WO2008123655A1

WO2008123655A1 - The sound-absorbing building panel

Info

Publication number: WO2008123655A1
Application number: PCT/KR2008/000540
Authority: WO
Inventors: Young Mi Kim
Original assignee: Young Mi Kim
Priority date: 2007-04-10
Filing date: 2008-01-29
Publication date: 2008-10-16

Abstract

The present invention relates to a sound absorbing/insulating building panel for construction of an inside wall of buildings, such as shopping malls, gymnasiums, churches, and so on, where people crowds, for absorbing noise from a space thereof to maintain the space more comfortable, and provided with a high quality interior finish material and designed to mount shelves thereto for displaying goods in shopping malls or the like. The sound absorbing building panel includes a plate member 10 having gap maintaining pieces 11 each with fastening projection/recess projected from a rear surface, hollow noise scattering projections 20 formed on a front of the plate memberlO at fixed intervals, fastening portions 30 at top and bottom of the plate member, upper and lower finishing members 40 to be fastened to the fastening portions, a sound absorbing member 50 placed on the gap maintaining piece 11 in close contact with the plate member 10, and a case 55 placed in the fastening projection/recess for protecting the sound absorbing member 50. The sound absorbing building panel of the present invention is easy to fabricate, provides a decorative function of the inside wall surface only with the panel, and can enhance convenience by enabling to display goods on a goods display shelf mounted on a shelf bracket fastened to the noise scattering projection.

Description

THE SOUND-ABSORBING BUILDING PANEL

Technical Field

[1] The present invention relates to building panels. More specifically, the present invention relates to a sound absorbing/insulating building panel for construction of an inside wall of buildings, such as shopping malls, gymnasiums, churches, and so on, where people crowds, for absorbing noise from a space thereof to maintain the space more comfortable, and provided with a high quality interior finish material and designed to mount shelves thereto for displaying goods in shopping malls or the like. Background Art

[2] While large sized buildings, such as shopping malls, gymnasiums, churches, theme parks, theaters, music halls, studios, buildings for indoor public performance, home theater rooms, and so on, where people crowds according to city life, are built, room noise regulations becomes the more strict as people require more comfortable cultural life following improvement of living standards.

[3] Particularly, in the case of the shopping malls, comfortable shopping can not be made in an inside of the shopping malls due to various noises, such as voices of visitors, advertisement of salesmen, shopping carts, and so on, resulting in poor sales amount, and causing the shoppers to avoid shopping due to exhaustion.

[4] In order to solve the problem, though the inside wall of the shopping mall is constructed of functional panels, for attenuation of noise and sound insulation, the panel has a complicate system and fails to provide beauty together with the function, even if the inside wall of the shopping mall requires both the function as well as the beauty.

[5] As known, though a related art sound absorbing panel has been constructed of a compression panel of inorganic fiber, such as rock wool, glass wool, nonwoven fabric, and so on attached to an inside wall thereof and cloth or a general wall paper is attached as an outer skin thereof, for attenuation of the noise and enhancing the beauty, the nonwoven fabric and the glass wool is subjected to regulation of building laws because the nonwoven fabric is susceptible to fire, and the glass wool is harmful to human body, and since the rock wool is heavy and expensive, much building cost is required.

[6] Moreover, because construction of the sound insulation building of the panel, not only is difficult, but also requires additional finish material, cost and construction period increases, and the sound absorbing and insulating effects are also very poor.

[7] In order to improve above disadvantages, as a preceding invention, Korean Utility Model registered No. 20-0337820 discloses a compressed panel of rock wool, glass fiber, nonwoven fabric, or so on having opposite edges respectively with a projection and a groove for enabling fastening to another panel, a front with linear semi-circular projections formed thereon with a sound absorbing hole between the sound absorbing linear projections adjacent to each other, and a back side with expanded holes connected to the sound absorbing hole formed therein for breaking and absorbing a sound wave.

Disclosure of Invention Technical Problem

[8] However, since the preceding invention has disadvantages in that fabrication is difficult as the panel is constructed of rock wool, nonwoven fabric, or so on, requires a secondary decoration on an outside of the panel additionally, effective sound absorption, sound insulating function is extremely limited only with the simple sound absorbing holes and the sound wave breaking and absorbing holes respectively connected to the simple sound absorbing holes, it is difficult to expect a sound attenuation effect from a large sized building, such as the shopping mall.

[9] To solve the problems, an object of the present invention is to provide a sound absorbing building panel which can be fabricatedeasily, has a decorative function for an inside wall only with the panel and sound absorbing and insulating functions enough to use even to an inside of a large sized building, and enables to mount goods display shelves on a sound scattering projection to improve convenience, too.

Technical Solution

[10] Reference will now be made in detail to the specific embodiments of the present invention, examples of which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings. Wherever possible, the same reference numbers will be used throughout the drawings to refer to the same or like parts.

[11] FIG. 1 illustrates an exploded perspective view of a sound absorbing panel, a sound absorbing material, and a case in accordance with a first preferred embodiment of the present invention, disassembled from one another, FIG. 2 illustrates a section showing an applied state of FIG. 1, FIG. 3 illustrates an exploded perspective view of a sound absorbing panel and a sound absorbing material in accordance with a second preferred embodiment of the present invention, disassembled from each other, FIG. 4 illustrates a perspective view of a sound absorbing panel of the present invention having a noise absorbing hole formed therein, and FIG. 5 illustrates a section showing application of FIG. 3.

[12] FIGS. 6 to 11 illustrate noise absorbing holes in a plate of a sound absorbing panel respectively, FIG. 12 to 14 illustrate perspective views of another shapes of sound absorbing panels of the present invention respectively, FIG. 15 illustrates a section showing shelves mounted to a sound absorbing panel of the present invention.

[13] <FIRST EMBODIMENTS

[14] Referring to FIGS. 1 and 2, the sound absorbing building panel includes a plate member 10 of injection molding of a metal, such as aluminum, or plastic having gap maintaining pieces 11 projected from a rear surface each with a fastening projection/ recess 13 formed therein, a plurality of hollow noise scattering projections 20 formed at regular intervals on a front of the plate member 10 for radiating, scattering, abs orbing and insulating the noise, fastening portions 30 of and shapes on a top and bottom sides of the plate member 10, upper and lower finishing members 40 each fastened to the fastening portions 30, a sound absorbing member 50 placed on the gap maintaining piece 11 on the plate member 10 in close contact with the plate member 10, and a case 55 placed in the fastening projection/recess 13 on the plate member 10 for protection of the sound absorbing member 50.

[15] In the meantime, for upward and downward connection of the sound absorbing panels 100, the shaped fastening portion 30 on the upper side of the plate member 10 has a groove, and the shaped fastening portion 30 on the bottom side has a projection to be placed in the groove.

[16] The upper finishing member 40 includes a single noise scattering projection 20 on a front and a projection or a groove to be fastened to the fastening portion 30.

[17] Referring to FIG. 2, the sound absorbing building panel can function as a sound absorbing panel 100 to be fastened to a wall surface 200 of a building with screws. Moreover, a decorative effect can be expected owing to the projection and recess of the noise scattering projections 20, and by fastening a known shelf bracket 60 to the noise scattering projection 20 and mounting a goods displaying shelf 61 thereon, goods display and advertisement effect can be expected.

[18] <SECOND EMBODIMENTS

[19] Referring to FIGS. 3 to 5, the sound absorbing building panel includes a plate member 10 with noise scattering projections 20 formed thereon having a gap maintaining piece 11 projected at fixed intervals from a rear surface thereof, and upward and downward webs 12 extended upward and downward from an edge of the gap maintaining piece 11, and a fastening plate and a sound absorbing member placed on an inside of the upward and downward webs 12, for improving sound absorption and insulating performance.

[20] Referring to FIG. 5, the sound absorbing building panel not only can function as a sound absorbing panel 100 if the panel is fastened to a wall surface 200 of a building, but also enables to expect a decorative effect from the noise scattering projections 20 projected and recessed on the front surface of the plate member 10, and enables to mount a known shelf bracket 60 and a goods display shelf 61 to the noise scattering projection 20.

[21] In the meantime, it is preferable that any one type of noise absorbing holes 15 in FIG.

5 are made in the plate member 10 between adjacent noise scattering portions arranged in up/down direction for making easy sound absorption by the sound absorbing member 50. It is preferable that the noise absorbing holes 15 are applied as shown in FIG. 4, and the noise absorbing holes 15 may not be made as the case demands. The noise absorbing hole 15 may be any one type of the shapes shown in FIGS. 6 to 11.

[22] <THIRD EMBODIMENTS

[23] The sound absorbing building panel in accordance with a third preferred embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the following drawings.

[24] FIG. 16 illustrates an exploded perspective view of a sound absorbing building panel in accordance with a third preferred embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 17 illustrates a section showing application of the sound absorbing building panel in FIG. 16, and FIGS. 18, 19, and 20 illustrate side views of the sound absorbing building panel in accordance with a third preferred embodiment of the present invention, respectively.

[25] Referring to FIGS. 16 and 17, and as described in the first, and second embodiments, the sound absorbing building panel includes a plate member 10 of injection molding of a metal, such as aluminum, or plastic having gap maintaining pieces 11 arranged in an up/down direction each having a fastening projection/recess 13 projected from a rear surface, a plurality of hollow noise scattering projections 20 formed at regular intervals on a front of the plate member 10, fastening portions 30 of and shapes on a top and bottom sides of the plate member 10. The sound absorbing building panels 100 are connected continuously to form a wall surface.

[26] The gap maintaining piece 11 has a male uneven portion 14, and a fastening member

70 is further provided, having a fastening hole 72 with a female uneven portion 71 formed therein for mating with the male uneven portion 14 and upper and lower webs 73. The male and female uneven portions 14 and 71 are fastened together in press fit.

[27] Either one of the upper and lower web 73 of the fastening member 70 may not be formed, selectively. The fastening member 70 may be a unitary cover shape having the female uneven portion 71 and the fastening hole 72 in an up/down direction.

[28] In the meantime, by making noise absorbing holes 15 in the plate member 10 with any one type of the holes shown in FIGS. 6 to 11, a sound absorbing effect can be enhanced.

[29] Between adjacent gap maintaining pieces 11, the sound absorbing member 50 and a fastening plate or net 51 may be placed. In this case, the fastening plate 51 is fastened to the upper and lower webs 73 of the fastening member 70, and the fastening member 70 is fastened to the plate member 10 as the male and female uneven portions 14 and

71 are fastened together.

[30] Alike the first and second embodiments, by fastening a shelf bracket 60 to the noise scattering projection 20, a goods displaying shelf 61 can be mounted to the sound absorbing panel 100 of the present invention.

[31] An unexplained reference numeral 300 in the drawing denotes supporting timber for fastening the sound absorbing panel 100 of the present invention to a wall surface 200.

Advantageous Effects

[32] The sound absorbing building panel of the present invention can maximize a sound absorbing performance by forming hollow noise scattering projections on a front of an injection molded metal plate, such as aluminum for radiating, scattering, absorbing, and insulating the noise, making noise absorbing holes in the plate between adjacent noise scattering projections arranged in an up/down direction for absorbing the noise, and placing a known sound absorbing member to a rear side of the plate additionally.

[33] Moreover, the sound absorbing building panel of the present invention can be fabricated easily and can provide a decorative function by placing a sound absorbing member under upper and lower webs on a gap maintaining piece projected from the plane, or fastening the sound absorbing member with a case.

[34] Moreover, the sound absorbing building panel of the present invention can enhance convenience by fastening a shelf bracket to the noise scattering projection enabling to mount a goods display shelf for displaying goods thereon.

[35] Moreover, the sound absorbing building panel of the present invention has an excellent excess moisture tolerance enough to apply to a swimming pool. Brief Description of the Drawings

[36] The accompanying drawings, which are included to provide further understanding of the disclosure and are incorporated in and constitute a part of this application, illustrate embodiments of the disclosure and together with the description serve to explain the principle of the disclosure.

[37] In the drawings:

[38] FIG. 1 illustrates an exploded perspective view of a sound absorbing panel, a sound absorbing material, and a case in accordance with a first preferred embodiment of the present invention, disassembled from one another,

[39] FIG. 2 illustrates a section showing an applied state of FIG. 1,

[40] FIG. 3 illustrates an exploded perspective view of a sound absorbing panel and a sound absorbing material in accordance with a second preferred embodiment of the present invention, disassembled from each other,

[41] FIG. 4 illustrates a perspective view of a sound absorbing panel of the present invention having a noise absorbing hole formed therein, and FIG. 5 illustrates a section showing application of FIG. 3,

[42] FIGS. 6 to 11 illustrate noise absorbing holes in a plate of a sound absorbing panel, respectively,

[43] FIG. 12 to 14 illustrate perspective views of another shapes of sound absorbing panels of the present invention, respectively,

[44] FIG. 15 illustrates a section showing shelves mounted to a sound absorbing panel of the present invention,

[45] FIG. 16 illustrates an exploded perspective view of a sound absorbing building panel in accordance with a third preferred embodiment of the present invention,

[46] FIG. 17 illustrates a section showing application of the sound absorbing building panel in FIG. 16, and

[47] FIGS. 18, 19, and 20 illustrate side views of the sound absorbing building panel in accordance with a third preferred embodiment of the present invention, respectively. Best Mode for Carrying Out the Invention

[48] The operation and effect of the sound absorbing building panel of the present invention will be described with reference to the attached drawings.

[49] The sound absorbing building panel of the present invention is applicable to an inside wall of buildings, such as shopping malls, auditoriums, conference rooms, churches, and so on, where are heavy noise from crowd, for absorbing noise.

[50] Referring to FIGS. 2 and 5, in a state the supporting timber 300 is fastened to the wall surface 200 of a building in a length direction, the lower finishing member 40 is fastened to the supporting timber 300 at a bottom crossing with a floor or a location where the sound absorbing panel 100 is to be mounted with screws or the like.

[51] Then, the sound absorbing member 50 is placed on the plate member 10 in close contact therewith between the gap maintaining pieces 11 adjacent to each other projected from the rear surface of the plate member 10 at fixed intervals. Along with this, the sound absorbing member 50 is covered with the case 55 and the case 55 is placed on and fastened to the fastening projection/recess 13 formed on the gap maintaining piece 11. Thus, the sound absorbing panel 100 is completed.

[52] Since above work can be done in a fabrication process or at a site, above work can be made according to working convenience selectively.

[53] Referring to FIGS. 1 or 2, the bottom fastening portion 30 of the first sound absorbing panel 100 having the sound absorbing member 50 fastened thereto is fastened to an upper portion of the lower finishing member 40 fastened thus, and an upper portion of the plate member 10 of the first sound absorbing panel 100 is fastened to the supporting timber 300 with screws. Since the bottom fastening portion 30 of the sound absorbing panel 100 is placed in a slot in the lower finishing member 40, the bottom fastening portion 30 can be kept in position firmly without falling off.

[54] Then, a second sound absorbing panel 100 is fastened to an upper portion of the plate member 10 of the first sound absorbing panel 100 again in succession, and third, fourth sound absorbing panels are fastened in succession by the same mounting method.

[55] In this instance, it is preferable that the supporting timber 300 has recesses for placing the cases 55 therein, and projections with heights enough to be in close contact with the sound absorbing panel 100 and fastened with screws.

[56] Finally, after the upper finishing member 40 is fastened to an upper portion of the plate member 10 of the end sound absorbing panel 100, the upper finishing member 40 is fastened with screws, to finish construction of a wall surface.

[57] In the second embodiment of the present invention, by placing the fastening plate 51 and the sound absorbing member 50 under the upward and downward webs 12 projected from the rear surface of the sound absorbing panel lOOsecurely, fastening the sound absorbing panel 100 placed thus to the supporting timber 300 fastened to the wall surface 200 with the lower finishing member 40, and fastening the first sound absorbing panel 100, the second, and third sound absorbing panels 100 to the lower finishing member 40 in succession, construction of the wall surface is finished.

[58] Thus, by making easy fastening of the sound absorbing panel 100 to another, construction of the wall surface is made simple, and work is made easy, enabling easy mounting of the sound absorbing panels at site.

[59] Thus, the wall surface constructed of the sound absorbing panel 100 of the present invention can improve a noise reducing function, such as sound absorption, sound scattering, and so on owing to the sound scattering projections 20 from the sound absorbing panel 100.

[60] As shown, by placing a shelf bracket 60 between the noise scattering projections 20 and fastening the same thereto, and mounting the goods display shelf 61 thereon, the sound absorbing panel 100 enables the wall surface of the shopping malls or the like to make easy display of the goods.

[61] Of course, any one of the fastening types of the shelf bracket 60 can be selected from the plurality of fastening types provided, and shelf brackets different from the drawing may be used.

[62] The hollow noise scattering projection 20 of the sound absorbing panel 100 for absorbing, scattering, and reducing the noise may have shapes different from the shape shown in the drawings for enhancing sound absorbing, and reducing effect, and it is more preferable if the noise scattering projection 20 has a shape that can enhance the sound reducing function, as well as a sound wave breaking function.

[63] Alike the first or second embodiment, in the third embodiment, in a state supporting timber 300 is fastened to an inside wall surface 200 of a shopping mall, an auditorium, conference rooms, churches, or so on, where is heavy noise from crowd, in a length direction, the lower finishing member 40 is fastened to the supporting timber 300 at a bottom crossing with a floor or a location where the sound absorbing panel 100 is to be mounted with screws or the like.

[64] Then, a known sound absorbing member 50 and a net of fastening plate 51 are placed on a rear surface of the plate member 10 in close contact therewith between the gap maintaining pieces 11 adjacent to each other projected from the rear surface of the plate member 10, and a fastening member 70 is press fit on the gap maintaining piece 11 arranged on upper/lower sides of the sound absorbing member 50, such that the upward and downward webs 73 of the fastening member 70 presses down the fastening plate 51 as a male uneven portion 14 on the gap maintaining piece 11 mates with a female uneven portion 71 in a fastening hole 72 of the fastening member 70.

[65] The bottom portion of the sound absorbing panel 100 fastened thus is placed in the lower finishing member 40 fastened to the supporting timber 300, and the top portion of the sound absorbing panel 100 is fastened to the supporting timber 300 with screws.

[66] Then, the second sound absorbing panel 100 is fastened to the top of the sound absorbing panel 100 fastened thus in succession, and, like the lower finishing member 40, the upper finishing member 40 is fastened to an uppermost sound absorbing panel 100 with screws.

[67] By a process described above, the sound absorbing panel of the present invention can be constructed on a wall surface, and the goods display shelf 61 shown in FIG. 2 can be mounted to the sound absorbing panel 100.

[68] In this embodiment too, the hollow noise scattering projection 20 of the sound absorbing panel 100 for absorbing, scattering, and reducing the noise may has shapes different from the shape shown in the drawing for enhancing sound absorption, and reducing effects. It is more preferable if the shape can enhance the noise reducing function, as well as a sound wave breaking function.

[69] It will be apparent to those skilled in the art that various modifications and variations can be made in the present invention without departing from the spirit or scope of the invention. Thus, it is intended that the present invention cover the modifications and variations of this invention provided they come within the scope of the appended claims and their equivalents. Industrial Applicability

[70] The present invention provides a sound absorbing/insulating building panel for construction of an inside wall of buildings, such as shopping malls, gymnasiums, churches, and so on, where people crowds, for absorbing noise from a space thereof to maintain the space more comfortable, and provided with a high quality interior finish material and designed to mount shelves thereto for displaying goods in shopping malls or the like, thereby providing a function for decorating a wall surface, and enabling to display goods by fastening a shelf bracket to the noise scattering projection and mounting a goods display shelf thereon.

Claims

[1] A sound absorbing building panel comprising: a plate member 10 having gap maintaining pieces 11 each with fastening projection/recess projected from a rear surface; hollow noise scattering projections 20 formed on a front of the plate member 10 at fixed intervals; fastening portions 30 at top and bottom of the plate member; upper and lower finishing members 40 to be fastened to the fastening portions; a sound absorbing member 50 placed on the gap maintaining piece 11 in close contact with the plate member 10; and a case 55 placed in the fastening projection/recess for protecting the sound absorbing member 50. [2] The sound absorbing building panel as claimed in claim 1, wherein the gap maintaining piece 11 has upward and downward webs 12 extended from an edge for receiving and fastening a fastening plate 51 and the sound absorbing member

50 under the webs. [3] The sound absorbing building panel as claimed in claim 1, wherein the noise scattering projection 20 has a shape selected from a circle, an ellipse, square, a triangle, and a polygon. [4] The sound absorbing building panel as claimed in claim 1, wherein the noise scattering projection 20 has a shelf bracket 60 fastened thereto for mounting a goods display shelf 61 thereto. [5] The sound absorbing building panel as claimed in claim 1, where in the plate member further includes noise absorbing holes 15 formed between the noise scattering projections 20 adjacent to each other. [6] The sound absorbing building panel as claimed in claim 1, wherein the gap maintaining piece 11 has a male uneven portion 14 on a surface, and the fastening member 70 has fastening hole with a female uneven portion 71 formed therein and the upward and downward webs 73, for fastening the sound absorbing member 50 by making the male uneven portion 14 of the gap maintaining piece 70 press fit in the female uneven portion 72 in the fastening hole of the fastening member 70. [7] The sound absorbing building panel as claimed in claim 6, wherein the fastening member 70 may have both or either of the upward and the downward webs 73.