Air-Conditioning Garment

Abstract

It is an object of the present invention to provide an air-conditioning garment capable of expanding a range in which a physiological cooler function originally included in a human body is effectively exercised, with a small power consumption in accordance with an individual difference or an intended use of a wearer. This air-conditioning garment is provided with a clothing material portion 20 which guides air along a surface of a body in a space between itself and the body, three air circulating portions 40, 40 and 40 which take air flowing in the space between the clothing material portion 20 and the body to the outside, two air sending means 50 and 50 for forcibly generating a flow of air in the space between the clothing material portion 20 and the body, and power supplying means 61 for supplying power to the air sending means 50 and 50. The air sending means 50 and 50 take outside air into the clothing material portion 20, and generate air flowing with a flow quantity of 6 liters / second. As a result, the air-conditioning garment can rapidly vaporize sweat, and hence the range in which the physiological cooler function originally included in a human body is effectively exercised can be expanded, thereby demonstrating a sufficient cooling effect.

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TECHNICAL FIELD [0001] The present invention relates to an air-conditioning garment used as an auxiliary device which effectively exercises a body cooling function using vaporization heat of sweat that humans originally have. BACKGROUND ART [0002] In a heated term like summer, means for keeping out the heat which is currently most extensively used is an air conditioner. This directly cools air in a room, and hence it is very effective in keeping out the heat. [0003] However, the air conditioner is an expensive apparatus, and its penetration rate for households has been increased, but it is yet to be set in each room in a family unit. Further, since the air conditioner consumes a large quantity of electric power, spread of the air conditioner increases a power consumption in the whole society. Furthermore, under existing circumstances where a fossil fuel accounts for a large percentage of electric power generation, spread of the air conditioner leads to an ironic effect of global war...

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Benefits of technology

[0006] In view of the above-described problems, it is an object of the present invention to provide an air-conditioning garment capable of expanding a range in which a physiological cooler function originally included in a human body is effectively exercised, with a small power consumption in accordance with an individual difference or an intended use of a wearer.

[0007] In order to achieve this object, according to the present invention defined in claim 1, there is provided an air-conditioning garment comprising: air guiding means for covering a predetermined part of a body and guiding air along a surface of the body or an undergarment in a space between itself and the body or the undergarment; one or a plurality of air circulating portions which take air flowing in the space between the air guiding means and the body or the undergarment to the outside or take outside air into the space between the air guiding means and the body or the undergarment; one or a plurality of air sending means for forcibly generating a flow of air in the space between the air guiding means and the body or the undergarment; and power supplying means for supplying power to the air sending means, wherein the air sending means generates air flowing with a flow quantity of at least 0.01 liter / second per kg of a weight of a wearer, and the air sending means circulates air in the space between the air guiding means and the body or the undergarment to facilitate vaporization of sweat generated from the body and expand a range in which a physiological cooler function originally included in a human body is effectively exercised.

[0008] The air-conditioning garment according to the present invention defined in claim 1 uses, as the air sending means, one which can generate air flowing with a flow quantity of at least 0.01 liter / second per kg of a weight of a wearer. Therefore, since this air-conditioning garment can rapidly vaporize sweat generated from the body, the range in which the physiological cooler function originally included in a human body is effectively exercised can be expanded, thereby demonstrating the sufficient cooling effect.

Problems solved by technology

However, the air conditioner is an expensive apparatus, and its penetration rate for households has been increased, but it is yet to be set in each room in a family unit.

Further, since the air conditioner consumes a large quantity of electric power, spread of the air conditioner increases a power consumption in the whole society.

Moreover, since the air conditioner cools air itself in a room, there can be considered a problem that excessive cooling ruins health.

For example, when a heavy person wears a cooling garment, the sufficient cooling effect may not be obtained unless a large flow quantity of air is caused to flow through a circulation path as compared with a case where a person having a small weight wears the cooling garment.

Further, when a wearer is involved in a heavy duty, the sufficient cooling effect cannot be obtained unless a large flow quantity of air is caused to flow through the circulation path as compared with a case where he / she is involved in a light duty.

Furthermore, the conventional cooling garment does not include a concept that a later-described physiological cooler using sweat as a coolant is exploited.

In the conventional cooling garment on the premise of circulating just a small amount of air without considering these conditions, the intended sufficient cooling effect cannot be obtained.

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