JP2003230610A - Coffin having cooling mechanism - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a coffin having a cooling mechanism that does not use dry ice and permits use of a conventional coffin. <P>SOLUTION: The coffin has a coffin body 11 that is opened in the top, a cooling lid 13 placed on the coffin body 11 and provided with a cooling pipe 12 inside, and a freezer 31. The device has a cooling medium device 14 supplying a cooling medium cooled with the freezer 31 to the cooling pipe 12, and a cremation lid 15 placed on the coffin body 11 and replacing the cooling lid 13 for cremation. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a casket device for accommodating a body, and more particularly to a casket device having a cooling mechanism provided with a device for further cooling the inside from the atmosphere.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art When a person dies, a night or a farewell ceremony is held during the period in which the body is kept in a coffin or coffin.
It takes about 4 days, and if the body is stored in the casket during this period, the rot will progress and a dead odor will be generated. Therefore, dry ice is usually placed in the casket as a preservative for the bodies.

[0003]

However, when dry ice is placed so as to directly contact the body, the skin discolors, and at first glance it feels cold and pity on the body. Also, since dry ice disappears with the passage of time, it is necessary to replenish it properly.In this case, it is necessary to take out all the dry ice bags in the casket and fill it with new dry ice. It will be a painful job because you will be face-to-face with the body. Further, even at the time of cremation, when dry ice is contained in the coffin, it takes time to reach a high temperature state (for example, 800 ° C.), and therefore dioxin is generated. For this reason, in the case of cremation, it is obliged to remove the elements that generate dioxin from the coffin, but in practice it has not been implemented. On the other hand, a method of cooling a body by providing a refrigerating device under or in the casket has been proposed, but there is a problem that a special mechanism is required for the casket to ventilate the cold air, which is expensive. The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and an object of the present invention is to provide a casket device having a cooling mechanism that can use the conventional casket without using dry ice.

[0004]

A casket device having a cooling mechanism according to a first aspect of the present invention, which meets the above-mentioned object, is a casket main body having an opening at the top, and the casket main body is covered with a cooling pipe provided inside. A cooling device provided with a cooling lid and a refrigerator, which supplies a cooling medium cooled by the cooling device to the cooling pipe, and which covers the casket body and is used in place of the cooling lid during cremation. With a cremation lid.
As a result, when the corpse is left as it is, the air in the casket body is cooled by the cooling pipe, and the inside of the casket is cooled. When the corpse is to be cremated, the cooling lid can be replaced with a cremation lid to enable repeated use of the cooling lid.

A casket device having a cooling mechanism according to a second invention is the casket device having a cooling mechanism according to the first invention, wherein the refrigerant device is provided separately from the cooling lid.
The cooling lid is provided with one-touch couplers respectively connected to the liquid inlet and the liquid outlet of the cooling pipe, and the refrigerant of the cooling device and the refrigerant device is exchanged via the one-touch coupler and a flexible tube connected to the one-touch coupler. Is being done. As a result, the entire device can be constructed at low cost. A casket device having a cooling mechanism according to a third aspect of the present invention is the casket device having the cooling mechanisms according to the first and second aspects of the present invention, wherein the cooling lid is provided with a fan that agitates the air in the casket body. Has been. As a result, the temperature inside the casket body becomes uniform and the cooling effect is improved. A casket device having a cooling mechanism according to a fourth invention is the casket device having a cooling mechanism according to the first to third inventions, wherein a dehumidifying mechanism is provided in the casket body or the cooling lid. . Here, the dehumidification mechanism includes a material that absorbs moisture, in addition to the case of being configured by an electromechanical device. This prevents the condensation of water in the casket.

[0006]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION Next, referring to the attached drawings, an embodiment in which the present invention is embodied will be described to provide an understanding of the present invention. 1 is a perspective view of a casket device having a cooling mechanism according to an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a rear view of a cooling lid of the casket device having the cooling mechanism, and FIG. It is a schematic explanatory drawing of the refrigerant device used for the casket device which it has.

As shown in FIG. 1, a casket apparatus 10 having a cooling mechanism according to an embodiment of the present invention has a casket main body 11 having an upper opening, and a casket main body 11 which is covered with a cooling pipe 12 inside. A cooling lid 13 provided with a cooling device, a refrigerant device 14 for supplying a cooling medium to the cooling pipe 12 from the outside, and a cremation cover 15 which covers the casket main body 11 and is used in place of the cooling lid 13 when cremating have. These will be described in detail below. The casket main body 11 and the cremation lid 15 are conventionally used wooden caskets with lids, in which the body is placed on the casket main body 11 and the cremation lid 15 is a lid to cover it. Like the conventional one, the cremator lid 15 is provided with an opening / closing window 16 through which the face of the corpse can be visually recognized. In addition, in order to improve the cooling performance, a heat insulating sheet made of a foamed synthetic resin sheet or the like is attached to the inside of the casket body 11, or as a core material of the side plate and / or the bottom plate of the casket body 11, a foamed synthetic material is used. It may have a resin sheet or the like.

The cooling lid 13 is made of easily combustible wood and has a rectangular ceiling plate 17 and side plates 18 to 21 having a low height around the ceiling plate 17 as shown in FIGS. 1 and 2.
An opening / closing window 22 of a conventional method is provided on one side of 7. The opening / closing window 22 is formed in such a position and size that the entire head of the body can be seen when the body is put in the casket body 11. Below the ceiling plate 17 of the cooling lid 13, a single continuous cooling pipe 12 is arranged, which is partially bent in a zigzag shape and further covers the periphery of the opening / closing window 22. The cooling pipe 12 is provided with a small gap with respect to the ceiling plate 17,
It is fixed to the ceiling plate 17 by a support member (not shown). The respective ends of the cooling pipe 12 (that is, the liquid inlet and the liquid outlet) are connected to female joints 24 and 25 on one side of the one-touch coupler fixed to the side plate 18.
A valve mechanism is provided on the female joints 24, 25 on one side of the one-touch coupler, and when the male joints 26, 27 on the other side of the one-touch coupler are mounted, the male joint 26,
When the valve mechanism 27 is opened, the valve mechanisms of the female couplings 24 and 25 of the one-touch coupler are also opened so that the refrigerant can flow through the connected one-touch coupler.

The cooling pipe 12 is made of copper or aluminum having good thermal conductivity, and the cooling pipe 1 is viewed with the ceiling plate 17 facing upward.
A plurality of (four in this embodiment) fans 28 are provided below the unit 2. As a result, the air cooled by the cooling pipe 12 is sent downward, and at the same time, the casket body 1
Stir the air in 1 to maintain a uniform low temperature (2-6 ° C). Also, a male connector 2 for connecting the fan 28
9 is provided on the side plate 18, and a female connector 30 to be paired with the side plate 18 can be connected from the outside. In addition,
One of the fans 28 is provided with a thermocouple (an example of a temperature sensor) not shown, and its electric wiring is also the male connector 2
9 and the female connector 30. In this embodiment, the female joint 2 of each one-touch coupler
4, 25 and the male connector 29 are the side plates 18 in the longitudinal direction.
Was attached to the side plates 19 and 2 in the lateral direction orthogonal to this.
It may be attached to any one of 1.

Next, referring to FIG. 3, the refrigerant device 14
Will be described. The refrigerant device 14 includes a refrigerator 31, a refrigerant tank 33 in which a refrigerator cooling pipe 32 cooled by a cooling liquid directly transferred from the refrigerator 31 is immersed,
It has a pump 34 for pumping the refrigerant from the refrigerant tank 33. The refrigerator 31 is a well-known and commercially available refrigerator which is usually used for holding raw foods. The refrigerant tank 33 is made of a stainless steel container and is provided with a screw lid 35 for replenishing the liquid on the upper portion thereof. The discharge port of the pump 34 is the pipe 3
6 is connected to a joint 37, and the joint 37 is connected to a proximal end of a flexible tube 38 having a male joint 26 of a one-touch coupler provided at its tip. On the other hand, the proximal end of the flexible tube 39 provided with the male joint 27 of the one-touch coupler at its tip is connected to the joint 37 a provided at the bottom of the refrigerant tank 33. In addition,
As the refrigerant to be put in the refrigerant tank 33, water may be used, but water having a low freezing point in which an antifreeze liquid or a predetermined amount of sugar is put is used because water may freeze.

Further, a control device (not shown) connected to the fan 28 and the thermocouple through the male and female connectors 29, 30 and the cord 40 is arranged in the refrigerant device 14 and is arranged in the casket body 11. When the temperature is measured and is higher than the temperature range set by an adjustment knob or the like (not shown), the refrigerator 31 is operated to reduce the temperature of the refrigerant in the refrigerant tank 33 to reduce the air temperature in the casket main body 11. If the temperature inside the casket body 11 is too low, the operation of the refrigerator 31 is stopped to raise the temperature of the refrigerant, and the air temperature inside the casket body 11 is increased to keep the temperature inside the casket body 11 constant. It is controlled to be within the temperature range of. The refrigerant device 14
The whole structure is wrapped with a heat insulating material so that the outside temperature does not affect it. And the casket body 11 or the lid 13 for cooling
Is provided with a dehumidifying mechanism (not shown). This dehumidifying mechanism is composed of a dehumidifying container (not shown) formed by storing a hygroscopic agent and a desiccant in a cloth or porous container. The room in which the dehumidifying container is placed is the casket body 11 or the cooling lid 13.
However, it is not always necessary to dispose it as it is.

Subsequently, the casket apparatus 1 having this cooling mechanism
A method of using 0 and its action will be described. First, the casket body 11 and the cooling lid 13 are first prepared, and the body immediately after dying is stored and placed in a predetermined place. Then, as shown in FIG. 1, the flexible tubes 38 and 39 connecting the cooling lid 13 and the refrigerant device 14 are connected via a one-touch coupler, and the cord 40 is connected via male and female connectors 29 and 30. To connect. Thereby, it becomes possible to send the refrigerant from the refrigerant device 14 to the refrigerant pipe 12 of the cooling lid 13. Here, when the power plug 41 of the refrigerant device 14 is connected to a power source and a switch (not shown) is turned on, electric power is supplied to the fan 28 to rotate the temperature data inside the casket main body 11 to the control device of the refrigerant device 14. Sent. In a normal state, the temperature inside the casket main body 11 is higher than a predetermined installation temperature (for example, 2 to 5 ° C.), so the refrigerator 31 operates to cool the refrigerant. Pump 34
Since they also rotate at the same time, the cooled refrigerant from the refrigerant tank 33 is supplied to the cooling pipe 12 of the cooling lid 13, and the body inside the casket body 11 is cooled by the rotation of the fan 28. When the temperature inside the casket body 11 is lowered, the contained water vapor is saturated, but since the moisture is removed by the dehumidifying mechanism, no water droplets are generated inside the casket body 11.

By the above operation, the body inside the casket body 11 can be kept at a low temperature, and the decay of the body can be slowed down. In the case of a casket, the cooling lid 13 is removed and the cremation lid 15 is used. Since the cremation lid 15 is an ordinary wooden lid, it is inexpensive, and it is possible to avoid burning of the relatively expensive cooling lid 13 and thus the cooling lid 1
3 and the refrigerant device 14 are repeatedly used. The structure of the opening / closing window 22 is the same as that of the conventional general casket, and even if the inside of the opening / closing window 22 is viewed, the cooling pipe 12 and the fan 2
Since 8 is invisible, it does not give a feeling of discomfort to the viewer.

The present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiments, and modifications can be made without departing from the spirit of the present invention. For example, a part of each of the above-described embodiments and modifications can be made. The present invention is also applied to the case where the casket device having the cooling mechanism of the present invention is configured by combining all or all of them. Although a fan is provided in the above-described embodiment, it is not always an essential requirement. The reason for this is that cold air is generally heavy and cools down the ceiling, cooling the body. When there is a fan, the air in the casket main body 11 is agitated, so that the cooling efficiency is increased. Further, in the above-described embodiment, the number of fans is four, but other numbers may be used. Although the rotation axis of the fan is vertical in this embodiment, it may be horizontal or oblique. Although the opening / closing window 22 of the cooling lid 13 is manually opened / closed, it may be automatically opened / closed.

[0015]

The casket device having the cooling mechanism according to any one of claims 1 to 4 is equipped with a cooling lid having a cooling pipe which covers the casket main body and has cooling pipes provided inside thereof, and a refrigerator. Since it has a refrigerant device for supplying the cooled refrigerant to the cooling pipe, the body can be retained for a long time without using dry ice. Since the cooling of the body inside the casket body is maintained without the use of human hands, it is not necessary to replace dry ice as in the conventional case. And
At the time of the casket, since the cooling lid is removed from the casket body and the cremation lid is used, the conventional casket can be used as it is, and the expensive cooling lid can be repeatedly used.

Particularly, in the casket device having the cooling mechanism according to the second aspect, the refrigerant device is provided separately from the cooling lid, and the cooling lid is connected to the liquid inlet and the liquid outlet of the cooling pipe respectively. Is provided, and the refrigerant of the cooling device is exchanged with the cooling lid through the one-touch coupler and the flexible tube connected to the one-touch coupler. As a result, the entire device can be constructed at low cost, and furthermore, the assembly becomes easy. In the casket device having the cooling mechanism according to the third aspect, the cooling lid is provided with a fan for stirring the air in the casket body. As a result, the temperature inside the casket body can be rapidly made uniform, and the cooling effect is improved. Further, in the casket device having the cooling mechanism according to the fourth aspect, the coffin body or the cooling lid is provided with a dehumidifying mechanism. This can prevent the generation of water droplets in the casket.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a casket device having a cooling mechanism according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a rear view of a cooling lid of the casket device having the same cooling mechanism.

FIG. 3 is a schematic explanatory diagram of a refrigerant device used in a casket device having the same cooling mechanism.

[Explanation of symbols]

10: casket device having a cooling mechanism, 11: casket body, 1
2: cooling pipe, 13: cooling lid, 14: refrigerant device, 1
5: cremation lid, 16: open / close window, 17: ceiling plate, 18-2
1: side plate, 22: open / close window, 24, 25: female joint, 26,
27: Male joint, 28: Fan, 29: Male connector,
30: female connector, 31: refrigerator, 32: cooling pipe for refrigerator, 33: refrigerant tank, 34: pump, 35: screw lid, 36: pipe, 37, 37a: joint, 38, 39:
Flexible tube, 40: Cord, 41: Power plug

   ─────────────────────────────────────────────────── ─── Continued front page    (72) Inventor Akihiko Nakajima             9-7 Osatohigashi, Moji-ku, Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture             −202 (72) Inventor Isao Taniguchi             332-14 Kawamiya, Tagawa, Fukuoka Prefecture (72) Inventor Kochi Kawachi             1007-4 Yoshino, Omuta City, Fukuoka Prefecture

Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. A casket main body having an open top, a cooling lid which covers the casket main body and is provided with a cooling pipe inside, and a refrigerator, and a refrigerant cooled by the refrigerator is provided. A casket device having a cooling mechanism, comprising: a refrigerant device for supplying to the cooling pipe; and a cremation lid which covers the casket body and is used in place of the cooling lid for cremation. 2. A casket device having a cooling mechanism according to claim 1, wherein the refrigerant device is provided separately from the cooling lid, and the cooling lid is connected to a liquid inlet and a liquid outlet of the cooling pipe, respectively. A casket device having a cooling mechanism, wherein a one-touch coupler is provided, and the refrigerant of the cooling device is exchanged with the cooling device via the one-touch coupler and a flexible tube connected to the one-touch coupler. 3. A casket device having a cooling mechanism according to claim 1, wherein the cooling lid is provided with a fan for stirring air in the casket body. Casket device having. 4. A casket device having a cooling mechanism according to claim 1, wherein the casket body or the cooling lid is provided with a dehumidifying mechanism. Casket device having a.