JP3446490B2 - Flush toilet - Google Patents

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a flush toilet bowl. More specifically, the present invention can reduce the size and space of the toilet body, facilitate transportation and construction, and reduce toilet flushing noise and water splashes without requiring a low tank. The present invention relates to a new flush trap type flush toilet bowl.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, for a flush toilet for home use, a method has been adopted in which water is temporarily stored in a low tank, which is found in a flush toilet, and the sewage is pushed away by the action of running water due to the water drop. . Further, the None machine械的opening and closing valves that use a low tank, flush toilet bowl method for cleaning and discharging the water supply pipe or et washing water and waste have been developed.

[0003]

While THE INVENTION It is an object Solved] Mr. or, in the case of a flush toilet bowl using a conventional low tank, since shall establish a low tank at the rear of the toilet body, to ensure the toilet space this low tank must expect the installation, there is a limit to just expand the space, also handling of transportation and construction by the toilet body is increased is not easy and toilet flushing sound because it utilizes the drop of water There was the problem of water splashes. And there is also a problem that it is difficult to reduce the structurally number of parts.

On the other hand, a flush toilet using a mechanical on-off valve is considered to solve the problem of the low tank system, but since it is a system for flushing with a mechanical on-off valve, In order to discharge the wash water and dirt supplied from the pipe from the toilet body through the on-off valve, structurally high closure and open / close controllability are required. And there is a problem that a high cost corresponding to it is required.

[0005] Therefore, and toilet space by using a low tank, transport, to eliminate the construction problems, it suppresses the flush sound or splashing, moreover a structurally small number of parts, the request is too high precision There has been a demand for the realization of a new flush toilet that is not subject to cost reduction and has good cost reduction.

[0006]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION In order to solve the above problems, the present invention provides a tubular shape which is housed in a case body and is composed of a bent elastic hose having an opening drain end. The trap is connected at the other end to the drain of the toilet body through the case body opening, and the opening of the tubular trap in the upward position of the tubular trap is rotated by the rotation of the motor drive to rotate the wash water and dirt into the floor drain. a toilet bowl of the rotating trapping schemes are more discharged, the tube-shaped trap by the motor driving device, rotated and inverted about its central axis at a connection to the drain outlet of the toilet body, also tubular trap
Is attached and fixed to the drain port of the toilet body, and
Is also fixed to the case opening near the mounting and fixing part of
Connected to the drive shaft of the motor drive at the opening drain end
Provided is a flush toilet characterized in that one end of a rotating arm is attached .

[0007] In addition, the present invention is related to the above-mentioned flush toilet bowl
And, this for the opening drainage end of the tubular trap, this end being rotatable with rotation arm is mounted in the circumferential direction
And are provided as one aspect.

[0008]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION The present invention provides a new flush trap type flush toilet having the above-mentioned features. Hereinafter , the flush toilet of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.
This will be explained in more detail .

FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing the basic features of the flush toilet bowl of the present invention. As illustrated in FIG. 1,
The flush toilet of this invention is equipped with a low tank as in the past.
Well, it doesn't adopt the method of cleaning the dirt by the drop of water. Low tank system and the qualitatively different, in the flush toilet of the present invention, as shown in FIG. 1, housed et be the case body (1) inside, is bent with open drainage end portion (21) at one end tubular trap (2) is connected is to the drainage port portion (31) of the toilet bowl (3) through the casing open at the other end
Is tube-shaped trap (2) Depending on disposed the motor driving device (4), around the toilet bowl (3) central axis of the connecting portion smell Teso to the drainage port portion (31) of (A) It is substantially 180 ° rotated and reversed.

[0010] That is, the tubular trap (2) is shown in Figure 1
As described above, the open drain end (21) holds the water level in the bowl (32) of the toilet body (3) in the upward position. Then, the control circuit (not shown) drives the motor drive device (4) by a signal from the tubular trap (2) you rotate approximately 180 ° from the position shown in FIG. Along with this rotation, water is supplied (not shown) to the bowl (32) surface of the toilet body (3) through the water supply pipe and the water supply valve, and the waste is discharged from the floor drain (5). . In rotation of approximately 180 °, opening the drainage end of the tubular trap (2) (21) faces the floor drain opening (5).

After discharging the filth, the tubular trap (2) is reversed by about 180 ° while being filled with water, and returns to the state shown in FIG. This return, proof the influx of formation and odor of reservoir water
Gu On whether we as apparent hereinafter, in the flush toilet of the present invention, since the conventional not using low tank as the water
Miniaturization of washing toilet, the expansion of effective utilization space associated with this, delivery of the flush toilet, Ri Do facilitates handling of the construction, also, does not utilize drop of water, reduction of the flush sound and water splash Figure is Ru. Furthermore, compared to cleaning methods using conventional mechanical-off valves, less structurally parts, because they are not required so high accuracy, Ru been attempted also cost reduction.

2 and 3 more specifically show the above configuration.
This is an example that is shown schematically . That is, the tubular trap (2) is a bellows hose (2a) made of an elastic material such as rubber.
This bellows hose (2a) has one end
Water outlet of the toilet main body (3) (31) and is fixed to the opening of the to case body (1). One end of the rotary arm (6) connected to the drive shaft (41) of the motor drive device (4) is attached to the flange portion (22 ) of the opening drainage end portion (21) at the other end.

[0013] Fixed to the drain port of the toilet main body (3) of the bellows hose (2a) to (31), in this example, as shown in FIG. 3, the drain port of the toilet main body (3) (31 the) is inserted into the end of the bellows hose (2a), it is performed by a hose band (7). Further , the bellows hose (2a) has its tongue piece (23) by the fixing ring (8) and the screw (9).
Some are fixed Mounting the opening of the case body (1) in. The bellows hose (2a) is surely supported and fixed by the case body (1), and its end portion is closely connected to the drain port portion (31) of the toilet body (3).

As shown in FIG. 2, the bellows hose (2a) in a slightly twisted state is rotated about 180 degrees by the rotation of the rotary arm (6) accompanying the drive of the motor drive unit (4).
° rotated to discharge the waste, after termination, inverted. By ensuring the connection between the bellows hose (2a) and the drainage port (31) of the toilet body (3), and by adopting the tubular trap (2) made of an elastic hose , without using a low tank ,
It that is required to be a high Oh Mari precision structure
There, Ru effect of the flush toilet bowl of the present invention before mentioned can be obtained.

In the above example, the bellows hose (2a)
However, instead of the hose body having a bellows structure, a cylindrical hose body made of an elastic body such as rubber may be used. However,
In this case, since the load due to the twist becomes larger than that of the bellows hose (2a), the load due to the twist should not be applied to the connection part of the toilet body (3) to the drain port (31) so much. It is desirable to adopt such a means.

[0016] Figures 4 and 5, there is illustrated a structure for the one end of the hose (2b) made of an elastic material such as rubber as a tube-shaped trap (2) is 2 and 3 similar to the example shown, the drainage outlet of the toilet main body (3) (31) and has been attached and fixed to the opening of the case body (1), the opening drainage end of the other end (21), times although one end of the rolling arm (6) is connected, open drainage end (21) is related to connection of the rotating arm (6), the circumferential direction
It is freely rotatable and has a so-called play.
More specifically, as illustrated in FIG. 5, the hose (2b)
Opening the drainage end (21) circumferential groove (24) on the flange (22) of are provided in the ring portion provided at one end of the rotating arm the circumferential groove (24) (6) (61) It is <br/> freely sliding.

The rotating arm (6) rotates with the rotation of the motor drive shaft (41), and this rotation causes the hose (2) to rotate.
b) also rotates in the same direction . Rotating the arm (6), since it is engaged with the circumferential groove (24) of the sliding freely hose (2 b) in the ring portion (61), when the flange portion of the hose (2b) At (22), rotation is performed in the circumferential direction so that the load due to torsion is eliminated.

[0018]

[0019]

[0020]

Although not specifically described, it goes without saying that a flush toilet incorporating a hot water washing device is incorporated in the present invention.

[0022]

As described above in detail, according to the present invention, in the present invention
Thus, because it does not require a low tank, small of the flush toilet
Type conductivity, expansion of toy-less pace is achieved due to this,
In addition, luck transportable, it is easy to handling of the construction, also, because it does not use a drop of water, to decrease the toilet flushing sound and water wings
It Furthermore, structurally number of components less TeSumi, since the high have structural accuracy is not required, manufacturing, construction is easy, reduction of costs is achieved.

[Brief description of drawings]

1 is a transparent perspective view showing the basic features of the flush toilet of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a perspective view showing a more specific example of the configuration shown in FIG.

FIG. 3 is a cross-sectional view showing a more specific example of the configuration shown in FIG.

FIG. 4 is a perspective view showing an embodiment of a flush toilet of the present invention.

5 is a cross-sectional view of main parts of the embodiment shown in FIG.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 case body 2 tubular trap 2a Bellows hose 2b hose 2c trap tube 21 Opening drain end 22 Flange 23 Tongue 24 circumferential groove 3 Toilet body 31 Drainage port 32 bowls 4 motor drive 41 Motor drive shaft 5 floor drain 6 rotating arm 61 Ring part 7 hose bands 8 fixing ring 9 screws

─────────────────────────────────────────────────── ─── Continuation of the front page (72) Inventor Katsuyuki Okumura 1048, Kadoma, Kadoma City, Osaka Prefecture Matsushita Electric Works, Ltd. (72) Takahiro Nakamura, 1048, Kadoma, Kadoma City, Osaka Matsushita Electric Works, Ltd. ( 72) Inventor Yasufumi Sato 1048, Kadoma, Kadoma, Osaka Prefecture, Matsushita Electric Works, Ltd. (72) Inventor, Makoto Nishikawa, 1048, Kadoma, Kadoma, Osaka Prefecture, Matsushita Electric Works, Ltd. (56) Reference: JP-A-6 -240729 (JP, A) JP-A-4-285227 (JP, A) (58) Fields investigated (Int.Cl. ⁷ , DB name) E03D 11/10 E03D 11/02

Claims (2)

(57) [Claims] 1. A housed in a case body, bent tubular trap made of an elastic body hose having an open drainage end portion at one end, is connected to the drain outlet of the toilet main body through the casing open at the other end, a toilet bowl of the rotating trapping scheme open drainage end portion of the upward position of the tubular trap rotation by the motor driving device washing water and waste is rotated is discharged from the floor drain outlet, pipe-like trap by the motor driving device Is
The circumference of the central axis of the toilet body at the connection to the drainage port
It is rotated and flipped around, and the tubular trap is
It is attached and fixed to the drain port of the main unit, and
It is also fixed to the case opening near the fixed part,
A rotating arm connected to the drive shaft of the motor drive at the water end.
A flush toilet bowl having one end attached to it . 2. An open drainage end of the tubular trap at the end thereof.
Part is rotatable in the circumferential direction,
Flush toilet bowl according to claim 1, which is.