Air conditioning seat device
AssigneePanasonic Corporation
InventorsNoriyuki Yoneno, Hiroshi Uno, Fumitaka Kikutani, Koichi Nakano, Shintaro Nozawa, Satoshi Arima, Mitsuru Yoneyama, Yoshifumi Moriya
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Abstract
An air conditioning seat device includes an air blower, and a dehumidifier for dehumidifying the air sent from the air blower owing to adsorption, and blows out the dehumidified air to holes provided on a skin of a seat through an air duct. In this makeup, the sweat on the body surface and in the clothes is rapidly vaporized, causing a large amount of vaporization heat loss. Accordingly, the human body feels coolness, and steaminess on the skin is suppressed owing to the sweat vaporization.
Claims18
An air-conditioning seat apparatus comprising:
- a main body of a seat, the main body having a surface at least a portion of which contacts a person seated in the seat, the surface facing the person seated in the seat, a plurality of holes being formed in the surface;
- a first air blower that takes in air from an area other than the surface of the main body of the seat;
- a dehumidifier for dehumidifying air sent by the first air blower, the dehumidifier including an absorbent generating heat when absorbing moisture;
- an air duct for sending air dehumidified by the dehumidifier, from the dehumidifier to the holes formed in the main body of the seat, and
- at least one sealing part positioned between the first air blower and the dehumidifier for preventing moisture in the air from reaching the dehumidifier while the dehumidifier is not operational,
- wherein air dehumidified by the dehumidifier blows out through the holes formed in the surface of the main body of the seat.
The air conditioning seat device according to claim , further comprising:
- a heater unit for heating the dehumidifier.
An air conditioning seat device, comprising:
- a main body of a seat, the main body having a surface at least a portion of which contacts a person seated in the seat, the surface facing the person seated in the seat, a plurality of holes being formed in the surface;
- a first air blower that takes in air from an area other than the surface of the main body of the seat;
- a dehumidifier for dehumidifying air sent by the first air blower, the dehumidifier including an absorbent generating heat when absorbing moisture;
- an air duct for sending air dehumidified by the dehumidifier, from the dehumidifier to the holes formed in the main body of the seat, and
- a heater unit for heating the dehumidifier,
- wherein the adsorbent included in the dehumidifier is fixed on the heater.
An air-conditioning seat apparatus comprising:
- a main body of a seat, the main body having a surface at least a portion of which contacts a person seated in the seat, the surface facing the person seated in the seat, a first hole being formed in the surface;
- a first air blower that takes in air from an area other than the surface of the main body of the seat;
- a dehumidifier for dehumidifying air sent by the first air blower, owing to adsorption;
- an air duct for sending air dehumidified by the dehumidifier, from the dehumidifier to the first hole formed in the main body of the seat,
- a heater unit for heating the dehumidifier;
- a controller for controlling the air-conditioning seat apparatus to switch between (a) a dehumidifying mode and (b) a recycle mode;
- and
- at least one sealing part positioned between the first air blower and the dehumidifier;
- wherein,
- during the dehumidifying mode, air dehumidified by the dehumidifier blows out through the first hole formed in the surface of the main body of the seat;
- and
- during the recycle mode, moist air is blown out of a second hole formed in the main body of the seat, the heater is on and the first air blower is turned on and off intermittently and the at least one sealing part is closed to prevent moisture in the air from reaching the dehumidifier.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.