Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Yasuyuki Umenaka

Tetsuya Ide

Yuka Utsumi

Takashi Yamashita

Kazuhiro Deguchi

Akio Miyata

Tomoko Kase

Tomohisa Miyatani

Mitsuhiro Koden

Hideki Uchida

Shigeaki Mizushima

Seiji Ohhashi

Katsumi Kondoh

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

A solar cell module, a solar cell module assembly, and a solar photovoltaic power generation system capable of reducing power loss are provided. A light-concentrating panel configured to collect light which is incident from the outside and a plurality of solar cell elements installed on the light-concentrating panel and configured to receive light which is collected by the light-concentrating panel are provided. Each of the plurality of solar cell elements is provided with a positive terminal and a negative terminal. The plurality of solar cell elements include a first solar cell element and a second solar cell element which are connected to each other in series via connection wiring and a third solar cell element which is not connected to the first solar cell element and the second solar cell element in series. The first solar cell element and the second solar cell element configure a first current path, and the third solar cell element configures a second current path.

Solar cell module, solar cell module assembly, and solar photovoltaic power generation system

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.

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Osaka, Japan

Yasuyuki Umenaka