WARM SENSATION CALCULATION APPARATUS, WARM SENSATION CALCULATION METHOD, AIR CONDITIONER, AND PROGRAM

• US 20200132329A1
• Filed: 12/26/2019
• Published: 04/30/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 07/24/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: DENSO Corporation, Shinshu University National University Corporation
• Original Assignee: DENSO Corporation, Shinshu University National University Corporation
• Inventors: ITO, Yusuke, SAKOI, Tomonori
• Granted Patent: US 11,371,740 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 10/00 Other methods or instruments for diagnosis, e.g. instruments for taking a cell sample, for biopsy, for vaccination diagnosis vaccination prophylaxis, vaccination therapy A61B17/20; Sex determination; Ovulation-period determination menstruation tables G06C3/00; Throat striking implements
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/026 Measuring blood flow A61B3/1233, A61B3/1241 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/16 Devices for psychotechnics using teaching or educational appliances G09B1/00 - G09B7/00; Testing reaction times ; Devices for evaluating the psychological state
• CPC Class Codes: F24F 11/62 characterised by the type of control or by internal processing, e.g. using fuzzy logic, adaptive control or estimation of values
• CPC Class Codes: F24F 11/63 Electronic processing
• CPC Class Codes: F24F 2110/10 Temperature
• CPC Class Codes: F24F 2120/00 Control inputs relating to users or occupants
• CPC Class Codes: G01D 21/00 Measuring or testing not otherwise provided for
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 15/02 electric
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2119/08 Thermal analysis or thermal optimisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 30/20 Design optimisation, verification or simulation optimisation, verification or simulation of circuit designs G06F30/30

Abstract

A warmth calculation apparatus capable of indicating warmth during a transition is provided. This warmth calculation apparatus includes: a calculator that, on the basis of a human body heat model simulating a human body, calculates a basic index indicating the warm sensation of parts of the human body under inputted environmental conditions; and a corrector that corrects the basic index utilizing, as a correction element, a heat transfer amount caused by blood flow of the human body heat model.

Claims

1. A warm sensation calculation apparatus comprising:

a calculator configured to calculate a basic index indicating a warm sensation at a part of a human body; and

a corrector configured to correct the basic index by utilizing, as a correction element, a heat transfer amount due to a blood flow of a human body heat model (MDL), and

wherein;

the corrector corrects the basic index based on the heat transfer amount so as to reflect heat inflow and heat outflow at a transition;

the corrector further corrects the basic index by utilizing, as the correction element, a whole body heat storage amount and an average body temperature due to heat storage of the human body heat model;

the corrector corrects the basic index based on the whole body heat storage amount and the average body temperature so as to reflect the heat storage of the human body at the transition;

the correction element adds a direct correction component to the basic index to increase a degree of coincidence between the basic index and the warm sensation; and

the direct correction component corresponds to a linear function of the correction element.

3. The warm sensation calculation apparatus according to claim 1, wherein:

the basic index corresponds to a standard new effective temperature; and

the corrector adds a direct component in which the correction element is set to a variable to a basic function set based on the basic index.

4. An air conditioner comprising:

the warm sensation calculation apparatus according to claim 1; and

an air conditioning controller configured to control air conditioning in accordance with the index calculated by the warm sensation calculation apparatus.

2. A warm sensation calculation apparatus comprising:

a calculator configured to calculate a basic index indicating a warm sensation at a part of a human body; and

a corrector configured to correct the basic index by utilizing, as a correction element, a whole body heat storage amount and an average body temperature due to heat storage of a human body heat model,

wherein;

the corrector corrects the basic index based on a heat transfer amount due to a blood flow of the human body heat model so as to reflect heat inflow and heat outflow at a transition;

the corrector corrects the basic index based on the whole body heat storage amount and the average body temperature so as to reflect the heat storage of the human body at the transition; and

the correction element adds a direct correction component to the basic index to increase a degree of coincidence between the basic index and the warm sensation; and

the direct correction component corresponds to a linear function of the correction element.

5. A warm sensation calculation method comprising:

calculating a basic index indicating a warm sensation at a whole of a human body or a warm sensation at a part of the human body; and

correcting the basic index by utilizing, as a correction element, a heat transfer amount due to a blood flow of the human body heat model, a whole body heat storage amount, and an average body temperature due to heat storage of the human body,

wherein;

the correcting corrects the basic index based on the heat transfer amount so as to reflect heat inflow and heat outflow at a transition;

the correcting corrects the basic index based on the whole body heat storage amount and the average body temperature so as to reflect the heat storage of the human body at the transition;

the correction element adds a direct correction component to the basic index to increase a degree of coincidence between the basic index and the warm sensation; and

the direct correction component corresponds to a linear function of the correction element.

6. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium that stores a program for causing a computer to perform the warm sensation calculation method according to claim 5.