Heat insulating sheet, heat insulating material, method of manufacturing heat insulating sheet, and method of manufacturing heat insulating material

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10099446-B2
Application number	US-201514796199-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 10, 2015
Priority date	Jan 11, 2013
Publication date	Oct 16, 2018
Grant date	Oct 16, 2018

Abstract

It has been difficult to achieve weight reduction while satisfying a required insulation property in a heat insulating material configured by alternately stacking a metal vapor-deposited sheet and a net. A heat insulating sheet comprises: a first thermal conduction suppressing layer that suppresses thermal conduction; a first radiant heat reflecting layer that is placed on one surface side of the first thermal conduction suppressing layer and reflects radiant heat; and a protruding portion protruding from a surface of the first radiant heat reflecting layer on an opposite side of a surface on which the first thermal conduction suppressing layer is stacked, the protruding portion containing a resin at least on its surface.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A heat insulating sheet comprising:
a first thermal conduction suppressing layer that suppresses thermal conduction;
a first radiant heat reflecting layer that is placed on one surface side of the first thermal conduction suppressing layer and reflects radiant heat;
a second thermal conduction suppressing layer that is placed on another surface side of the first thermal conduction suppressing layer; and
a protruding portion protruding from a surface of the first radiant heat reflecting layer on an opposite side of a surface on which the first thermal conduction suppressing layer is stacked, the protruding portion containing a resin at least on its surface,
wherein

the first radiant heat reflecting layer has an opening on the surface on the opposite side of the surface on which the first thermal conduction suppressing layer is stacked, the opening being a through-hole penetrating the first radiant heat reflecting layer, the first thermal conduction suppressing layer, and the second thermal conduction suppressing layer, and
the protruding portion is formed along an edge of the opening, the protruding portion having a joint portion that extends along an inner wall of the through-hole and joins the first thermal conduction suppressing layer and the second thermal conduction suppressing layer.

2. The heat insulating sheet according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a second radiant heat reflecting layer that is placed on another surface side of the first thermal conduction suppressing layer, wherein the second thermal conduction suppressing layer is placed on a surface side of the second radiant heat reflecting layer on an opposite side of a surface on which the first thermal conduction suppressing layer is stacked.

3. The heat insulating sheet according to claim 1 , wherein the heat insulating sheet further has another through-hole at a position that is different from a position of the opening on the surface of the first radiant heat reflecting layer on the opposite side of the surface on which the first thermal conduction suppressing layer is stacked, the other through-hole penetrating the first radiant heat reflecting layer, the first thermal conduction suppressing layer, and the second thermal conduction suppressing layer.

4. The heat insulating sheet according to claim 1 , wherein
the first thermal conduction suppressing layer has a resin layer,
the second thermal conduction suppressing layer has a non-woven fabric layer containing resin fibers, and
the first radiant heat reflecting layer has a metal layer.

5. The heat insulating sheet according to claim 4 , wherein the protruding portion is formed with a mixture of respective materials of the resin layer and the non-woven fabric layer.

6. The heat insulating sheet according to claim 4 , wherein the protruding portion has a shape or size that does not allow entrance of the protruding portion into a void formed in the non-woven fabric layer.

7. The heat insulating sheet according to claim 1 , wherein the protruding portion is formed with a resin contained in the first thermal conduction suppressing layer being fused, and being deposited on a surface of the first radiant heat reflecting layer on an opposite side of a surface on which the first thermal conduction suppressing layer is stacked.

8. A heat insulating sheet comprising:
a first thermal conduction suppressing layer that suppresses thermal conduction;
a first radiant heat reflecting layer that is placed on one surface side of the first thermal conduction suppressing layer and reflects radiant heat;
a second thermal conduction suppressing layer that is placed on another surface side of the first thermal conduction suppressing layer; and
a protruding portion formed with a resin contained in the first thermal conduction suppressing layer and the second thermal conduction suppressing layer being fused, and being deposited on at least one of a surface of the second thermal conduction suppressing layer on an opposite side of a surface on which the first thermal conduction suppressing layer is placed and a surface of the first radiant heat reflecting layer on an opposite side of a surface on which the first thermal conduction suppressing layer is stacked, the protruding portion containing the resin at least on its surface.

9. The heat insulating sheet according to claim 8 , further comprising:
a second radiant heat reflecting layer that is placed on another surface side of the first thermal conduction suppressing layer,
wherein the second thermal conduction suppressing layer is placed on a surface side of the second radiant heat reflecting layer on an opposite side of a surface on which the first thermal conduction suppressing layer is stacked, the second thermal conduction suppressing layer having a non-woven fabric layer containing resin fibers, and
wherein the protruding portion is formed with the resin fibers, in addition to the resin, being fused, and being deposited on the surface of the first radiant heat reflecting layer on the opposite side of the surface on which the first thermal conduction suppressing layer is stacked.

10. The heat insulating sheet according to claim 8 , wherein
the first radiant heat reflecting layer has an opening on the surface on the opposite side of the surface on which the first thermal conduction suppressing layer is stacked, and
the protruding portion is formed along an edge of the opening.

11. A heat insulating material formed by stacking a plurality of the heat insulating sheet according to claim 1 with the protruding portion being sandwiched therebetween.

12. The heat insulating material according to claim 11 , wherein
the plurality of heat insulating sheets includes a first heat insulating sheet that has a first through-hole and a second heat insulating sheet that is placed to face the first heat insulating sheet and has a second through-hole, and
the first through-hole and the second through-hole are provided at positions that do not overlap with one another in a stacking direction of the plurality of heat insulating sheets.

13. A heat insulating material formed by stacking a plurality of heat insulating sheets according to claim 8 with the protruding portion being sandwiched therebetween.

14. The heat insulating sheet according to claim 2 , wherein the second radiant heat reflecting layer includes a metal layer.

15. The heat insulating sheet according to claim 4 , wherein the metal of the first radiant heat reflecting layer is made of aluminum, gold, silver, copper or nickel.

16. The heat insulating sheet according to claim 14 , wherein the metal of the second radiant heat reflecting layer is made of aluminum, gold, silver, copper or nickel.

17. The heat insulating sheet according to claim 4 , wherein
the resin layer of the first thermal conduction suppressing layer is formed with polyester, polyethylene, polypropylene or polyamide, and
the resin fibers of the second thermal conduction suppressing layer are formed with polyester, polyethylene, polypropylene or polyamide.

18. The heat insulating sheet according to claim 4 , wherein a weight per unit area of the non-woven fabric layer is 2 g/m 2 or higher and 15 g/m 2 or lower.

19. The heat insulating sheet according to claim 10 , wherein the opening is a through-hole penetrating the first radiant heat reflecting layer, the first thermal conduction suppressing layer and the second thermal conduction suppressing layer.

20. The heat insulating sheet according to claim 8 , whe

Assignees

• Kaneka Corp
• Tochigi Kaneka Corp

Inventors

• Kuman Tsuyoshi
• Imai Shuzou
• Kumasaki Atsushi
• Iwai Masaharu

Classifications

• Y10T428/24289

  Embedded or interlocked · CPC title

• B32B2262/0276

  Polyester fibres · CPC title

• B32B38/04

  Punching, slitting or perforating · CPC title

• B32B27/12

  next to a fibrous or filamentary layer · CPC title

• B32B3/30

  characterised by a layer formed with recesses or projections, e.g. {hollows, grooves, protuberances, ribs (apertured layer B32B3/266; layer with cavities or internal voids B32B3/26)} · CPC title