Energy-saving housing

• US 6,976,337 B2
• Filed: 11/21/2001
• Issued: 12/20/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 11/24/2000
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: House Port 23 Co., Ltd., Nogatakenzai Company Limited
• Original Assignee: House Port 23 Co., Ltd., Nogatakenzai Company Limited
• Inventors: Hiraki, Koji
• Primary Examiner(s): Friedman, Carl D.
• Assistant Examiner(s): GREEN, CHRISTY MARIE
• Application Number:
  US09/989,073
• Publication Number:
  US 20020088184A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,490 Days
• Field of Search: 52/791, 521/695, 52/90, 524/041, 524/08, 522/363, 52D/IG.17, 522/67, 522/68, 522/69, 522/94, 523/098, 523/099, 524/071, 522/366, 527/941, 527/831, 521/99, 523/19, 523/40
• US Class Current: 52/79.1
• CPC Class Codes: E04B 1/74 Heat, sound or noise insulation, absorption, or reflection forms of, or arrangements in, rooms for influencing or directing sound E04B1/99; Other building methods affording favourable thermal or acoustical conditions, e.g. accumulating of heat within walls fire protection E04B1/94; elements chiefly adapted for structural purposes E04C1/00 - E04C3/00; chiefly adapted for surface coverings E04F13/00; as underlayers for floor coverings E04F15/18; closures for wall or like openings E06B
• CPC Class Codes: E04B 2001/7679 Means preventing cold bridging at the junction of an exterior wall with an interior wall or a floor
• CPC Class Codes: E04D 13/174 on the ridge of the roof
• CPC Class Codes: F24D 3/14 incorporated in a ceiling, wall or floor
• CPC Class Codes: F24F 7/02 Roof ventilation ventilation of roof coverings E04D
• CPC Class Codes: Y02B 30/00 Energy efficient heating, ventilation or air conditioning [HVAC]

Abstract

The invention provides energy-saving housing wherein the indoor temperature condition can be made comfortable throughout the year by a small amount of energy by suppressing loads on cooling and heating devices, and high airtightness and high heat insulation performance can be maintained for a long period of time so that durability is excellent. The energy-saving housing includes wall parts provided with inner walling made from an inorganic material and heat insulators made from an organic foamed material, a ceiling part provided with inner walling made from an inorganic material, heat insulators made from an organic foamed material at the ceiling part or roof part, and a floor heating device provided at least at the floor part of the lower floor, and has an equivalent clearance area of from 0.3 cm²/m² to 0.6 cm²/m².

Claims

1. Energy-saving housing, comprising:

a plurality of wall parts including an inner wall made from an inorganic material and a heat insulator made from an organic foamed material;

a plurality of ceiling parts including an inner wall made from an inorganic material;

a heat insulator made from an organic foamed material provided at one of said ceiling parts and at a roof part; and

a floor heating device provided at least at a floor part of a lower floor, wherein an equivalent clearance area thereof is from 0.1 cm²/m² to 0.95 cm²/m²,

said floor heating device comprises a filling layer;

a first dampproofing sheet spread on an upper surface of said filling layer;

a floor mold concrete layer provided on said first dampproofing sheet;

a second dampproofing sheet spread on an upper surface of said floor mold concrete layer;

a heat insulator formed of a plate-shaped foam member provided on said second dampproofing sheet;

a reinforcing mesh provided on said heat insulator; and

a heat accumulating layer formed from one of mortar and concrete and provided with hot water pipes which are fixed on said reinforcing mesh.

2. The energy-saving housing according to claim 1, wherein the heat transmission coefficient of said ceiling parts or said roof part and said wall parts is from 0.1 W/m²K to 0.7 W/m²K.

3. The energy-saving housing according to claim 1, further comprising a programmed ventilator for forcibly ventilating all indoor air within the housing.

4. The energy-saving housing according to any one of claims 1 through 3, further comprising a wellhole part with a wellhole opening proportion of from 15% to 50% of a floor area of said lower floor.

5. The energy-saving housing according to any one of claims 1 through 3, further comprising a plurality of openings formed in said wall parts with a heat transmission coefficient of from 1.4 W/m²K to 2.5 W/m²K.

6. The energy-saving housing according to any one of claims 1 through 3, wherein said heat insulator of said wall parts and said heat insulator of said ceiling parts or said roof part comprise soft foamed urethane, a polyethylene foam, crosslinked polyethylene foam, polypropylene foam, polyurethane foam and urea resin foam which are sprayed on structural boards at an outer wall side of said wall parts and structural boards of at least one of said ceiling parts and said roof part.

7. The energy-saving housing according to claim 4, further comprising a plurality of openings formed in said wall parts with a heat transmission coefficient of from 1.4 W/m²K to 2.5 W/m²K.

8. The energy-saving housing according to claim 4, wherein said heat insulator of said wall parts and said heat insulator of one of said ceiling parts and said roof part comprise soft foamed urethane, a polyethylene foam, crosslinked polyethylene foam, polypropylene foam, polyurethane foam, and urea resin foam, which are sprayed on structural boards at an outer wall side of said wall parts and structural boards of at least one of said ceiling parts and said roof part.

9. The energy-saving housing according to claim 5, wherein said heat insulator of said wall parts and said heat insulator of one of said ceiling parts and said roof part comprise soft foamed urethane, a polyurethane foam, crosslinked polyethylene foam, polypropylene foam, polyurethane foam, and urea resin foam, which are sprayed on structural boards at an outer wall side of said wall parts and structural boards of at least one of said ceiling parts and said roof part.

10. The energy-saving housing according to claim 7, wherein said heat insulator of said wall parts and said heat insulator of said ceiling parts or said roof part comprise soft foamed urethane, a polyethylene foam, crosslinked polyethylene foam, polypropylene foam, polyurethane foam, and urea resin foam, which are sprayed on structural boards at an outer wall side of said wall parts and structural boards of at least one of said ceiling parts and said roof part.

11. The energy-saving housing according to claim 1, wherein said floor heating device comprises plywood provided at an end of a wall part side of said heat accumulating layer;

and a shrinkage absorber provided between said plywood and structure members which comprises a lower part of said wall part.