CN217601604U - Remote controller for toilet - Google Patents

Abstract

Provided is a remote control for a toilet, wherein an illumination portion does not cause glare to a user regardless of the use situation, and the user can appropriately recognize the position of an operation target. A remote control (1) for a toilet according to the disclosed technology comprises a main body and an illumination unit. The main body is mounted on a wall surface of a toilet or the like. The illumination section illuminates the outside (R) of the main body. Thus, the toilet (3) can be illuminated to some extent without lighting the toilet (3) itself.

Description

Remote controller for toilet

Technical Field

The disclosed technology relates to a remote controller for a toilet.

Background

Conventionally, a remote controller for remotely controlling an apparatus is used for a toilet. The "cleaning operation device" described in patent document 1 is also an example thereof. The cleaning device is operated by a user for remote control of the device. In this apparatus, the user presses a washing operation button to perform washing by the washing apparatus. In the technique of this document, the washing operation device is provided with an illumination portion so as to surround the washing operation button from the outer periphery. By lighting the lighting portion, the user can easily recognize the position of the washing operation button.

Patent document 1: japanese patent laid-open publication No. 2011-94320

The above-described conventional techniques have the following problems. Depending on the usage situation, the lighting portion that is turned on may cause a user to feel dazzling. This is because the lighting portion is located on the front surface of the washing operation device, and the light is radiated forward from the lighting portion, as in the washing operation button.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

The disclosed technology has been made to solve the above-mentioned problems of the prior art. That is, the object is to provide a remote controller for a toilet, which prevents a user from being dazzled by an illumination portion regardless of the use situation and enables the user to appropriately recognize the position of an operation target.

One aspect of the disclosed technology provides a toilet remote controller including: a main body mounted on a wall surface and an illumination part for illuminating the outside of the main body.

The illumination unit may be disposed at a lower portion of the body in an attached state to a wall surface.

The illumination direction of the illumination unit in the attached state of the main body may be a direction toward a wall surface.

The illumination unit may have an emission surface disposed inside an outer peripheral surface of the main body.

The lighting device may further include a holding portion that holds the main body to be attachable to and detachable from the wall surface, and the lighting portion may be turned on even in a state where the main body is removed from the holding portion.

The lighting device may further include a power supply warning unit that is configured to be lit when a decrease in the remaining battery power of the power supply unit is detected, and the power supply warning unit may be configured to be disposed on an upper portion of the body in an attached state to the wall surface and to be lit in a color different from that of the lighting unit.

A frame body which constitutes an outer peripheral surface of the main body; and a plurality of push buttons disposed on a front surface of the main body and pushed by a user to instruct the device, wherein a gap is provided between the push buttons and the housing, and light of the illumination unit is emitted from the gap.

The illumination unit may be provided in a local section near the center of the entire width of the toilet remote controller.

The illumination unit may illuminate a range in which the toilet paper holder is located below the illumination unit.

The illumination unit may be arranged such that a part of light emitted from the light emitting element leaks into a space between the front plate and the push button in the main body.

One of the plurality of push buttons may be assigned as a switch for turning on and off the lighting unit.

The illumination unit may detect approach of a human body and automatically turn on the illumination unit.

Drawings

Fig. 1 is a schematic view showing an overview of a toilet room in which a remote controller according to an embodiment is installed.

Fig. 2 is a perspective view showing an external appearance of a remote controller according to the embodiment.

Fig. 3 is a bottom view of the remote controller of fig. 2.

Fig. 4 is an exploded perspective view of the remote controller of fig. 2 as viewed from the back side.

Fig. 5 is a perspective view of a base unit built in the remote controller of fig. 2.

Fig. 6 is a perspective view of a base unit built in the remote controller of fig. 2.

Fig. 7 is a side sectional view of the remote controller of fig. 2.

Fig. 8 is a perspective view illustrating a state where a part of the front surface is irradiated by the remote controller of fig. 2.

Description of the reference numerals

A remote controller; press a button; an illumination portion; a body; a battery depletion warning light; a light emitting element; a frame; a gap; a retaining plate; a lens member; an exit face; an outer peripheral surface; a wall surface; a battery receiving portion.

Detailed Description

Hereinafter, embodiments embodying the disclosed technology will be described in detail with reference to the drawings. This form embodies the technique of the present disclosure as a toilet remote controller for controlling a toilet main body. As shown in fig. 1, the remote control 1 according to the present embodiment is installed in a toilet 3 together with a toilet main body 2. The toilet main body 2 is installed on the floor, and the remote controller 1 is attached to the wall surface.

The remote control 1 can be removed from the wall surface. The toilet main body 2 is a device having a toilet cleaning function, a shower function, a deodorization function, and other various functions. The remote controller 1 remotely controls these functions of the toilet main body 2. The toilet room 3 in the example of fig. 1 is also provided with a toilet paper holder 4. The toilet paper holder 4 is mounted on the wall surface. The position of the toilet paper holder 4 of the example of fig. 1 is a position below the remote controller 1.

As shown in fig. 2, the remote controller 1 according to the present embodiment has a horizontally long rectangular parallelepiped shape. Various push buttons 5 and 6 are arranged on the front surface and the upper surface of the remote controller 1. The user can appropriately press the push buttons 5 and 6 to execute the various functions of the toilet main body 2 described above. A battery-exhaustion warning lamp 11 is also provided on the upper surface of the remote controller 1.

As shown in fig. 3, an illumination unit 7 is provided on the bottom surface of the remote controller 1 when viewed from below. The illumination unit 7 is provided in a local section near the center of the entire width (the left-right direction in fig. 3) of the remote controller 1. The illumination unit 7 is disposed on the bottom surface of the remote controller 1 at a position close to the back surface 8. The illumination unit 7 functions to illuminate the outside of the remote controller 1. The exterior of the remote controller 1 is not the front surface side of the remote controller 1, but at least any one of the downward, upward, and leftward and rightward directions. In this version below the illumination. In a state where the remote controller 1 is mounted on a wall surface, the illumination portion 7 faces downward. In this attached state, the direction in which the intensity of the light emitted from the illumination unit 7 is the strongest is the direction toward the wall surface, in other words, obliquely downward.

A schematic internal structure of the remote controller 1 will be explained. As shown in fig. 4, the remote controller 1 has a main body 10 and a holding portion 20. The remote control 1 is a main body 10 that can be removed from a wall surface, and the holding portion 20 is a member fixed to the wall surface. Fig. 4 shows the back sides of the main body 10 and the individual holding portion 20 in a state of being removed from the wall surface. The groove 155 is provided on the back surface side of the main body 10, and the claw 29 is provided on the holding portion 20. The body 10 is held by the holding portion 20 by the hook between the pawl 29 and the groove portion 155. The main body 10 is attached to and detached from the holding portion 20 to slide in the vertical direction.

A battery housing 60 is provided in a left portion of the main body 10 in fig. 4. The battery housing section 60 is a section for housing the battery 90 and is a power supply section of the remote controller 1. The rear surface of the main body 10 is substantially covered with the rear surface plate 13 at a portion that is neither the battery housing portion 60 nor the groove portion 155. The main body 10 has a built-in substrate unit 130 of fig. 5 and a front plate 120 of fig. 6. The substrate unit 130 in fig. 5 and the front plate 120 in fig. 6 are depicted as perspective views from the front side. The main body 10 is provided with the above-described portions, and a lens member 32 shown by a broken line in fig. 4 is built therein.

A notch 147 is formed in a part of the frame 14 on the outer periphery of the main body 10. The notch 147 is provided on the lower surface of the body 10 on the depth side of the center in the width direction. The holding portion 20 is also formed with a notch 148. The notch 148 is provided at the center in the width direction of the lower side of the holding portion 20.

Fig. 7 shows a sectional view of the remote controller 1. Fig. 7 is a vertical sectional view of the remote controller 1 as viewed from the right side in fig. 2. The cutting position is a position at the center in the width direction of the remote controller 1. The left side in fig. 7 is a front surface facing the user, and the right side is a back surface mounted to the wall surface 50. Fig. 7 illustrates a fixing member 91 for fixing the holding portion 20 to the wall surface 50. In the remote controller 1, a front plate 120 (fig. 6) is disposed directly behind the push button 5 on the front surface, and a board unit 130 (fig. 5) is disposed further toward the rear side. The push button 5 is disposed so that its pushing action passes through the front plate 120 and acts on the substrate unit 130.

The board unit 130 is a circuit board on which various circuit elements for controlling the toilet main body 2 are mounted. The substrate unit 130 of the present embodiment further includes a light emitting element 12. The light emitting element 12 is disposed at the lower end of the rear surface side of the substrate unit 130. The base unit 130 is provided with a push button 6 and a battery-empty warning lamp 11 on the upper surface in addition to the above-described portions. A hole is appropriately provided in a portion of the upper surface in the frame 14 to expose the push button 6 and the battery-empty warning lamp 11.

The lens member 32 described above is sandwiched between the substrate unit 130 and the rear surface plate 13. The light emitting element 12 and the lens member 32 are not provided in their entirety with respect to the width direction (the left-right direction in fig. 3) of the remote controller 1, but are provided only in a partial section near the center. The lens member 32 is provided with a light entrance port 33 and an exit surface 34. The light entrance 33 faces the light emitting element 12. The exit surface 34 is a slope downward and toward the wall surface 50. The output surface 34 is exposed to the outside through a gap between the notch 147 of the housing 14 and the rear surface plate 13. However, the emission surface 34 is disposed so as to enter from the outer peripheral surface 40 of the main body 10 (housing 14). The lens member 32 is an optical member for emitting the light L of the light emitting element 12 obliquely downward toward the wall surface 50. The light emitting element 12 and the lens member 32 constitute the illumination unit 7 described above.

In the remote controller 1, the light emitting element 12 is turned on by the power supplied from the battery 90. Therefore, the illumination unit 7 can be turned on both at the time of power failure and at the time of detaching the main body 10 of the remote controller 1 from the holding unit 20. The light emission color of the light emitting element 12 is not particularly limited as long as it is a color different from the light emission color of the run-out warning lamp 11. The light emitting element 12 emits light of, for example, white or a color close to white (sunlight white, daylight color (warm white), bulb color, or the like).

When the illumination unit 7 is turned on in a state where the remote controller 1 is attached to the holding unit 20, the light L is directly irradiated to the wall surface 50 as described above. In other words, the light L does not hit the user's eyes directly. Emitting surface 34 is not visible to the user by itself. For example, it is advantageous to turn on the illumination unit 7 of the remote controller 1 when lighting the toilet 3 itself at night or the like is not so bright as to be considered. This is because indirect lighting that does not brighten the entire toilet 3 is such that the toilet 3 is weakly illuminated with light rays that enable the position of the toilet main body 2 to be grasped. Since the holding portion 20 is further provided with the notch 148, the holding portion 20 does not interfere with the irradiation of the light L to the wall surface 50.

In the arrangement in the toilet room 3 shown in fig. 1, the toilet paper holder 4 is present in the range R mainly illuminated by the illumination section 7. Therefore, the user can easily grasp the position of the toilet paper holder 4, which is convenient. When it is desired to illuminate something other than the toilet 3 particularly by the illumination unit 7, the main body 10 of the remote controller 1 may be removed from the holding unit 20 and the illumination unit 7 may be directed to the thing to be illuminated. One of the push buttons 5 and 6 may be assigned as a switch for turning on the illumination unit 7, or may be automatically turned on by detecting the approach of a human body. The entire toilet 3 may be detected to be bright and not be lit when the brightness is higher than a certain level. Or may be automatically turned off as time passes after the lighting.

The battery-empty warning lamp 11 is a power supply warning unit that is turned on independently of the illumination unit 7. In the remote controller 1, the board unit 130 has a function of detecting a decrease in the battery power level of the battery 90. Thus, when it is determined that the function of the remote controller 1 is nearly stopped due to the discharge of the battery 90, the dead battery warning lamp 11 is turned on. The battery-empty warning lamp 11 cannot be turned on or off by the user according to his own intention.

The battery-empty warning lamp 11 is disposed in the remote controller 1 in a different orientation from the illumination unit 7. In a state where the main body 10 is attached to the holding portion 20, the illumination portion 7 faces downward, whereas the dead battery warning lamp 11 faces upward. The light emission color is also different from that of the illumination portion 7. When the illumination unit 7 is white light as described above, the battery-empty warning lamp 11 is red, for example. Therefore, the lighting means not illumination as in the illumination section 7, but rather, a certain warning can be intuitively recognized by the user even though it is not described. It is sufficient that the amount of light emitted from the battery-run-out warning lamp 11 is smaller than the amount of light emitted from the illumination section 7.

As shown in fig. 7, a gap 15 is provided between the push buttons 5 and between the frame 14 and the push buttons 5. Therefore, when the main body 10 is carefully viewed from the front, the inside of the main body 10 is visible through the gap 15. Most of which is the front plate 120. When a part of the light from the light emitting element 12 leaks into the space between the front plate 120 and the push button 5, the front surface of the main body 10 can emit light slightly even when the illumination unit 7 is turned on. Thus, the region shown by the thick line 16 in fig. 8 appears to be irradiated. This portion is a portion where the gap 15 exists. This makes it possible to clearly recognize the position of each push button 5 even in late night without lighting the toilet 3 itself. However, the light from the gap 15 does not strike the user's eyes directly. If the portion of the push button 5 where the characters are displayed is formed by a transparent member, the characters appear to be illuminated in addition to the gap 15.

Therefore, the front plate 120 may be perforated at an appropriate position. Some light guide member may be provided here. An additional light-emitting element may be provided separately from the light-emitting element 12. The position of the additional light emitting element may be any position as long as it illuminates the space between the front plate 120 and the push button 5 and is hidden by the shadow of the push button 5 when viewed from the front. The light quantity of the additional light-emitting element may be smaller than that of the light-emitting element 12. The emission color of the additional light-emitting element may be different from the emission color of the dead battery warning lamp 11, may be the same as the emission color of the light-emitting element 12, or may be different from the emission color of the light-emitting element 12. Similarly to the light emitting element 12, the additional light emitting element also emits light by the power supply from the battery 90.

As described above in detail, according to the present embodiment, the illumination unit 7 is provided in the body 10 of the remote controller 1, and the light L can be irradiated to the outside. Thus, even if the illumination of the toilet 3 itself is not turned on at night or the like, the toilet 3 can be illuminated to such an extent that the user can recognize the position of the toilet paper holder 4 or the like. Thus, the remote controller 1 for the toilet, which does not cause the user to feel dazzling and enables the user to appropriately recognize the position of the operation target, is realized.

In particular, the position of the illumination unit 7 is set to a position lower in the mounted state to the wall surface 50. This prevents the user from directly viewing the light L of the illumination unit 7. The direction of light L emitted in the mounted state is directed toward the wall surface. The emission surface 34 of the illumination unit 7 is disposed inside the outer peripheral surface 40. Thereby, the toilet 3 is illuminated by the obliquely downward light L in an indirect illumination manner. The illumination portion 7 can be turned on even in a state where the body 10 is removed from the holding portion 20. Therefore, the lighting can be performed even in the case of power failure.

Preferably, the remote controller 1 further includes a power supply warning unit that is turned on when a decrease in the remaining battery power of the power supply unit is detected, and the power supply warning unit is disposed at a position that is an upper portion in an attached state in which the main body is attached to a wall surface, and is turned on in a color different from that of the illumination lamp. In this case, the user can clearly recognize the lighting of the power supply warning unit from the lighting of the lighting unit.

Preferably, the remote control 1 includes: a frame body which constitutes an outer peripheral surface of the main body; and a plurality of push buttons which are arranged on the front surface of the main body and are pushed by a user for instructing the device, wherein gaps are formed at least at any one of positions between the push buttons and the frame, and the illumination portion is in an illumination state in which the gaps are illuminated when the illumination portion is turned on. When the illumination unit is turned on in this manner, the user can see that the edge of each push button is also illuminated. Therefore, the position of each push button can be recognized without lighting the room itself.

Preferably, in the remote controller according to any one of the above aspects, the remote controller includes a holding plate that is fixed to a wall surface and detachably holds a rear surface of the main body, a notch that exposes the illumination portion is formed in the housing, and a notch is formed in the holding plate at a position facing the illumination portion in a state where the main body is held. Thus, light generated by lighting of the lighting portion is not obstructed by the holding plate or the like.

The present embodiment is merely an example, and the disclosed technology is not limited thereto. Therefore, it is obvious that various improvements and modifications can be made to the disclosed technology within a scope not departing from the gist thereof. For example, the light emitting element 12 and the battery-empty warning lamp 11 may be an LED or an incandescent lamp, whichever is appropriate. The function of detecting the battery power level of the battery 90 for the battery-empty warning lamp 11 may be any function such as a function based on voltage detection of the battery 90 or a function based on current detection. The setting of the criterion for determining that the function of the remote controller 1 used here is close to the stop is also arbitrary.

The position of the lighting unit 7 is not limited to the downward position in the mounted state. It may be in a lateral position or an upward position. The direction of light L is directed toward the wall surface regardless of the horizontal direction or the upward direction, so that the user can be prevented from feeling dazzling. In the lateral direction, a position toward the deep side of the toilet 3 is more preferable. In the upward direction, the direction of light L is preferably inclined toward the wall surface and toward the depth side of the toilet 3. The gaps 15 between the push buttons 5 and between the frame 14 and the push buttons 5 may not be all but only some of them, which are illuminated and visible when lit.

Claims (9)

1. A remote controller for a toilet, comprising:

a main body mounted on a wall surface; and

an illuminating part provided to the main body to illuminate an outside of the main body,

the remote controller for the toilet comprises any one of the following structures (1) to (3):

(1) The illumination unit is disposed at a lower portion of the body in a state where the body is attached to a wall surface;

(2) A lighting unit that lights the wall surface in a direction in which the lighting unit emits light when the main body is attached to the wall surface;

(3) The illumination unit has an emission surface disposed inside an outer peripheral surface of the body.

2. The remote controller for a toilet according to claim 1,

a holding portion that holds the main body to be attachable to and detachable from the wall surface,

the illumination unit can be turned on even in a state where the main body is removed from the holding unit.

3. A remote controller for a toilet according to claim 1 or 2,

has a power supply warning unit that lights up when a decrease in the battery power level of the power supply unit is detected,

the power supply warning unit is disposed on an upper portion of the main body in a state where the main body is attached to a wall surface, and is lit in a color different from that of the illumination unit.

4. A remote controller for a toilet according to claim 1 or 2, comprising:

a frame body which constitutes an outer peripheral surface of the main body; and

a plurality of push buttons disposed on a front surface of the main body and pushed by a user to instruct the device,

there is a gap at least at any one of between the push buttons and the frame,

the light of the illuminating section is released from the gap.

5. A remote controller for a toilet according to claim 1 or 2,

the illumination portion is provided in a local section near the center of the entire width of the toilet remote controller.

6. A remote controller for a toilet according to claim 1 or 2,

the illumination unit illuminates a range in which the toilet paper holder is located below the illumination unit.

7. The remote control for a toilet according to claim 4,

the illumination unit is provided such that a part of light emitted from the light emitting element leaks into a space between the front plate and the push button in the main body.

8. A remote controller for a toilet according to claim 4,

one of the plurality of push buttons is assigned as a switch for turning on and off the lighting of the lighting section.

9. A remote controller for a toilet according to claim 1 or 2,

the illumination unit detects approach of a human body and automatically lights up.

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