JP3121370B2 - Blower - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an air blower which is mainly installed in a washroom or a dressing room and can be used as a hair dryer, a heating appliance, a fan or the like.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art As an action performed in a washroom or a dressing room,
There are morning face washing, tooth brushing, undressing / clothing before and after bathing, and hair drying after hair washing. Electric appliances required in connection with these acts include a hair dryer for drying hair, a heating appliance for heating in winter, a fan for cooling in summer, and the like. Used at a place or a dressing room.

[0003]

In this case, it is necessary to bring in and carry out the equipment according to the season and the use, and it is often difficult to place the space in the washroom / dressing room space of an ordinary household. . Even with a hair dryer,
There is often a problem with the storage location. In addition, when heating equipment is brought in during the winter, the size of the usable heating equipment is limited, so that only the feet can be heated, and the whole body does not become warm and often becomes hot and cold.

The present invention has been made in view of the above points, and an object of the present invention is to provide a blower that can easily perform drying of hair, heating of whole body in winter, cooling in summer, etc. by one unit. To provide.

[0005]

According to the present invention, there is provided an upper block including a blowing unit for blowing air obliquely downward and forward, and a heating unit having a heating unit for generating hot air. A central block provided with a heat radiating section for heating, and a lower block provided with a hot air blowing section are blowers arranged in order in the vertical direction, and are provided at a blower opening of the blower unit; A plurality of louvers for changing the wind direction are provided with a connecting portion with a connecting plate for interlocking the louvers, and these louvers are arranged in the same shape parts alternately in the direction of the connecting portion, and the connecting plate is bent. The first feature of the present invention is that the body to which each of the above blocks is mounted is mounted on a support frame so that the position in the height direction can be adjusted, and the support frame is a means for temporarily fixing the body. Has Particular have other features.

According to the present invention, of the three blocks arranged vertically, drying of hair and cooling in summer are performed by the upper block, the body is heated by the central block, and hot air heating is performed by the lower block. A plurality of louvers arranged in the blower opening of the blower unit, which is the upper block, use the same shaped parts, and these louvers alternate in the direction of the connecting portion. For this reason, the connecting plate exerts an appropriate spring force to fix the louver, and if the height of the connecting frame can be adjusted freely, the height of the supporting frame may be temporarily The position can be easily changed.

[0007]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the illustrated embodiment. As shown in FIG. 4, this blower is provided with a blower unit 2 mounted on a front upper portion of a vertically elongated body 1 and a central upper portion. The operation panel 15 is formed near the center, the far-infrared radiation section 3 is arranged from the center to the bottom, and the hot air discharge port 14 is arranged at the bottom.

As shown in FIGS. 1 and 5, the blower unit 2 is formed as a sirocco blower 22 disposed in a casing 20 fitted in an opening formed in the upper part of the body 1. As shown in FIG. An air outlet 24 provided with a louver 25 for changing the air direction is connected to a discharge portion of the blower 22 via a heater housing tube 23. The air outlet 24 is open at the lower end surface of the casing 20.

As shown in FIG. 2, the plurality of louvers 25 for changing the air direction arranged in the air outlet 24 have a notch on one upper side, and the connecting boss 25a protrudes from the notch. In addition, each louver 25 is connected by a connection plate 100 fitted to the connection boss 25a, and each louver 25 is interlocked when the wind direction is changed. Each louver 25 is shown in FIGS. As shown, the direction of the connecting portion 25a is reversed for each sheet. For this purpose, as is clear from FIG. 3, the connecting plate 100 is arranged with a deflection δ so as to exert a spring force. This spring force of the connecting plate 100 presses each louver 25 against the air outlet 24.

In the upper part of the blower unit 2, there is provided a swing device 5 for swinging the blower unit 2 up and down electrically. That is, the blowing unit 2
The casing 20 is mounted on a fixed shaft 50 mounted on a pair of support plates 18, 18 protruding from the body 1 via a fixed sleeve 19 via a bearing mounting plate 26 and a bearing 27. , A fixed gear 5 rotatable with respect to the fixed shaft 50 and fixed to the fixed shaft 50.
1 meshes with a gear 52 that is rotationally driven by a forward / reverse rotatable motor 53 fixed to the casing 20. When the gear 52 is rotated by the motor 53, as shown in FIG. 10, the gear 52 moves around the fixed gear 51 by meshing with the fixed gear 51. As a result, the casing 20 moves around the fixed shaft 50. To rotate.

A rotation angle detecting plate 55 fixed to the fixed shaft 50 is provided with a pair of slits 55a and 55b having different lengths as shown in FIG. Pair of photoelectric sensors TH ₁ , TH
The detection of the slits 55a and 55b by ₂ allows three states to be detected. One is blower unit 2
In this state, the blower port 24 is directed toward the inside of the housing 1, and at this time, both the photoelectric sensors TH ₁ and TH ₂
a, 55b has detected the other two are the when and when one of the photoelectric sensors TH ₁ is turned on and off at the edge of the slit 55a, and the other photoelectric sensor TH ₂ is turned on and off at the edges of the slit 55b . About 70 by the latter two
The range of the reciprocating swing of ° is set.

In this case, a geared motor with a built-in clutch is used as the motor 53, and the swing speed is set to an appropriate speed, and the direction of the blower unit 2 can be manually changed. Fig. 11 (a) (b) (c)
As shown in FIG.
Needless to say, a pair of photoelectric sensors TH ₁ and TH ₂ may be provided on the body 1 side. In the figure, MS is a switch that is turned on when the blower unit 2 is completely housed in the housing 1.

As shown in FIGS. 5 and 7, a far-infrared ray radiating section 3 provided in a portion from the center to the lower portion of the body 1 has a pair of far-infrared heaters H ₂ and H ₂ that emit far-infrared rays.
_3, both the heaters H _2, the reflection plate 3 installed behind the H ₃
0, and a grid 13 arranged on the front surface. A warm air discharge port 14 is formed in the lower front part of the body 1. The upper ends of the air ducts 11, 11 which are arranged on both sides of the operation panel 15 and the reflecting plate 3 of the far-infrared radiating section 3 and whose lower end communicates with the hot air outlet 14, are connected to the air blowing unit 2. When the air outlet 24 of the air blow unit 2 is accommodated in the housing 1, the air outlet 24 is opposed to the air outlet 24. The hot air supplied from the blower unit 1 can be discharged from the blower outlet 14. The upper air duct 1 has an upper end facing the air outlet 24 of the air blowing unit 2 and a lower end divided into two.
10 and two lower air ducts 111 each having an upper end fitted to a lower end of the upper air duct 110. The lower air duct 111 is provided with a duct holder 101 as shown in FIGS. It is attached to the body 1.
Two convex ribs 11 formed in lower air duct 111
The lower air duct 111 is positioned in the longitudinal direction by the insertion of the duct holder 101 between the ducts 2 and 112. The reason why one point is fixed in the longitudinal direction is that the dimensional change due to the temperature change of the hot and cold air can be freely absorbed without leaving any distortion inside.

As shown in FIGS. 6 and 7, this device is embedded in a wall, and as shown in FIG.
The air duct 24 are made to protrude from the Utsuwatai 1, by performing the air blowing in the air blower 22 while energizing the heater H ₁ housed in the heater housing portion 23, utilizing a blower unit 2 as a hair dryer or body drying apparatus And heater H1
If the air is blown from the blower unit 2 without operating, the blower unit 2 becomes a fan. Further, if the far-infrared radiating section 3 is activated, far-infrared heat radiation for heating and drying the body after bathing can be obtained. Air duct 11
Together are opposed to, if operating the blower unit 2 and the heater H ₁ in this state, the base 1 under the hot air discharge ports 1
Heating can be obtained by discharging warm air from the heating device 4.

Next, an operation panel 15 disposed on the body 1,
In response to an instruction from the operation panel 15, the blower unit 2
And a control circuit 16 for controlling the operation of each heater H ₁ , H ₂ , H ₃
Will be described. As shown in FIG. 5, the control circuit 16 is installed between a pair of air ducts 11 separated on the left and right. The operation panel 15 is, as shown in FIG.
The switches SW _{1 to} SW ₄ are used to switch between _four operation modes of a hair dryer, a body cooler, a body warmer, and a room warmer. Can be switched in three stages. In addition the body cooler for blowing air from the blowing unit 2 which projects from the base 1 mode, it is possible to switch the air volume in three stages, the air volume by the "1 / f" switch SW ₁₇ is "1 / f fluctuation" In the body warmer mode, the amount of heat generated by the far-infrared radiating unit 3 can be switched in two stages. When the room warmer mode is set, the setting can be made. The automatic adjustment of the room temperature to the temperature, the three-stage switching of the air volume, and the timer operation can be performed.

[0016] In this regard, the description based on FIG 13, the control circuit 16 and the AC circuit unit 16a, which is composed of a microcomputer control circuit 16b, the power switch SW ₂₀
If the was turned on in the standby state switching element TR ₅ by photo triac PC ₁₀ is turned on, by operating the switch SW ₁ at this time, monitors the state of the switch MS, blower unit 2 is housed if I Te, as blower port 24 by oscillating device 5 protrudes outside the base 1, the photoelectric sensor TH ₁ is slit 55a
Edge approximately 30 ° angle by blowing unit 2 until it is turned off is rotated at, then the on of the motor 21, by the on-by phase control of the switching element TR ₁ for energizing the heater H _1, Operation is started with the maximum air volume and maximum air temperature.

The phase angle of the switching element TR ₁ is
It is determined by the capacitor CT and the time constant of the resistors R _{1 to} R _6. For example, when the resistor R ₁ is connected, 2200
W, 1960 W for resistor R ₂ , 148 for resistor R ₃
0 W, 1240 W for resistor R ₄ , 10 for resistor R ₅
The temperature is controlled so as to be 00 W, and these are switched by a wind temperature switch SW ₁₄ that switches cyclically and photo triacs PC _{1 to} PC ₆ to adjust the wind temperature. The motor 21 is turned on and off by a control signal MC also air volume switch SW ₁₃ and the photo-triac PC ₇ to PC ₉ and the switching element TR ₂ to Tr ₄ dividing resistors H ₄ is selectively shorted released by to H ₆ , The rotation speed (air volume) is controlled by the AC control circuit ACC and the motor drive circuit MD. Note that "strong" when the switching element TR ₂ to Tr ₄ are turned on, the switching element TR _3, TR ₄ is "medium" when on, a "weak" when only the switching element TR ₄ is turned on.

[0018] When the switch SW ₂ to the body cooler is operated again check whether the air blowing port 24 of the blower unit 2 by the state monitoring of the switch MS is facing the base 1 outside is made, when in the retracted state Blow port 2
The blower unit 2 rotates until the blower 4 faces the outside of the body 1, and the blower port 24 already faces the outside of the body 1 and the photoelectric sensor TH
_{When 1} is turned off at the edge of the slit 55a, the air blow by turning on the motor 21 is started in that state,
The air volume is adjusted in accordance with the operation of the air volume switch SW16 in the same manner as in the above case. Also, "1 / f" switch SW
_{When the} button ₁₇ is operated, the air flow is automatically switched at predetermined time intervals between three states of “medium”, “weak”, and “weakest” so that a wind of “1 / f” fluctuation is obtained. FIG. 14 shows this switching pattern. "Weakest" is switching element T
R _{2 to} TR ₄ are all turned off.

When the switch SW _{3 as} a body warmer is operated, the far infrared heaters H ₂ and H ₃ are turned on via the relays RY ₁ and RY ₂ , and when the low temperature is selected by the temperature switch SW ₁₈ , Far infrared heater H
Only ₂ is turned on. And when the switch SW ₄ to room warmer has been operated, not after the blowing unit 2 by monitoring the switch MS has been made sure that in the accommodated state, the discharge of the hot air from the hot air discharge port 14 is made However, at this time, as shown in FIG. 15, the heater H is changed according to the state of the room temperature so that the room temperature obtained by the room temperature thermistor T becomes the temperature set by the temperature setting switches SW ₉ and SW ₁₀ . The power consumption of ₁ is determined, and the hot air is discharged. The timer switch SW ₅ is a set switch S for keeping the operation time within the set time.
W ₆ being for setting the operation starting time, time setting switch SW ₂₁ is for performing time adjustment. The set of the hour and minute when the operation of these switches, carried out by "time" and the switch SW ₆ and the "minute" switch SW _7.

[0020] The swing operation of the blower unit 2 is performed by the operation of the swing switch SW _19. RY in FIG.
₄ relays for turning on and off the motor 53 of the oscillating device 5, RY ₃ is a relay for reversing the direction of rotation of the motor 53 in accordance with the rotation angle detection. Further, the blower unit 2 is configured to return to the storage state when the mode of the hair dryer and the body cooler is not selected, and to return to the storage state even when the power switch SW ₂₀ is turned off. I have. That is, while using a hairdryer and body cooler, if the switch SW ₂ or the power supply switch SW ₂₀ for switch SW ₁ or the body cooler for hairdryer off the heater H ₁ and the motor 21 are turned off After that, the blower unit 2 is returned to the storage position where the blower port 21 faces the blower duct 11. This storing operation is also performed when the operation time set by the timer switch SW ₅ has elapsed.

The set temperature, room temperature, air flow, indication of the timer mode and the set mode, and the time (time) in the room warmer mode are displayed on the display section 80 by the liquid crystal panel. operating status of the time is made by the light-emitting display element L ₁ ~L _16. Further, for safety, when the same state continues for 3 hours or more in the room warmer state and 15 minutes or more in the other mode, it is automatically turned off.

FIG. 16 et seq. Show the case where the container 1 is mounted on the support frame 9 so as to be adjustable in height, instead of being embedded in the wall surface. The support frame 9 here comprises a pair of side plates 90, 90, a back plate 91, and a middle frame 92. The middle frame 92 in which the body 1 is fitted has a pair of upper and lower guide bosses 93, from both side surfaces thereof. 93 is projected. A vertically long guide groove 94 is dug into the opposing surfaces of both side plates 90, 90 which are kept at a predetermined distance by the back plate 91 and the connecting rod 99. And both side plates 9
In the lower part of the opposing surfaces of 0 and 90, there are provided screw holes 97 to which support pins 96 can be respectively attached at a plurality of upper and lower positions.

FIG. 17 shows a state in which the body 1 is fitted in the middle frame 92 and the guide boss 93 of the middle frame 92 is fitted in the guide groove 94 and the lower end is received by the support pin 96.
As shown in FIG. 6, the support pins 96 are mounted at different heights depending on which of the upper and lower screw holes 97 the support pins 96 are mounted on. When it is desired to change the height, the container body 1 is temporarily lifted together with the middle frame 92, and the lower guide boss 93 is temporarily fixed by transferring the lower guide boss 93 to the temporary holding groove 95 having one end connected to the guide groove 94. Then, the mounting position of the support pin 96 may be changed, and then the guide boss 93 may be returned to the guide groove 94 again and lowered.

[0024]

As described above, in the present invention, the upper block of the three blocks arranged vertically is used to dry hair and cool in summer, the central block to warm the body, and the lower block to heat the body. It can provide warm air heating, and can easily perform various operations such as hair drying, whole body heating in winter, cool in summer with one unit, suitable for installation in narrow dressing rooms and washrooms The louvers arranged in the air outlet of the air blowing unit, which is the upper block, use the same shaped parts, and these louvers alternate in the direction of the connecting part so that the connecting plate is moderate. Since a large spring force is exerted, it is possible to easily prevent the louver from accidentally moving.

In the case where the height of the support frame is freely adjustable, the height position can be easily changed because the support frame is provided with temporary fixing means.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a cross-sectional view of a blower unit according to one embodiment.

FIG. 2 is a vertical cross-sectional view of the blowing unit according to the first embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a horizontal cross-sectional view of a blowing port of the blowing unit according to the first embodiment.

FIG. 4 is an overall front view of the same.

FIG. 5 shows the whole of the above, (a) is a longitudinal sectional view,
(b) is a cross-sectional view.

FIG. 6 is a side view of a state in which it is embedded in a wall surface of the above.

FIG. 7 is a horizontal cross-sectional view of a state in which it is embedded in a wall surface of the above.

FIG. 8 is a cutaway perspective view of the above air duct.

FIG. 9 is a front view of the rotation angle detection plate of the above.

FIGS. 10A and 10B are cutaway side views showing the swing operation of the air blowing unit, wherein FIG.

FIG. 11 is an explanatory diagram of an angle detection operation of the above.

FIG. 12 is a front view of the control panel of the above.

FIG. 13 is a circuit diagram of the same.

FIG. 14 is an explanatory diagram of “1 / f” fluctuation.

FIG. 15 is an explanatory diagram showing a relationship between a room temperature and a driving operation in Embodiment 1;

FIG. 16 is an exploded perspective view of a support frame.

FIG. 17 is a perspective view of a support frame.

FIG. 18 is a perspective view showing a temporarily fixed state of the support frame.

[Explanation of symbols]

 2 blower unit 25 louver 100 connecting plate

──────────────────────────────────────────────────続 き Continuing on the front page (72) Inventor: Asahi Mori, 1048, Kadoma, Kadoma, Osaka Prefecture, Matsushita Electric Works, Ltd. Field surveyed (Int. Cl. ⁷ , DB name) A45D 20/08 A45D 20/16 F24H 3/04

Claims (2)

(57) [Claims] 1. An upper block comprising an air blowing unit having an air blowing means for blowing air obliquely downward and forward and a heating means for using the air as hot air, and a heat radiating section for body drying and heating. A central block and a lower block having a warm air blowing unit are blowers that are sequentially arranged in the vertical direction, and a plurality of louvers for changing the air direction arranged in a blower opening of the blower unit are: The louver is provided with a connecting portion with a connecting plate for interlocking the louvers, and these louvers are arranged such that the same shaped parts are alternately arranged in the direction of the connecting portion to cause a bending in the connecting plate. apparatus. 2. An upper block comprising an air blowing unit having an air blowing means for blowing air obliquely downward and forward and a heating means for using the air as hot air, and a heat radiating portion for drying and heating the body. A central block and a lower block provided with a warm air blower are blowers arranged in order in the vertical direction, and a body to which each of these blocks is attached is mounted on a support frame in a height direction. A blower, which is mounted so as to be adjustable in position and wherein the support frame is provided with means for temporarily fixing the body.