AIR CONDITIONING APPARATUS AND AIR CONDITIONING MANAGEMENT METHOD
Technical Background
There are known devices that perform air conditioning in a residential space.
For example, there is a known air conditioning facility structure provided with an air conditioning mechanism including a comfort detection determination means that can detect comfort inside a room, and a headcount determination means that can detect a headcount in the room, the air conditioning mechanism capable of circulating, in a room, adjusted air corresponding to comfort detected by the comfort detection determination means, the air conditioning mechanism being provided so as to circulate or block adjusted air in the room in a form corresponding to the headcount in the room detected by the headcount determination means, and a vent for adjusted air circulating in the room by the air conditioning mechanism is provided in the form of being opened on a floor of the room.
Current Problems
In order to prevent infection from COVID-19, which caused a global pandemic, all the countries in the world guide their people to avoid closed spaces, crowded places, and close-contact settings (Three Cs).
Whatever work it is, office work, service work, or production work, as long as the work is performed at indoor facilities, it is difficult to avoid the Three Cs from the activities.
In particular, existing air conditioning equipment generally has a cold or warm air vent on the ceiling or nearby, and once cold or warm air starts flowing into the room, the inside the room is brought into a pressurized state and the air pressure becomes higher than that outside the room.
In this manner, virus and bacteria (“pathogen”) transmitted by airborne droplets from respiration of human inside a room travel on cold or warm wind currents, are agitated, and fly throughout the room.
An easy method to avoid the Three Cs is to discharge the pathogen out of the room by making an air flow with a window and a door open. However, in mid-summer and mid-winter, it is difficult to keep the room temperature at comfortable level with that method.
The object of the present invention is to perform air conditioning management while discharging a pathogen out of a room.
Means for Solving Problems
In order to achieve the above object, the disclosed air conditioning apparatus is provided.
This air conditioning apparatus includes a discharge unit that sucks air out of a predetermined space and brings the space into negative pressure; a first storage unit storing air sucked by the discharge unit; a first adjustment unit that adjusts a flow rate of air coming in and out of the first storage unit; a second storage unit storing air sucked by the discharge unit when inflow of air from the discharge unit to the first storage unit is limited; a second adjustment unit that adjusts a flow rate of air coming in and out of the second storage unit; and a cooling and heating device that manages temperature of the first storage unit and the second storage unit to which inflow of air from the discharge unit is limited.
This can perform air conditioning management while discharging a pathogen out of a room.
Scope of Claims
[Claim 1]
An air conditioning apparatus comprising of a discharge unit that sucks air in a predetermined space and brings the space into negative pressure; a first storage unit storing air sucked by the discharge unit; a first adjustment unit that adjusts a flow rate of air coming in and out of the first storage unit; a second storage unit storing air sucked by the discharge unit when inflow of air from the discharge unit to the first storage unit is limited; a second adjustment unit that adjusts a flow rate of air coming in and out of the second storage unit; and a cooling and heating device that manages temperature of the first storage unit and the second storage unit to which inflow of air from the discharge unit is limited.
[Claim 2]
The air conditioning apparatus further comprising of a spray device that sprays hypochlorous acid onto air sucked by the discharge unit.
[Claim 3]
An air conditioning management method, wherein a computer causes air in a predetermined space to be sucked and brings the space into negative pressure; causes a first storage unit to store air sucked; adjusts the flow rate of air coming in and out of the first storage unit; causes a second storage unit to store air sucked from the space when inflow of air from a discharge unit to the first storage unit is limited; adjusts the flow rate of air coming in and out of the second storage unit; causes the first storage unit to store air sucked from the space when inflow of air from a discharge unit to the second storage unit is limited; and manages temperature of the first storage unit and the second storage unit to which inflow of air from the discharge unit is limited.