Baths – closets – sinks – and spittoons – Flush closet – Bowl
Patent
1997-08-12
1999-05-04
Phillips, Charles E.
Baths, closets, sinks, and spittoons
Flush closet
Bowl
A47K 320
Patent
active
058989560
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
TECHNICAL FIELD
The present invention relates to a toilet seat apparatus comprising a cleansing function means for cleansing excretory parts of the human body.
BACKGROUND ART
A toilet seat apparatus conventionally known of this type is such as an apparatus comprising a shower nozzle which is driven by a motor to advance and retreat and performing posterior part cleansing, genital part cleansing and other functions by spouting warm water from spouting opening after transferring the shower nozzle to an advanced position at cleansing time. In recent years, addition of diverse functions besides posterior part cleansing and genital part cleansing has been proposed. The diverse functions are, for example, a massage cleansing function to stimulate the posterior parts rhythmically to accelerate smooth defecation through varying the water spouting force approximately every one second during posterior part cleansing, a movable cleansing function to enhance the effect with rocking the shower nozzle back and forth, a cleansing position adjustment function to transfer the shower nozzle back and forth minutely and temperature setting function to select the temperatures of the cleansing water. To exercise these functions, various operating conditions are prescribed pertaining to advancement and retreat of the shower nozzle, valve operation for spouting of warm water, and so on.
Since the operating conditions concerning the shower nozzle, valves and other parts range a wide variety, varied inventions have been made to cope with malfunctioning caused by their abnormal operating conditions, such as ineffective adjustment of spouting water temperatures. For example, since abnormal operating conditions are found in the shower nozzle or the valves when a trouble occurs in such functions as a nozzle apparatus and a spouting water temperature control apparatus, a function to urge repairing it with blinking of an indicator lamp to notify the information.
Provision of a number of indicator lamps, however, to notify warning on the abnormalities is difficult in the aspect of both functions and costs and notification of some information does not demand urgency. Another problem is that it takes long to be repaired when an abnormality occurs since it is difficult to find out the condition of occurrence of the abnormality. Although the above-described toilet seat apparatus exercises diverse functions in response to settings of a user, it is not convenient to use since the settings of the functions are lost at the time of electric power failure and thus data cannot be utilized to analyzes the causes of the troubles.
The object of the present invention pertaining to the toilet seat apparatus equipped with diverse functions and resolving the problems of the prior art is to provide a toilet seat apparatus which allows accurate investigation into causes of the troubles therein.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
As a solution to such problems as above, a toilet seat apparatus or sanitary cleansing apparatus is provided for a toilet assembly including an excretory cleansing mechanism adapted to clean the excretory parts of the human body when sitting upon a toilet seat of the toilet assembly thereof. A cleansing state information generator or controller is adapted to monitor the actual operating conditions of the cleansing mechanism. In response, the cleansing mechanism generates cleansing state signals representing the actual operating conditions thereof. The cleansing apparatus further includes a first memory device configured to chronologically store the cleansing state signals during operation of the controller and in the event of a power loss thereto.
In toilet seat apparatus according to the present invention of the above-described structure, the actual operating conditions of the cleansing function means for cleansing excretory parts of the human body are monitored by the cleansing state information generating means and made into cleansing state information to state the operating conditions thereof. In this case, the operating conditions
REFERENCES:
patent: 4628548 (1986-12-01), Kurosawa et al.
Hamafuku Yasuhiro
Imma Yasushi
Kurisaki Toshio
Phillips Charles E.
Toto Ltd.
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