JP2503724B2 - Western-style toilet with hot water washing device - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Industrial field of application] The present invention relates to a Western-style toilet equipped with a hot water washing device with a warm air blowing device for washing the human buttocks with warm water and drying with warm air.

[Prior Art] As is well known, a hot water washing device includes a hot water tank and a washing nozzle to which hot water is supplied from the hot water tank. When hot water is supplied from the hot water tank to the washing nozzle, A piston-shaped nozzle body projects from the cylinder of the cleaning nozzle, and hot water is ejected from the tip of the nozzle body toward the human buttocks. In this Western-style toilet equipped with a warm water washing device, a warm air blowing device is further provided, and the human buttocks that have been wet by warm water washing are dried with warm air. This warm air blowing device includes a fan for sending air and an air heater for warming the air.

[Problems to be Solved by the Invention] In a conventional cleaning device with a hot air blowing device, immediately after the hot air blowing device is operated, the air heater is not sufficiently warmed, and thus the blown air is blown out. The temperature is low and the toilet user feels cold.

[Means for Solving the Problems] A western-style toilet provided with a hot water washing device of the present invention is a hot water tank, a washing nozzle to which hot water is supplied from the hot water tank, and which jets hot water toward a human buttocks, a fan, and A warm water washing device with a warm air blowing device having a warm air blowing device for drying the buttocks of a human body having an air heater is installed on the rear upper surface of a Western-style toilet, and the hot water tank and the warm air blowing device are covered with a low tank cover case. In a western-style toilet equipped with a warm water washing device, the hot water tank is installed near the outlet of the warm air blowing device facing the toilet bowl of the western style toilet, and the fan is provided above the hot water tank, The air intake is opened in the cover case above the hot water tank.

[Operation] In the Western-style toilet provided with the warm-water washing device with the warm-air blowing device of the present invention, since the fan is installed above the warm-water tank, heat is dissipated from the hot-water tank to the inside of the fan and the fan. The accumulated air is warmed up. Therefore, even immediately after activating the warm air blowing device, air having a considerably high temperature is blown out,
It is prevented that the user feels cold air.

In addition, this hot water washing device with hot air blowing device is covered by the cover case of the low tank, and by installing the fan on the upper side of the hot water tank, the air intake port of the fan is also located in the upper part of the cover case. become. As a result, the warm water in the cover case is warmed by the hot water tank, and the relatively warm air accumulated in the upper part of the cover case is first sucked into the hot air blowing fan. The air temperature becomes high immediately after the operation of the device.

In the present invention, since the air outlet and the fan are arranged close to each other, the flow passage between the air outlet and the fan is short, and the volume of the flow passage is small. Therefore, the amount of the relatively low-temperature airflow blown immediately after the operation of the warm air blowing device is small. Moreover, since this flow path is short, the pressure loss is small.

In the present invention, since the warm air blowing device and the warm water washing device are installed on the rear upper surface of the Western-style toilet bowl and do not project to the side of the Western-style toilet bowl, even if the space in the toilet room is small A Western-style toilet equipped with a cleaning device can be installed.

Embodiments Embodiments will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is an assembled perspective view of a Western-style toilet equipped with a hot water washing device according to an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view (II in FIG. 1).
FIG. 3 is a perspective view of the apparatus from which the raw tank, cover case and hot water washing nozzle are removed.

The hot water washing device 10 with a hot air blowing device used in the Western-style toilet according to the present embodiment is of a type installed on the rear upper surface of the Western-style toilet, and the hot water tank 14 is attached to the base plate 12, Fan 16 above the tank 14
Is installed. When the motor 18 of the fan 16 is rotated, the rotor blades 20 are rotated and the air is blown through the duct 22 into the air outlet 24.
Sent to An air heater 26 is installed in the duct 22 to heat the air sent from the fan 16.

The front side of the hot water tank 14 (the front side of the Western-style toilet) is a slope 14a that is inclined downward toward the front, and the fan 16 is installed above this slope 14a with a slight gap. There is. The hot water tank 14 has a plurality of bosses 28
Are integrally provided, and the fan 16 is supported by the boss portion 28.

A low tank 30 is installed above the base plate 12. A part of the bottom surface of the low tank 30 is a protrusion 30a protruding downward, and the protrusion 30a is formed on the base plate 12
It is fixed by a bolt (not shown) inserted in the mounting hole 32 of. The opening 34 of the base plate 12 is for supplying the wash water in the low tank 30 to the Western-style toilet 35 (FIG. 2).

An opening 38 for installing the hot water washing nozzle 36 is provided in the central portion of the base plate 12. The peripheral edge of the opening 38 is a slope 40 that slopes downward toward the rear part of the base plate 12. The mounting plate 42 is fixed to this slope 40, and the hot water washing nozzle 36 is fixed to the plate 42. The cleaning nozzle 36 includes a cylinder 36a and a piston-shaped nozzle body 37b that can freely project from the tip end side of the cylinder 36a. The hot water outlet 42 of the hot water tank is a tube 44.
It is connected to the cylinder 36a via.

A cover case 46 is covered from above so as to cover the low tank 30, and the cover case 46 is a base plate.
Connected to 12. Although not shown, the low tank 30
A heat insulating material is provided in the cover case 46 so that the air in the cover case 46 is not cooled.

Reference numeral 48 denotes a front protrusion integrated with the base plate 12, and a hinge member (not shown) is attached to the front protrusion 48, and a toilet seat and a toilet lid (both not shown) are pivotally supported by the attachment member.

In a western-style toilet having a warm-water washing device with a warm-air blowing device configured in this way, the hot water in the hot-water tank 14 is supplied to the washing nozzle 36, the nozzle body 36b protrudes, on the buttocks of the seated user of the western-style toilet 35. Warm water is jetted toward.
When the hot water supply from the tank 14 to the cleaning nozzle 36 is stopped, the nozzle body 36b retracts into the cylinder 36a. When the warm air blowing device is activated, air is blown from the fan 16 into the duct 22,
It is blown out toward the buttocks of the seated user of the Western-style toilet 35 through the outlet 24.

In the present embodiment, since the fan 16 is provided above the hot water tank 14, the air accumulated in the casing of the fan 16 becomes considerably warm due to the heat radiation of the hot water tank 14. There is. Therefore, immediately after the operation of the warm air blowing device, even when the heat radiation amount of the air heater 26 is small, the warm air of a considerably high temperature is blown out from the air outlet 24.

In this embodiment, the heat in the hot water tank 14 radiates heat to warm the air in the cover case 46, and the air is collected in the upper portion of the cover case 46. When the fan 16 is operated, the fan 16 has a suction port provided at a relatively upper portion, so that the warm air accumulated in the upper portion of the cover case 46 is sucked in, and this also causes the warm air to blow out. The air temperature becomes high immediately after the operation of the device. A part of the air will be sucked into the fan 16 through the space between the fan 16 and the hot water tank 14.
While passing between the fan 16 and the fan 16, it is slightly warmed by the upper surface of the hot water tank 14, which also improves the blown air temperature.

Further, in this embodiment, the air heater 26 is provided relatively close to the hot water tank 14. Therefore, even when the air heater 26 is not energized, the heat transmitted from the hot water tank 14 warms the air heater 26. Therefore, even immediately after the operation of the hot air blowing device, the temperature of the air heater 26 is relatively high, which also improves the temperature of the blown air.

In this embodiment, since the air outlet 24 and the fan 16 are arranged close to each other, the duct 22 connecting the air outlet 24 and the fan 16 is short, and the volume of the duct 22 is also small. Therefore, the amount of the relatively low-temperature airflow blown immediately after the operation of the warm air blowing device is small. Further, since the duct 22 is short, the pressure loss is small. Therefore, the fan 16 can be downsized, and the device installation space below the low tank 30 can be made small.

In the present embodiment, the warm air blowing device and the warm water washing device are installed on the rear upper surface of the western-style toilet 35,
Since it does not protrude to the side of 35, even if the space in the toilet room is small, it is possible to install the Western-style toilet 35 equipped with this hot water washing device.

[Effects] As described above, in the Western-style toilet provided with the hot water cleaning device of the present invention, the air temperature becomes high immediately after the operation of the warm air blowing device, and the toilet user feels cool air immediately after blowing the warm air. This prevents the Western-style toilet from being used comfortably.

In a Western-style toilet equipped with the hot water cleaning device of the present invention,
The fan can be downsized, and the installation space for the hot air blowing device is small. The Western-style toilet provided with the hot water cleaning device of the present invention can be sufficiently installed in a toilet room having a small space.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is an exploded perspective view showing an apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view of essential parts, and FIG. 3 is a perspective view of essential parts. 10 …… Hot water washing device with hot air blowing device, 12 …… Base plate, 14 …… Hot water tank, 16 …… Fan, 22 …… Duct, 24 …… Blowout port, 26 …… Air heater, 30 …… Low tank, 36 …… Washing nozzle, 46 …… Cover case.

Claims (1)

(57) [Claims] 1. A warm-air blower having a hot-water tank, a washing nozzle to which hot water is supplied from the hot-water tank, and which blows hot water toward the human buttocks, and a warm-air blowing device for drying the human buttocks, which has a fan and an air heater. A warm-water washing device with a discharge device is installed on the upper rear surface of a western-style toilet, and the warm-water tank and the warm-air blowing device are covered with a low tank cover case. The hot water tank is installed in the vicinity of the air outlet of the hot air blowing device facing the fan, the fan is provided on the upper side of the hot water tank, and the air intake of the fan is opened in the cover case above the hot water tank. A Western-style toilet equipped with a hot water washing device.