Building
AssigneeKobe Steel, Ltd.
InventorsKoji Uematsu, Akio Sugimoto, Hiroki Okada
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Abstract
A building includes at least one structural member. The structural member includes a light-receiving surface that is formed by extrusion or casting of a metal and is irradiated with sunlight, a structural member main body in which a hollow portion extending from a first end portion toward a second end portion is formed, a pair of lid portions that are respectively disposed at the first end portion and the second end portion, and close the hollow portion, an inlet that is provided in any one of the pair of lid portions and through which a heating medium flows into the hollow portion, and an outlet that is provided in any one of the pair of lid portions and through which the heating medium flows out from the hollow portion.
Claims20
A building comprising at least one structural member,
- the structural member including:
- a structural member main body that is formed by extrusion or casting of a metal, includes a light-receiving surface irradiated with sunlight, and is internally formed with a hollow portion extending from a first end portion toward a second end portion,
- a pair of lid portions that are respectively disposed at the first end portion and the second end portion, and close the hollow portion,
- an inlet that is provided in any one of the pair of lid portions and through which a heating medium flows into the hollow portion, and
- an outlet that is provided in any one of the pair of lid portions and through which the heating medium flows out from the hollow portion,
- wherein the hollow portion includes
- a first flow channel through which the heating medium flows from the first end portion toward the second end portion, and
- a second flow channel that is disposed so as to be adjacent to the first flow channel with a partition wall interposed between the first flow channel and the second flow channel and through which the heating medium flows from the second end portion toward the first end portion.
A building comprising at least one structural member,
- the structural member including:
- a structural member main body that is formed by extrusion or casting of a metal, includes a light-receiving surface irradiated with sunlight, and is internally formed with a hollow portion extending from a first end portion toward a second end portion,
- a pair of lid portions that are respectively disposed at the first end portion and the second end portion, and close the hollow portion,
- an inlet that is provided in any one of the pair of lid portions and through which a heating medium flows into the hollow portion, and
- an outlet that is provided in any one of the pair of lid portions and through which the heating medium flows out from the hollow portion,
- wherein the hollow portion includes a plurality of first flow channels disposed so as to be adjacent to each other with a partition wall interposed between the plurality of first flow channels and through which the heating medium flows from the first end portion toward the second end portion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.