Insulated Structural Wall Panel

• US 20100162659A1
• Filed: 03/28/2007
• Published: 07/01/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 03/28/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Maisons Laprise, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Maisons Laprise, Inc.
• Inventors: Laprise, Daniel
• Application Number:
  US12/593,591
• Publication Number:
  US 20100162659A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 52/762
• CPC Class Codes: E04B 1/14 the elements being composed of two or more materials of reinforced concrete E04B1/04
• CPC Class Codes: E04B 1/6108 the frontal surfaces of the slabs connected together
• CPC Class Codes: E04B 1/80 slab-shaped
• CPC Class Codes: E04B 2/7401 assembled using panels without a frame or supporting posts, with or without upper or lower edge locating rails
• CPC Class Codes: E04B 2/7412 Posts or frame members specially adapted for reduced sound or heat transmission
• CPC Class Codes: E04B 2/7425 Details of connection of panels E04B2/7427 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: E04C 2/205 of foamed plastics, or of plastics and foamed plastics, optionally reinforced

Abstract

An insulated wall panel for use in building wall sections, said wall panel having a front face, a back face, and two opposite mating sides, each mating side being shaped to mate with the opposite mating side of an other insulated wall panel for mating assembly in a wall section, the insulating panel comprising a structural member extending along one of the mating sides, the structural member including a rear beam and a front beam, with cooperating flanges that are separated from each other by an insulating component

Claims

1. An insulated wall panel having a front face, a back face, and two opposite mating sides, each mating side being shaped to mate with the opposite mating side of an other insulated wall panel for mating assembly in a wall section, the insulated wall panel comprising a body of insulating material, a structural member extending along one side of the body, on one of the mating sides, the structural member including a rear beam and a front beam, the rear beam having a front flange engaged with the front beam and the front beam having a rear flange engaged with the rear beam, and an insulating component sandwiched between the front flange and the rear flange.

2. The insulated wall panel of claim 1 wherein the insulating component has L-shaped ends separating a tip of the flange of each beam from the other beam.

3. The insulated wall panel of claim 1 wherein the front beam and the rear beam are C-shaped beams facing opposite sides.

4. The insulated wall panel of claim 1 wherein the front beam is offset from the front face, the body having a covering extension on the front face for covering the structural member and to form a continuous facing layer of insulating material covering the structural members when two or more adjacent wall panels are matingly adjoined into a wall section.

5. The insulated wall panel of claim 1 wherein the front beam and the rear beam are steel beams.

6. The insulated wall panel of claim 1 wherein the insulating component is a strip of rubber.

7. A wall section comprising:

a plurality of adjacent insulated wall panels, each wall panel having a front face, a back face, two opposite mating sides, a structural member having an upper end and a lower end, extending along one of the mating sides, the structural member including a rear beam and a front beam, the rear beam having a front flange engaged with the front beam and the front beam having a rear flange engaged with the rear beam, and an insulating component sandwiched between the front flange and the rear flange, and a body of insulating material having an upper end and a lower end, positioned adjacent the structural member and extending along the other one of the mating sides, the insulated wall panels being aligned side by side with a mating side of each wall panel engaged with a corresponding mating side of an adjacent one of the wall panels, and an upper frame member secured to the upper end of each structural member and a lower frame member secured to the lower end of each structural member.

8. The wall section of claim 7 wherein the insulating component has L-shaped ends separating a tip of the flange of each beam from the other beam.

9. The wall section of claim 7 wherein the front beam and the rear beam are C-shaped beams facing opposite sides.

10. The wall section of claim 7 wherein the front beam is offset from the front face, the body having a structural member covering extension on the front face to form a continuous facing layer of insulating material covering the structural members when two or more adjacent wall panels are matingly adjoined into a wall section.

11. The wall section of claim 7 wherein the bodies of insulating material of the wall panels are in a compressed state between the structural members.

12. The wall section of claim 7 wherein the front beam and the rear beam are steel beams.

13. The wall section of claim 7 wherein the insulating component is a strip of rubber.

14. A wall comprising at least two adjacent insulated wall panels, each insulated wall panel having a body made of a self-supporting insulating material, having a front face, a back face, and a mating side abutting against a mating side of an adjacent one of the insulated wall panels, with a structural member spacing therebetween, and a structural member filling the structural member spacing between the at least two insulated wall panels, the structural member including a rear beam and a front beam, the rear beam having a front flange engaged with the front beam and the front beam having a rear flange engaged with the rear beam, and an insulating component sandwiched between the front flange and the rear flange.

15. The wall of claim 14 wherein the insulating component has L-shaped ends separating a tip of the flange of each beam from the other beam.

16. The wall of claim 14 wherein the front beam and the rear beam are C-shaped beams facing opposite sides.

17. The wall of claim 14 wherein the front beam is offset from the front face, the body having a structural member covering extension on the front face to form a continuous facing layer of insulating material covering the structural members when two or more adjacent wall panels are matingly adjoined into a wall section.

18. The wall of claim 14 wherein the bodies of insulating material of the wall panels are in a compressed state between the structural members.

19. The wall of claim 14 wherein the front beam and the rear beam are steel beams.

20. The wall of claim 14 wherein the insulating component is a strip of rubber.

21. (canceled)