Underlayment membrane
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing underlayment membranes in the building industry are limited in accommodating conditioning elements of different cross-sections, leading to increased production and storage costs, and restricting the installer's ability to use diverse heating and electromagnetic elements simultaneously.
Innovation Solution
An underlayment membrane with a base layer and protrusions that include both straight and corrugated paths, allowing for the frictional and mechanical retention of conditioning elements with varying cross-sections, enabling the simultaneous use of different elements and reducing production and storage needs.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If multiple membranes with different protrusion distances are produced to accommodate different heating element cross-sections, then the adaptability to different conditioning elements is improved, but the device complexity and storage management complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The membrane is designed with a universal retention system that can accommodate conditioning elements of different cross-sections using a single membrane type. The corrugated paths with adjustable compression allow one membrane design to serve multiple functions for different element sizes, eliminating the need for multiple specialized membranes.
Solution Approach 2:
The retention mechanism utilizes variable compression parameters along the corrugated paths. By adjusting the compression force applied to the membrane, the same membrane structure can adapt to retain conditioning elements with different cross-sectional dimensions, allowing dynamic parameter adjustment rather than fixed geometric configurations.
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple membranes with different protrusion distances are produced to accommodate different heating element cross-sections, then the adaptability to different conditioning elements is improved, but the production costs increase
Solution Approach 1:
The membrane is designed with a universal retention system that can accommodate conditioning elements of different cross-sections using a single membrane type. The corrugated paths with adjustable compression allow one membrane design to serve multiple functions for different element sizes, eliminating the need for multiple specialized membranes.
3Ease of manufacture
If fixed-position protrusions are used to retain heating elements, then the ease of manufacture is improved, but the adaptability to different heating element cross-sections deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The retention system transitions from static fixed-position protrusions to dynamic corrugated paths that can adapt their configuration. The corrugated structure allows for flexible deformation and adjustment under compression, enabling the same membrane structure to dynamically adapt to different element cross-sections while maintaining ease of manufacture through a standardized design.
Solution Approach 2:
The retention mechanism utilizes variable compression parameters along the corrugated paths. By adjusting the compression force applied to the membrane, the same membrane structure can adapt to retain conditioning elements with different cross-sectional dimensions, allowing dynamic parameter adjustment rather than fixed geometric configurations.
4Ease of operation
If friction-based retention is used for heating elements, then the ease of operation is improved, but the reliability of retention for elements with different cross-sections deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The retention mechanism utilizes variable compression parameters along the corrugated paths. By adjusting the compression force applied to the membrane, the same membrane structure can adapt to retain conditioning elements with different cross-sectional dimensions, allowing dynamic parameter adjustment rather than fixed geometric configurations.
Solution Approach 2:
The retention system transitions from static fixed-position protrusions to dynamic corrugated paths that can adapt their configuration. The corrugated structure allows for flexible deformation and adjustment under compression, enabling the same membrane structure to dynamically adapt to different element cross-sections while maintaining ease of manufacture through a standardized design.
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 membrane allows for the simultaneous use of conditioning elements with different cross-sections, reducing production and storage costs while providing greater flexibility for installers to create multi-function surfaces, such as heat radiating and electromagnetic shielding surfaces.
Implementation Method 1
hold them typically by friction with their side walls or with appropriate projections realized on the same side walls
Data Source
AI summary
An underlayment membrane between a base surface and an outer coating of a building surface includes a base layer and multiple protrusions extending from the base layer to retain conditioning elements. The protrusions define a plurality of paths, between their side walls for the conditioning elements, which include: first straight portions defined by pairs of protrusions positioned side by side and spaced apart by a distance at most equal to the thickness of the conditioning elements, to hold them by friction; one or more second corrugated portions defined by two or more protrusions spaced apart by a predefined distance greater than the thickness of the conditioning elements and arranged in pairs aligned along lines, which obliquely intersect the path so that a conditioning element is retained by elastic-mechanical contrast with the side walls of the protrusions, the first and second portions of the paths being aligned with each other.