Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Advanced Lcd Technologies Development Center Co., Ltd.

Tetsuya Ide

Yuka Utsumi

Takashi Yamashita

Tsuyoshi Kamada

Tomoko Kase

Yasuyuki Umenaka

Tomohisa Miyatani

Hisanori Bessho

Daiji Sawada

Makoto Yamada

Shohei Katsuta

Masao Urayama

Seiji Ohhashi

Kazuhiro Deguchi

Sho Ochi

Jun Sakuma

Hiroka Hamada

Mitsuhiro Koden

Shigeaki Mizushima

Yukihiko Nakata

Kazufumi Azuma

Akio Miyata

Katsumi Kondoh

Junichi Sawahata

Atsushi Sasaki

Hideo Sugai

Katsunori Mitsuhashi

An air conditioning apparatus according to an aspect of the invention includes: an air conditioner that has a heat pump; a humidity controller of a wet desiccant type; an air transport flow path through which air discharged from the air conditioner is transported to the humidity controller; and a control unit that includes an air conditioner temperature control unit controlling a temperature of air discharged from the air conditioner and a humidity controller humidity control unit controlling a humidity of air discharged from the humidity controller. The air conditioner supplies the air, the temperature of which is controlled, to the humidity controller via the air transport flow path and the humidity controller discharges the air, the humidity of which is controlled, into a room.

Air conditioning apparatus and air conditioning method

Provided is a humidity conditioning method that enables absorption and desorption of moisture with low power consumption. The humidity conditioning method includes: an adjustment step of adjusting a moisture amount of hygroscopic liquid; and a measurement step of measuring concentration of a hygroscopic substance contained in the hygroscopic liquid, in which at the adjustment step, at least either moisture absorption processing of causing moisture contained in air to be absorbed by the hygroscopic liquid or regeneration processing of separating the moisture from the hygroscopic liquid is performed, the regeneration processing includes atomization processing of irradiating at least a part of the hygroscopic liquid with an ultrasonic wave to generate an atomized droplet from the hygroscopic liquid and perform removal, the atomized droplet contains a first droplet and a second droplet whose particle size is larger than a particle size of the first droplet, a concentration region of the hygroscopic substance relative to total mass of the hygroscopic liquid includes a first concentration region in which the first droplet is generated, and a second concentration region in which the second droplet is generated and in which concentration is lower than that in the first concentration region, and the moisture amount of the hygroscopic liquid is adjusted so that the concentration is included in the first concentration region on a basis of a measurement result obtained in at least the measurement step.

Humidity conditioning device and humidity conditioning method

A humidity conditioning method includes: the humidity-absorbing step of bringing a hygroscopic liquid containing a hygroscopic material into contact with a first mass of air so that the hygroscopic liquid absorbs moisture in the first mass of air; and the regeneration step of separating moisture from the hygroscopic liquid having absorbed moisture, wherein the regeneration step retains the hygroscopic liquid having absorbed moisture, bombards at least some of the retained hygroscopic liquid with ultrasound to generate misty droplets from the hygroscopic liquid having absorbed moisture, and removes the misty droplets to separate moisture from the hygroscopic liquid.

It is an object of the present invention to provide a thermal energy storage member having sufficient dissipation capabilities and a storage container using the same, and a refrigerator using the same. A thermal energy storage memberincludes: a thin-plate outer shape having an opposing upper faceand lower face; a thermal energy storage materialfilled in the inside of a package material; and a thermal conduction amount adjusting portionthat, in a case where difference occurs between temperature at the upper faceside and temperature at the lower faceside, reduces difference in thermal conduction amount per unit of time at the upper faceand the lower face

Thermal energy storage member and storage container using the same, and refrigerator using the same

The invention aims to provide a heat-storage material which can prevent supercooling. The heat-storage material according to the invention includes: a heat-storage substance which reversibly changes between an aqueous solution containing tetraalkylammonium salt and a clathrate hydrate containing the tetraalkylammonium salt as a guest molecule; and alum which is added to the aqueous solution containing tetraalkylammonium salt. Tetrabutylammonium bromide is used as the tetraalkylammonium salt. Potassium alum or ammonium alum is used as the alum.

Heat-storage material, and heat-storage member, storage container, transportation/storage container, construction material, and architectural structure using the same

The present invention is intended to provide a storage container that includes a shelf member holding a heat storage material arranged optimally. In a storage container that preserves an object at predetermined temperature, the storage container includes a storage room in which the object is preserved, and a shelf member disposed within the storage room, the shelf member including a flat portion on which the object is placed, and a heat storage material arranged to the flat portion in a way distributed depending on a temperature distribution near the flat portion within the storage room during steady operation. The heat storage material is arranged to be localized to a region of the flat portion at a relatively low-temperature side depending on the temperature distribution within the storage room.

Storage container with heat storage material that provides heat to shelf included in storage container

It is an object of the present invention to provide a heat storage capsule capable of being readily produced and a heat storage member using the same. A heat storage capsuleincludes a heat storage materialreversibly changing into a hydrate of a salt and an aqueous solution of the salt and also includes a capsule coatingencapsulating the heat storage material. The capsule coatingincludes an inner sub-coatingand an outer sub-coating. The inner sub-coatingis a hydrogenated oil layer. The outer sub-coatingis made of a hydrophilic gel. The heat storage capsulehas a W/O/W three-layer structure.

Heat storage capsule and heat storage member using the same

The present invention aims to provide cooling equipment which can reduce power consumption. Cooling equipmentincludes a storage chamberthat stores storage goods; latent heat storage materialstodisposed inside the storage chamber; a compressorthat configures a refrigerating cycle for cooling the inside of the storage chamber; a temperature sensorthat detects a temperature of the latent heat storage materialsto; and a control unitthat controls the compressor, based on a state of the latent heat storage materialsto

Cooling equipment, temperature control system, air conditioning system, and hot water supply system for the same

An object is to provide a storage container including latent heat storage materials that provide a high cold insulation effect. A storage containerhas an electric cooling function and stores an object. The storage containerincludes at least one storage chamberthat stores the object; a first latent heat storage material A that is disposed in the storage chamberand has a predetermined phase change temperature; and a second latent heat storage material B that is disposed in the storage chamberand has a phase change temperature higher than the phase change temperature of the first latent heat storage material A.

Storage container

Performance of heat insulation between the outside of a storage container and the inside of a storage chamber is effectively improved. The storage container includes a container body having an opening, a door member closing the opening in an openable and closable manner, and a temperature-controlled unit having a function of making a temperature inside a storage chamberenclosed by the container body and the door member be different from a temperature outside the storage chamber. The container body includes a first heat-insulating material, a second heat-insulating materialwhich is provided partially on the opposite side to the storage chamberwith respect to the first heat-insulating materialand has thermal conductivity lower than that of the first heat-insulating material, and a heat-storage materialwhich is provided at least partially in a region where the second heat-insulating materialis not provided as viewed from a thickness direction of the first heat-insulating materialon the same side as the storage chamberwith respect to the first heat-insulating materialand is formed of one or more kinds of raw material where phase transition is caused between a liquid phase and a solid phase at a temperature between the temperature outside the storage chamberand the temperature inside the storage chamberobtained by the function of the temperature-controlled unit.

Storage container utilizing two different heat insulating materials in combination with a temperature control unit and a heat storage material placed within the container

The present invention is to provide a latent heat storage member which is able to more reliably contribute to a daily peak shift of energy consumption, and a building material provided with the latent heat storage member. A latent heat storage memberwhich is formed by using a material including a latent heat storage material such as paraffin and a gelation agent and is used as a building material, includes an outer side surfacearranged on a solar light irradiation side facing the outside, and has a phase change temperature Twithin a temperature range between a lowest temperature Tsmin and a highest temperature Tsmax of the outer side surfacein the daytime.

Latent heat storage member and building material provided with same, microcapsules and thermal storage material using microcapsules

An object of the present invention is to provide a readily produced and easily handled heat storage member. The heat storage memberhas a rectangular plane surface of, for example, 15 (cm)&#xd7;20 (cm), and has a thickness of, for example, 10 to 15 mm. The heat storage memberincludes a gelatinous latent heat storage material, and a large number of highly heat conductive fillersdispersed in the latent heat storage material. The highly heat conductive fillersare mixed in the latent heat storage materialwith a bias in dispersion density. In the rectangular plane surface of the heat storage member, a periodic pattern is formed in combination of cellular (cell-like) regions, which are demarcated by, for example, hexagonal contour linesand which are periodically arrayed in the vertical and horizontal directions.

Gelatinous latent heat storage member with benard cell regions

An LCD device () includes a liquid crystal display panel () and a liquid crystal driving section () for driving the liquid crystal display panel () from a region with a lower temperature to a region with a higher temperature in in-screen temperature distribution of the liquid crystal display panel () in operation. This configuration allows a scan direction () in which the liquid crystal display panel () is driven to correspond to temperature distribution direction () from a portion with a lower temperature to a portion with a higher temperature. As a result, image quality of images to be displayed by the general-purpose liquid crystal display panel () is improved.

LCD device

A storage container can maintain a temperature inside a storage room not to cause a temperature distribution for a certain time even if the operation is stopped. In a storage containerstoring preserved goods and having an electrical cooling function, the storage containerincludes a container bodyand a door. A space enclosed by the container bodyand the doorforms a storage room. The container bodyand the doorhave respectively heat insulating portionsand heat accumulating portions. The heat accumulating portionsare each made of at least one type of material that causes liquid-solid phase transition at a temperature between a controllable temperature inside the storage roomand a living environmental temperature. A value obtained by dividing temperature conductivity of the material by an amount of the material used per unit area of a wall surface of the storage roomis smaller in the heat accumulating portionsarranged near a first area where a temperature is more apt to come closer to the living environmental temperature under a temperature distribution that is formed inside the storage roomwith changes over time after stop of cooling, than in the heat accumulating portionsarranged near a second area where a temperature is less apt to come closer to the living environmental temperature thereunder.

A liquid crystal display device includes: a first substrate, on which a reference potential trunk line that supplies a reference potential to a plurality of sub-pixels and a switching element of each of the plurality of sub-pixels, are disposed; and a second substrate, on which a display signal line that supplies a display signal, is disposed. A liquid crystal capacitance of each of the plurality of sub-pixels is formed between the first substrate and the second substrate. Pixels composed of the plurality of sub-pixels that correspond to a plurality of luminance regions are arranged in a matrix. In case that a prescribed half-tone is displayed in between pixels that are adjacent in the row direction, the plurality of sub-pixels that correspond to the same luminance region are arranged adjacently in the row direction.

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Osaka, Japan

Tetsuya Ide