CN1426501A

CN1426501A - Men's urinal

Info

Publication number: CN1426501A
Application number: CN01808576A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 达埃松·利姆
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 2000-04-27
Filing date: 2001-04-27
Publication date: 2003-06-25
Also published as: AUPQ715700A0; KR20030023621A; WO2001083899A1; EP1278919A1; EP1278919A4; JP2003531984A

Abstract

This invention provides an automatic elevator urinal which uses sensors. Currently male users' urinate in unisex toilet bowls or in stationary male urinals so there is many occurrences of urine spilling outside the urinal or toilet bowl resulting in bad odours and unhygienic conditions and use the same amount of water as with defecation. This invention provides a solution to these problems. It provides an urinal for men which calculates the appropriate height the urinal bowl should be for each different male user and adjusts the urinal bowl height so it will be a perfect match for each individual user. This will maximise ease of use and minimise urine spillage. It comprises of the urinal bowl 1, the main sliding board 2 for the urinal to slide vertically in, the water tank 7, the motor 8 which drives the urinal bowl vertically, a proximity sensor 3 to detect a user approaching and leaving, a height measuring sensor 4 and the control unit (hardware controller) which moves the urinal bowl vertically to a calculated appropriate value. The benefits of this invention are that it gives complete underneath cover so that it does not allow the urine to fall outside to maximise hygiene. It will also only use the necessary amount of water when flushing to minimise water usage leading to water saving.

Description

Men's urinal

Technical field

The present invention relates to men's urinal, refer in particular to a kind of according to the people height and the vertical automatically toilet that moves is regulated height better so that this toilet can be each user.Like this, what it prevented to urinate overflows, and increases comfort, health and conserve water.

Background technology

On current market, have the toilet of many shapes.Wherein, two kinds of main traditional types are arranged.First kind is the peviform type, and it has a chamber pot to adhere on the wall with a fixing height, and once is that a people uses.Because this toilet is fixed on middle low clearance usually, therefore, if user's height is looked high, they will have the difficulty that is not easy urine is aimed at this low chamber pot that is hanging, and this is owing to there is bigger distance between this toilet and user's the buttocks.In order to correct this situation, this tall person's Ziren can be crooked he knee or draw back, so just caused inconvenience to it.On the contrary, if this level altitude is too high, then child or short person people will have and use the difficult of this toilet or possibly can't use it owing to can't reach.The toilet of this fixed type and its highly make and are not complementary between user and the chamber pot height, some other defective that it brought is, it may cause the user to miss this chamber pot fully, and when urine pounded on chamber pot with the angle of mistake and is too high, a large amount of urine can spill.This urine that spills may be splashed to the user on hand or on the clothes and spill on the ground, so make this toilet utmost point not be health, and, if the urine that overflows subsequently makes ground become sliding, then also can increase the danger that the people slips.

Second kind of general type of this toilet is the casing type, and it can once provide to many people, and it has the metallic channel of a toilet shape, and this groove vertically is positioned on the wall and urinates the bottom that will gather this groove and discharge then.Such weak point is owing to its back is flat, when urine is beaten thereon, it will backwash to user's body.Equally, because this toilet is exposed in the air, health, especially taste are big problems.Equally, even a single people uses this toilet, this will cause the waste of water all will to wash whole groove.

In the above in the two breeds of horses bucket of Miao Shuing, in order to attempt to reduce spilling of urine, the user can stand from toilet far away with splashing of avoiding urinating, and when the urine injection is more weak (for example, when the user almost finishes urine), then will increase urine and drip on the toilet limit or ground danger.

At last, see typical residential district if we refer now to, they have only usually is that the flush toilet that two kinds of sex excrements are used does not have an independent men's urinal.The man can cause the foregoing problem that is not complementary with this flush toilet as the toilet use, thus general problem is missing of chamber pot or urinate be splashed to around or on user's the body or on the clothes.This means that needing often to clean the lavatory keeps health.In addition, also need the user before urine and after the urine, to dig or put down toilet lid respectively.Like this, extra bacterium or urine can touch the user, and it will make the user feel unclean, even this only is spiritual.Equally, being exactly that the user is bored repeatedly digs toilet lid, also can cause urine to get on the lid.

Equally, if flush toilet uses as toilet then can bring another problem: a large amount of wastes of water.These flush toilet have a water tank of typically depositing 13 premium on currency, all use the identical water yield to be used to wash excrements.As a result, when the child of 3 years old size learns own when using the lavatory, he can find this flush toilet for it Tai Gao consequently can not use in person.

Summary of the invention

In order to address the above problem, main purpose of the present invention provides a kind of toilet that can both be in ideal height for everyone, it will provide below a lid, and it automatically moves to desirable height from the bottom, thereby gets rid of the common problem of splashing of overflowing and urinating.This means and on health, obtained great improvement.Equally, use this toilet will make tall person's Ziren when urine can straight and upright its back of the body and short person people can use it more like a cork, thereby be greatly improved on comfort for everyone.

The adjusting of all toilet height is finished automatically by using a sensor and automation train of mechanism, and therefore, the user need not to worry anything when using this toilet.The user does not need to contact by any way this toilet.

Equally, this toilet provides the saving of substantial water than the flush toilet of majority.Most flush toilet once flushing uses 13 premium on currency, and this toilet uses 4 premium on currency, makes that like this flushing can be saved 9 premium on currency each time.In future, when water resource becomes when more and more lacking, this toilet will provide a kind of alternative solution for existing flush toilet.

Description of drawings

Fig. 1 is the work schematic diagram of automatic lifting men's urinal.

Fig. 2 is the internal construction schematic diagram of automatic lifting men's urinal.

Fig. 3 is the flow chart and the time diagram of automatic lifting men's urinal system.

Fig. 4 is the hardware block figure of automatic lifting men's urinal system.

Specific embodiment

See also shown in Figure 1ly, will describe the use of this toilet from user's angle below.At first, the someone needs urine.As this people during from about 0.8 to 1.2 meter of proximity sense 3 distance, this sensor just detects this people's arrival and washes this toilet.

This sensor 4 that is in the higher position detects this people's height 6, and this information is sent to control module.This control module calculates 43% of this height that detects, activates motor mechanism then and drives this toilet 1 and move to correct height from original position.This original position is meant the extreme lower position that this toilet can arrive, and this position is the position of returning after the user finishes urine.

Usually, the height of man's penis is approximately and starts at 43% of this people's height 6 from ground.Therefore, for the user, the ideal height of this toilet is to equal or a little less than above-mentioned height.Thereby long by 3 years old and beginning is own when using the lavatory as children, his height is approximately (if the user looks very short and small, this explanation is same suitable) about 1 meter.Then, this toilet will be automatically moved to 43 cm heights or a shade below this height so that be in above-mentioned desirable height.On the contrary, if the user has 2 meters high, then the ideal height of this toilet is about 86 centimetres.

Please see Figure now shown in 2, A shows short individual a people and a toilet and is in correct position; And B shows a tall person people, and his toilet is higher slightly and be in correct position.C and D then show the structure of A and B in greater detail.

Fig. 2 has shown that also this motor mechanism is used for the vertical automatically situation that moves this toilet.When motor 8 during with or the rotation of other route, 9 of belts of straining between two cylinders are by motor 8 driven rotary.This chape 9 has a point 10 that is connected in this toilet.Thereby this toilet 1 moves between two borders along the direction shown in 5.

Fig. 2 has demonstrated the common components that needs equally in this toilet or lavatory.Motor 8 and water tank 7 are arranged at the top of toilet.One cover plate 2 is hidden in wherein and some other internal construction is imbedded in the wall.At this slide rail 12 of two vertical arrangements is arranged above the cover plate 2.The back side of this toilet 1 is flat and meets at right angles and two vertical edges is embedded in this slide rail 12.Therefore, when this toilet 1 was for vertical movement by motor belt 9 drives, in fact it slided on these two vertical slide rails 12.Described slide rail 12 provides a vertical guide of moving for toilet 1, and provides strength for supporting this toilet on a stable upright position.

This drainage system comprises two pipes 11 that are staggered in together, i.e. a inside that is installed in another root.Therefore, when this toilet by vertical when mobile, the pipe of the inside is about to slide and makes this pipe stretch out and withdraw, so that keep this pipe 11 to be connected in the draining of this chamber pot.

Please see Figure now shown in 3, it shows the flow chart of the roughly operating procedure of this toilet work by more conventional form.

1. the user is near this toilet.

2. the sensor that is in the higher position detects this people's height.

3. control module calculates 43% and rotation motor of this height to regulate the height of this toilet.

At this moment, this control module also will wash it before this toilet is used.

4. proximity sense detects this user and whether has finished urine and left this toilet.

5. this toilet is carried out flushing for the second time.

6. this toilet turns back to its original position.

As an example of time course, time diagram is from more preferably illustrated these steps in form.

Continue to consult shown in Figure 4, it demonstrates the function of this control module.This control module is one

Electronic circuit is used for operating automatically and coordinating effectively the work of this toilet.

It receives the signal that sends from proximity sense, to have pointed out that the people is apart from 0.8 to 1.2 meter in this toilet.Another signal is used to then show that this people has left this toilet.

Then, after above-mentioned two kinds of signals all were received, it just activated the electromagnetism water valve module that is used for washing automatically this toilet.

The measuring transducer module that is in the higher position is measured this height and is exported this height value to this control module.This control module then uses its counting circuit to calculate 43% of this input height.This highly be begin to measure from ground and also with respect to ground.

This control module then is sent to this motor control module with the height value of this toilet as a signal.This motor controller module receives the height value signal of this toilet and sends the signal of regulating this height from this control module, is specified by this signal then and moves this motor to this toilet height.

At last, this starting point/terminal point limit module sends a signal to this control module and tells it to move this motor to original position.The inner signal that sends of this control module makes this motor get back to original position to the motor controller module.

As can be seen, preexist has the automatic height measuring device based on the light emitting devices of infrared rays, laser or other light sources already, is used to calculate the height of an object.Equally as can be seen, this height measurement module that is used to calculate user's height device that can be any of these preexist a kind of use or they a kind of customization version or be in particular this toilet user's height detecting and the brand-new height measuring device that designs.This special position sensor described in the above-mentioned variation of this invention make use up respond to this user head to calculate this people's height.Though the height induction device of many preexists is arranged, this position sensor is not limited to be installed in above the residing ceiling of user, and it can be placed on other Anywhere, and this depends on the use of this special height measurement module fully.For example, this sensor can be on the wall a vertical bar, and its transmits a normal beam of being launched by user's health.But, the light beam of user's above-head is not to be sent by its health.Like this, allow this sensor to survey this people's height.This is only used for surveying a kind of possible system of selection of height.

As can be seen, this toilet ideal position that need move to be not must as above-mentioned described user's height 43%.It can the person's of being to use 40%, 45%, 35% or other any percentages highly.

As can be seen, the original position of this toilet must not be the extreme lower position that this toilet can reach.It can be any height, such as 1 meter, and 1.2 meters or 0.6 meter.Home position after this toilet uses neither be in this original position.Instead, it can be the up-to-date position that this toilet just had been used.

As can be seen, this motor might not drive motor belt and rotates this toilet is vertically moved.This motor belt can be replaced by other mechanisms.For example, a chain belt, worm drive or gear.

As can be seen, be used for operating automatically this toilet mechanism for vertical movement and be not limited to motor form recited above.Many other optional mechanisms are such as making water, the cylinder of hydraulic pressure or air can both be when it stretches out with withdrawal vertical mobile this toilet.

As can be seen, this toilet shape shown in the figure or pipe or other external Design all can be not limited to its shape, as long as suitablely all may be utilized.

Equally as can be seen, the form of the proximity sense of this use is not limited to above-mentioned light emitting devices.It can be other forms such as the ground transaucer that is placed on this toilet front, will trigger it in the time of on the user steps on it.

In order to help to understand the present invention, show a specific embodiment of the present invention by appended accompanying drawing now.

Claims

1. regulate men's urinal highly automatically for one kind, it is characterized in that it comprises:

One chamber pot that slides up and down;

One vertically moves the mechanism of this toilet automatically;

Sensor is used to survey this toilet user's height;

Control module calculates the suitable height of this toilet for each this toilet user;

Coordinate the functional and automation of different toilets.

2. men's urinal as claimed in claim 1 is characterized in that, this is used for automechanism for vertical movement and is based on motor drive attached to the belt on this toilet, gear, worm drive or chain rotation, so according to the direction of rotation, this motor will make this toilet move up and down.

3. men's urinal as claimed in claim 1 is characterized in that, this control toilet automechanism for vertical movement is based on water, and the cylinder of hydraulic pressure or air pressure is provided with power.

4. the men's urinal of arbitrary claim as previously described, it is characterized in that, be positioned at user top or other any suitable places such as the photoemission pickoff of wall by use,, can be used for this user's of sensing height such as infrared rays or laser.

5. the men's urinal of arbitrary claim as previously described, it is characterized in that, the adjusting of this toilet height is by using a position sensor at first to measure this user's height, give control module with this feedback information then, calculate the suitable height of this toilet for this user, then this information is sent to mechanism controls device module, move motor by it, perhaps hydraulic pressure, the cylinder of air or water or other are any can be by suitably used mechanism so that this toilet moves to suitable height.

6. the men's urinal of arbitrary claim as previously described is characterized in that, the suitable height of this toilet is a certain percentage of human body height, such as 43% or other any desirable percentages.

7. the men's urinal of arbitrary claim as previously described is characterized in that, also has some annexes such as proximity sense or other to increase the device of this toilet feature.

8. use and comprise the same principle of this toilet height of adjusting to a percentage of human body height, this principle can be used in the process industry, promptly when an object during near target, the sensor that is in the higher position by use is surveyed the height of this object and is calculated the percentage of this height so that by using an automechanism such as motor or hydraulic pressure, the cylinder of air pressure or water is enclosed a sign or made a certain percentage of a certain other movement of objects to this object height by this control module.