Patent ID: 8615945
Filing Date: 2013-12-31
Classification: E04B,E04C,E04D,F24F,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A multi-plenum structural panel comprising: a top sheet, a middle sheet, and a bottom sheet, each sheet having a first horizontal edge and a second horizontal edge, and a first vertical edge and a second vertical edge, all three sheets being parallel in plane, and all three sheets having at least one of both vertical edges and both horizontal edges aligned along a same plane; a first plurality of spacing structural elements, fixedly attaching the top sheet to the middle sheet, and a second plurality of spacing structural elements fixedly attaching the middle sheet to the bottom sheet, such that a yield strength of the combined multi-plenum structural panel is greater than a combined individual yield strengths of the top, the middle, and the bottom sheets; an upper plenum defined by a first spacing between the top sheet and the middle sheet; a lower plenum defined by a second spacing between the middle sheet and the bottom sheet; the first and second plurality of spacing structural elements being attached such that a plurality of unobstructed intersecting coplanar orthogonal pathways are created in both the upper plenum and the lower plenum for air to move from a horizontal edge of the multi-plenum structural panel to an opposite horizontal edge of the multi-plenum structural panel, and from a vertical edge of the multi-plenum structural panel to an opposite vertical edge of the multi-plenum structural panel; and wherein the top, the middle, and the bottom sheets are each between 0.125 inches and 1.0 inches in thickness, not including the thickness of any integral spacing structural elements.