Building
AssigneeKabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe 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.
Claims14
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.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.