CN1547446A - Shower recess assembly incorporating body drier - Google Patents

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CN1547446A
CN1547446A CNA028165527A CN02816552A CN1547446A CN 1547446 A CN1547446 A CN 1547446A CN A028165527 A CNA028165527 A CN A028165527A CN 02816552 A CN02816552 A CN 02816552A CN 1547446 A CN1547446 A CN 1547446A
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
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    • A47K10/00—Body-drying implements; Toilet paper; Holders therefor
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    • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
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    • E03C1/04—Water-basin installations specially adapted to wash-basins or baths
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    • A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
    • A61H—PHYSICAL THERAPY APPARATUS, e.g. DEVICES FOR LOCATING OR STIMULATING REFLEX POINTS IN THE BODY; ARTIFICIAL RESPIRATION; MASSAGE; BATHING DEVICES FOR SPECIAL THERAPEUTIC OR HYGIENIC PURPOSES OR SPECIFIC PARTS OF THE BODY
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Abstract

A drying system is provided for incorporation in a fixed shower recess. The drying system comprises; a shower recess defined by shower walls and an opening for entry into the shower recess, a water reticulation system which supplies water from a water supply to a water outlet in the shower recess; characterised in that the shower recess further comprises an air supply delivered to the space defined by the shower recess from at least one wall of the shower recess and via said water outlet The system also includes means to control the delivery of the air supply; wherein, in operation, the air supply is delivered to the recess thereby drying the body of an occupant of the shower recess.

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Shower cabinet combined type drying body device
Technical field
The present invention relates to a kind of gas drying device, relate in particular to a kind of shower cabinet that can be used for, the whole body gas drying device of oven dry whole body after shower.The invention still further relates to a kind of drying system that is used for shower cabinet.
Background technology
In the past, people will dry health with towel after hip bath or shower.This means to drying each position of whole body, need stretch repeatedly and bend the body.This is for disabled person and very inconvenience of the elderly, and they will stand very big difficulty in toweling off the process of dried health.This can make individual's sanitary standard be affected.Dry the necessary distortion of health and can cause actual bodily harm the elderly and weakling.Even for general crowd, it also is inconvenient using towel, because after each the use, all needs towel cleaned and dries.Like this, aspect the preparation of towel, just need the effort of working with one's mind.Towel may be by shared in the bathroom in addition, and this may infect dermatopathy in the middle of the bath person in shared same bathroom.
In addition, if shower or hip bath in public places, then bath person must remember all the time and carrying towel.If leave behind towel, the method that makes things convenient for that then will not have other is dried up health.
There are many business people during lunch break, to do sports, shower then.The entrant must remember and carrying a towel, can have a bath after finishing sports.If they leave behind towel, then can only select not do sports, perhaps have to allow sweat in natural evaporation on one's body, can make the people all feel sticky discomfort in a whole afternoon unavoidably like this.
At present, still do not have and to dry whole body at shower cabinet, union shower oven dry and the equipment of arbitrarily massaging in one.Though be useful on the various drying plants of various oven dry purposes at present, do not have any one known devices to be integrated, and can carry out whole body oven dry and arbitrarily massage with shower cabinet.
In a kind of known drying unit was arranged, the user stood on the short stool, and hot-air is by a plurality of holes of stool end face, and is upwards mobile from user's both feet.Another kind of known devices provides a kind of similar booth, the shower cabinet that the user must take a step to enter, and it is made up of flexible skirtboard, and a plurality of wind hole is arranged on these skirtboards, and thermal current therefrom flows through, and side oven dry face is provided.
United States Patent (USP) 6,189 has disclosed a kind of foot baker in 231, and it comprises a drying baker with forward and backward part of the container cavity that forms pin.A pin plummer is arranged in the container cavity of pin, be used to carry user's pin.Contiguous pin plummer has a blower fan, and it is within the rear section.Blower fan is sent into air in the chamber with certain pressure.A retainer of being fixed by casing is positioned at the top of user's pin, can be used to humidity or mould inhibitor are spread on the pin downwards, and not by means of blower fan.These devices can only provide local oven dry, can not dry whole body and hair.
Another example of known baker is, United States Patent (USP) 5,996 has disclosed a kind of portable clothes baker that has carrying case in 249, and it has supporting member, and a center drilling is arranged at its top.Around the perforate on the bottom surface of supporting member, though fixed a gently more solid ventilative pocket.Elastic component the another side of supporter be enclosed within perforate around, lock ring a hair baker cylinder, and keeps airtight.A pair of adjacent belt is fixed to the both sides of supporting member, and supporting member is played the support effect, makes pocket can freely be suspended on the supporting member below.In bag, can hang wet clothes, simultaneously the energising of hair baker device.In a preferred embodiment, when the baker of pledging clothes did not use, folding wall sheet extended out from supporting member, to contain the pocket that closely is folded to the supporting member bottom surface.This patent does not claim that this drying unit can be used as the drying body device.
United States Patent (USP) 6,148,539 have disclosed a kind of adjustable drying body device system, and it comprises a housing, and this housing has a pair of opposed sidewall and an end face that is connected between the sidewall top margin.Each is surrounded sidewall and end face by an outer wall and an inwall, forms the space of a hollow.Comprise a passage that is positioned within device sidewall and the end face in addition.Also have a plurality of hole assemblies to be installed within the sidewall, and communicate with passage.Also have a fan assembly in addition, it comprises that is used for making the air passage of flowing through after startup, and the fan that flows out from the hole assembly, also has a plurality of heating element heaters, and it is installed among the air channel of fan airstream, is used for adding after startup hot-air.Also have a control panel, be used for pressing the button back startup fan and heating element heater.This is a kind of console mode baker, can not be integrated with shower cabinet.
As the known drying unit example of another kind, United States Patent (USP) 5,970, disclosed a kind of hair drying unit that is installed on ground in 622, utilized it, the user can control temperature and air mass flow with a pin or both feet, to dry up hair, with the hands put hair style simultaneously in order.An electronic hair baker is installed on the flexible leg.This flexible leg is connected with a ground pedestal, and this ground pedestal can be supported this flexible leg and the top electronic hair baker of installing.A pin is electrically connected and mechanical connection with the foot control panel with panel, and it can be operated by pin.By the button on the foot control panel, the user can control the hot blast or the cold wind of the head that is used to dry the user, a flow selecting arrangement is controlled by the foot control device on the foot control panel, utilize it, above-mentioned user can select air flow rate in airflow range, in this scope, can increase to big flow gradually from low discharge.Most of known drying units are all less, can only dry the local part of health, such as both hands and both feet.
United States Patent (USP) 5,819,431 have disclosed the method for a kind of pin drying unit and oven dry both feet.This pin baker makes flow through user's the whole top and the bottom of pin of heated air under certain pressure.This baker comprises a baker housing, and it has air accomodating unit behind a preceding blast fence unit and, and itself and baker housing form a pin container cavity.A blower fan is installed in the baker housing, is used for uniform airflow is transported to safely and effectively with certain pressure the top and the bottom of pin.A fog discharge device is installed on the back air accomodating unit of baker housing, vaporific mould inhibitor particle automatically is sprayed onto user's tiptoe downwards.The powder that is sprayed helps to suppress the generation of foot mould, such as the ringworm of the foot.The amount of being sprayed can measured in this scope and selecting from normal sprinkling amount to maximum sprinkling.
Another example of baker can be from United States Patent (USP) 5,752,326 find out, this Patent publish a kind ofly be used to dry object, the drying body device of human body particularly, comprise a housing and an one or more air blades that is used for producing air-flow in the oven dry space that forms the oven dry space, it can form eddy current or whirlpool.This air-flow preferably can circulate, and this air-flow is handled by process, such as heating, dry and cleaning.
Another example as the oven dry assembly, United States Patent (USP) 6,047,416 have disclosed a kind of comprehensive physiotherapy shower, be used for health to the user and carry out completely stable 360 degree physiotherapys and wash away, current are from as a series of holes ejections on shower fitting spray nozzle in the space of shower booth and the pipe.These pipes are connected together by rotary gas, a water servo control mechanism that rotates around vertical feed pipe.Hole can make water flow jet arrive the center of shower booth.Rotary servo control mechanism is driven by a motor, and servo control mechanism makes pipe center on the shower booth and rotates, and in this motion, current spray in pipe, and the user's that is in shower booth center health is produced physiotherapy function.As desiring to dry up health, the user is by starting oven dry control after the shower, and changeable is to spray hot blast from same pipe.This is a kind of integral type portable unit, be difficult to and traditional shower cabinet adapted, and disclosed be not a kind of collapsible shower of combined type that in a shower, comprises seedpod of the lotus nozzle, oven dry gas delivery system, massage system.
The benefit that human body is massaged is on record, and people also know without recourse to professional masseur, have increasing people to adopt hydromassage in order to enjoy this benefit recently, and this is a kind of massage of being implemented by liquid stream.
Yet,, can find some defectives at user's whole body massage, around aspect the thermal change of user's health and the relevant drying system for the device that appears on the market in recent years.The physiotherapy characteristic that these defectives of being found cause people to draw present shower bath still remains very big improved conclusion.Therefore user's needs are had to partly satisfy.Although there is the drying system of also using or being integrated with shower bath, but any one in these systems all can not provide a kind of specific physiotheraping effect based on the multiinjector system effect, there is a large amount of shower baths well known at present, and appeared on the market, above-mentioned some patents have reflected this point.
Specifically, Bianchi4,724,553 devices have proposed a kind ofly can carry out continuously, but are the shower device of unidirectional hydromassage, are all having certain body part to be covered by water or air in the stipulated time arbitrarily.
Have the purpose of some other inventions be on health, to produce a kind of physiotheraping effect (Fohran2,536,656, Immel 2,341,604, Antoine 5,418,985, Knapp 4,544,690, Hiraishi5,428,850, Sieth 5,299,743), but their specific design can not be provided at the comprehensive physiotheraping effect that this looks for, because they can not cover user's whole body fully continuously.Fohran 2,536, and 656 propose a kind of hydrotherapeutic apparatus at human body, thereby can not cover people's whole health, can not produce required overall physiotheraping effect.
Summary of the invention
The present invention is intended to the problem and the defective that solve above-described use towel and need dry health with towel.The invention provides a kind of whole body drying unit that whole health comprises hair of drying.It integrates folding bath system and massaging and physiotherapeutical system, so that a kind of pleasant drying effect to be provided.Based on this massage ability, in the shower process, also can produce pleasant sensation.Collapsible this additional capabilities of shower means that shower can occupy less space in the bathroom, thereby is extremely useful under the environment of limited space.
In a broad sense, the present invention includes:
The drying system that can be placed in the fixing shower cabinet; Wherein, this system comprises:
One enters the shower cabinet that the inlet of shower cabinet is formed by shower cabinet sidewall and one;
A latticed water system that supplies water to the shower cabinet delivery port from the water source;
It is characterized in that shower cabinet also comprises at least one sidewall from shower cabinet to the space air feed that is formed by shower cabinet, and via the air-supply pipeline of above-mentioned delivery port; And
The device of control gas supply; Wherein, gas is supplied to shower cabinet, is in the health of the user in the shower cabinet in this oven dry.
In the preferred implementation of this health shower drying unit, in shower cabinet, drying body is controlled by the user.The user can control at his/her fill rat, temperature and wind supply quantity.The user can use the drying body device with fixing being provided with, thereby reach the drying effect of the most comfortable according to demands of individuals.
For making air themperature adjustable, this device needs a kind of ability that can produce the adjustable hot blast of its temperature of being used to dry user's health.
Aspect this hot blast of generation, two kinds of best settings are arranged.
First kind is to adopt the high resistance electrical heating elements, but its Fast Heating drive air-flow then and therefrom pass, produce hot blast thus.The electric energy that flows to heating element heater can be controlled, thereby control the temperature of air.
The another kind of method of regulating air themperature is to form two strands of air-flows, a cold heat.These two strands of air-flows enter in the pipeline, merge into one air-flow at this.These two strands of air-flows that form one air-flow are controlled separately by valve respectively, and this valve can be controlled the air quantity that enters in this strand air-flow.Like this,, when two strands of air-flows integrate, regulate one air-flow ratio of another strand air-flow relatively, can regulate temperature by setting up controlling organization.
The heating element heater that produces hot blast requires the expenditure of energy.In a kind of best approach that produces hot blast,, can reduce energy consumption by using gas tank.The required hot blast of drying body apparatus can need hot blast to produce in advance before drying the user, and stores in the gas tank.Can after drying body device energising, reduce required energy like this, because hot blast gets ready, and can blow into shower cabinet at any time, and need not to consume more instant energy consumption.
These heating means should with one by motor-driven fan adapted.When needs blow into shower cabinet with air, fan will rotate, and produce air-flow thus.User in the shower cabinet can be known the rotating speed of motor and fan, further to regulate.
In a preferred embodiment, there is the whole bag of tricks can increase the drying body effect.
Infrared light generator can be set, in drying course, to use in shower cabinet.These light beam irradiates arrive on one's body the user, and the user is carried out infrared therapy.Air flow A and air spices is blown into shower cabinet, can produce a kind of pleasant fragrance when the oven dry health, thereby more strengthen physiotheraping effect.Also can adapted halogen heating arrangements, thus help to dry user's health and shower room.These physiotherapys and drying mechanism can be set to integral type and bathe in the drying body device of back.
In another kind of preferred implementation, provide massage system with the whole bag of tricks.This system has massage assembly, can massage human body by hydrotherapy, and wherein, water jet is set on the appropriate location of approaching the human body of being massaged in the shower cabinet.It also can directly contact by utilizing the massage cushion on the drying body device sidewall, and massage is provided.It also can blow to gas on user's health by adopting, and to produce the airflow of massage effect, provides massage.Like this, by adopting this three kinds of technology, can provide a kind of massage system that can strengthen the shower quality greatly.These massage functions can be set to integral type and bathe in the drying body device of back.
In another kind of preferred implementation, shower is collapsible, thereby provides bigger benefit for the shower user.The shower fold mechanism describes in detail hereinafter.
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Fig. 1 represents to be installed on the front view of the drying system in the shower cabinet.
Fig. 2 represents the shower fold mechanism in a kind of embodiment.
Fig. 3 represents same fold mechanism shown in Figure 2, represents shower sidewall/screen board emphatically.
Fig. 4 represents the another kind of embodiment that shower is folded with.
Fig. 5 represents to be furnished with a kind of internal structure of embodiment of the air baker of shower head.
Fig. 6 represents a kind of device of air temperature modification.
The specific embodiment
Fig. 1 represents that user 1 in collapsible shower cabinet 5, stands under water, the wind delivery nozzles 2.Nozzle can be carried empty G﹠W according to shower person's needs.Nozzle 2 is the common working method of shower to user's 1 transporting water this point.From traditional water source (not shown), provide water along water pipe 3.
Nozzle 2 also communicates with baker airduct 4, and it makes the double action that nozzle 2 has not only can be provided air but also water can be provided.Air-flow 6 is provided for the user 1 in the collapsible shower cabinet 5.
The supply of air-flow is controlled by motor 7, itself and oven dry airduct 4 and air hose 9 relation of communicating.According to a kind of embodiment, motor 7 has a fan, and it supplies air via pipeline 4 or flexible pipe 9, and air is provided from user 1 top and below.The insider should be understood that the ad-hoc location of air-out can change, to adapt to each user's demand.
The many spray orifices system that points to usage space has the possibility that can make hot blast cover user's whole body.After a shower head is set up on the top of shower device, can make air-flow cover health fully, to dry.An air extraction system can be set in shower cabinet, deflating rapidly where necessary, and the circulation that increases surrounding air.
After the user places the shower platform, just can begin hot-air seasoning.
The invention provides a kind of utilize its temperature and flow adjustable around or the air of heating, dry the method for whole body.It is regulated by the user, to fix according to individual demand the drying body device is set.The adjustable height of drying body device is to adapt to any user's height.The invention provides a kind of integral type shower, drying body system, it can be used as a sub-assembly or through behind the remodeling, is installed in traditional shower cabinet.
According to a kind of embodiment, shower cabinet comprises health massage and drying body device 10, foot massager 11, and it can make the user individually or be subjected to the mechanical type massage in drying course.
A kind of mode of the present invention provides a kind of integral type shower, air type drying body device and massage system.This system comprises a heater, shower head and drying body assembly and massage machine, and it has more physiotheraping effect.Whole shower and oven dry assembly can launch, dwindle, to reduce the occupation of land space in the bathroom.
Heating system preferably includes a heating element heater and a blower mechanism, such as fan.The temperature of heating element heater can be regulated, with control delivery air temperature.Rotation speed of the fan can be controlled, blows to air-flow size on user's health with adjusting.These adjustings can be undertaken by a dial or switch by the user.
Though can air directly be flowed to the user who is in the shower cabinet by direct transfer passage, also can directly carry from a storage tank such as the heating element heater top.Store heated air with a gas tank and have more economy, can consume less energy because temperature is in accordance with regulations preserved air.
Like this, can be before such as shower or shower before medium use, storage is pumped air when the time comes more as required by pre-heated air.
The drying body device has a shower head 2, and it has two kinds of mode of operations, thereby can transmit water and hot blast by corresponding pipeline 3 and 4 according to operator's selection.Like this, water and air is exported from shower head.Select air or water with a switch.User's health top (head and hair) and upper body are dried by shower head, and health middle part and bottom are dried by the isolation perforate of output hot blast on the sidewall.The temperature of hot blast is controlled by switch.The height of shower head can be regulated automatically by control motor 7.Like this, the user can be dried and shower by desired height.Shower, drying body device and massage system can be used as an assembly and are set on the common shower, perhaps are set to by the following method on the folding shower device.The advantage that is set in the folding shower system is, when shower/when the drying body device does not use, do not occupy any space.
Typical combined type shower device comprises support arm, motor, bolt, skirtboard, tap and a motor drive mechanism.Utilize motor 7, under the effect that is vertically arranged in two driving worm screws on the sidewall, the shower sidewall can upper and lowerly move.When motor made the driving worm screw to a direction or the rotation of another direction, two support arms that are connected with this driving worm screw just according to driving turning to of worm screw, moved up or down.Support arm is connected with the top margin of skirtboard.The base of skirtboard is connected with the shower bottom surface.Like this, along with the shower support arm moves up or down, skirtboard will stretch or launch automatically.So just, form the sidewall of shower.For water is flowed out from this device, raise a bit a little on the shower base, and there is a shower floss hole bottom surface, is used to make water to flow out, and on four corners, is provided with the position that can be connected with the shower skirtboard.
When folding shower, fall support arm, skirtboard does not launch.90 degree can be rotated to vertical direction from level in the shower bottom surface, when not using, can lie low on sidewall, make shower not occupy any space in the bathroom.
The massage facility of assembly can comprise foot and body massager, and it has a bottom surface of being furnished with the massage slack side.After pin put, will carry out natural massage automatically.
When foot massaged, slowly moved lax bottom surface, produces spread effect, thereby both feet are massaged.The health massage comprises the delivery port 10 (adjacent with the gas outlet) that is positioned at sidewall, and the water column that its ejection is strong impacts on the human body.Also have a mechanical massage device of being located at sidewall, when the user with he/when her health comes to above it, just can obtain massage.
As mentioned above, the shower housing, shower head, drying body device and free massage system can be used as an assembly (assembly) and use, and perhaps assign to be installed to separately used shower or bathroom as independent part.The material that is adopted should be durable and water-fast.
The heating cabinet assembly is not to be only limited to heating element heater and fan component.Also can be that hot blast can be provided, thereby can farthest dry any parts combination of health.Material that is adopted and equipment can be any suitable durable and water-fast materials.
Can sell separately with the drying body device of shower adapted, especially lateral body baker and special-purpose shower head/baker, can be installed in easily on the existing arbitrarily shower.
Fig. 5 represents to be furnished with a kind of internal structure of embodiment of the air baker of shower head.
This setting comprises a heating system container 50, and it is furnished with high-resistance material heating element heater coil 51.This system also comprises a temperature sensor 52.Fan electromotor 53 drives it and comes the fan 54 of admission of air by fresh air inlet 55.Air efferent duct 57 transmits air-flow 58, and shower water pipe 56 transmits shower water 59.Numeral combination wall of 60 expressions or ceiling installation component among Fig. 5, it comprises the outlet of an integral type baker, illumination and heating element heater.
Fig. 6 represents a kind of device of air temperature modification.
This setting comprises fresh air inlet 70, the motor 71 of drive fan 72.This setting also comprises valve gap 73, high-resistance material heating element heater coil 74.Pipe 75 transmits cold wind, and pipe 76 transmits hot blast.
In another kind of mode, the present invention includes a folding shower cabinet assembly, its can with the drying body system adapted of describing in the above-described embodiment.
Folding shower assembly comprises and is used for shrinking or folding shower screen board motor, folded wall, the device of lead.
Folding shower has three kinds of best settings.
Respectively with a, b, c represent, below are explained in Fig. 4.
Fig. 4 represents the another kind of embodiment that shower is folded with.
A) so long as the suitable material that is suitable for folding, two sidewalls of left and right side just can be as folding as the accordion.Such as, can make by many wrinkles plastics skirtboard material.Fold by horizontal direction, lie low on wall after folding.
B) highlighted this embodiment among Fig. 2 and Fig. 3.Represented is from the sagging shower of ceiling.
C) this embodiment is represented is a kind of and the opposite rigid sidewalls that is provided with shown in the embodiment (a).The rigid sidewalls doubling of left and right side.Fold by horizontal direction, lie low on wall after folding.
Fig. 2 and Fig. 3 describe the fold mechanism of (b) among Fig. 4 in detail.
Fig. 2 represents the shower fold mechanism in a kind of embodiment.
The embodiment of Fig. 2 illustrates a kind of motor 20, and it drives spool 22.When it rotates, spool 22 and 21 engagements of band roller, it makes shower tray 24 rise and descend by chaining part 23, and this chaining part can be chain, wire or rope, and like this, shower tray can rise to ceiling, thereby shower is folded up.
Fig. 3 represents same fold mechanism shown in Figure 2, represents shower sidewall/screen board emphatically.
The setting of Fig. 3 comprises ceiling 30, in abutting connection with motor 31 and shower tray cover plate 32.Water pipe 33 supplies water to shower cabinet, and air feed pipe 34 provides air.Fold and have shower screen board 36 on the cover plate of part 35.The user starts air-flow by gauge tap panel 37, and the user can also utilize it that shower screen board/sidewall is risen or descend.Wire/rope/chain 38 and shower sidewall/part 39 interlocks that fold are so that shower tray 40 rises and descends.The bottom of assembly is a shower tray 40, and it comprises shower water floss hole 41.
Under the prerequisite that does not break away from purport of the present invention and scope, can make various changes and modification to the invention that this paper records and narrates, the insider should give understanding to this.

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1. one can be placed in the interior drying body system of shower cabinet; Wherein, this system comprises:
One enters the shower cabinet that the inlet of shower cabinet is formed by shower cabinet sidewall and one;
A latticed water system that supplies water to the shower cabinet delivery port from the water source;
It is characterized in that shower cabinet also comprises at least one sidewall from shower cabinet to the space air feed that is formed by shower cabinet, and via the air-supply pipeline of above-mentioned delivery port; And
The device of control gas supply; Wherein, gas is supplied to shower cabinet, is in the health of the user in the shower cabinet in this oven dry.
2. drying system as claimed in claim 1 is characterized in that, before sending above-mentioned air to shower cabinet, comes air heat by heating element heater.
3. drying system as claimed in claim 2 is characterized in that, before sending shower cabinet to, comes air heat by heating element heater.
4. drying system as claimed in claim 3 is characterized in that, the air that sends shower cabinet to heats by an electrical heating elements.
5. drying system as claimed in claim 4 is characterized in that air outlet slit is in the shower cabinet, by one or more sidewalls and shower head, comes properly around the user who is in the shower cabinet.
6. drying system as claimed in claim 5 is characterized in that, also comprises user's controller that is in the shower cabinet, also comprises by above-mentioned air outlet slit, controls the device of supply rate, temperature and the air quantity of the air-flow that offers the user.
7. drying system as claimed in claim 6 is characterized in that, this system comprises a transmission fan, and it is powered by motor, is used for to the shower cabinet air feed.
8. drying system as claimed in claim 7 is characterized in that, thermostat and heating element heater electric coupling, and with in selected high and low temperature scope, the thermal energy that control is produced by heating element heater.
9. drying system as claimed in claim 7 is characterized in that thermal current and cold airflow converge into one air-flow by adjustable ratio, regulates air themperature thus.
10. drying system as claimed in claim 8 or 9, it is characterized in that, wind supply quantity is controlled and is regulated by the control device that can operate in shower cabinet, thereby can make the user between maximum air feed rate and minimum air feed rate, perhaps connects and turn-offs between the air-flow and select.
11. drying system as claimed in claim 10 is characterized in that, hot blast needs hot blast to produce before drying the user, and is stored in the gas tank.
12. drying system as claimed in claim 10 is characterized in that, also comprises an extract system, is used for extracting out in shower cabinet heat oven dry gas.
13. drying system as claimed in claim 10 is characterized in that, comprises that also one is used to help to dry user's the health and the halogen heating arrangements in bathroom.
14. drying system as claimed in claim 10 is characterized in that, comprises infrared light generator, it is light beam directive user, and provides infrared therapy to the user.
15. drying system as claimed in claim 10 is characterized in that, the air that is pumped to shower cabinet mixes with spices, thereby produces pleasant aroma gases when the oven dry health.
16. drying system that comprises claim 11,12,13,14, any combination of 15.
17. drying system as claimed in claim 16 is characterized in that, comprises that also an energy massages the massage combinations body of human body by hydrotherapy, wherein, the current of ejection are in the shower cabinet near by on the appropriate location of massage person's body position.
18. drying system as claimed in claim 16, it is characterized in that, comprise that an energy comes the massage combinations body to a minority's body of interior user between massage and shower by mechanical oscillation, wherein, can utilize shower cabinet sidewall or ground massage cushion directly to contact, provide massage with this with human body.
19. drying system as claimed in claim 16 is characterized in that, comprises a massage combinations body, wherein, the air-flow spout blows to air on one's body the user, so that human body is produced massage effect.
20. drying system as claimed in claim is comprising a massage combinations body with claim 17,18, any combined matching of 19.
21. as the described drying system of above-mentioned any claim, it is characterized in that this is combined to form in the integrated device of a compactness, can be used as attachment device and existing shower adapted.
22., it is characterized in that it is installed on the bathroom and is not shower as the described drying system of above-mentioned any claim.
23. a folding shower cabinet assembly comprises following combination:
Be used to shrink or the device of folding shower screen board, motor, folded wall, lead.
24. folding shower cabinet assembly as claimed in claim 23 is characterized in that the top of shower is connected with the ceiling in folding shower space of living in.
25. folding shower cabinet assembly as claimed in claim 24 is characterized in that, is folded by motor, motor rotates a roller, and roller makes rope reel on belt wheel again, thus shower tray is pulled upwardly to ceiling.
26. folding shower cabinet assembly as claimed in claim 25 is characterized in that, the shower sidewall is collapsible and collapsible.
27. folding shower cabinet assembly as claimed in claim 26 is characterized in that, the shower sidewall comes by vertical direction folding with the accordion shape.
28. folding shower cabinet assembly as claimed in claim 23 is characterized in that, the shower sidewall can shrink and folding by horizontal direction.
29. folding shower cabinet assembly as claimed in claim 24 is characterized in that, two shower sidewalls come by horizontal direction folding with the accordion shape.
30. folding shower cabinet assembly as claimed in claim 29 is characterized in that, two shower sidewalls come doubling folding by horizontal direction.
31. folding shower cabinet assembly as claimed in claim 29 is characterized in that motor is drawn in the shower sidewall, and two sidewalls of shower are folded by the accordion shape, makes shower be contracted to the residing sidewall of shower thus.
32. as the described folding shower cabinet assembly of each claim of claim 1～21, it is characterized in that, comprise the described drying body of each claim of claim 23～31 system.
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