JP2022062927A - Remote controller for toilet - Google Patents

Abstract

To provide a remote controller for a toilet which prevents a lighting part from making a user feel glare regardless of a use state and allows the user to recognize an operational object position properly.SOLUTION: A remote controller 1 for a toilet according to the disclosure has a body and a lighting part. The body is attached to a wall surface of a toilet room etc. The lighting part lights an exterior R of the body. The structure allows the toilet room 3 to be illuminated to a certain extent without lighting a lighting device of the toilet room 3 itself.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1

Description

The present disclosure technique relates to a remote controller for a toilet.

Traditionally, remote controllers that remotely control equipment have been used for toilets. The "cleaning operation device" described in Patent Document 1 is also an example. The device is operated by the user to remotely control the cleaning device. In this device, the user presses the cleaning operation button to perform cleaning by the cleaning device. In the technique of the same document, in this cleaning operation device, an illumination unit is provided so as to surround the outer periphery of the cleaning operation button. By turning on this lighting unit, the position of the cleaning operation button can be easily recognized by the user.

Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No. 2011-94320

The above-mentioned conventional technique has the following problems. Depending on the usage conditions, the lit lighting unit may make the user feel dazzling. This is because the lighting unit is located on the front surface of the cleaning operation device like the cleaning operation button, and light is emitted from the lighting unit toward the front.

The present disclosure technique has been made to solve the problems of the above-mentioned conventional techniques. That is, the problem is to provide a remote controller for a toilet in which the lighting unit does not make the user feel dazzling regardless of the usage situation and the user can appropriately recognize the operation target position.

The remote controller for a toilet in one aspect of the present disclosed technique has a main body mounted on a wall surface and a lighting unit that illuminates the outside of the main body.

It is a schematic diagram which shows the general condition of the toilet room which installed the remote controller which concerns on embodiment. It is a perspective view which shows the appearance of the remote controller which concerns on embodiment. It is a bottom view of the remote controller of FIG. FIG. 3 is an exploded perspective view of the remote controller of FIG. 2 as viewed from the rear side. It is a perspective view of the board unit built in the remote controller of FIG. It is a perspective view of the board unit built in the remote controller of FIG. It is a side view sectional view of the remote controller of FIG. It is a perspective view explaining the state which illuminates a part of the front surface by the remote controller of FIG.

Hereinafter, embodiments embodying the present disclosure technique will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. This embodiment embodies the disclosed technology as a remote controller for toilets that controls the main body of the toilet bowl. As shown in FIG. 1, the remote controller 1 according to this embodiment is installed in the toilet room 3 together with the toilet bowl main body 2. The remote controller 1 is mounted on the wall while the toilet body 2 is mounted on the floor.

The remote controller 1 is removable from the wall surface. The toilet bowl main body 2 is a device having various functions such as a toilet bowl cleaning function, a shower function, a deodorizing function, and the like. The remote controller 1 remotely controls these functions of the toilet bowl main body 2. A paper holder 4 is also installed in the toilet room 3 in the example of FIG. The paper holder 4 is attached to the wall surface. The position of the paper holder 4 in the example of FIG. 1 is the position below the remote controller 1.

As shown in FIG. 2, the remote controller 1 according to this 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. By appropriately pressing the push buttons 5 and 6, the user can execute the above-mentioned various functions of the toilet bowl main body 2. A battery exhaustion warning light 11 is also provided on the upper surface of the remote controller 1.

As shown in FIG. 3, a lighting unit 7 is provided on the bottom surface of the remote controller 1 when viewed from below. The lighting unit 7 is provided in a part of the entire width of the remote controller 1 (left-right direction in FIG. 3) near the center. The lighting unit 7 is arranged at a position closer to the back surface 8 on the bottom surface of the remote controller 1. The lighting unit 7 plays a role of illuminating the outside of the remote controller 1. The outside of the remote controller 1 is not the front side of the remote controller 1, but at least one of the downward, upward, and left-right directions. In this embodiment, it illuminates the lower part. When the remote controller 1 is mounted on the wall surface, the lighting unit 7 faces downward. In this mounted state, the direction in which the light emitted from the illumination unit 7 has the strongest intensity is toward the wall surface, that is, diagonally downward.

The outline internal structure of the remote controller 1 will be described. As shown in FIG. 4, the remote controller 1 has a main body 10 and a holding unit 20. Of the remote controllers 1, the main body 10 can be removed from the wall surface, and the holding portion 20 is a member fixed to the wall surface. FIG. 4 shows the back side of both the main body 10 in a state of being removed from the wall surface and the single holding portion 20. A groove portion 155 is provided on the back surface side of the main body 10, and a claw 29 is provided on the holding portion 20. The main body 10 is held by the holding portion 20 by being caught between the claw 29 and the groove portion 155. The attachment / detachment of the main body 10 to the holding portion 20 is due to a sliding movement in the vertical direction.

The main body 10 in FIG. 4 is provided with a battery storage portion 60 on the left side portion in the drawing. The battery storage unit 60 is a portion for storing the battery 90 and is a power supply unit in the remote controller 1. The portion of the back surface of the main body 10 that is neither the battery storage portion 60 nor the groove portion 155 is generally covered with the rear surface plate 13. Inside the main body 10, the board unit 130 of FIG. 5 and the front plate 120 of FIG. 6 are built. The substrate unit 130 in FIG. 5 and the front plate 120 in FIG. 6 are drawn as a perspective view seen from the front side. In addition to the above, the lens member 32 shown by the broken line in FIG. 4 is built in the main body 10.

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

FIG. 7 shows a cross-sectional view of the remote controller 1. FIG. 7 is a vertical cross-sectional view of the remote controller 1 as viewed from the right side in FIG. The disconnection position is the center position in the width direction of the remote controller 1. In FIG. 7, the left side is the front surface facing the user, and the right side is the back surface attached to the wall surface 50. In FIG. 7, a fixture 91 for fixing the holding portion 20 to the wall surface 50 is also drawn. Inside the remote controller 1, the front plate 120 (FIG. 6) is arranged immediately behind the push button 5 on the front surface, and the board unit 130 (FIG. 5) is further arranged behind the front plate 120 (FIG. 6). The push button 5 is arranged so that the push operation acts on the substrate unit 130 through the front plate 120.

The board unit 130 is a wiring board on which various circuit elements for controlling the toilet bowl main body 2 are mounted. The substrate unit 130 in this embodiment also has a light emitting element 12. The light emitting element 12 is arranged at the lower end on the back surface side of the substrate unit 130. In addition to the above, the board unit 130 is also provided with a push button 6 on the upper surface and a battery exhaustion warning light 11. A hole is appropriately provided in the upper surface portion of the frame body 14 to expose the push button 6 and the battery exhaustion warning light 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 provided not in the entire width direction (left-right direction in FIG. 3) of the remote controller 1 but only in a part section near the center. The lens member 32 is provided with an entrance port 33 and an exit surface 34. The light inlet 33 faces the light emitting element 12. The exit surface 34 is a slope facing downward and facing the wall surface 50. The exit surface 34 is exposed to the outside through a gap between the notch 147 of the frame body 14 and the rear surface plate 13. However, the exit surface 34 is arranged so as to be inside the outer peripheral surface 40 of the main body 10 (frame body 14). The lens member 32 is an optical component for emitting the light L of the light emitting element 12 diagonally downward toward the wall surface 50. The light emitting element 12 and the lens member 32 constitute the above-mentioned illumination unit 7.

In the remote controller 1, the light emitting element 12 is turned on by the power supplied from the battery 90. Therefore, the lighting unit 7 can be lit even during a power failure or when the main body 10 of the remote controller 1 is removed from the holding unit 20. The emission color of the light emitting element 12 is not particularly limited as long as it is a color different from the emission color of the battery exhaustion warning lamp 11. The emission color of the light emitting element 12 is, for example, either white or a color close to it (daylight white, daylight color, light bulb color, etc.).

When the lighting unit 7 is turned on with the remote controller 1 attached to the holding unit 20, the light L is directly applied to the wall surface 50 as described above. That is, the light L does not hit the user's eyes directly. The emission surface 34 itself is not visible to the user. For example, it is useful to turn on the lighting unit 7 of the remote controller 1 when it is too bright to turn on the lighting of the toilet room 3 itself, such as at midnight. This is because the toilet room 3 is dimly illuminated to the extent that the position of the toilet bowl main body 2 can be grasped by indirect lighting without making the entire toilet room 3 so bright. Since the holding portion 20 is also provided with the notch 148, the holding portion 20 does not interfere with the irradiation of the light L on the wall surface 50.

In the arrangement in the toilet room 3 shown in FIG. 1, the paper holder 4 exists in the range R mainly illuminated by the lighting unit 7. Therefore, the user can easily grasp the position of the paper holder 4, which is convenient. When it is desired to illuminate other things in the toilet room 3 with the lighting unit 7, the main body 10 of the remote controller 1 may be removed from the holding unit 20 and the lighting unit 7 may be directed to the object to be illuminated. Regarding the on / off of the lighting of the lighting unit 7, one of the push buttons 5 and 6 may be assigned as a switch for that purpose, or the approach of the human body may be detected and the lighting may be automatically turned on. It is also possible to detect the brightness of the entire toilet room 3 and turn it off when it is brighter than a certain level. It may be turned off automatically with the lapse of time after turning on.

The battery exhaustion warning light 11 is a power supply warning unit that lights up separately from the lighting unit 7. The remote controller 1 has a function of detecting a decrease in the remaining charge of the battery 90 in the substrate unit 130. As a result, when it is determined that the function of the remote controller 1 is about to stop due to the discharge of the battery 90, the battery exhaustion warning lamp 11 is turned on. The battery exhaustion warning light 11 cannot be turned on or off by the user's intention.

The battery exhaustion warning light 11 is arranged in the remote controller 1 in a direction different from that of the lighting unit 7. In the state where the main body 10 is attached to the holding portion 20, the lighting unit 7 faces downward, while the battery exhaustion warning light 11 faces upward. The emission color is also different from that of the illumination unit 7. If the lighting unit 7 is white light as described above, the battery exhaustion warning light 11 may be red, for example. Therefore, the user can intuitively understand that the meaning of lighting is not lighting like the lighting unit 7 but some kind of warning without explanation. It is sufficient that the light emission amount of the battery exhaustion warning light 11 is smaller than the light emission amount of the illumination unit 7.

As shown in FIG. 7, there is a gap 15 between the pushbuttons 5 and between the frame 14 and the pushbutton 5. Therefore, when the main body 10 is viewed in detail from the front front, the inside of the main body 10 can be seen through the gap 15. Most of them are the front plate 120. If a part of the light of 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 be slightly illuminated when the lighting unit 7 is lit. By doing so, it seems that the portion indicated by the thick line 16 in FIG. 8 is illuminated. This is the place where there is a gap 15. As a result, the position of each push button 5 can be clearly recognized without turning on the lighting of the toilet room 3 itself at midnight or the like. However, the light from the gap 15 does not hit the user's eyes directly. If the display character portion of the push button 5 is composed of a transparent member, the character appears to be illuminated in addition to the gap 15.

For that purpose, a hole may be made at an appropriate position on the front plate 120. Some kind of light guide member may be provided there. 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 behind the push button 5 when viewed from the front. The amount of light of the additional light emitting element may be less than the amount of light of the light emitting element 12. The emission color of the additional light emitting element may be different from the emission color of the battery exhaustion warning light 11, and may be the same as or different from the emission color of the light emitting element 12. Like the light emitting element 12, the additional light emitting element also emits light by supplying electric power from the battery 90.

As described in detail above, according to the present embodiment, the main body 10 of the remote controller 1 is provided with the lighting unit 7 so that the light L can be irradiated to the outside. As a result, the toilet room 3 can be illuminated to the extent that the user can recognize the position of the paper holder 4 or the like without turning on the lighting of the toilet room 3 itself at midnight or the like. In this way, the remote controller 1 for the toilet is realized, which does not make the user feel dazzling and allows the user to appropriately recognize the operation target position.

In particular, the position of the lighting unit 7 is set to the lower position when mounted on the wall surface 50. This prevents the user from directly seeing the light L of the lighting unit 7. The irradiation direction of the light L in the mounted state is the direction toward the wall surface. The emission surface 34 of the illumination unit 7 is arranged inside the outer peripheral surface 40. As a result, the toilet room 3 is indirectly illuminated by the obliquely downward light L. The lighting unit 7 can be turned on even when the main body 10 is removed from the holding unit 20. Therefore, it can be lit even during a power outage.

The remote controller 1 also has a power supply warning unit that lights up when it detects a decrease in the remaining charge of the power supply unit, and the power supply warning unit is arranged at the upper position when mounted on the wall surface of the main body. ， It is desirable that the lighting is different from the lighting. If this is the case, the user can recognize the lighting of the power warning unit by clearly distinguishing it from the lighting of the lighting unit.

The remote controller 1 has a frame that constitutes the outer peripheral surface of the main body, and a plurality of push buttons that are arranged on the front surface of the main body and that the user presses to instruct the device. It is desirable that there is a gap between the body and at least one of them, and that the illuminating unit is in an irradiation state in which the gap appears to be illuminated when viewed from the front when lit. If this is the case, when the lighting unit is turned on, the user can see that the edges of each push button are also illuminated. Therefore, the position of each push button can be recognized without turning on the lighting of the room itself.

The remote controller of any of the above embodiments has a holding plate that is fixed to the wall surface and holds the rear surface of the main body detachably, and the frame body is formed with a notch that exposes the illumination unit. It is preferable that a notch is also formed at a position facing the illumination unit while holding the main body. If this is the case, the light generated by lighting the lighting unit will not be obstructed by the holding plate or the like.

The present embodiment is merely an example and does not limit the disclosed technique in any way. Therefore, the disclosed technique can of course be improved and modified in various ways without departing from its gist. For example, the light emitting element 12 and the battery exhaustion warning light 11 may be an LED or an incandescent lamp. The function of detecting the remaining charge of the battery 90 for the battery exhaustion warning light 11 may be any one based on the voltage detection of the battery 90, the one based on the current detection, and the like. Therefore, it is also optional to set the level at which it is determined that the remote controller 1 is about to stop functioning.

The position of the lighting unit 7 is not limited to the position facing downward in the mounted state. It may be in a sideways position or an upward position. By setting the irradiation direction of the light L toward the wall surface regardless of whether it faces sideways or upward, it is possible to prevent the user from feeling glare. In the case of the sideways orientation, the position facing the back side of the toilet room 3 is more preferable. In the case of upward direction, it is more preferable that the irradiation direction of the light L is an oblique direction toward the wall surface and the back side of the toilet room 3. Regarding the gaps 15 between the pushbuttons 5 and between the frame 14 and the pushbuttons 5, only a part of the gaps 15 may be illuminated at the time of lighting, not all of them.

1 remote controller, 5 push button, 7 lighting unit, 10 main body, 11 battery exhaustion warning light, 12 light emitting element, 14 frame, 15 gap, 20 holding plate, 32 lens member, 34 emission surface, 40 outer peripheral surface, 50 wall surface , 60 Battery compartment

Claims (7)

The main body that can be mounted on the wall and
A remote controller for a toilet having a lighting unit that illuminates the outside of the main body. The remote controller for a toilet according to claim 1, wherein the lighting unit is
A remote controller for a toilet located at the bottom of the main body when mounted on a wall surface. The toilet remote controller according to claim 1 or 2.
A remote controller for a toilet in which the light irradiation direction of the lighting unit in the mounted state of the main body is toward the wall surface. The remote controller for a toilet according to any one of claims 1 to 3.
The illumination unit has an emission surface and has an emission surface.
The emission surface is a remote controller for a toilet arranged inside the outer peripheral surface of the main body. The remote controller for a toilet according to any one of claims 1 to 4.
It has a holding part that holds the main body detachably on the wall surface.
The lighting unit is a remote controller for a toilet that can be lit even when the main body is removed from the holding unit. The remote controller for a toilet according to any one of claims 1 to 5.
It has a power warning unit that lights up when it detects a decrease in the remaining charge of the power supply unit.
The power warning unit is
It is placed on the upper part of the main body when it is attached to the wall surface, and
A remote controller for a toilet that lights up in a color different from that of the lighting unit. The remote controller for a toilet according to any one of claims 1 to 6.
The frame that constitutes the outer peripheral surface of the main body and
Located on the front of the body, it has multiple pushbuttons that the user presses to instruct the device.
There is a gap between the push buttons and at least one of the push buttons and the frame.
A remote controller in which the light of the lighting unit is emitted from the gap.

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