摘要
<span style="font-family:""><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Infants are less thermally adapted to their environment and can be considered as needing protective measures against thermal environments. It is not ethical to conduct subject experiments on infants. Thermal insulation in clothing is an essential control coefficient for the evaluation of the thermal environment of an infant. A thermal manikin can be used as an alternative method for carrying out experiments and to control the thermal manikin based on heat balance. The purpose of this study was to clarify the thermal insulation of infants’ clothing. An infant thermal manikin was used to clarify the thermal insulation (</span><i><span style="font-family:Verdana;">I</span><sub><span style="font-family:Verdana;">cl</span></sub></i><span style="font-family:Verdana;">) of typical summer, mid-season, and winter cloth</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">ing combinations for infants. The thermal insulation of typical seasonal clothing combinations was 0.30 clo for summer clothing, 0.57 clo for</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> mid-season clothing and 1.02 clo for winter clothing. It was clarified that it is essential to consider clothing conditions by taking into account differences in posture and to define the clothing thermal insulation (</span><i><span style="font-family:Verdana;">I</span><sub><span style="font-family:Verdana;">cl</span></sub></i><span style="font-family:Verdana;">) when designing and evaluating thermal environments. When designing and evaluating an infant’s thermal environment, it is essential to investigate using data from infants.
<span style="font-family:""><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Infants are less thermally adapted to their environment and can be considered as needing protective measures against thermal environments. It is not ethical to conduct subject experiments on infants. Thermal insulation in clothing is an essential control coefficient for the evaluation of the thermal environment of an infant. A thermal manikin can be used as an alternative method for carrying out experiments and to control the thermal manikin based on heat balance. The purpose of this study was to clarify the thermal insulation of infants’ clothing. An infant thermal manikin was used to clarify the thermal insulation (</span><i><span style="font-family:Verdana;">I</span><sub><span style="font-family:Verdana;">cl</span></sub></i><span style="font-family:Verdana;">) of typical summer, mid-season, and winter cloth</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">ing combinations for infants. The thermal insulation of typical seasonal clothing combinations was 0.30 clo for summer clothing, 0.57 clo for</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> mid-season clothing and 1.02 clo for winter clothing. It was clarified that it is essential to consider clothing conditions by taking into account differences in posture and to define the clothing thermal insulation (</span><i><span style="font-family:Verdana;">I</span><sub><span style="font-family:Verdana;">cl</span></sub></i><span style="font-family:Verdana;">) when designing and evaluating thermal environments. When designing and evaluating an infant’s thermal environment, it is essential to investigate using data from infants.
作者
Yoshihito Kurazumi
Kenta Fukagawa
Tomonori Sakoi
Akie Naito
Motoe Imai
Reiko Hashimoto
Emi Kondo
Tadahiro Tsuchikawa
Yoshihito Kurazumi;Kenta Fukagawa;Tomonori Sakoi;Akie Naito;Motoe Imai;Reiko Hashimoto;Emi Kondo;Tadahiro Tsuchikawa(School of Life Studies, Sugiyama Jogakuen University, Nagoya, Japan;Department of Architecture, Kyushu Sangyo University, Fukuoka, Japan;Department of Advanced Textile and Kansei Engineering, Shinshu University, Ueda, Japan;Institute for Global Leadership, Ochanomizu University, Tokyo, Japan;Graduate School of Life Studies, Sugiyama Jogakuen University, Nagoya, Japan;Department of Comprehensive Engineering, Kindai University Technical College, Nabari, Japan;School of Human Science & Environment, University of Hyogo, Himeji, Japan)
