EP2306109A2 - Concept de boîtier modulaire pour la préparation et le transport d'air - Google Patents

Concept de boîtier modulaire pour la préparation et le transport d'air Download PDF

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EP2306109A2
EP2306109A2 EP10010549A EP10010549A EP2306109A2 EP 2306109 A2 EP2306109 A2 EP 2306109A2 EP 10010549 A EP10010549 A EP 10010549A EP 10010549 A EP10010549 A EP 10010549A EP 2306109 A2 EP2306109 A2 EP 2306109A2
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    • FMECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F24HEATING; RANGES; VENTILATING
    • F24FAIR-CONDITIONING; AIR-HUMIDIFICATION; VENTILATION; USE OF AIR CURRENTS FOR SCREENING
    • F24F13/00Details common to, or for air-conditioning, air-humidification, ventilation or use of air currents for screening
    • F24F13/20Casings or covers
    • FMECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F24HEATING; RANGES; VENTILATING
    • F24FAIR-CONDITIONING; AIR-HUMIDIFICATION; VENTILATION; USE OF AIR CURRENTS FOR SCREENING
    • F24F7/00Ventilation
    • F24F2007/001Ventilation with exhausting air ducts
    • F24F2007/002Junction box, e.g. for ducts from kitchen, toilet or bathroom
    • FMECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F24HEATING; RANGES; VENTILATING
    • F24FAIR-CONDITIONING; AIR-HUMIDIFICATION; VENTILATION; USE OF AIR CURRENTS FOR SCREENING
    • F24F2221/00Details or features not otherwise provided for
    • F24F2221/36Modules, e.g. for an easy mounting or transport

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  • the invention relates to a modular housing concept for air guidance and conditioning, in particular as part of a ventilation system for a building or parts thereof.
  • air duct systems For ventilation and / or ventilation of buildings and / or parts thereof previously known from the prior art air duct systems are used.
  • air duct system By means of the air duct system, individual building spaces can be supplied with fresh air via corresponding air ducts and / or exhaust air can be discharged.
  • the supply of fresh air is usually a desired temperature control of the same possible, either by heating or by cooling.
  • a modular housing concept for use in ventilation systems with an at least partially frame-like housing box with at least two closable by means of surface elements side wall areas.
  • the housing concept according to the invention has a housing box.
  • the housing box serves as an air guide element within a ventilation system of the type described above. Furthermore, it can take on additional tasks for air conditioning, such as e.g. Air filtering, soundproofing, air cooling, air heating or air drying.
  • air conditioning such as e.g. Air filtering, soundproofing, air cooling, air heating or air drying.
  • It is inventively modular and has a housing structure to which further housing boxes can be connected with additional functions or connection plates depending on the installation situation.
  • all components can be combined according to the modular system, so that the air handling and conditioning system can be adapted individually to the structural conditions.
  • a housing structure is at least partially formed as a frame element, resulting in closed side wall areas and partially open end face areas.
  • the open end face areas which form a frame, serve to enable further housing boxes with additional functions for air conditioning and guidance to be connected directly to one another.
  • the modular housing structure has an effect here, which enables universal use of the housing box by incorporating functional elements, for example air filters, sound-damping elements, heat exchangers, etc.
  • connection plates according to the invention can be connected directly to the housing box, so that conventional air guide elements such as pipes or pipes can also be used.
  • a housing box so a box contour imaging frame having six open sides, be formed and arranged on the front of another housing box.
  • the remaining open five side wall portions can then be arbitrarily flattened, so that at the end of a correspondingly modular box is formed.
  • the main body of the housing box according to the invention can be formed by a housing box. This is equipped for wall and / or ceiling mounting with appropriate fasteners. In addition, a soundproofing is preferably provided.
  • a terminal box can be attached to the housing box.
  • This is attached via the same fasteners on the housing box as the modular housing boxes with each other and serves as a kind of adapter, which makes it possible, if necessary, to connect air-bearing pipes and / or lines orthogonal to the housing box.
  • the invention further provides that the distribution box has an air passage opening.
  • a connection plate is provided which concentrates the air feed-through opening in the final assembled state, wherein the connection plate serving as a connection plate is arranged according to the invention replaceable on the connection box.
  • connection plate is preferably screwed to the terminal box.
  • a detachable, i. replaceable arrangement of the connection plate on the terminal box is achieved.
  • connection plate For the screwed arrangement of the connection plate on the connection box preferably threaded pins are used. These are introduced as part of a pre-assembly in threaded sockets of the connection plate.
  • the connection plate has a plurality of threaded bushes, which are pressed, for example, in holes provided for the connection plate.
  • the junction box has holes on its side facing the connection plate on, which are formed corresponding to the threaded pins carried by the terminal plate. For the purpose of final assembly of the housing box is slipped with its holes over the threaded pins worn by the connection plate. On the inside of the junction box nuts can then be applied to the setscrews and thus the connection box can be screwed to the connection plate.
  • the threaded pins receiving holes of the junction box are formed in stiffening pronounced struts of the junction box. An increased stability is achieved in an advantageous manner.
  • connection plate on the ceiling side of a building space is poured into concrete.
  • connection plate is equipped in the manner described above with threaded pins in a first assembly step. These are inserted into the provided threaded bores of the connection plate. Then the junction box with its holes can be slipped over the protruding from the connection plate threaded pins.
  • a screw is done by nuts placed on the threaded pins on the housing side and thus a screw connection box and connection plate is achieved.
  • the grub screws serve according to the vorerläuterten embodiment both as positioning aids on the one hand and as a guide aids on the other.
  • the junction box can be pushed in an advantageous manner accurately to the connection plate and connected to it.
  • the threaded pins receiving holes of the junction box are equipped with a clamping element.
  • the clamping element serves as a fixing aid during assembly. It can be equipped as a spring-trained strip that covers the free cross-section of a bore at least partially. Preferably, at least two of the bores provided by the connection box are equipped with such a clamping element and / or strip. If the connection box with its holes now slipped over the threaded pins provided by the connection plate, so lock the preferably provided for at least two holes clamping elements with the associated screws of the connection plate. As a result, such a Vorverrastung the junction box achieved with the connection plate, which in particular overhead mounting, which occurs regularly in a ceiling mounting, simplified. Incidentally, it is ensured that a connection box which has not yet been screwed properly to the connection plate can not unintentionally wilt down from the threaded pins of the connection plate.
  • the fixation achieved with the clamping elements is to be considered as a provisional fixation, which serves in particular to improve the ease of installation of the system according to the invention compared to the devices known from the prior art.
  • a pre-assembly can be achieved by means of pre-fixing.
  • An installer can then procure the necessary tools for the actual assembly and carry out the final assembly.
  • this type of prefixing is advantageous because it offers the installer the opportunity to have to have without tools at hand, to ensure safe pre-assembly of terminal box and connection plate.
  • the terminal box can then be released, so that then a secure final assembly can take place by screwing the screws. It is montageseits not necessary to hold the housing box still with one hand.
  • the junction box may have additional air ducts or inspection openings. These can in turn be closed depending on the installation situation by means of differently designed connection plates, depending on the type, size and number of the connected air ducts and / or pipes.
  • the housing box is preferably a standard component. Depending on the installation situation, this can be arranged as a stand-alone unit or coupled with a connection box, whereby a large number of possible connection plates are available. In turn, differently configured connection elements can be connected to the connection plate, so that it is altogether possible to combine the components or modules of the housing case according to the invention with each other, depending on the installation situation.
  • the junction box and the interchangeable connectable terminal plates together represent a kind of adapter device. This adapter device makes it possible to connect many air ducts and / or lines fluidly to the housing box, depending on how Type, size and / or the like differently shaped air duct and / or pipes.
  • connection plate serves as an adapter, in particular with regard to the feed direction of the lines and / or pipes. From the terminal box a total of five possible connection sides are provided.
  • the at least one connection element to be combined with the terminal box serves as an adapter element for the fluidic connection of the housing box to the pipe and / or line.
  • the terminal box as an adapter and the connecting element as an adapter element together form the adapter device. If the air duct / distribution is not orthogonal, then the connecting element with sleeves can also be connected directly to the housing box according to the invention.
  • the housing box according to the invention proves to be relatively easy to handle, in particular with regard to an installation and / or installation due to its above-described modular design. Retrofit work can be carried out in a simple manner, since it is only necessary depending on Umrüstarbeit to replace connection elements and / or terminal boxes. An overall configuration is advantageously not required in contrast to the prior art.
  • the terminal box is designed as an at least two-sided open frame construction, wherein one open side serves for the air supply and the other open side forms the air outlet or serves for air distribution.
  • the terminal box can be connected directly to the housing box on the air supply side or connected to existing ventilation ducts or pipes by means of suitable connection plates.
  • the terminal box is preferably cuboid. It consists of a frame construction that is closed on two sides.
  • one open side of the connection box can serve to connect the connection box to form a common volume space on the housing box.
  • the other open side of the junction box provides the air passage opening to which, for example, an air duct is to be connected.
  • the already described above connecting plate which provides, for example, connecting piece.
  • connection of a plurality of air ducts and / or pipes of the terminal box may have further air passage openings, each with the interposition of a connection element in fluid communication with one or more air duct (s).
  • the air passage openings may be formed preferably as Thiswandausstanzonne.
  • lateral coupling elements which are formed on all components of the modular housing concept according to the invention.
  • Such coupling elements can, for example, be fastened to the housing box, to the connection box or to the connection plates or to pronounced rails.
  • These coupling elements are on the one hand used for centering the components to each other and for fastening the components together.
  • connection box of the housing box according to the invention can also be referred to as "air distribution box". It serves to distribute incoming air on the input side of the box connected air ducts.
  • the terminal box that is, the air distribution box is constructed standardized and consists of an at least two-sided open frame construction, connected to the depending on individual specification and / or installation situation on site connection elements for air introduction and / or removal can be.
  • the individual components can be combined with each other according to the modular principle, which means in the sense of the invention that standardized components can optionally be used together depending on the application.
  • the housing box according to the invention may also be referred to as a "universal air guide box". It serves to guide introduced air, the peculiarity of this box being that it can accommodate additional components such as sound attenuators, heat exchangers, air filters and / or the like.
  • the universal air guide box serves as a functional box that it allows air introduced into the box to be subjected to special processing, transformation and / or the like.
  • the terminal box that is the air distribution box and the housing box, that is the universal air guide box are fluidly connected to each other.
  • This connection can be done either directly or indirectly.
  • directly connection in the sense of the invention is meant that the two boxes are connected directly to each other, that is, via an open side of their frame construction. When assembled, the two boxes then form a common volume space.
  • the housing box and the connection box can also be indirectly coupled to each other fluidically, which means “indirectly” in the sense of the invention that the two boxes are not directly connected to each other via a respective open side of their frame construction.
  • An indirect connection can be made, for example, by pipes, hoses or the like, wherein for the respective connection of a hose, pipe or the like, each box has corresponding connection elements.
  • the special feature of the invention is that the junction box and the housing box can be optionally equipped with identical connection plates.
  • One and the same connection plate can thus be connected to both the housing box and the terminal box, which advantageously simplifies the installation of the housing box according to the invention or the final installation of the same.
  • the air distribution box advantageously offers the possibility of allowing a variety of connection options by means of corresponding connection plates in the form of side parts from a basic design.
  • an extremely large connection modularity or variability is achieved, and this with a simple design, since only standardized components are used.
  • the universal air guide box has the advantage of port variability, in this respect added that preferably a standardized box size is used, which allows different functional parts, such as mufflers, heat exchangers, air filters and the like to install as needed depending on the application.
  • the resulting possibility of direct assembly of the two boxes also results in a Simplification in plant construction.
  • FIG. 1 showing in schematic perspective view an air handling and -aufkungssystem consisting of the components of the modular housing concept 1.
  • FIG. 1 A section of the air handling and treatment system according to the invention is in Fig. 1 shown.
  • this is formed from a housing box 2 and a connection box 3.
  • the connection box 3 is arranged interchangeably on the housing box 2, for which purpose the housing box 2 and the connection box 3 have coupling elements 9.
  • These coupling elements 9 are designed in the manner of a rail and allow in the illustrated embodiment, a connection between terminal box 3 and housing box 2 by means of the use of sliding profiles, which are pushed over the coupling elements 3.
  • the junction box 3 is formed in the embodiment shown as a three-sided open frame construction 10. An open side of the terminal box 3 is assigned to the housing box 2 in the final assembled state, so that the housing box 2 and terminal box 3 form a common volume space. A second open side of the junction box 3 forms a first air passage opening 5. A further air passage opening 6 is formed by a third open side of the junction box 3.
  • the air passage openings 5 and 6 are closed by means of appropriate connection elements 4, wherein the connection elements 4 can be arranged interchangeably on the terminal box 3.
  • connection plate 4 which has a total of 10 connection sleeves 7.
  • connection sleeves 7 serves to connect a in Fig. 1 not shown air duct or an air duct.
  • Fig. 1 not shown screw For the arrangement of the connection plate 4 on the terminal box 3 is used in the Fig. 1 not shown screw.
  • connection plate side are threaded bushes provided, in which the set screws are screwed.
  • the threaded bushings can be pressed, for example, into corresponding bores of the connection plate 4.
  • the junction box 3 has holes which are formed corresponding to the threaded pins. For the purpose of assembly of the terminal box 3 is slipped ahead with its holes on the setscrews of the connection plate 4. Then can be formed by screwing with an attached to the threaded pins nuts an airtight connection of terminal plate 4 and terminal box.
  • clamping element is provided. This is preferably resilient and provided in at least one bore of the junction box 3, which serves the grub screw holder. Preferably, at least two of these holes are each equipped with a clamping element.
  • the clamping elements may also be provided a clamping strip, which is arranged for example on a strut of the junction box 3. The purpose of a clamping element or a clamping strip is to narrow the free cross-section of at least one provided for grub screw receptacle bore of the junction box 3. After pushing the terminal box 3 on the setscrews of the connection plate 4 as Vorverrastung terminal box 3 and terminal plate 4 is achieved, which advantageously results in a simplification of assembly.
  • the further air passage opening 6 of the junction box 3 is also to be closed with a connection element 4, wherein the illustration after Fig. 1 a frontally closed connection plate shows.
  • a further housing box with an additional function for example, a filter element to be mounted, this can also be done by the existing coupling elements 9 with sliding profile.
  • the boxes can not be connected directly to each other - eg due to structural conditions - the fluidic connection between the housings can be made by means of ventilation ducts or pipes.
  • connection elements with sleeves 4 are connected to the boxes alternatively.
  • the connecting element 4 may be formed as an end wall.
  • the other Air passage opening 6 by means of the connection element 4 fluidly sealed and sealed.
  • An air duct on the air passage opening 6 is not possible according to this alternative embodiment, however, is by the modularity of the connection of the connection plate by means of coupling element 9 and sliding profile easy opening of the junction box for purposes of cleaning or revision advantageously possible.
  • connection box 3 is otherwise closed, for which purpose two side walls 11 and a bottom wall 12 are provided.
  • fastening means 8 for example, allow screwing all modular housing boxes to a wall and / or a ceiling.
  • the special advantage of the modular housing concept 1 according to Fig. 1 is that this consists of individual components that can be combined with each other depending on the installation situation according to the modular principle.
  • This can be interchangeable with a terminal box 3 connect, on both sides, as shown Fig. 1 lets recognize.
  • the terminal box 3 has open sides, with the embodiment according to FIG Fig. 1 shows three open sides.
  • One of the open sides is used for fluidic connection of the terminal box 3 to the housing box 2.
  • the remaining open sides of the junction box 3 are closed depending on the installation situation by means of appropriately trained connection plates 4, wherein the connection plates 4 are arranged interchangeably on the terminal box 3.
  • connection plate 4 with a plurality of connection sleeves 7 can be fastened directly to the housing box by means of the coupling element 9 and sliding profile.

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