House

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11898370-B2
Application number	US-201917041606-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 17, 2019
Priority date	Nov 8, 2018
Publication date	Feb 13, 2024
Grant date	Feb 13, 2024

Abstract

[PROBLEMS] Providing a house by which exhaust heat from equipment provided in a wall of the house does not adversely affect the environment in a living space, the maintenance, management, and update of the equipment can be easily performed, and crime prevention performance of an accommodating place of the equipment can be improved.[SOLUTIONS] The exhaust heat from the equipment 48 accommodated in the hollow portion 37 can be released to the second space 6 of the garage. Further, the electronic lock 45 of the door 43 for opening and closing the outdoor side opening portion 35 of the hollow portion 37 can be unlocked only for a preset time. Therefore, since unlocking is disabled except for the preset time, the maintenance, management, and update of the equipment 48 can be easily performed, and the crime prevention performance can be further improved.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A house comprising:
a garage in an inside of the house;
a wall section having an outer wall material facing an outside of the garage and an inner wall material facing the garage, the outer wall material and the inner wall material forming a hollow portion therebetween;
an outdoor side opening portion opened in the outer wall material of the wall section to provide access to the hollow portion from the outside of the house;
an outdoor side door openable and closable in the outdoor side opening portion;
an indoor side opening portion opened in the inner wall material of the hollow portion to provide access to the hollow portion from the inside of the house;
an indoor side door openable and closable in the indoor side opening portion, the indoor side door having a louver which communicates with the hollow portion;
equipment, which is operative to generate heat, accommodated in the hollow portion; and
a control means having a first electronic lock that locks or unlocks the outdoor side door, the control means being configured to unlock the first electronic lock in response to an authentication input being received during a preset time period, wherein receipt of the authentication input outside of the preset time period results in the first electronic lock remaining locked.

2. The house according to claim 1 , further comprising:
an outdoor entrance, different from a car entrance of the garage, adjacent to the hollow portion in a second wall section facing the outside; and
an entrance that enables going back and forth between the garage and a living space is provided in a third wall section between the garage and the living space.

3. The house according to claim 2 , further comprising a passage that enables going back and forth between the garage and a road facing a side of the house through the outdoor entrance.

4. The house according to claim 1 , wherein:
the first electronic lock locks or unlocks a garage entrance door for opening and closing a car entrance of the garage;
the control means has a second electronic lock that locks or unlocks the outdoor side door for opening and closing the outdoor side opening portion; and
the control means is operative to unlock both the first electronic lock and the second electronic lock in response to an authentication input, provided during the preset time period, for unlocking either the first electronic lock or the second electronic lock, so that both the first electronic lock and the second electronic lock unlocked in conjunction.

Assignees

• Sekisui House Kk

Inventors

• HIRAOKA Chiho
• IWATA Shouto
• Yamato Tetsuya
• Ogawa Masayuki
• Minami Yuusuke
• Miki Takeshi
• KAWAZOE Yuuta
• SUEZAWA Takahiro
• KAWAKAMI Shintarou

Classifications

• E05B43/005 Primary

  Timer devices controlling electrically operated locks · CPC title

• E04H1/02 Primary

  Dwelling houses; Buildings for temporary habitation, {e.g. summer houses}(small erections for limited occupation E04H1/12 {; collapsible, erectable or rotatable buildings E04B1/343}) · CPC title

• E04H6/02 Primary

  Small garages, e.g. for one or two cars (attached to, or supported by, the vehicle B62D) · CPC title

• E04B2/56

  {Load-bearing} walls of framework or pillarwork; Walls incorporating load-bearing elongated members (E04B2/74, E04B2/88 take precedence; pillars E04C3/30) · CPC title

• E05B49/00

  Electric permutation locks; Circuits therefor {; Mechanical aspects of electronic locks; Mechanical keys therefor (arrangements for sensing or reading record carriers G06K7/00; mechanisms including electronic locks actuated by nonmechanical keys such as passive and active electrical keys and other data carriers G07C9/00, G07F7/00; electronic switching H03K17/00)} · CPC title