被験者実験による省エネルギーな入浴方法の検討と人体モデルによる入浴時間の予測に関する研究

摘要

In this research, we investigated the amount of water supply and the thermal comfort of bathing through experiments and simulation. To reduce hot water supply, we investigated the comfortable bathroom-environment, shower heads and bathing time saving energy. We had four experiments. One is about water supply of bathing using bathtub, and another is about bathing using only shower. It turned out that shower bathing use less energy than bathtub bathing. Others are conducted to research how subjects feel about bathing time and the result was used for prediction of bathing time by thermoregulation-model.%本研究では被験者実験とシミュレーションより，総合的に省エネルギーで快適な入浴方法を検討した。その結果，以下の結論が得られた。1.浴槽入浴においては，浴室が暖かい状態で浴槽湯はり量を減らすと省エネルギーかつ効率的に体の温まりを得られると予測される。