Patent ID: 7774987
Filing Date: 2010-08-17
Classification: E04H

Abstract:
1. A mobile building module that is transportable by, and separable from, a vehicle, said building module comprising: rigid load-bearing surface elements; and at least one inflatable flexible surface element connected to at least some of the load bearing surface elements; wherein, in an assembled state of the building module, wherein said building module is separated from said vehicle, said at least one inflatable flexible surface element constitutes at least a roof of said building module; in a transport condition of the building module, wherein said building module is loadable into or onto, and separable from, said vehicle, a plurality, of the load-bearing rigid surface elements are assembled so as to form a parallelepiped container having a floor and surrounding rigid walls for accommodating the inflatable flexible surface elements, said floor and rigid walls being separate from structural elements of said vehicle; a height of the container is less than a height of the building module in said assembled state; one surface element of said rigid load-bearing surface elements is situated on at least one side of said building module; said one surface element comprises an upper part and a lower part, wherein said upper part can be swiveled with respect to said lower part, about a horizontal swivel axis; in the assembled state of the building module, said upper part of said one surface element is swiveled upwardly about said horizontal swivel axis, so that it extends upward from said horizontal swivel axis, above said lower part, and so that said one surface element extends over an entire height of the assembled building module; in said transport condition of said building module, said lower part forms at least a part of the wall of the container, and said upper part is swiveled about said horizontal swivel axis, to a horizontal position in which it forms at least part of an upper surface of the container; a height of said lower part corresponds to the height of the container.