Surface panel
OwnerFergus Jonathan Arderninventor
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Abstract
A surface panel is disclosed, the panel comprising two planar members in parallel spaced arrangement and being joined together by a plurality of mutually parallel tubular cells. Each tubular cell defines with the planar members an isolated cell volume. A tubular cell wall can be contiguously arranged with a neighbouring cell and also share a dividing wall with said cell. Preferably a tubular cell has a hexagonal shape with the cells forming a honeycomb array. A planar member optionally comprises a surface which further comprises a plurality of ribs arranged in a hexagonal configuration, with the diameter of each said hexagonal tubular cell being larger than the diameter of each said hexagonal rib configuration of said first planar member.
Claims10
A surface panel comprising:
- a first layer comprising a plurality of mutually parallel tubular cells;
- a first planar member;
- a second planar member;
- wherein the first planar member and the second planar member are in parallel spaced arrangement relative to one another and joined together by the plurality of mutually parallel tubular cells;
- wherein each tubular cell of the plurality of mutually parallel tubular cells defines with the first planar member and the second planar member an isolated cell volume;
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- wherein at least one planar member of the first planar member and the second planar member further comprises a second layer adjacent the first layer comprising a surface which comprises a plurality of ribs arranged in a hexagonal configuration, and wherein an area bounded by each hexagonal tubular cell is larger than an area bounded by each hexagonal rib configuration.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.