JP2002309649A - Hygienic room - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a hygienic room which has the interior thereof dehumidified without generating vibrations or causing environmental problems. SOLUTION: There is provided a toilet room 90 which is provided with a dehumidifier apparatus 30 including a Peltier element 35 to which electric power is supplied by an electric power supply means.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a dehumidifying sanitary room. Such a sanitary room includes a toilet room, a washroom, a kitchen or a bathroom in a general house and the like, and a clean room for manufacturing precision parts and foods, a constant humidity and a constant temperature in a factory or a hospital. There are laboratories, examination rooms, operating rooms or hospital rooms, etc., that must be maintained.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, there has been known a sanitary room equipped with a plumbing device for storing water therein, such as a flush toilet, a washbasin, a sink or a bathtub. In such a sanitary room, the humidity tends to increase due to the water, so that dew condensation or mold may occur, deteriorating the inner walls constituting the sanitary room and the equipment provided in the sanitary room. It will accelerate aging.

For this reason, it is conceivable to provide an air conditioner in such a sanitary room. In the sanitary room equipped with an air conditioner, the compressor circulates CFC gas,
Since the air in the sanitary room can be cooled by the heat of vaporization of the chlorofluorocarbon gas, the air can be dehumidified. Since the hygiene room is dehumidified in this manner, dew condensation and the like can be prevented, and deterioration of the inner wall and the like can be avoided.

[0004]

However, when dehumidifying a sanitary room by an air conditioner, the compressor must circulate the CFC gas, which may cause vibration and environmental problems.

[0005] The present invention has been made in view of the above-mentioned conventional circumstances, and has as an object to provide a sanitary room capable of dehumidifying without causing vibration and environmental problems.

[0006]

Means for Solving the Problems The present inventors have found that a Peltier element can be cooled by the Peltier effect.
The inventors of the present invention have completed the present invention by assuming that vibration and environmental problems do not occur as compared with the case where an air conditioner that circulates CFC gas by a conventional compressor is employed.

[0007] That is, the sanitary room of the present invention is characterized in that the sanitary room provided with a water supply is provided with a dehumidifier having a Peltier element to which electric power is supplied by electric power supply means.

[0008] In the sanitary room of the present invention, the dehumidifier has a Peltier element to which power is supplied by the power supply means. In the dehumidifying device, the Peltier element cools the air in the sanitary room by the Peltier effect, and the moisture in the air is removed by the dew condensation water, so that the humidity in the air can be reduced. In this case, no vibration or environmental problem occurs in this sanitary room because a compressor, chlorofluorocarbon gas and the like are not used.

Therefore, the sanitary room of the present invention can perform dehumidification without causing vibration and environmental problems. For this reason, in this sanitary room, it is difficult for dew condensation and mold to occur, and it is possible to suppress deterioration and aging of the inner walls constituting the sanitary room and the equipment provided in the sanitary room.

[0010] The dehumidifying device can be provided in the water-supplying product. In this case, space saving in the sanitary room can be realized.

[0011] The water-applied article is preferably a flush toilet, a washbasin, a sink or a bathtub. In the case of plumbing goods such as flush toilets, washbasins and bathtubs, water is stored inside,
Condensation easily forms on the outside and around. By providing the above-mentioned dehumidifying device in a sanitary room equipped with such a water supply product, the effect of the present invention is great.

[0012] It is preferable that the water generated in the dehumidifying device is configured to flow to a tank or a drain pipe of a water supply product. In this case, there is no need to separately provide a drain pipe or the like for collecting the water generated in the dehumidifier and discharging the water to the outside of the sanitary room. Therefore, the size of the dehumidifier can be reduced, and the space in the sanitary room can be reduced.

[0013]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Embodiments 1 and 2 embodying the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

(Embodiment 1) As shown in FIG. 1, a sanitary room according to Embodiment 1 is a toilet room 90 having a flush-type toilet 10 as a plumbing product. A flush tank 20 is connected to the flush toilet 10.

At the upper end of the washing tank 20, a dehumidifier 30 is provided. The dehumidifying device 30 includes the cleaning tank 20
The housing 31 has an intake port 31a and an exhaust port 31b. Then, in the dehumidifier 30, as shown in FIG.
An air passage 33 that connects the intake port 31a and the exhaust port 31b is formed in the housing 31. Also, the housing 31
Inside, the outside air is sucked in through the intake port 31a, and the exhaust port 3
A fan 34 for discharging the gas from 1b is provided.
A Peltier element 35 is provided on a boundary surface 38 between the air passage 33 of the housing 31 and the inside of the cleaning tank 20. Here, the fan 34 and the Peltier element 35 are respectively connected to a power source (not shown).

The Peltier element 35 has a heat absorbing fin 36 projecting into the air passage 33 and a heat radiating fin 37 projecting into the washing tank 20. The radiating fins 37 are in contact with the stored water 21 in a full state stored in the cleaning tank 20. In the housing 31 of the dehumidifying device 30, a plurality of flow passage holes 3 are formed in the boundary surface 38.
9 is open. Each of the flow passage holes 39 has a check valve 4 that can be opened and closed only from the inside of the air passage 33 to the inside of the cleaning tank 20.
0 is provided.

In the toilet room 90 configured as described above, the air in the toilet room 90 is sucked into the air inlet 31 a of the dehumidifier 30 by the fan 34. Then, the air sucked from the air inlet 31 a is absorbed by the heat absorbing fins 36 by the Peltier effect of the Peltier element 35. Since the saturated state of water cannot be maintained in the air that has absorbed the heat in this way, the water vapor contained in the air is liquefied to become water droplets. Therefore, by removing the moisture in the air, the dried air passes through the air passage 33 and is exhausted from the exhaust port 31b. Therefore, in the toilet room 90 of the first embodiment, dehumidification can be performed without using a compressor, chlorofluorocarbon, or the like, without causing vibration and environmental problems. In this way, mold can be prevented from being generated in the toilet room 90, so that deterioration of the inner wall of the toilet room 90 and equipment (not shown) provided in the toilet room 90 can be suppressed.

Here, the heat absorbing fins 36 in the dehumidifying device 30 are used.
The water droplets generated on the housing 31 accumulate on the boundary surface 38 of the housing 31, pass through the flow passage hole 39 and the check valve 40, and are dropped on the stored water 21 in the cleaning tank 20. As a result, since water droplets generated in the dehumidifier 30 can be collected, there is no need to separately provide a drain pipe or the like for discharging the water to the outside of the toilet room 90. Therefore, the size of the dehumidifying device 30 can be reduced, and the space in the toilet room 90 can be reduced.

Since the stored water 21 is directly heated by the radiating fins 36, the washing tank 20 is heated. For this reason, the water contained in the air is not cooled on the outer peripheral surface of the cleaning tank 20, and no dew condensation water is generated.

(Embodiment 2) The toilet room 90 of Embodiment 2
Then, the dehumidifying device 30 may be provided on the outer periphery of the cleaning tank 20, as shown in FIG. In this case, the water in the air that has become water droplets by the heat absorbing fins 36 is collected by the funnel 39a. And the funnel 39a
A float valve 22 provided at the bottom of the washing tank 20 is connected to a drain pipe 23 connected to the flush toilet 10.
Other configurations are the same as those of the toilet room of the first embodiment. Even in the toilet room 90, the same operation and effect as described above can be obtained.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a sanitary room according to a first embodiment.

FIG. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view of the dehumidifying device according to the first embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a longitudinal sectional view of a dehumidifying device according to a second embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 ... Rinse-type toilet (water-filled goods) 90 ... Toilet room (sanitary room) 35 ... Peltier element 30 ... Dehumidifier 20 ... Cleaning tank (tank) 23 ... Drain pipe

 ──────────────────────────────────────────────────続 き Continued on the front page (72) Inventor Akiya Ohira 5-1-1 Koiehonmachi, Tokoname-shi, Aichi Prefecture Inax Corporation (72) Inventor Hideya Koike 5-1-1 Koiehonmachi, Tokoname-shi, Aichi Stock Company Inax F term (reference) 2D032 GA00 2D038 JB01 JF00 2D039 BA00 CD00

Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. A sanitary room equipped with a plumbing device, comprising a dehumidifier having a Peltier element to which electric power is supplied by electric power supply means. 2. The sanitary room according to claim 1, wherein the dehumidifying device is provided on a plumbing product. 3. The sanitary room according to claim 1, wherein the water-applied product is a flush toilet, a washbasin, a sink or a bathtub. 4. The sanitary room according to claim 1, wherein the water generated in the dehumidifying device is configured to flow to a tank or a drain pipe of a water supply product.