# US 9,435,115 B2 · Structural element for heat-insulating purposes > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 9,435,115 B2 - Document ID: US9435115B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 14/238,286 - Filed: 2012-08-13 - Published: 2014-07-10 - Granted: 2016-09-06 - Earliest claimed: 2011-08-11 - Assignees: Schock Bauteile GmbH - Applicants: Harald Braasch - Inventors: Harald Braasch - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US9435115B2 ## CPC - E04B 1/7604: {fillings for cavity walls} - E04B 1/0038: {Anchoring devices specially adapted therefor with means for preventing cold bridging} - E04C 2/284: at least one of the materials being insulating - E04B: GENERAL BUILDING CONSTRUCTIONS; WALLS, e.g. PARTITIONS; ROOFS; FLOORS; CEILINGS; INSULATION OR OTHER PROTECTION OF BUILDINGS (border constructions of opening in walls, floors or ceilings E06B1/00; {electromagnetic shielding H05K9/0001}) - E04C: STRUCTURAL ELEMENTS; BUILDING MATERIALS (for bridges E01D; specially designed for insulation or other protection E04B; elements used as building aids E04G; for mining E21; for tunnels E21D; structural elements with broader range of application than for building engineering F16, particularly F16S) ## Abstract Structural element for heat-insulating purposes between two structural parts, in particular between a building and a projecting exterior part, formed of an insulating body, which is to be arranged between the two structural parts, and of reinforcing elements at least including a load-bearing element which, with the structural element in the installed state, runs through the insulating body substantially horizontally and transversely to the substantially horizontal longitudinal extent of the insulating body, and can be connected at least indirectly to the two structural parts. The load-bearing element has an additional element which encloses the load-bearing element at least in sub-regions, and at least indirectly, and the load-bearing element is produced using a lost mold (1), and the additional element is formed, at least in part, of the lost mold, and wherein the additional element is formed in two or more parts. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A structural element for thermal insulation between two structural parts, comprising a body, which is to be arranged between the two structural parts, and reinforcing elements at least comprising a load-bearing element which, with the structural element in the installed state, runs through the body transversely to a longitudinal extent of said body, and is connectable at least indirectly to the two structural parts, the load-bearing element has a two or more part additional element which encloses the load-bearing element at least in partial regions and at least indirectly, wherein the load-bearing element is cast into and fills a mold, and the two or more part additional element comprises at least partially the mold, and the two or more part additional element, in a side region of the load-bearing element, includes sidewalls which are made from heat-insulating material against which sides of the load-bearing element are formed, the load-bearing element has contact profiles at opposite end sides thereof facing respective ones of the two structural parts, and at least one of the two or more part additional element or the mold that at least partially comprises the at least two or more part additional element at least indirectly surrounds the load-bearing element in regions of the contact profiles and provides a sliding layer. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The structural element as claimed in claim 1, wherein the mold is formed in two or more parts. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The structural element as claimed in claim 1, wherein in addition to the mold, the two or more part additional element includes at least one further supplementary element. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The structural element as claimed in claim 1, wherein in addition to the mold, the load-bearing element is produced using a further shaping element. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The structural element as claimed in claim 1, wherein the load-bearing element is formed of at least one of a curing or settable filling material. ### Claim 6 (depends on 5) The structural element as claimed in claim 5, wherein the filling material comprises a cement-containing, fiber-reinforced building material, high strength or ultra-high-strength concrete, high-strength or ultra-high strength mortar, a synthetic resin mixture, or a reaction resin. ### Claim 7 (depends on 1) The structural element as claimed in claim 1, wherein at least one of the two or more part additional element or the mold that at least partially comprises the two or more part additional element is formed of HD polyethylene as the sliding layer. ### Claim 8 (depends on 1) The structural element as claimed in claim 1, wherein the load-bearing element has at an end side thereof a contact profile which faces one of the two structural parts and is concavely or convexly curved in at least one of a vertical section or a horizontal section, and at least one of the two or more part additional element or the mold has a convexly or concavely curved surface oppositely adapted in shape to the contact profile in at least one of a vertical section or a horizontal section. ### Claim 9 (depends on 1) The structural element as claimed in claim 1, wherein at least one of the two or more part additional element or the mold is produced at least partially by injection molding or coextrusion of two or more materials. ### Claim 10 (depends on 1) The structural element as claimed in claim 1, wherein at least one of the two or more part additional element or the mold is formed by an assembly of two or more components, said assembly is formed at least one of cohesively, by adhesive bonding or by the load-bearing element material filled into the additional element or the mold. ### Claim 11 (depends on 10) The structural element as claimed in claim 10, wherein two components of at least one of the two or more part additional element or the mold which correspond to one another in terms of at least one of material, function or position are connected to one another via a connecting element. ### Claim 12 (depends on 1) The structural element as claimed in claim 1, wherein two adjacent load-bearing elements have at least one of a common one of the two or more part additional elements or a common mold. ### Claim 13 (depends on 1) A method of carrying a compressive load between two structural parts, comprising: forming a structural element according to claim 1 by casting the load-bearing element in the mold, with the two or more part additional element comprising at least partially the mold; and connecting the structural element at least indirectly to the two structural parts with the sliding layer on the contact profiles at the opposite end sides of the contacting the two structural parts.