US 12,416,148 B1Granted

Constructing a building using pre-fabricated materials shaped from truncated polyhedrons

AssigneeDaniel Lopez-Perez

InventorDaniel Lopez-Perez

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Abstract

The disclosed technology can be implemented to use pre-fabricated materials shaped from truncated polyhedrons to construct customized building designs via on-site assembling without otherwise complex, expensive, and laborious on-site construction. In implementations, such pre-fabricated materials can be made as components for a customized building design and can be fabricated from strong, durable fabricated materials such as composite wood materials like cross laminated timber (“CLT”) materials and others suitable for mass production and customization. In addition, the disclosed technology can be implemented to provide a home design and construction service online platform to enable customers to plan and to do customized designs for, their business buildings or homes at their selected sites, to order the construction of their buildings based on their final designs and to monitor the construction process, and to engage building material suppliers and construction contractors in the building design, planning and construction processes.

Claims24

Dependent claims

A building structure for providing a sheltered space or an enclosed indoor space suitable for use as business space or dwelling space, comprising:

a foundation frame formed by rigid bars that are connected to one another;
a plurality of ground screws engaged to the foundation frame to fix and hold the foundation frame to the ground, each ground screw including a rigid screw body affixed to the foundation frame and a threaded tapered head to allow the ground screw to be rotated to penetrate into the ground for fixing and holding the foundation frame to the ground;
one or more floor structures formed by pre-fabricated floor panels to engage to the foundation frame to form a floor of the building structure;
wall structures formed by pre-fabricated wall panels and supported by the foundation frame to form exterior and interior walls of the building structure;
and
a roof formed by pre-fabricated roof panels and positioned above at least part of the wall structures,
wherein the floor panels, the wall panels, or the roof panels are structured to include a connection mechanism engaged to two panels to connect the two panels to each other, the connection mechanism including one or more screws or nails that are fixed into the two panels, respectively, to provide a connection between the two panels,
wherein the floor panels, the wall panels and the roof panels include polyhedral panels shaped in polygon facets of a truncated three-dimensional polyhedron,
wherein the polyhedral panels for the floor panels, the wall panels and the roof panels shaped in polygon facets of the truncated three-dimensional polyhedron are portions of an original three-dimensional polyhedron located outside a set of symmetrically placed faces of the original three-dimensional polyhedron.

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A building structure for providing a sheltered space or an enclosed indoor space suitable for use as business space or dwelling space, comprising:

a foundation frame structured to engage to the ground to support the building structure;
pre-fabricated floor panels connected to one another and to engage to the foundation frame to form a floor of the building structure;
pre-fabricated wall panels supported by the foundation frame over the floor to form wall structures of the building structure;
and
pre-fabricated roof panels connected to one another to form a roof structure that is positioned above at least part of the wall structures,
wherein the floor panels, the wall panels, or the roof panels are structured to include a connection mechanism engaged to two panels to connect the two panels to each other, the connection mechanism including one or more screws or nails that are fixed into the two panels, respectively, to provide a connection between the two panels,
wherein the floor panels, the wall panels or the roof panels include polyhedral panels shaped in polygon facets of a truncated three-dimensional polyhedron and are made from a pre-manufactured material,
wherein the polygon facets of the floor panels, the wall panels, and the roof panels are connected to one another to form a floor, wall, and roof structure of the building structure to take on a geometry or shape of the truncated three-dimensional polyhedron.

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A construction building panel for connecting with other construction building panels to form part of a floor, a wall, a roof, and a panel of a building structure as a sheltered space or an enclosed indoor space suitable for use as business space or dwelling space, comprising:

a panel body that includes different wood pieces that are laminated together and is shaped as a polygonal facet formed by truncating a solid three-dimensional polyhedron which includes a solid tetrahedron, solid octahedron, or solid cube, wherein the polygonal facet is located outside a set of symmetrically placed faces of the solid three-dimensional polyhedron and is located at points along edges of the solid three-dimensional polyhedron by a ratio r not greater than ½, where r is a fraction of an edge length at which to truncate;
and
a connection mechanism formed on a side of the panel body and structured to connect with a corresponding connection mechanism on another construction building panel, wherein the connection mechanism includes one or more screws or nails that are fixed into the construction building panel and the another construction building panel, respectively, to provide a connection therebetween.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 17/472,519Filed 10 Sep 2021 · us provisional application
Priority: 11 Sep 2020
Granted: 16 Sep 2025
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification11 codes

E04B 1/10
Structures consisting primarily of load-supporting, block-shaped, or slab-shaped elements: the elements consisting of wood
E02D 27/50
Foundations for special purposes: anchored foundations
E04B 1/0007
Constructions in general; Structures which are not restricted either to walls, e.g. partitions, or floors or ceilings or roofs: base structures;…
E04B 7/026
With plane sloping surfaces, e.g. saddle roofs: consisting of prefabricated modules, e.g. box-like or cell-like units