JP2000336914A - Tile floor heating unit - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a tile floor heating unit which can be easily constructed, is high in thermal efficiency, good in appearance when completed, and fit for use in heating a small space such as a toilet chamber. SOLUTION: A tile floor heating unit is comprised of a thermal insulating material 30 laid on a floor backing 26, a plurality of tiles 16 as a floor surface material constituting a tile floor, a heat diffusing metal sheet 28 arranged in a manner being in contact with the rear surface of the tiles 16, a heating body 44 interposed between the heat diffusing metal sheet 28 and the thermal insulating material 30, and a frame member 18 which can be cut off and arranged along at least one of four peripheral sides of a tile floor.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a tile floor heating unit, and more particularly to a tile floor heating unit suitable for heating a small space such as a toilet or a dressing room.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, floor heating has rapidly become widespread, and most of them use wooden flooring boards as floor surface materials.
In this case, it is necessary to cut and attach the flooring board at the construction site according to the layout of the room, and it is impossible to perform the construction without skilled workers, and the construction work is also difficult and the construction period is long And the construction cost is high.

Further, in the case of flooring floor heating, in addition to the problem that the heat conductivity of the floor surface material is poor and the rise during heating is slow, there is a problem that the floor surface material has low water resistance and is weak against water splash. Cracks and the like are liable to occur due to repeated moisture absorption and drying of the material, and there are inherent problems that the durability life is not long.

On the other hand, in the case of tile floor heating using tiles as the floor surface material, the thermal conductivity of the tiles is remarkably superior to that of wooden flooring. In addition, it has many advantages, such as being cool and pleasant in the summer, and the floor surface being resistant to wetness. However, in the case of such tile floor heating, if tiles are wet-constructed at a construction site, work by a skilled person is required, and the construction period is lengthened.

Therefore, the present inventors have utilized the fact that the tiles are flat and heavy, and simply place the tiles on the upper surfaces of the heat insulating material and the heating element via the heat-expanding metal sheet. Tile floor heating that can build floor heating has been developed. According to this tile floor heating, tile floor heating can be constructed by extremely simple construction. However, even in this case, if the tiles are laid from one wall of the room to the other wall, a difficult and high-risk tile cutting operation is required.

By the way, the size of a toilet or the like is generally determined to be 0.5 tsubo or 0.75 tsubo. That said, the floor plan of the room is not always constant, so it is practically difficult to lay tiles from one wall of the room to the other without cutting the tiles. If the tile is laid with a gap left between the wall and the wall, the appearance will deteriorate, and the tile will be displaced during use.

[0007]

The tile floor heating unit of the present invention has been devised to solve such a problem. According to the first aspect of the present invention, (a) a heat insulating material to be laid on a floor substrate, (b) a plurality of tiles as a floor surface material for forming a tile floor, and (c) contact with the back surface of the tile A heat-expanding metal sheet interposed in a state where the heat-expanding metal sheet is interposed between the heat-expanding metal sheet and the heat insulating material;
And a cuttable frame member disposed along at least one of four peripheral edges of the tile floor.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, in the tile floor heating unit according to the first aspect, the tile floor heating unit is assembled beforehand prior to construction on site.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, in the tile floor heating unit according to the second aspect, a fold is formed at a predetermined position in the tile floor heating unit, and the fold can be folded at the fold. It is characterized by the following.

According to a fourth aspect, in the tile floor heating unit according to any one of the first to third aspects, the tile is a tile unit in which a plurality of tiles are connected by the heat-expanding metal sheet. It is characterized by having been done.

According to a fifth aspect of the present invention, in the tile floor heating unit according to the fourth aspect, the tile unit is provided with an elastic joint material between the tiles and along two adjacent sides orthogonal to each other. There is a feature.

According to a sixth aspect of the present invention, in the tile floor heating unit according to any one of the first to fifth aspects, a timer for automatically starting and / or stopping heating at a set time is provided. It is characterized by being provided.

According to a seventh aspect of the present invention, in the tile floor heating unit according to any one of the first to sixth aspects, the tile floor heating unit is for a toilet and has a shape corresponding to the toilet at a location where the toilet is installed. Is formed.

[0014]

As described above, the tile floor heating unit according to the first aspect of the present invention includes four tiles of the tile floor in addition to the heat insulating material, the heating element, the plurality of tiles as the floor surface material, and the heat-expanding metal sheet. Being arranged along at least one of the edges,
In this tile floor heating unit, when an integer number of tiles are laid, a gap is created between the edge of the tile floor and the wall of the room. In such a case, the gap can be filled by positioning the frame material there and cutting the frame material according to the gap size. That is, by arranging such a frame material, it becomes possible to lay the tiles substantially without any gap from the wall to the wall without cutting the tiles.

Therefore, according to the present invention, tile floor heating can be constructed by simple construction, and the construction cost can be reduced. In addition to being able to lay tiles without creating a gap between them and the wall, the frame material becomes a parting material and the appearance of the finished state is good, and the tiles are inserted through the frame material. Since it can fit tightly between walls, the inconvenience of the tile floor shifting during use can be solved.

In the present invention, it is possible to arrange the frame members along the four peripheral edges of the tile floor, or to arrange the frame members along the three peripheral edges, or
It is also possible to arrange the frame material along one edge. However, when arranging the frame only along one edge,
It is desirable to arrange this along the left-right direction of the room, that is, along one side edge in the short direction.

In the present invention, the above-mentioned tile floor heating unit can be integrally assembled in advance before construction on site (claim 2). If you do this,
Tile floor heating units can be installed and constructed very easily on site.

In this case, it is possible to form a fold at a predetermined position in the tile floor heating unit and make the foldable at the fold. In this case, there is an advantage that the transfer of the tile floor heating unit integrally assembled is facilitated.

In the present invention, it is desirable to form a tile unit in which a plurality of tiles are connected by the heat-expanding metal sheet (claim 4). This makes it easier to construct a tile floor heating unit or to perform tile floor heating on site. In particular, in such a case, the tile floor can be formed well by simply placing the tile unit on the heat insulating material and the heating element without adhesion.

In this case, an elastic joint material can be provided between the tiles in the tile unit and along two adjacent sides orthogonal to each other. By doing so, the work of filling the joint material between the tiles after the tile construction can be omitted, and the tile construction can be further simplified. In addition, it is possible to absorb variations in dimensions of the construction site based on the compression elastic deformation of the elastic joint material.

In the present invention, it is desirable to provide a timer for automatically starting or stopping heating or both at a set time (claim 6).
In this way, the toilet can be heated in advance when using the toilet or the like, or the heating is automatically turned off when the toilet is not used to save energy. can do.

In the present invention, when the tile floor heating unit is applied to a toilet, a recess having a shape corresponding to the toilet can be formed at a location where the toilet is installed (claim 7). By doing so, the tile floor heating unit can be satisfactorily constructed while avoiding interference with the toilet.

[0023]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment in which the present invention is applied to tile floor heating of a toilet will be described in detail with reference to the drawings. FIG.
10 is a toilet room, and 12 is a toilet room 10
, And 14 is a wall of the toilet room 10.

Reference numeral 16 denotes a tile (porcelain tile) constituting a tile floor, and reference numeral 18 denotes a frame material arranged along three edges of the tile floor. The frame member 18 includes a frame member 18a disposed along the left and right edges and a frame member 18b disposed along the front edge.

FIG. 2 shows the tile floor heating in a completed state. In the figure, reference numeral 20 denotes a large scale, 22 denotes a joist, and 24 denotes a heat insulating material buried in a space between the joists 22 and 22. 2
Reference numeral 6 denotes a floor plate as a floor substrate.

In this embodiment, the tile floor heating unit is provided with the tile 16 as a surface material as shown in FIG.
And a heat-expanding metal sheet (aluminum sheet in this example) 28 fixed to the back surface, a heat insulating panel 30 made of a heat insulating material laid on the floor plate 26, and a groove 3 of the heat insulating panel 30.
2 has a pipe (heating body) 34 fitted into the inside and the frame member 18 described above. Here, the heat insulating panel 30 is made of an organic foam (for example, polypropylene foam, polyethylene foam, or the like).
Is divided into a plurality of panel pieces 30a.

The piping 34 has a function of warming the entire tile floor by flowing hot water as a heating medium through the inside thereof and transmitting the heat to the tiles 16 through the heat-expanding metal sheet 28.

The frame member 18 is made of wood in this example, and has a thickness of a heat insulating panel 30, a heat-expanding metal sheet 28.
And the thickness of the tile 16 together. Note that an inclined surface 36 that is inclined downward toward the wall 14 is formed on the upper surface of the frame member 18.

In this example, each tile 16 is configured as a tile unit 38 shown in FIG. FIG. 4 (A)
Is an example in which the heat-expanding metal sheet 28 is fixed to the back surface of the two tiles 16 with an adhesive and the tile unit 38 is formed by using the heat-expanding metal sheet 28 as a joining material. The metal sheet 28 has both a function as a heat spread sheet for transmitting the heat from the pipe 34 to the tile 16 and a function as a backing material for the tile 16. The tile 16 is given high strength by its function as a backing material of the heat-expanding metal sheet 28.

In this tile unit 38, an elastic joint material 40 is provided between the tiles 16 and 16,
Elastic joint members 40 are similarly provided along two adjacent sides orthogonal to each other. Here, the elastic joint material 40 is made of a modified silicone rubber.

The example of FIG. 4B is an example in which four tiles 16 are similarly connected by one heat-expanding metal sheet 28 to form one unit of tile unit 38. In this example, FIG.
Although the tile unit 38 shown in FIG.
It is possible to use the tile unit 38 of (B), or it is also possible to use another type of tile unit.

In the case of the tile floor heating unit of this embodiment, FIG.
As shown in the figure, the panel pieces 30a are laid on the floor plate 26 at the construction site, thereby
And a pipe 34 is fitted into the groove 32. Further, the tile units 38 are laid all over the upper surface of the heat insulating panel 30 without cutting the tiles, and a tile floor is formed on the heat insulating panel 30.

At this time, a frame member 18 is arranged in a gap formed between the three edges of the tile floor and the wall 14 of the toilet room to fill the gap. At this time, since the width of the frame material 18 prepared in advance is generally different from the width of the gap actually generated between the edge of the tile floor and the wall 14, it is shown in FIGS. In such a manner, a part (cut portion) S of the frame member 18 is cut by cutting so that the width of the frame member 18 exactly matches the width of the gap.

FIG. 3 (II) shows a state where the frame member 18 is installed in this manner. By arranging such a frame member 18 as shown in the figure, the tiles 16 can be densely laid without gaps in the space surrounded by the three walls 14 of the toilet room 10.

Thus, the tile floor can be constructed in a good finish. In addition, the frame member 18 serves as a parting material, so that the finished state of the periphery of the tile floor is also improved. In addition, since each tile 16 comes into contact with the three walls 14 via the frame member 18, there is no danger that the tile floor will be displaced during use.

Since the toilet bowl 12 is installed in the toilet room 10 as shown in FIG. 1, when the tile floor heating unit is constructed, the tiles are naturally arranged so as to avoid interference with the toilet bowl 12. Make up the floor.

More specifically, the tile floor heating unit has two recesses.
The tile floor heating unit is installed and constructed so that the toilet bowl 12 enters the recess 25. The shape of the recess 25 is a shape obtained by removing an integer number of tiles 16.

In FIG. 1, reference numeral 41 denotes a circulator provided with a pump. The circulator 41 heats the hot water returned through the pipe 34 to a predetermined temperature and then pumps the hot water again through the pipe 34. Send out. Here, the circulator 41 is provided with a timer 42. The timer 42 is for automatically starting or stopping heating or both at a set time.

As shown in FIG. 1, in this embodiment, the toilet 1
Tile floor heating is built up to the middle position in the front-back direction of No. 2. By doing so, when the user sits down on the toilet 12, the feet are placed on the tile floor, and the toilet user can be directly warmed from the feet. However, in some cases, tile floor heating can be performed until the wall 14 at the rear of the toilet room 10 is reached.

As described above, according to the present embodiment, tile cutting can be performed by installing the frame member 18 and further by setting the recess 25 as a recess excluding an integer number of tiles. The tiles 16 can be laid substantially without gaps without any gaps. Therefore, according to this example, the tile floor heating can be constructed by simple construction, and the construction cost can be reduced. In addition, since the tiles 16 can be laid without gaps and the frame member 18 serves as a parting material, the finished state is good, and the inconvenience that the tile floor is displaced during use does not occur.

In this embodiment, the plurality of tiles 16 are connected by the heat-expanding metal sheet 28 to form the tile unit 38. To form a tile floor and the tiles 16 of the tile unit 38.
Since the elastic joint members 40 are previously provided on the two adjacent sides between the two and at right angles to each other, the tile construction can be performed extremely easily.

Further, in this embodiment, since the timer 42 for automatically starting and stopping or both of the heating at the set time is provided, the toilet room 10 is used in advance when the toilet room 10 is used. Can be kept in a heating state, or the heating can be automatically turned off to save energy when the toilet room 10 is not used.

In the above description, the heat insulating panel 30 is divided into a plurality of panel pieces 30a, and the entire heat insulating panel 30 is configured by laying them. 30a without splitting into a single insulation panel 30
It is also possible to configure as.

FIGS. 6 and 7 show another embodiment of the present invention. This example is an example in which a planar heater 44 is used as a heating element, and the other points are basically the same as those in the examples shown in FIGS. However, a planar heater 4 is used as a heating element.
Since the heat insulating panel 4 is used, the heat insulating panel 30 is not provided with the groove 32 as described above, and the upper surface thereof is a flat surface over the entire surface.

Although the heat insulating panel 30 is shown as one single panel in FIG. 7, it is needless to say that the heat insulating panel 30 is divided into a plurality of panel pieces 30a and laid as in the above embodiment. Thus, the entire heat insulating panel 30 can be configured.

Furthermore, in this example, the sheet heater 44 is divided into a plurality of pieces and laid on the heat insulating panel 30. Of course, one large sheet heater 44 is laid over the entire construction surface, and It is also possible to lay a tile unit 38 on top. In this example, a timer 42 for automatically starting or stopping heating or both of them can be provided.

FIGS. 8 to 11 show still another embodiment of the present invention. As shown, in this example, tile 16 and
A tile floor heating unit having a heat-expanding metal sheet 28 on the back surface thereof, a planar heater 44 as a heating body, a heat insulating panel 30, and a frame member 18 is integrally assembled in advance prior to construction. It is to be constructed on the floor of the toilet room 10 in the assembled state.

However, in this example, the entire tile floor heating unit can be folded in two as shown in FIG. Specifically, as shown in FIG.
b is separated to the left and right by a separation part (fold) 46 at the middle position between the left and right, and as shown in FIG.
0 is separated right and left by a separation portion (fold) 48 at a middle position between the left and right. Furthermore, as shown in FIG. 10, the tile 16 constructed alone or the tile unit 38 (when the tile unit 38 is used) is configured to be separated left and right at an intermediate position between the right and left. In this example, the tile 16 may be a tile unit 38 in advance, or such a tile unit 38
Instead, the tiles 16 may be assembled independently.

A hinge (made of another flexible material) 50 made of a soft resin is fixedly provided on the rear surface of the left and right intermediate portion of the heat insulating panel 30.
0, the right and left portions of the tile floor heating unit are separated by the separation portions 46 and 48 in FIG.
As shown in FIG. Other points are basically the same as those in the above embodiment.

In the case of the tile floor heating unit of this embodiment, FIG.
As shown in FIG. 10 (I), the sheet is transported to the construction site in a state where it has been folded in two in advance, and is opened at the construction site as shown in FIG. More specifically, in this example, the tile floor heating can be constructed extremely easily in the toilet room 10 simply by placing the tile floor heating on the floor plate 26.

That is, in the case of the tile floor heating unit of this example,
In addition to exhibiting the same effect as the above embodiment, since the tile floor heating unit is pre-assembled before construction,
When the tile floor heating unit is carried into the site, it can be easily transported, and the construction at the site can be remarkably simplified as compared with the above embodiment.

In this example, although the hinge 50 made of resin is buried inside the recess of the heat insulating panel 30, it is shown.
The back surface of the heat insulating panel 30 may be a flat surface, and a thin resin hinge 50 may be attached to the flat surface. In this example, the timer as described above can be provided.

The embodiment of the present invention has been described in detail above, but this is merely an example. For example, in the present invention, the tile size can be set to an appropriate size as needed, and the form of the tile unit can be various forms other than the above examples.

The above example is an example in which the present invention is applied to tile floor heating in a toilet room, but the present invention can also be applied to tile floor heating in a space in front of a dressing room or kitchen sink. Further, the present invention can be applied to heating of a room for other various uses and forms. It is also possible to use stone tiles in addition to ceramic tiles. In addition, in the present invention, resins, organic foams, and other various cuttable materials can be used as the frame material.

In the above example, the frame members 18 are arranged along the three edges of the tile floor. However, the frame members 18b at the front edge may be omitted in some cases. It is possible in some cases to omit one of the frame members 18a. Conversely, the present invention can be configured in variously modified forms without departing from the gist of the invention, such as arranging frame members along the four peripheral edges of the tile floor.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a plan view showing a tile floor heating unit according to an embodiment of the present invention in a completed construction state.

FIG. 2 is a partially cutaway perspective view and a sectional view showing the tile floor heating unit of FIG. 1 in a completed construction state.

FIG. 3 is an exploded view showing the tile floor heating unit of the same embodiment in each component and a cross-sectional view of a completed construction state.

FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating an example of a tile unit according to the same embodiment.

FIG. 5 is an illustration of the advantages of the same embodiment.

FIG. 6 is a plan view showing a tile floor heating unit according to another embodiment of the present invention in a completed construction state.

FIG. 7 is an exploded perspective view of the tile floor heating unit of the embodiment in FIG. 6;

FIG. 8 is a plan view showing a tile floor heating unit according to still another embodiment of the present invention in a completed construction state.

FIG. 9 is an exploded perspective view of the tile floor heating unit of the embodiment in FIG.

FIG. 10 is a sectional view showing the tile floor heating unit of the same embodiment in a folded state and an opened state.

FIG. 11 is a cross-sectional view showing the tile floor heating unit of the same embodiment in a state before construction and a construction completion state.

[Explanation of symbols]

 Reference Signs List 16 tile 18 frame material 26 floor plate (floor base) 25 recess 28 heat-expanding metal sheet 30 heat-insulating panel (heat insulating material) 34 piping (heating body) 38 tile unit 40 elastic joint material 42 timer 44 planar heater (heating body) 46 , 48 separation part (fold)

 ──────────────────────────────────────────────────続 き Continuing on the front page (72) Inventor Yasuhiro Matsuyoshi 5-1-1 Koiehonmachi, Tokoname-shi, Aichi Inax Inc. (72) Inventor Murase Ikuhiro 2-26-26 Yokota, Atsuta-ku, Nagoya-shi, Aichi Prefecture Takasue F term in reference (reference) 3L070 BD03 DD02 DE09 DG10 3L072 AA01 AB10 AC01 AC02 AD03 AD10 AD13

Claims (7)

[Claims] 1. A heat insulating material to be laid on a floor substrate and
A plurality of tiles as floor surface materials for constituting a tile floor; (c) a heat-expanding metal sheet interposed in a state of contacting the back surface of the tile; and (d) a heat-expanding metal sheet and a heat insulating material. (E) a tile floor heating unit, comprising: (e) a cuttable frame member disposed along at least one of four peripheral edges of the tile floor. 2. The tile floor heating unit according to claim 1, wherein the tile floor heating unit is pre-assembled before construction on site. 3. The tile floor heating unit according to claim 2, wherein a fold is formed at a predetermined position in the tile floor heating unit, and the tile floor heating unit is foldable at the fold. 4. The tile floor heating according to claim 1, wherein the tile is a tile unit in which a plurality of tiles are connected by the heat-expanding metal sheet. unit. 5. The tile floor heating unit according to claim 4, wherein the tile unit is provided with an elastic joint material between the tiles and along two adjacent sides orthogonal to each other. 6. The tile floor according to claim 1, further comprising a timer for automatically starting and stopping heating or both at a set time. Heating unit. 7. The tile floor heating unit for a toilet, wherein a recess having a shape corresponding to the toilet is formed at a location where the toilet is installed. The tile floor heating unit as described.