JP2606032Y2 - Remote control for bath apparatus and bath apparatus provided with the remote control - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed description of the invention]

[0001]

The present invention relates to a remote control for a bath apparatus.
And a bath apparatus provided with the remote control .

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art FIG. 3 shows a basic system of a conventional general bath apparatus. Those shown in FIG. 3 (a),
This is a single-use reheating bath device, which is
The circulation pump 2 and the heat exchanger 4 are incorporated in the circulation pipe 2. The circulation pump 3 is activated to circulate the hot and cold water in the bathtub 1 through the reheating and heating circulation line 2, and the recirculating hot water is heated by the heat exchanger 4 to reheat the hot water in the bathtub 1. .

FIG. 3 (b) shows a reheating steam circulation line 2 connected to a hot water supply pipe 6 of a hot water supply heat exchanger 5 through a communication pipe 7, and the communication pipe 7 is filled with a molten metal such as an electromagnetic valve. A semi-automatic (semi-automatic) bath apparatus is provided with a valve 8 interposed. This semi-automatic bath apparatus performs the reheating operation in the same manner as that of FIG. 3 (a), and additionally recirculates the hot water produced by the hot water supply heat exchanger 5 on the hot water supply side by opening the pouring valve 8. The hot water is sent into the pipe 2, and the hot water is dropped into the bathtub 1 from the reheating circulation pipe 2 to fill the bath.

FIG. 3 (c) shows a water level of the bathtub 1 provided with a water level sensor 10 such as a pressure sensor for detecting the water level of the bathtub 1 in the reheating circulation line 2 of the semi-automatic bath apparatus. Is always kept at a constant water level, and is a fully automatic bath apparatus capable of performing reheating, hot water filling, and water level keeping (bath tub water level maintenance) .
The operation of the bath apparatus for each of these functions is performed by the control unit 1.
One is done.

[0005]

An invention is, however, in Reheating function only bath apparatus of the prior art shown in FIG. 3 (a) using a control substrate having a control circuit only reheating to the control unit 11 function, and FIG. The control device 11 in the bath device of FIG.
A separate control circuit is provided for each bath apparatus having a different function, such as using a control board formed with a control circuit for semi-auto only, and using a control board formed with a fully automatic control circuit in the bath apparatus shown in FIG. Thus, there is a problem that a control board having the above-mentioned structure must be prepared, and the manufacture and management of the control board become complicated.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made to solve the above-mentioned conventional problems. The purpose of the present invention is to eliminate the need to create a separate control board for each different function of a bath apparatus, and to use a common circuit board for each. Remote control for bath apparatus capable of performing control operation according to function and bath equipped with the remote control
It is to provide a device .

[0007]

The present invention is configured as follows to achieve the above object. In other words, the
Device 1 is connected to the control unit of the bath unit by a signal.
Remote control that is used by the
A control circuit capable of having a control method that is appropriate for the Temu, the bath
The system based on information from the control device body of the device
A type judging unit for judging a control method suitable for the system, and selecting a control method suitable for the system based on the judgment result of the type judging unit.
And a control method selection unit for selecting the control method.

[0008] The second invention is a structure of the first invention.
The control circuit has a reheating function, a hot water filling function and a bath.
It is possible to perform the reheating function of the tank water level maintenance function
A single-function control system with efficient reheating and the above reheating function
Semi-automatic control system that can perform hot water filling function
And the above-mentioned reheating function, hot water filling function and bathtub water level maintenance function
And a fully automatic control system that can perform all
It has a configuration that can be taken at least.
Single-function control system and semi-auto control system
The bath system is selected from among the control systems including the automatic control system.
It is characterized by judging the control method suitable for the stem.
Has been established. Further, the third device is the first or the second device.
A bath apparatus provided with the remote controller according to the second aspect of the present invention, wherein the control apparatus main body of the bath apparatus transmits load information connected to the control apparatus main body as information for the remote controller to determine a control method suitable for the system. It is characterized by having done.

A fourth aspect of the present invention is a bath apparatus provided with the remote controller according to the first or second aspect of the present invention, wherein the control device main body of the bath apparatus has information for the remote controller to determine a control system suitable for the system. And transmitting identification code information of a predetermined type to the control device main body.

[0010]

In the present invention having the above structure, the control device of the bath apparatus is provided.
Connect the control object such as a proportional valve to perform Okimoto the body to various sensors and gas amount control, the <br/> Rukoto to send the load information to the remote controller, or previously given to the controller body unit
To send its own identification code information to the remote control
More, type determining section of the remote control, or that of the bath apparatus by the information, for example Reheating single function, to determine the type or not the semi-automatic, or fully automatic ones, control method selected results of that determination Add to the part. The control method selection unit instructs the control circuit to perform control using a control method suitable for the type according to the type determination result of the type determination unit. The control circuit is based on a command from the control method selection unit and uses a control method corresponding to the bath device to which the control device is connected.
The operation of the bath apparatus is controlled from the remote controller.

[0011]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 shows a remote controller for a bath apparatus according to the present invention and the remote controller.
1 shows an example of the configuration of a main part of a bath apparatus connected to a remote controller by a signal . In this embodiment, the bath apparatus having various functions shown in FIG. 3 can be controlled by using a common control board on the remote controller 11b . This characteristic Limoko
Configuration of the control unit of the emission 11b side, the type determining unit 12, a control scheme selection unit 13 is configured by a single circuit board 9, in the circuit board 9 shown in FIG. 3 (a) A control circuit 14 capable of performing the control of the reheating single function, the semi-automatic control of (b) in the same figure, and the fully automatic control of (c) of the same figure.
Are formed.

The control device body 11a on the bath device side includes:
It is connected to various sensors and instruments / devices to be controlled. For example, the control device main body portion 11a of the bath apparatus side, when incorporated into the bath system of Fig. 3 (a), various sensors such as a water temperature detection and fan rotation detection, and the circulation pump 3 and, reheating heat exchanger The sensor is connected to a control target such as a proportional valve (not shown) for controlling the gas supply amount, and the load information of these sensors and the circulating pump 3 and the proportional valve is transmitted to the control device main body 11a as a value of electric resistance. Join. Also, the control device
When the main body portion 11a is incorporated into the system of the semi-automatic in (b) of Figure 3, compared with the case of the reheating of unipotent system, load information for hot-water pouring valve 8 is further added. Further, when the control device main body 11a is incorporated in a fully automatic bath system, the load on the water level sensor 10 is further increased as compared with the case of the semi-automatic bath system. In this way, control
Each time the function of the bath system in which the control device main unit 11a is incorporated is different, the type and value of the load information applied to the control device main unit 11a are different. These load information are sent to the remote controller 11b.
Sent to.

[0013] The type determining unit 12 of the remote controller 11b side are given in advance as data value of the load information for each function of the bath apparatus, type determining section 12 the controller body unit 11
What function is the bath system to which the control device main unit 11a is connected according to the load information added from the a side , that is, whether the bath system is a single-function bath device for reheating,
It is immediately determined whether the device is a semi-automatic bath device or a fully automatic bath device. Then, the signal of the determination result is added to the control method selecting unit 13.

The control mode selection section 13 selects a control mode of the determined type based on the type determination result of the type determination section 12, and instructs the control circuit 14 to perform control using the selected mode. . The control circuit 14 is provided with a circuit including a single-purpose control system for reheating, a semi-automatic control system, a fully automatic control system, and the like, and the control of the bath apparatus according to the control system selected by the control system selecting unit 13. Control the combustion operation.

Therefore, according to this embodiment, the remote controller
Function bath device 11b side, that is, by identifying determines the type, the matching control scheme its wind Lu apparatus (systems)
Since the control of the combustion operation of the bath apparatus is performed, there is no need to manually install a control board suitable for the type (system) of the bath apparatus in the control apparatus main body 11a , and the built-in control board may be confused. Disappears. Therefore, the manufacturing assembly of the controller body unit 11a side becomes very easy, also, will be burn operation suitable for wind Lu device is reliably performed, it is possible to improve the reliability of the combustion operation.

The present invention is not limited to the above embodiment, but can take various embodiments. For example, in the above embodiment, the type of the bath system was determined based on the difference between the function of the reheating single function, the semi-automatic function, and the fully automatic function, but this was further developed, for example, the bath apparatus having the same function was further subdivided, The difference between the control unit
Judgment may be made based on the load information connected to 11a , and the bath apparatus may be caused to perform the combustion operation by a control method according to the model. For example, even in a fully automatic bath apparatus having the same function, for example, the load amount differs due to a difference in the measurement range (measurement range) of the water level of the water level sensor 10, and therefore, it is necessary to determine the type of the bath apparatus. Can be. Therefore, by forming a control circuit including a large number of control systems subdivided by combining each function and each model on the control board, it is possible to finely identify and determine the function and model of the bath apparatus in which the control device main body 11a is incorporated. However, the combustion operation of the bath apparatus according to the function and the model can be effectively performed.

In this embodiment, the load information for judging the function and model of the bath apparatus has been described as a resistance value. However, as the load information, the current value on the load side connected to the control device main body 11a is used. Alternatively, the function and the model of the bath apparatus may be determined by detecting the information as voltage, voltage, and frequency information.

As described above, the resistance value, the current value, the voltage value, and the frequency value can be detected as load information. In addition, for example, the function of the control device main body 11a is provided on the control device main body 11a side. code information of the type that identifies the model and
(Identification code information) in advance, and
When the remote controller 11b is connected to the remote controller 11a,
The remote controller 11b determines the function or model of the control device main body 11a by detecting the identification code information output from the remote controller 11a as the load information, and uses the control method suitable for the determined model or function to control the bath. Remote control of device operation
11b .

As described above, in the case of the method of detecting the code information as the load information, as shown in FIG. 2 , a code information output section 15 and a control circuit 14 are provided on the control device main body 11a side, and the remote control 11b Type determination unit 12 and control method selection unit 13 on the side
In response to the code information of the control device main body 11a, the remote controller 11b determines the model and function of the main body 11a and selects the control method corresponding to the model and function. In response to the selection result signal,
The operation control of the bath apparatus may be performed by the control circuit 14 on the a side.

Further, the bath apparatus to which the present invention is applied is not limited to a gas combustion type, but may be an oil combustion type.

[0021]

[Effects of the Invention] The present invention is based on the remote control side with multiple bath devices.
Keep giving the control circuits of the suits control scheme of the system,
Control device book bath apparatus the type of the function or the model of the wind Lu apparatus
By load information and identification code information added from the body side
The remote control judges and determines the type (bath
The control system on the remote control side performs the combustion operation of the bath apparatus by a control method ( suitable for the system of the apparatus ) , so the control circuit of the control circuit for each type (system) of the bath apparatus can remove pains and complexity of management of the circuit board making, thereby, manufacturing assembly of equipment is facilitated, also eliminated problems such as differences taken of the circuit board incorporated in equipment.

[0022] In addition, their own control scheme in which a type of wind Lu device remote control suited to the bath system to determine on their own
Since it is decided by itself,
The combustion control operation (suitable for the system) is reliably performed, and the reliability of the combustion operation of the bath apparatus can be greatly increased.

Further, a control circuit capable of taking a control method suitable for a plurality of systems of the bath apparatus on the remote control side, and a type for judging a control method suitable for the system based on information from a control device main body of the bath apparatus. Since a judgment unit and a control system selection unit that selects a control system suitable for the system based on the judgment result of the type judgment unit are provided, for example, using a common remote controller, for example, reheating alone, semi-automatic, fully automatic It is possible to control the operation of the bath apparatus of various systems such as the above, so that the remote control can be shared and standardized. Further, as described above, the remote control has a control circuit.
Provided, the above-described control circuit controls the bath apparatus.
Of the control circuit compared to the case where the
Switching is easy, which results in extensive control
The remote control can be controlled without replacing the circuit.
The control circuit can be easily upgraded by replacing the road.
For example, new functions can be easily added to bath equipment.
Can be added.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 shows a remote controller according to the present invention and the remote controller.
It is a block diagram which shows the example of a main part structure of the obtained bath apparatus .

FIG. 2 shows a modification in which a control circuit is provided on the control device main body 11a side.
It is a block diagram of a Katachirei.

FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram of various bath apparatuses having different functions.

[Explanation of symbols]

 Reference Signs List 1 bathtub 4 reheating heat exchanger 5 hot water supply heat exchanger 8 pouring valve 10 water level sensor 12 type judgment unit 13 control method selection unit 14 control circuit

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Claims (4)

(57) [Scope of request for utility model registration] A remote controller used by being signal-connected to a control device main body of a bath device, wherein the control circuit is capable of taking a control method suitable for a plurality of systems of the bath device, and a control device main body of the bath device. For a bath apparatus having a type determining unit that determines a control method suitable for the system based on information from the unit, and a control method selecting unit that selects a control method suitable for the system based on the determination result of the type determining unit Remote control. (2) Control circuit has reheating function and hot water filling function
Perform the reheating function of the bathtub water level maintenance function
Single-function control system with reheating and the above reheating machine
Semi-automatic control method capable of performing Noh and hot water filling functions
Formula, the above-mentioned reheating function, hot water filling function and bathtub water level maintenance machine
And a fully automatic control system that can perform all functions
Configuration is possible without any
Single-function control system and semi-auto control system
Among the control methods including the fully automatic control method,
That the control method suitable for the system was determined.
The remote control for a bath apparatus according to claim 1, wherein 3. A bath apparatus provided with the remote controller according to claim 1 or 2 , wherein the control apparatus main body of the bath apparatus is located in a suburb of the control apparatus main body as information for the remote controller to determine a control method suitable for the system. A bath apparatus configured to transmit connected load information. 4. A bath apparatus provided with the remote controller according to claim 1 or 2 , wherein the control apparatus main body of the bath apparatus transmits information to the control apparatus main body as information for the remote controller to determine a control method suitable for the system. A bath apparatus configured to transmit identification code information of a predetermined type.