Classifications

• • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
  • F24—HEATING; RANGES; VENTILATING
  • F24D—DOMESTIC- OR SPACE-HEATING SYSTEMS, e.g. CENTRAL HEATING SYSTEMS; DOMESTIC HOT-WATER SUPPLY SYSTEMS; ELEMENTS OR COMPONENTS THEREFOR
  • F24D3/00—Hot-water central heating systems
  • F24D3/12—Tube and panel arrangements for ceiling, wall, or underfloor heating
  • F24D3/16—Tube and panel arrangements for ceiling, wall, or underfloor heating mounted on, or adjacent to, a ceiling, wall or floor
• • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
  • F24—HEATING; RANGES; VENTILATING
  • F24D—DOMESTIC- OR SPACE-HEATING SYSTEMS, e.g. CENTRAL HEATING SYSTEMS; DOMESTIC HOT-WATER SUPPLY SYSTEMS; ELEMENTS OR COMPONENTS THEREFOR
  • F24D3/00—Hot-water central heating systems
  • F24D3/12—Tube and panel arrangements for ceiling, wall, or underfloor heating
  • F24D3/16—Tube and panel arrangements for ceiling, wall, or underfloor heating mounted on, or adjacent to, a ceiling, wall or floor
  • F24D3/165—Suspended radiant heating ceiling
• • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
  • Y02—TECHNOLOGIES OR APPLICATIONS FOR MITIGATION OR ADAPTATION AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE
  • Y02B—CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES RELATED TO BUILDINGS, e.g. HOUSING, HOUSE APPLIANCES OR RELATED END-USER APPLICATIONS
  • Y02B30/00—Energy efficient heating, ventilation or air conditioning [HVAC]

Definitions

• the present invention refers to a modular radiating panel for interior air-conditioning.
• the invention refers to a universal modular radiating air-conditioning system which can be used in any environment and easily and safely applied to radiating air-conditioning systems for false ceilings, ceilings, walls, opposing walls and floors .
• plasterboard panels normally used to provide false ceilings and partition walls, are frequently used to provide radiating panels forming irradiation surfaces for interior air- conditioning systems, both in new buildings and in already existing buildings.
• plasterboard panels have several drawbacks when used as radiating panels in heating and/or cooling systems.
• an object of the present invention is to overcome the above mentioned drawbacks and, in particular, to provide a modular radiating panel for interior air- conditioning, said panel being extremely resistant and compact and being installed without using any wall element, to be further usable for the installation of air-conditioning systems in already existing buildings .
• Another object of the present invention is to provide a modular radiating panel for interior air- conditioning which can be installed in any kind of environment (false ceilings made of metal, plasterboard or any other material, walls made of plasterboard, wood, etc., floors made of any material, opposing walls, equipped walls) due to its universal character.
• a further object of the present invention is to provide a modular radiating panel for interior air- conditioning which permits to obtain highly flexible modular applications for any individual installation by means of a single model.
• Another object of the invention is to provide a modular radiating panel for interior air- conditioning which is extremely easy to make and assemble both from a mechanical and a hydraulic point of view and which permits to minimise the production costs relative to prior art due to the obtained advantages, allowing a correct and rapid installation even by non particularly qualified and skilled workers.
• the radiating panel of the invention comprises a plurality of pipes contained in corresponding seats and extending continuously on one surface or both surfaces of the basic insulating module at adjacent modular areas of the panel.
• the present invention provides a modular panel which, relative to prior art, reduces the setup time of the radiating systems and homogeneously distributes heat on all points of its radiating surface.
• the modular panel of the present invention permits to eliminate the slab usually employed in floor, wall or ceiling applications.
• the use of a radiating system according to the invention permits a clear reduction of the building works and greater air change relative to prior art.
• one of the greater advantages with respect to prior art is the total elimination of the installation time of radiating systems, in particular with regard to dry systems, since it is no longer necessary to apply conductive blades and/or heat exchange plates over the panel pipes, said conductive blades and plates being already incorporated in the panel of the present invention.
• Another important advantage of the present invention is that the panel can normally be used indifferently on the radiating walls, on movable equipped walls, on radiating false ceilings and floors, without any need of particular modifications and/or variations.
• the modular radiating panel of the invention is a metal false ceiling and can be applied onto plasterboard false ceilings, onto dry walls having any kind of finishing (plasterboard, wood, vinyl, etc.) or onto equipped walls.
• figure 1A is a schematic sectional view of figure 1;
• - figures 2 and 3 are schematic top plan views of the modular radiating panel for interior air- conditioning according to the invention, showing some modules having determined geometric features of the channels containing the pipes in which the heat exchange fluid flows;
• - figure 4 is a perspective view of a modular radiating panel according to the invention, used, for example, in a radiating floor;
• FIG. 5 is a perspective view of an equipped wall, in which the modular radiating panel of the present invention can be installed;
• FIG. 6 is a perspective view of a metal modular false ceiling for air-conditioning according to the present invention.
• cooling can be indifferently replaced by the most general terms concerning air-conditioning and/or the actions related thereto.
• the modular radiating panel of the invention is essentially formed of a normally parallelepiped-shaped base 10, mainly made of an insulating material, e.g. polystyrene, polyurethan and other eco-friendly insulators; the larger front and/or rear surfaces of the module 10 receive a plurality of preformed channels 11 containing pipes 12 having a suitable diameter and being made of a plastic and/or metallic material.
• the modular panel may have side projections 14 utilizable for fixing and assembling a plurality of radiating modules, and one or more laminar surfaces or metal sheets 13, made of steel (e.g. plate) or aluminium, having reduced thickness, being uniformly coupled with the upper and/or lower surface of the insulating base 10.
• the pipes 12 are fitted inside the preformed channels 11 and are directly in contact with the metal laminar surface 13 which is supported by the base insulating means 10 and with a plurality of conductive blades 15, attached to the channel 11 by means of the glue layer 15A; the conductive blades or tongues 15 are positioned preferably along the whole pipe 12 to provide a modular panel having reduced heat inertia.
• Each of the pipes 12 contained in the base 10 forms an independent hydraulic circuit, the end portions 16 of which project laterally from the radiating panel; said pipes 12 preferably have a circular cross section and are disposed according to particular arrangements, however it is clear that any other configuration or arrangement of said pipes 12 can be used without thereby reducing the advantageous uses of the panel of the invention.
• FIG. 2 and 3 Two particular examples of such arrangements are illustrated in detail in figures 2 and 3 showing a schematic top view of a modular panel having a plurality of housings 11 disposed according to predetermined geometric configurations and in which the pipes 12 are placed according to certain paths .
• the channels 11 containing the pipes 12 can be advantageously used for the installation and the passage of technical and/or technological lines, generally indicated at 17 in figures 1 and 4.
• the channels 11 further allow the passage of primary air (according to the direction of arrows F shown in figures 1 and 4) and also permit to attenuate the trampling noise (acoustic dampening function) if they are left empty adjacent to floors or walls when the modular radiating panel is installed, for instance, on the floor or on a wall.
• the heat exchange fluid (generally water) flows inside the pipes 12, and, since each pipe 12 is directly in contact with the metallic laminar surface 13 and with the conductive blades 15 attached by the glue layer 15A, such an arrangement provides several functional and installation advantages; in particular, such a modular radiating panel permits to reduce considerably, relative to prior art, the setup time of radiating systems, allows a homogeneous heat distribution on all points of the radiating surface and permits to eliminate the conventional floor slabs when fitting floor or radiating wall and floor systems .
• the front and/or rear channels 11 can or cannot be covered by the metal sheet 13 and can or cannot contain the pipes 12, in order to meet different functions and applications.
• the rear portion of the modular radiating panel is a passageway, inside the channels 11 free from the pipes 12, for the installation of additional electric or technological lines 17, which can be used either directly or indirectly for the radiating module; finally, the free channels 11 can be an efficient antinoise barrier, clearly having an acoustic dampening function.
• Figure 4 shows a modular radiating panel similar to the panel illustrated in figure 1, but used in a possible radiating floor application; in this case, the metal sheet 13 covering the base insulating means 10 is directly put into contact with any kind of floor 19, whereas the pipes 12 still remain inside their channels 11, in contact with the blades 15.
• the rear channels 11 are left free, and resting on the slab, they fill with air to perform their acoustic dampening function, which is particularly useful in buildings and flats for civil use; also in this case one or more of the rear channels 11 (the ones which are free from the pipes 12 resting adjacent to the floor 19) can be used for receiving electric or technological lines 17 and for changing the air of the building rooms .
• the above terms “front portion” or “rear portion” of the radiating panel are used for ease of description to help understand the invention and are particularly bound to the schematic representations of the accompanying drawings, and therefore said front and rear portions can be inverted without thereby compromising the operation of the invention.
• the radiating panel can be advantageously placed between the walls 20 of an equipped module, working similarly to what has been described with reference to the previous applications.
• the radiating panel can be installed so easily and reliably due to the panel adaptability to any type and size of radiating structure; as a matter of fact, the panel modularity features permit to increase or decrease the size of the radiating assembly by a certain amount which does not necessarily have to be a multiple or submultiple of the original size.
• the pipes 12 can be connected in several different ways (front/back, back/back, front/front, right side/back, left side/front, right side/left side, right side/right side, etc.), to provide all possible module or submodule connections .
• figure 6 shows a further application of the modular radiating panel of the invention.
• a plurality of modules are connected sequentially upon installation on a metal false ceiling, by one or more connecting means 21 of the pipes 12 on the module rear surfaces .
• the radiating panel comprised of said modules is a metal false ceiling, since the metal laminar surface 13 is the "visible" portion which can be finished with any colour, drilled or undrilled and standard- or custom-sized.
• the modules of the radiating panel are also associated with a known supporting framework 23, the height of which can be adjusted from the ceiling 24.
• the channels 11 in the front portion of each module are left free, whereas the channels 11 of the rear portion contain the pipes 12 inside which the thermal fluid flows.
• one of the main advantages relative to prior art is that the time for the installation of the radiating systems can be eliminated.
• Another advantage of the modular panel of the invention is that it can be utilized on radiating walls, on movable equipped walls, false ceilings or radiating floors, due to the panel universal use, without any modifications and/or variations.
• the panel of the invention can be also installed on metal and/or plasterboard false ceilings, on dry walls with any kind of finishing, on the lower portion of plasterboard, wood or vinyl walls and inside passive modules; it can also be installed directly on the ceiling and under floors, with any material which can be selected from an aesthetic point of view.
• the radiating panel of the invention best solves the problems known in the art, especially since all kinds of radiating systems, for civil purposes, for industry and for the service sector, can be provided with one universal modular product.

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