Window Mounting Beams with Anchors Eliminate Thermal Bridges
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current methods for mounting, sealing, and thermal insulation of windows, facades, and doors in building warming zones are not comprehensive, user-friendly, or efficient, often resulting in heat permeation and requiring specialized labor.
Innovation Solution
A system utilizing beams with anchors placed in two rows around window openings, featuring adjustable anchors with stiff or hinged joints, and a waterproof, vapor-permeable insulation system that allows for easy installation and adaptation to varying loads, materials, and sizes, ensuring effective thermal insulation and ease of use.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of energy
If traditional mounting methods with supports embedded in bearing wall and insulating layer are used, then window frames can be mounted, but heat permeation occurs and thermal insulation is insufficient
Solution Approach 1:
The mounting system is divided into separate functional components: mounting beams with anchors for structural support, separate insulation elements for thermal protection, and sealing elements for waterproofing. This segmentation allows each component to be optimized independently, with insulation elements specifically designed to bridge gaps and eliminate thermal bridges between the window frame and building structure.
Solution Approach 2:
Mounting beams serve as intermediary elements between the window frame and the building wall structure. These beams provide a thermal break by being positioned outside the warm zone, and they support separate insulation elements that fill the gap between the window recess and the insulating layer, thereby eliminating direct thermal contact and reducing heat permeation.
2Reliability
If complex sealing and insulation systems are implemented, then thermal insulation improves, but installation complexity increases and requires specialized labor
Solution Approach 1:
The system merges multiple functions into integrated components: mounting beams combine structural support with thermal breaking functionality, and insulation elements are designed to simultaneously provide thermal insulation and sealing. This consolidation reduces the number of separate installation steps and eliminates the need for specialized labor while maintaining high thermal insulation performance.
Solution Approach 2:
The mounting system incorporates adjustable and adaptable elements that can be easily configured during installation. The beams and anchors are designed to accommodate variations in wall thickness and positioning requirements, allowing unqualified workers to achieve proper installation without complex adjustments or specialized knowledge.
3Object-affected harmful factors
If vapor proofing is implemented to prevent moisture ingress, then waterproofing improves, but vapor permeability decreases causing condensation issues
Solution Approach 1:
The sealing system applies different properties to different locations: waterproof sealing is applied at the outer interface where water ingress is a risk, while vapor-permeable materials are used at the inner interface to allow vapor diffusion. This local differentiation of material properties ensures both waterproofing and vapor permeability are achieved in appropriate locations, preventing condensation while blocking liquid water.
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 system minimizes heat permeation, is user-friendly, and can be installed by unqualified workers, providing reliable thermal insulation while allowing for flexible beam configuration and load adjustment, eliminating thermal bridges and enabling efficient construction of windows, doors, and facades.
Implementation Method 1
which at the same time is vapor permeable and is leading away any possible vapor outside, according to rules of gases diffusion
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AI summary
In the developed system of mounting, sealing and thermal insulating of windows, facades and doors (out of PVC, aluminium or wood) favourably in the building warming zone, basic elements are beams (1) (with various cross sections) with anchors (2) embedded into them, which are placed around window hole. We have foreseen a possibility of using various types of anchors (2), with trebly resolved joints, which can be: stiff joints (3), hinged joints (4) or relatively extending elements (5), wherein each of anchors (2) described above has an option to use chunk (6) made out of plastic material or metal or wood or out of other hard material which is cut out and has any shape, and also with an option with a chunk (6) made out of plastic material or metal or other hard material, which is extruded and has any shape, wherein chunks (6) are embedded in the beam (1). Anchors (2) are placed in the beam (1) so to say in two rows. Configuration of the joints and extending elements (5) in the anchor (2) is free, however always - if it is hinged joint (4) then after its deployment, and if its extending element (5) after its protrusion - peripheral parts of the anchor (2) from one of the rows are mounted in the window hole, and from the other row are mounted to the wall (7). In not embedded parts of the anchors - independently if they are outer parts of extending element (5), or hinged joint (4), or stiff joints (3) -there are favourably made two holes which can be oval, in which you put montage screws (9), then inserted by the anchor (2) to the wall (7), via triple nut (10) or double nut (11). Part of the anchor (2) that is embedded in the beam (1) - is at least one tube (16) made favourably out of plastic material or metal, allowing you to insert montage screw (15). After screwing the montage screw (15) the tube (16) is sealed and covered. In the developed method of mounting, sealing and thermal insulating of windows, facades and doors (out of PVC, aluminium or wood) favourably in the building warming zone, you do some steps in sequence - wherein the sequence can be changed. The steps comprise dismantling the window sash, measuring, cutting and mounting of the beams in one of several schemes.