PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an animal-rearing chamber capable of reducing the amounts of air supply and exhaust, while maintaining the cleanliness in the chamber and performing the sufficient control of pressure.SOLUTION: The animal-rearing chamber 10 is characterized by equipping an air-supplying means 20 for introducing outer atmosphere controlled with its temperature and humidity into the chamber installing animal-rearing racks 40, an air-exhaust means 30 for exhausting the air at the animal-rearing racks 40 and in the chamber to the outside of the chamber, an air-cleaning unit 50 for sucking and cleaning the part of the air in the chamber and exhausting it into the chamber for circulating the air, a pressure sensor 60 for detecting the pressure in the chamber, and a controlling means 70 for controlling the air-supplying amount of the air-supplying means 20 and the air-exhausting amount of the air-exhausting means 30 based on the measured value of the pressure sensor 60 and maintaining the pressure of the chamber at a set value predetermined in advance.COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT【課題】室内清浄度を維持し、十分な圧力制御を行いながら、給気及び排気風量を削減できる動物飼育室を提供する。【解決手段】本発明の動物飼育室10は、動物飼育ラック40を設置した室内に温湿度制御された外気を導入する給気手段20と、動物飼育ラック40および室内の空気を室外に排気する排気手段30と、室内の空気の一部を吸気して浄化し、室内に排気して空気循環させる空気清浄化ユニット50と、室内の圧力を検知する圧力センサ60と、圧力センサ60の測定値に基づいて、給気手段20の給気量と排気手段30の排気量を制御して室内の圧力を予め定めた設定値に維持する制御手段70と、を備えたことを特徴としている。【選択図】図1
