| 摘要 |
PURPOSE:To enable the evaluation of environment in close approximation to the sensibility of an actual human body, by providing a heat-medium circuit for circulating a heat medium through a main body which is formed to have the heat-exchange characteristics equivalent to the human body and equipped with a sensor, and by providing further a pump for circulating the heat medium and a heater for heating the heat medium. CONSTITUTION:Temperature sensors C1-C3, C3'...C9' are provided in the portions A1- A3, A3'...A9' of a main body 2, respectively. Each of the portions A1 to A9' of the main body 2 is provided with a spiral piping 4 made of silicon rubber inside an external body 3 made of copper, and further a pump 5 and an electric heater 6 generating a prescribed heat are provided inside the portion A8. A heat medium sent out by the pump 5 is heated by the heater 6 and then supplied to each of the portions (A1-A9'). Each portion is heated thereby, and the measurement of the surface temperature of the external body 3 of each portion which is determined from a heat balance with the environment, by means of the temperature sensor C, enables the estimation of the comfortableness of the environment in which the main body 2 is set. Since the heat medium is circulated in this apparatus, local heating or cooling in one portion, if any, can be reflected on the temperature of the other portions. |
