JP2591399B2 - How to display the fault diagnosis of the hot water cleaning device - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a method for displaying a diagnosis result of a hot water cleaning apparatus, which self-diagnoses a failure of a main body of the hot water cleaning apparatus and displays the diagnosis result.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A hot water washing device is a device mainly attached to a Western style toilet for washing a toilet user by applying hot water to the buttocks. The hot water washing device is often provided with a hot air fan for drying the buttocks, a deodorizing device for discharging odors from the toilet, and the like.

[0003] By the way, a failure diagnosis device is incorporated in this hot water cleaning device, and when a failure is found, the result is displayed.
No. 51617.

[0004] In the hot water washing apparatus described in these patent publications, the operation section is directly (that is, not a remote controller) on a hot water washing apparatus main body provided in a Western style toilet.
Provided. Then, the failure portion is displayed by turning on or off the light emitting element for displaying the device operation of the operation section.

[0005]

However, it is not possible to provide a large number of light emitting elements in the operation section provided directly on the hot water cleaning device main body. (One reason for this is that the operation unit provided in the hot water washing device main body is located below the side of the user sitting on the toilet, so that the operation unit and the face of the seated user are separated. Another reason is that it is not preferable to provide an excessively large number of light emitting elements in the main body of the hot water cleaning device in view of the beauty of the Western style toilet. Therefore, the number of faults that can be expressed in the conventional hot water cleaning device fault diagnosis and display method is limited, no matter how the lighting or blinking of the light emitting element is combined, There was a problem that it could not be displayed.

[0006]

According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method for displaying a failure diagnosis of a hot water washing apparatus, wherein the hot water washing apparatus is provided in a toilet in a toilet room, and is separated from the toilet. A remote controller for operating the hot water cleaning device main body, and a plurality of light emitting elements for displaying an operation state of the hot water cleaning device provided in the remote controller;
In the failure diagnosis display method for a hot water cleaning device comprising a failure detection device provided in the hot water cleaning device main body, a light emitting element provided in the remote controller is turned on or blinked to find the failure by the failure detection device. The displayed failure is displayed.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method for displaying a failure diagnosis of a hot water cleaning apparatus according to the first aspect of the present invention, wherein the remote controller includes at least three levels of jetting strength of hot water from the hot water cleaning apparatus. There are provided three or more light-emitting elements that are displayed separately as described above, and two or more light-emitting elements that display the air volume of the hot-air dryer in at least two stages. In this case, the light emitting element for displaying the hot water jetting strength is turned on or off, and in the case of a failure of the hot air drying system, the light emitting element for displaying the air flow is turned on or off.

[0008]

According to the method for displaying a fault diagnosis of a hot water washing apparatus of the present invention, a fault diagnosis result is displayed by turning on or off a light emitting element of a remote controller. Since this remote control is installed, for example, on the side of the toilet or on the wall of the toilet room in front of the toilet, it can be viewed in an easy posture, and even if a large number of light emitting elements are provided, the light emitting elements can be easily identified accurately. For this reason, in the present invention, by combining lighting or blinking of a large number of light emitting elements provided on the remote controller, it is possible to perform an extremely large number of types of failure display.

[0009] Even if a large number of light emitting elements are provided in the remote control, it is considered that this remote control has a large number of light emitting elements in the first place. Not even.

[0010] In particular, according to the method for displaying a failure diagnosis of the hot water cleaning device, the failure of the hot water cleaning system is indicated by turning on or blinking a light emitting element for displaying the strength of the hot water cleaning, and the failure of the hot air system. Is displayed by lighting or blinking the light emitting element of the hot-air drying system, so that it is easy and accurate to confirm the failure location.

[0011]

Embodiments will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a Western-style toilet with a hot water washing device employing the method of the embodiment of the present invention and a toilet room in which the Western-style toilet is installed. FIG. 2 is an enlarged front view of the main body sub-operation unit in FIG. FIG. 3 is a perspective view of the Western style toilet viewed from the opposite side to FIG. FIG. 4 is an enlarged front view of the remote controller.

A Western-style toilet 12 is installed in the toilet room 10, and a low tank is installed on the rear upper surface of the Western-style toilet 12. In this embodiment, the low tank is covered with a tank cover 14. This tank cover 14
A hand washer 14a is integrally provided at the upper part of the water purifier, and a water outlet 16 for discharging water toward the hand washer 14a is provided.

On one side of the tank cover 14, a handle 20 is provided for supplying flush water to the toilet bowl 18 and the like of the Western-style toilet bowl 12. A water supply pipe 22 is connected to the other side surface of the tank cover 14. On the other side, a main body transmitting / receiving unit 24 for transmitting or receiving a signal is provided.
Is provided.

A heating toilet seat 26 and a toilet lid 28 are pivotally mounted on the upper surface of the Western-style toilet 12 so as to be rotatable in the up-down direction.

A hot water washing device for washing the buttocks of the toilet user seated on the heating toilet seat 26 with hot water is provided at a lower portion in the tank cover 14 to dry the buttocks wet with the hot water with hot air. A hot air drying device for blowing out hot air,
A deodorizing device is provided.

Although not shown, the hot water washing apparatus is provided with a hot water tank and a hot water washing nozzle (shower) which receives hot water supplied from the hot water tank, advances into the toilet bowl 18, and jets hot water toward the buttocks of the human body. Nozzles and charm nozzles). Further, the hot-air drying device includes a fan, an air heater, and the like. The deodorizing device includes an exhaust fan and a duct.

The hot water washing device, the deodorizing device, and the hot air drying device are each supplied with electric power from a commercial power supply via a leakage prevention plug 34 inserted into an outlet 32 of the wall 30 of the toilet room. 36 is a ground wire.

The toilet room wall 3 on the side of the Western style toilet 12
8 is provided with a remote controller 40 for operating the hot water washing device, the deodorizing device and the hot air drying device.
Reference numeral 41 denotes a remote control transmitting / receiving section for transmitting and receiving an optical signal to and from the main body transmitting / receiving section 24.

As shown in FIG. 4, this remote control 40
Six switches (shower switches) 4 so that the hot water jetting intensity from the shower nozzle can be switched in six steps.
1, 42, 43, 44, 45 and 46 are provided.
The switches 41 to 46 are provided with LEDs 41a to 46a as light emitting elements, respectively, and are configured to be able to display which switch is operated.

The remote controller 40 has six switches 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 5 so that the intensity of hot water jetting from the charm nozzle can be adjusted in six steps.
The switches 51 to 56 are also provided with LEs for displaying the selected switches.
D51a to 56a are provided.

The remote controller 40 has three switches (dry switches) 61, 62, and 63 so that the amount of hot air blown from the hot air drying device can be adjusted in three stages.
63 are provided, and these switches 61 to 63 also have LEDs 61a to 61d for displaying the selected switch.
63a is provided.

The remote controller 40 is further provided with a stop switch 70 for stopping the operation and a flash switch 72 for supplying the washing water to the toilet bowl 18 by a switch. The remote controller 40 has a built-in clock function, and is provided with a liquid crystal panel 74 for displaying time.

Although not shown, the toilet seat 26 is provided with a seating switch, and when sitting on the toilet seat 26, the fan of the deodorizing device is operated.

As shown in FIG. 1, the Western-style toilet 12 is provided with a main sub-operation unit 78 separately from the remote controller 40. As shown in FIG. 2, the main sub-operation unit 78 includes a stop switch 80, a shower switch 82, a deodorizing switch 84, a toilet seat temperature controller 86 for adjusting the temperature of the toilet seat 26, and a temperature of hot water. A water temperature control controller 88 for controlling the temperature is provided.

The western-style toilet equipped with the hot water washing device thus configured can be used in the same manner as a normal western-style toilet. Hot water washing device, hot air drying device, or
When a malfunction occurs in a deodorizing device, a heating toilet seat, or the like, the LEDs 41a to 46a, 51a to 56a, 61a, 62
The failure location is displayed by blinking a and 63a.

Tables 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 show the relationship between the blinking of each LED and the details of the failure.

[0027]

[Table 1]

[0028]

[Table 2]

[0029]

[Table 3]

[0030]

[Table 4]

[0031]

[Table 5]

It should be noted that even if such equipment failure occurs,
Ordinary general users cannot repair. And
Since this repair is performed exclusively by a specialist such as a construction shop, the display of the failure location is displayed only by performing a special operation. In this embodiment,
When the stop switch 80 provided on the main body sub-operation unit 78 is continuously pressed for 30 seconds, a failure diagnosis result is displayed. That is, if the stop switch 80 is kept pressed for 30 seconds, the failure diagnosis result is transmitted from the main body transmission / reception unit 24 to the remote controller 40, and the LED 41a and the like on the remote controller are turned on to display an abnormal point.

As is clear from Tables 1 to 5, according to the method of the present embodiment, an extremely large number of failure contents can be displayed accurately. Therefore, it is possible to accurately identify the failure location and quickly repair it.

In the above embodiment, when a failure occurs in the hot water washing system, the LEDs of the shower switches 41 to 46 are used.
Since the failure location is displayed by blinking 41a to 46a, it is possible to quickly recognize that the failure location is a hot water washing system. Similarly, when a failure occurs in the hot air drying system, the failure location is displayed only by blinking of the LEDs 61a to 63a, so that it is quickly and accurately identified that the failure is related to the hot air drying system.

In the above embodiment, the signal indicating the result of the failure diagnosis is output from the main body transmitting / receiving section 24 to the remote controller 40 by a signal such as light, but in the present invention, for example, the remote controller is connected to the main body and the failure diagnosis result is output. May be input to the remote controller.

FIG. 5 shows an example employed in such a configuration, in which an output connector 90 is provided in the main body sub-operation unit 78. By connecting the output connector 90 to an input unit 92 provided on the back surface of the remote controller 40, the failure diagnosis data is input to the remote controller 40.

In the present invention, an input pin is set up on the back surface of the remote controller 40, and the pin is inserted into a pin connecting portion provided in the main sub-operation unit 78 as shown in FIG. May be input to the remote controller 40.

Further, although not shown, the failure diagnosis data is output as a high frequency signal to a commercial power supply, the remote controller 40 is connected to the commercial power supply, and the failure diagnosis data is inputted to the remote control 40 through the electric power cable of the commercial power supply. Good.

Although not shown, in the present invention, the upper portion of the tank cover 14 is made detachable, and an output terminal for a failure diagnosis result is provided inside the upper portion of the tank cover 14, and a remote controller is connected to this output terminal. Then, the failure diagnosis data may be input to the remote controller. of course,
The output terminal of the failure diagnosis result may be provided at another location.

The above embodiments are all examples of the present invention, and the present invention is not limited to the above embodiments. For example, in the above-described embodiment, two hot water washing systems of a shower and a charm are provided, but one system of only a shower may be used. In addition, although the hot water jetting intensity of these hot water washing systems is configured to be switched in six steps, it is apparent that other numbers of steps may be used. In order to accurately display a variety of failure contents, three or more switches are provided so that the intensity of hot water washing can be adjusted in at least three stages, and an LED is provided for each switch. Is preferred.

In the above embodiment, the hot air drying strength is switched in three steps, but may be changed to another number of steps. It is preferable that the intensity of the hot air drying be at least two steps.

[0042]

As described above, according to the method for displaying the failure diagnosis of the hot water cleaning apparatus of the present invention, various causes of failure can be accurately displayed by turning on or off the light emitting element of the remote controller. Therefore, even if a failure occurs in the hot water cleaning device,
The fault location can be accurately and quickly identified and repaired quickly.

Further, in the present invention, it is not necessary to provide a large number of display switches on the Western-style toilet body on which the hot water washing device is installed, and the appearance of a toilet such as a Western-style toilet is very good. . Even if a large number of switches are provided on the remote controller, the remote controller is provided at a position that is easy for the user sitting on the toilet to see, and is easy to operate and extremely convenient.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, when a failure occurs in the hot water cleaning system, the light emitting element for displaying the intensity of hot water jetting is turned on or off, and the hot air drying system is used. When a failure occurs, the light emitting element for displaying the air volume of the hot air dryer is turned on or blinks, so there is no danger of confusing the cause of the failure, and the identification of the cause of the failure is accurate and accurate. Quick repairs are possible.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a Western style toilet to which an embodiment method is applied.

FIG. 2 is an enlarged front view of a main body sub-operation unit 78.

FIG. 3 is a perspective view from the opposite side of the Western style toilet to which the embodiment method is applied.

FIG. 4 is a front view of the remote controller.

FIG. 5 is a front view of a main body sub-operation unit used in another embodiment method.

FIG. 6 is a perspective view of a Western-style toilet having a hot water washing device to which a method of another embodiment is applied.

[Explanation of symbols]

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 Toilet room 12 Western-style toilet 14 Tank cover 26 Heating toilet seat 40 Remote control 41-46 Shower switch 51-56 Charm switch 61-63 Dry switch 41a-46a, 51a-56a, 61a-63a L
ED 78 main unit sub-operation unit

Claims (2)

(57) [Claims] 1. A human body buttocks hot water washing device main body provided on a toilet in a toilet room, a remote controller for operating the hot water washing device main body installed separately from the toilet, and a remote controller provided on the remote controller. A plurality of light emitting elements for displaying the operation state of the hot water cleaning device, and a fault diagnosis display method for the hot water cleaning device, comprising: a fault finding device provided in the hot water cleaning device main body. A failure diagnosis display method for a hot water cleaning device, wherein a failure detected by the failure detection device is displayed by turning on or off a light emitting element provided. 2. The method for displaying a fault diagnosis of a hot water cleaning device according to claim 1, wherein the remote controller displays at least three levels of emission of hot water from the hot water cleaning device in at least three levels. Element, and two or more light emitting elements for displaying the air volume of the hot air dryer in at least two stages, and for displaying the hot water jetting strength in case of failure of the hot water washing system. A failure diagnosis and display method for a hot water cleaning device, characterized in that a light emitting element is turned on or blinked, and in the case of a failure in a hot air drying system, a light emitting element for air volume display is turned on or blinked.