexity.
Innovation Solution
A modular space delimitation device comprising beam elements with varying height extensions but identical width extensions, connected through mechanical means like screw connections, eliminating the need for material connections and incorporating a filling material to enhance insulation and stability, with a design that allows for efficient production and reduced resource usage.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Object-affected harmful factors
If concrete elements are resiliently mounted in cavities between beam elements to improve sound insulation, then sound insulation properties are improved, but weight and design complexity increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies homogeneity by using uniform wooden beam elements with identical cross-sectional dimensions throughout the structure. This eliminates the need for heterogeneous materials like concrete elements and resilient mounting systems, achieving sound insulation through the homogeneous wooden construction while maintaining low weight.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent changes the parameter of beam element configuration from varying heights to uniform heights with different orientations. This parameter change simplifies the structure and achieves acoustic performance through the uniform arrangement of wooden elements rather than through added mass or complex mounting systems.
2Object-affected harmful factors
If concrete elements are resiliently mounted in cavities to improve sound insulation, then sound insulation properties are improved, but design and construction complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent uses homogeneous wooden beam elements with uniform cross-sections throughout the structure, eliminating the need for complex cavity constructions and resilient mounting systems. The sound insulation is achieved through the simple, homogeneous arrangement of identically dimensioned wooden beams.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent extracts the complex cavity construction and resilient mounting system from the design, replacing them with a simplified configuration of wooden beam elements that directly provide sound insulation through their arrangement and material properties.
3Adaptability or versatility
If beam elements with varying heights are used to achieve functional requirements, then functional adaptability is improved, but manufacturing complexity increases due to different dimensions
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies asymmetry not in the dimensions of individual beam elements, but in their spatial arrangement and orientation. All beam elements have identical cross-sectional dimensions for simplified manufacturing, but they are positioned at different orientations and locations to achieve functional adaptability for various wall and partition configurations.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent makes the beam elements universal by giving them identical dimensions that allow them to serve multiple functions in different positions and orientations. The same standardized beam element can be used throughout the structure, adapting to various functional requirements through arrangement rather than through dimensional variation.
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AI summary
To provide a generic device with improved properties with regard to a construction, the invention relates to a space boundary device (12; 12a), in particular a wooden boundary device, for a modular construction of planar structures, comprising a first beam element (14; 14a) having a first height extension (16; 16a), and at least a second beam element (18; 18a) having a second height extension (20; 20a) different from the first height extension (16; 16a) and being connected to the first beam element (14; 14a) on at least one longitudinal side (26; 26a), wherein the first beam element (14; 14a) and the second beam element (18; 18a) have at least partially at least substantially identical width extensions (28; 28a, 30; 30a).