Patents by Inventor Toru Takabayashi

Toru Takabayashi has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Method for evaluating thermal comfort of a structure and an assisting method, program or system for designing a structure in consideration of thermal comfort
    Patent number: 7206728
    Abstract: A step of preparing data of (1) material properties of a first part and so on and data of (2) an amount of solar radiation passing through the translucent member to reach a measuring device having a shape imitating a human body part, an amount of solar radiation to the structure, an amount of convection heat transfer in the structure, an amount of radiation heat transfer in the structure, humidity in the structure and/or a thermo-regulating function of the measuring device, and calculating at least one of the amount of heat loss from the surface of the measuring device, the temperature of the measuring device and/or the wettedness at the surface of the measuring device based on at least one in each of data (1) and (2), and a step (b) of calculating a thermal comfort index of the measuring device by using a result of the above calculation, are presented, whereby the thermal comfort of a structure is evaluated without using a laboratory equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2007
    Assignee: Asahi Glass Company, Limited
    Inventors: Yoshiichi Ozeki, Toru Takabayashi, Shinichi Tanabe
  • Method for evaluating thermal comfort of a structure and an assisting method, program or system for designing a structure in consideration of thermal comfort
    Publication number: 20040133406
    Abstract: A step of preparing data of (1) material properties of a first part and so on and data of (2) an amount of solar radiation passing through the translucent member to reach a measuring device having a shape imitating a human body part, an amount of solar radiation to the structure, an amount of convection heat transfer in the structure, an amount of radiation heat transfer in the structure, humidity in the structure and/or a thermo-regulating function of the measuring device, and calculating at least one of the amount of heat loss from the surface of the measuring device, the temperature of the measuring device and/or the wettedness at the surface of the measuring device based on at least one in each of data (1) and (2), and a step (b) of calculating a thermal comfort index of the measuring device by using a result of the above calculation, are presented, whereby the thermal comfort of a structure is evaluated without using a laboratory equipment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2003
    Publication date: July 8, 2004
    Applicant: Asahi Glass Company, Limited
    Inventors: Yoshiichi Ozeki, Toru Takabayashi, Shinichi Tanabe