Company Kuchofuku - units manufactured this shirt - the number of orders increased dramatically in the context of Japan's electricity shortages after the tsunami on 11/3.
"I work in a very hot place and have to wear long sleeves, so I ordered this shirt to 'heat' and prevent stroke due to overheating," he Ryo Igarashi, 33, said as she stood in line buy this shirt peace of Kuchofuku.
According Vancouversun, nearly 1,000 companies in Japan use this shirt, including companies specializing in automotive, steel manufacturers, factories and food processing, construction units
He Hiroshi Ichigaya, founder of the companies Kuchofuku (standing) wearing a jacket with the cooling fan on the back, at the company's headquarters in Toda city, suburban Tokyo, Japan. Photo: Getty Images.
Besides clothing against heat, company Kuchofuku also sell buffer, screen conditioners. These products are more meaningful when the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant to shut down after the tsunami, and the government requires companies in Tokyo and Tohoku northern reduce electricity use by 15%.
According to customs, import of electrical fans through Tokyo port in May reached a record high, up 70 percent from a year earlier, to 1.24 million units. The fan in the hair coat of Kuchofuku company is connected to a lithium-ion battery used to be 11 hours in a single charge, only consume a fraction of the power compared to normal air conditioning.
He Ichigaya, an engineer working at Sony for two decades until the early 1990s, came up with the idea of personal air while trying to invent air conditioning, power saving.
He said that his clothing is a special solution: wear as much of it as cool, than naked. With 20 liters of air per second flow through the jacket and out through the collar and sleeves, fan dried sweat and make the wearer feel cool.
Austrian Air was launched in 2004. Initially it attracted the construction unit, but now the manufacturer also received orders from the office workers and housewives. A standard air jacket sells for 11,000 yen (about 140 USD), while the other may have a higher price.
A central government official recently put buy 500,000 this shirt but Kuchofuku had lower orders because they can not increase the capacity in time to meet demand. He Ichigaya said, adding that this year the company sold 40,000 clothing, mattresses and other cooling products, twice last year, and sales could reach 80,000 units if full production.
According vnexpress
