JP7814733B2 - Omicron Shelter - Google Patents

Description

The present invention relates to a room that provides protection against COVID-19 infection and prevents its spread.

The novel coronavirus is spreading worldwide, reaching a pandemic state, and highly contagious viruses such as the Omicron strain are also emerging.

Hospitals are overwhelmed, and people infected with the new coronavirus are forced to quarantine at home, which can lead to the spread of the virus to healthy people living with them, resulting in cluster infections within households and in group living situations.
There is a need for shelters where patients can recuperate in peace and live safely without infecting healthy people around them.
This is the problem that the present invention aims to solve.

As a means of solving this problem,
The room is sealed with an iron door or similar to prevent omicron and other viruses from entering or leaving, and the room is kept under negative pressure to prevent the omicron and other viruses from escaping and spreading from the infected person. A stairwell is provided as a means of creating this negative pressure, creating a chimney effect that allows the omicron and other viruses to be expelled into the open air, creating a shelter.

The characteristic structure is as follows: 1. The atrium creates negative pressure in the room.
2. This keeps the room constantly purified.
3. The entrance and exit will be sealed with an iron door or similar.
3. The shelter is constructed with walls instead of pillars, so the airtightness of the shelter is maintained even in the event of an earthquake.

The present invention provides
1. This room can also be used by Omicron-infected patients who are waiting at home because hospitals are full.
2. This room can also be used by family members to protect close relatives from Omicron.
3. A room or building that protects both patients and healthy people from omicrons.
4. It can be applied to individual homes, apartment complexes, condominiums, and other buildings.
5. It can be used as an effective shelter against atomic bombs, earthquakes, and fires, and the four characteristics mentioned above will not be lost even if these are present.
This has the following effect.

1 is a cross-sectional view of a known building (for example, two stories) having an open-ceiling structure. 1 is a plan view (first floor portion) showing a first embodiment of the present invention. FIG. FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional view of the A-A' portion of the first embodiment of the present invention. A cross-sectional view of the A-A' portion of the second embodiment of the present invention.

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

Figure 1 shows a well-known building, for example a two-story house. Even if a void 1 is provided to let in light and create an open space, the void is simply used to create a space that runs through the first and second floors, and since there is a ceiling 2 and a roof 3, it does not create negative pressure.
Door 4 is not airtight because it opens and closes. If a patient infected with the new coronavirus is in the room, even if the room is partitioned, the coronavirus will escape because it is under positive pressure, not negative pressure. The room door is not sealed, so the virus leaks out from here, travels through the atrium, and spreads throughout the building and outside, infecting other residents. Since infected people also need to eat, etc., opening and closing the door is at least necessary, and because the room is under positive pressure, the virus spreads outside to other rooms each time.

[First embodiment]
As shown in Figures 2, 3 and 4, the first embodiment of the present invention is characterized in that the door 41 of the present invention is an airtight door made of iron or the like, and all of the parts of the door that open and close are connected to the atrium section 11 of the present invention that runs through all floors, and the upper part of the atrium section 11 of the present invention is open to the outside air.

In more detail, Figure 2 is an actual floor plan of a building that the inventors of the present application designed and constructed based on this invention. It is a building with rooms that can accommodate many people. Each room is independently designed to be at negative pressure relative to the atmosphere, as shown in Figure 2. In addition, a door 42 leading to the outside is provided in the corridor, and this is also an airtight door made of iron or the like according to the present invention.

In the center of the building in Figure 2, there is a void 11 that runs through all floors. The upper part is not sealed with a ceiling, and a ceiling 12 made of a sheet or similar material is installed to protect from rain and let in light, but the structure is open to the outside air.

The building of the present invention in Figure 2 has a wall structure 8 without pillars. This means that even in the event of an earthquake, there are no gaps between the pillars and walls, which can reduce airtightness, and each room is highly airtight. The entrance and exit doors 41 are made of iron and have thick seals, creating an airtight structure. A common passage 7 is provided, and room ventilation holes 5 are provided in all the atrium sections 11, allowing warm air 6 from the rooms to flow toward the atrium 11. As a result, the air within the room flows toward the atrium 11, which rises due to the chimney effect, creating negative pressure in each room.

An upper wall 12, such as a transparent vinyl sheet, is installed to allow light in from the atrium 11, and the bottom of the atrium is always at a specified temperature (for example, 15°C or higher in winter), and the warm air 6 from the room is added, creating an updraft due to the chimney effect, which creates negative pressure in the room and serves as a measure to prevent the transmission of the Omicron virus. The rising air is naturally expelled from the top to the outside.
FIG. 4 shows a second embodiment of the present invention in which this is accomplished by an exhaust fan 12.

If the pressure in each room is P1, the pressure in the atrium is P2, and the pressure of the outside air is P3, then each room is highly airtight and the pressure is negative, so little outside air enters the rooms and it is exhausted from the top of the atrium, so P1 < P2 < P3. Therefore, the air flows from the rooms through the atrium and heads towards the sky above the outside air.
Each room is under negative pressure relative to the atmosphere, so the new coronavirus, Omicron virus, etc. will not spread into the outside air.

As mentioned above, in order to increase the chimney effect of the void space, warm air may be exhausted from each room toward the void space, or a heater for temperature control may be installed.
The iron doors of each room should preferably have a mechanism that automatically closes when opened and does not remain open, and the joints should be airtight. Not only iron doors, but also wooden doors that are easy to seal are also within the scope of this invention.
As mentioned above, the walls of each room should be wall-based rather than column-based, and should be constructed to maintain airtightness even in an earthquake. Reinforced concrete with high compressive strength exceeding 36 N/ ^mm2 , preferably 80 or more, should be used, with low water content and a high cement content.

Buildings with the structure of this invention can be applied to private homes, apartment complexes, condominiums, condominiums, cooperative housing, business buildings, etc.

According to the first embodiment of the present invention, each room is highly airtight, and air flows from the room through the atrium toward the outside air, creating a negative pressure inside each room relative to the outside air, which has the effect of preventing viruses and other pathogens from spreading to the outside.Furthermore, the atrium in the center of the building is used to reduce pressure, so the air flow between rooms with air outlets facing parallel to the atrium is not interfered with, preventing people in other rooms from infecting each other.

Second Embodiment
The second embodiment of the present invention is characterized in that, as shown in FIG. 4, all floors are sucked in by exhaust devices 10 such as ducts and exhaust fans.
In this case, the void 11 may be omitted. Also, the heating and cooling system may be a central heating system.

In the first embodiment, the louvered portion 9 at the top of the atrium was open to the outside air, but the louvered portion may be sealed and a duct and exhaust fan 10 may be installed.

The exhaust fan 10 may be linked to the pressure in the room or in the atrium 11, for example, by inverter control, to create a negative pressure in the room.
The louver portion 9 at the top of the atrium portion 11 may be provided with a function for opening and closing, and the louver portion 9 may be opened and closed in conjunction with the indoor pressure P1 or the atrium portion pressure P2 to create a negative pressure in the room.
It is preferable to control so that P1<P2<P3.

According to the second embodiment of the present invention, the pressure in the room can be made negative without the chimney effect caused by the temperature rise, thereby preventing the spread of viruses.

This is an innovative building with rooms and/or rooms that can prevent the spread of the Omicron virus, the current novel coronavirus, and has extremely high applicability in the construction industry.

1 void 2 ceiling 3 roof 4 door 41 room entrance/exit iron door of the present invention 42 passage entrance/exit iron door of the present invention 5 ventilation hole 6 warm air 7 passage 8 wall structure 9 louver opening 10 exhaust device such as duct and exhaust fan 11 void part of the present invention 12 rain protection, lighting sheet

Claims (1)

An Omicron Shelter is a building with an airtight iron door at the entrance that closes automatically , creating an airtight room; a void in the building is provided as a means of creating negative pressure in the room; a temperature control heater is installed; the air inside the room is sucked out using a chimney action; the pressure in the room is P1, the pressure in the void is P2, and the outside air pressure is P3; the pressure is controlled by the open/close function of a louvered part installed above the void so that P1 < P2 <P3; the building has a wall structure that creates one or more rooms whose airtightness does not decrease even in natural disasters such as earthquakes, and is characterized by preventing the infection of viruses such as the new coronavirus.