Wall or ceiling cladding
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing wall and ceiling cladding systems with integrated cooling and heating systems are complex to install and maintain, particularly due to the difficulty in accessing pipe registers for repair, leading to inefficiencies in heat transfer and increased assembly efforts.
Innovation Solution
The integration of a pipeline register directly into the mounting profile, forming a single, extruded component with a concave bead-like configuration, allows for improved heat transfer and simplified assembly by eliminating heat sinks and reducing the need for additional substructure components.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of energy
If the pipeline register is integrated into the mounting profile to form an integral component, then heat transfer efficiency is improved and assembly complexity is reduced, but manufacturing complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines the pipeline register and mounting profile into a single integral component through extrusion, eliminating the interface between separate parts. This merging removes heat sinks at joints and creates continuous thermal pathways, significantly improving heat transfer efficiency while the extrusion process enables cost-effective manufacturing of the integrated structure.
Solution Approach 2:
The mounting profile serves multiple functions simultaneously: it provides structural support for the cladding panels, acts as a mounting mechanism for the pipeline register, and functions as a thermal conduction pathway. This multi-functionality reduces the number of separate components needed and simplifies the overall assembly while maintaining effective heat transfer.
2Loss of time
If the pipeline register is integrated into the mounting profile, then assembly time is reduced, but manufacturing precision requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The pipeline register and mounting profile are pre-integrated into a single extruded component during manufacturing, so that no separate assembly steps are required on-site. The receiving means for the pipeline register is built into the mounting profile during extrusion, eliminating the need for field assembly and significantly reducing installation time.
Solution Approach 2:
The extrusion process allows for precise control of the integrated component's geometry, including the receiving means dimensions and thermal conduction pathways. By optimizing extrusion parameters, the manufacturing precision requirements are met while maintaining the benefits of integration, and the modular design allows for standardization that further reduces precision demands.
3Loss of energy
If the mounting profile has concave bead-like configuration on opposite side surfaces, then modular installation is enabled without heat loss at interfaces, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The mounting profile is designed with concave bead-like configurations on opposite sides, creating modular sections that can be easily connected. These segmented features provide receiving spaces for pipeline registers at the interfaces between adjacent profiles, ensuring thermal continuity and eliminating heat loss at connection points while maintaining a relatively simple overall profile structure.
Solution Approach 2:
The concave bead-like configurations are strategically placed only on the side surfaces where modular connections are needed, rather than throughout the entire profile. This localized feature addition provides the necessary thermal and structural functionality at interfaces without unnecessarily complicating the overall profile design or manufacturing process.
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 design significantly reduces assembly time and costs, enhances heat transfer efficiency, and allows for modular installation without heat loss at interfaces, enabling more effective and efficient heating and cooling systems with reduced complexity.
Implementation Method 1
The section of the pipeline register and the mounting profile form a common profile which can be produced in a single production process, namely in the extrusion process... This enables a particularly advantageous heat transfer from the pipeline register to the mounting profile
Implementation Method 2
When two such profiles are joined together, there is then a space between the profiles, which results in heat sinks in the entire ceiling surface... The section of the pipeline register and the mounting profile form a common profile which can be produced in a single production process, namely in the extrusion process
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AI summary
The invention relates to a wall or ceiling covering with a cooling and/or heating system, in particular according to the thermal radiation principle, the wall or ceiling covering being able to be fastened to the wall or ceiling of a building with at least one mounting profile, the mounting profile being mounted on a the room side facing the room to be cooled or heated, has a first receiving means for a pipe or pipe register of the cooling and/or heating system, the receiving opening of which faces the room, characterized in that the pipe register has at least one straight section which is connected to the receiving means in the mounting profile is firmly connected to an integral component.