Radiant Heating Retaining Surface With Laminated Relief Grid
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing holding surfaces for surface heating pipes are inefficient in providing a cost-effective substructure and reliable fixation, often requiring additional materials and complex production steps, while also being bulky and difficult to lay flat for optimal thermal output and distribution.
Innovation Solution
A holding surface with a structured carrier that integrates a laminated structured surface, such as a fleece or velor part of a hook fastener, directly onto a plastically deformable carrier, allowing for a firm connection without additional adhesives and enabling a flat, three-dimensional relief structure for enhanced contact area and fixation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a separate carrier film and structured surface are used with adhesive lamination, then reliable fixation is achieved, but material costs and production complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines the carrier film and structured surface into a single integrated component. The structured surface is directly formed on the carrier during manufacturing, eliminating the need for separate adhesive lamination of a structured surface onto a carrier film. This merging reduces material layers, simplifies production, and maintains fixation reliability through the integrated structure.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent removes the adhesive layer from the structure, extracting the bonding function and replacing it with direct mechanical or structural integration of the structured surface onto the carrier. This eliminates the adhesive material and its associated application processes while maintaining the fixation function.
2Ease of operation
If a bulky holding surface structure is used, then easy handling is achieved, but thermal distribution efficiency decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent employs thin-film construction for the holding surface, replacing bulky structures with flexible, thin carrier films that conform to the heating element. This thin-film approach minimizes thermal resistance and improves heat transfer efficiency while the film's flexibility provides ease of handling during installation.
Solution Approach 2:
The structured surface provides localized fixation features only where needed (at contact points with the heating element) rather than requiring a uniformly thick bulky structure throughout. This allows thin construction in non-structural areas for thermal efficiency while maintaining handling ease through strategic structural reinforcement.
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 reduces material and production costs, allows for a flatter design with increased holding forces, and facilitates even thermal distribution by creating a larger contact area between the surface heating pipes and the holding surface, ensuring reliable fixation and efficient thermal output.
Implementation Method 1
The material of the carrier can be pressed into the structured surface by means of a pressure tool, for example a roller, so that a firm connection is created between the structured surface and the carrier, even without the use of additional materials such as, for example, adhesive
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AI summary
In the case of a retaining surface of a radiant heating system, wherein the retaining surface has a support and a structural surface which forms one of the two parts of a touch-and-close fastener and is connected to the support, the invention proposes that the structural surface is laminated directly onto the support, and the retaining surface has a relief structure with deep and raised regions, which is configured so as to permit a radiant heating system pipe to be accommodated with a portion of the circumference thereof between the raised regions, and wherein the relief structure is configured in the manner of an installation grid.