Wall or ceiling cladding
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing wall and ceiling cladding systems with integrated cooling and heating systems face challenges in achieving homogeneous heat radiation due to modular design, leading to heat sinks and increased installation complexity, especially when trying to access pipe registers for repair.
Innovation Solution
A wall or ceiling paneling system with a mounting profile featuring a concave bead-like configuration on opposite sides to integrate the pipe register, allowing for modular subdivision without heat sinks, direct assembly, and enhanced heat transfer through a thermally connected circumference, reducing assembly effort and material costs.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If the wall or ceiling cladding is designed as a modular system with mounting profiles, then the assembly process becomes more standardized and material usage is optimized, but heat sinks occur at the interfaces between profiles leading to non-homogeneous heat radiation
Solution Approach 1:
The mounting profile is designed to merge two functions into a single integrated structure: the first mounting means for attaching the cladding and the second mounting means for receiving the pipe register. This integration eliminates the need for separate components at the profile interfaces, thereby removing the heat sinks that would otherwise occur at these joints and ensuring homogeneous heat radiation across the entire surface.
Solution Approach 2:
The mounting profile is designed as a multi-functional element that simultaneously serves as both a structural support for the cladding panels and as a receptacle for the heating/cooling pipe register. This universal design allows the same component to fulfill multiple roles without requiring additional interface elements that would create thermal discontinuities.
2Ease of repair
If the pipe register is integrated into the mounting profile with a concave bead-like configuration, then direct access to the pipe register is enabled without dismantling the substructure, but the profile design becomes more complex
Solution Approach 1:
The pipe register is nested within the concave bead-like configuration of the mounting profile, allowing it to be housed inside the profile structure itself. This nesting arrangement provides direct access to the pipe register through the front opening of the bead-like feature without requiring dismantling of the cladding substructure, while the profile complexity is confined to a localized geometric feature rather than the entire structure.
3Strength
If a traditional substructure with crossbars and heat-conducting sheets is used, then the ceiling structure provides structural support and heat transfer, but the assembly becomes extremely time-consuming and surface losses occur
Solution Approach 1:
The mounting profile merges the structural support function and the heat transfer function into a single integrated component. The profile provides mechanical support for the cladding panels while simultaneously serving as the mounting structure for the pipe register, eliminating the need for separate crossbars and heat-conducting sheets, thereby reducing assembly time and eliminating surface losses at multiple joints.
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
The solution enables efficient, homogeneous heat radiation with reduced assembly complexity and material costs, allowing for easy access to pipe registers and improved heating/cooling performance, while maintaining a compact design suitable for retrofitting.
Implementation Method 1
the heat radiation of the wall or ceiling covering is as homogeneous as possible... efficient, homogeneous heat radiation
Implementation Method 2
enhanced heat transfer through a thermally connected circumference... with a contact surface being formed on the circumference
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AI summary
The invention relates to a wall or ceiling cladding with a cooling and/or heating system, in particular according to the principle of thermal radiation, wherein the wall or ceiling cladding can be attached to the wall or ceiling of a building by means of at least one mounting profile, wherein the mounting profile has on a room side facing the room to be cooled or heated 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 mounting profile has on two opposing side surfaces, which extend parallel to the first receiving means, a concave rib-like design in each case, so that a second receiving means for the pipe register of the cooling and/or heating system is formed between two adjacent mounting profiles, the receiving opening of which faces the room.Furthermore, the pipe register can have at least one straight section (22) which is firmly connected to the receiving means in the support profile (1) to form an integral component, in particular the straight section (22) of the pipe register and the support profile (1) form a common profile which can be manufactured in a single manufacturing process, for example in the extrusion process, wherein the section (22) is preferably designed as a tube.