Building Panel Mesh Overhang Recesses for Seam Alignment

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current building panels with attached netting structures face challenges in achieving smooth and high-quality finishes due to excessive overlap, leading to increased construction time, manpower costs, and vulnerabilities at seams prone to thermal tension and frost issues.

Innovation Solution

The design of building panels with a construction plate and a mesh structure featuring extension overhangs with recesses at the corners, allowing for precise alignment and reduced overlap, along with a two-layer binder system for secure attachment, minimizes unnecessary cutting and repositioning of mesh structures, ensuring structural integrity and efficient assembly.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Strength

If a netting structure is attached to building panels with large overlap to ensure coverage, then structural reinforcement is improved, but construction time and manpower costs increase significantly

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvestructural reinforcementVSAvoidconstruction time
Core Design Contradiction:
StrengthVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The netting structure is segmented into a core portion and extension portions, where the core portion is attached to each panel and the extension portions overlap with adjacent panels. This segmentation allows for controlled overlap only where needed at panel joints, rather than requiring large overlap across the entire panel surface, thus reducing construction time while maintaining structural reinforcement at critical seam areas.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The netting structure is pre-attached to the building panels during manufacturing, with extension portions already positioned to overlap with adjacent panels. This preliminary action eliminates the need for on-site cutting and repositioning of netting structures, significantly reducing construction time and manpower costs while ensuring proper overlap for structural reinforcement.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Stability of the object's composition

If netting structures of adjacent panels overlap extensively, then seam coverage is improved, but the quality and solidity of the construction deteriorate due to poor attachment at overlap regions

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveseam coverageVSAvoidattachment quality
Core Design Contradiction:
Stability of the object's compositionVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The netting structure has different portions with different functions: the core portion provides attachment to the panel, while the extension portions provide overlap with adjacent panels. The binder material is applied specifically to ensure firm attachment at these extension portions, creating local quality enhancement at the overlap regions. This ensures that the critical seam areas have both coverage and reliable attachment, preventing detachment and improving overall construction solidity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

3Strength

If netting structures overlap at panel seams, then reinforcement is improved, but vulnerability to thermal tension and frost issues increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveseam reinforcementVSAvoidthermal tension and frost vulnerability
Core Design Contradiction:
StrengthVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The extension portions of the netting structure are pre-positioned to overlap with adjacent panels during manufacturing, ensuring proper alignment and firm attachment before the building panels are installed. This preliminary positioning prevents gaps and weak points at panel seams, reducing vulnerability to thermal tension and frost issues while maintaining reinforcement benefits.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The design specifies that the extension portions of the netting structure extend beyond the edges of the building panels by specific dimensions (e.g., 10-50 mm). This parameter change ensures sufficient overlap for reinforcement while maintaining proper attachment quality, thereby reducing vulnerability to thermal and environmental stresses at panel seams.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

4Productivity

If pre-fabricated building panels with attached netting structures are used, then installation efficiency is improved, but achieving smooth and high-quality finishes becomes difficult due to excessive overlap

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveinstallation efficiencyVSAvoidfinish quality
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSManufacturing precision

Solution Approach 1:

The netting structure is segmented into core and extension portions, with the extension portions being the only areas that overlap with adjacent panels. This segmentation ensures that overlap is confined to specific regions, allowing for smoother finishes in the non-overlapping areas while maintaining the productivity benefits of pre-fabricated panels with attached netting.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

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

This solution enhances construction efficiency by reducing processing steps, lowering material requirements, and improving the durability and thermal resistance of the finished structure, while maintaining structural stability and ease of handling.

Implementation Method 1

a mesh structure (3) attached to the construction plate (2) with a binder material (4,5)

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectAdhesion: Adhesive

Data Source

PatentEP3006642B1Building panels comprising a construction plate and a mesh structure and process for manufacturing the building panel
Publication Date: 2021.05.12 GAMORINE NV
  • EP3006642B1 patent drawingFigure 1A~1B
  • EP3006642B1 patent drawingFigure 1C

AI summary

The invention relates to building panels (1) comprising a construction plate (2) and a mesh structure (3) attached to the construction plate (2) with a binder material (4,5) characterized in that the mesh structure (3) provides an extension structure comprising a first overhang (10) and a second overhang (11) projecting beyond two adjacent edges of said construction plate (2), wherein said extension structure comprises a first recess (12) and a second recess (13) located at one or both extremities of the first and/or second overhangs (10,11), wherein the length (20) of the first recess (12) is equal to the width (21) of the second overhang (11) within a margin of +100% and -50%, and wherein the length (22) of the second recess (13) is equal to the width (23) of the first overhang (10) within a margin of +100% and -50%.