JP3468249B2 - Urinal having urine collection device - Google Patents

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

The present invention relates to a toilet bowl having a urine collecting device, and more particularly to a toilet bowl having a urine collecting device suitable for collecting the total amount of urine discharged from a subject .

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A urine test toilet provided with a urine collecting mechanism in a Western-style toilet and configured to analyze the components in the collected urine with a sensor or the like is disclosed in Japanese Utility Model Publication No. 2-27263 and Japanese Patent Publication No. 5-74654.
JP-A-62-115124, JP-A-60-
No. 233,551, etc.

Japanese Utility Model Publication No. 2-27263 and Japanese Patent Publication No.
The urinalysis mechanism of Japanese Patent No. 74654 is such that a cylinder is connected to the bowl surface of a Western-style toilet bowl or a recess is provided and urine is allowed to flow into the cylinder or the recess.

In the urine collecting device disclosed in Japanese Utility Model Laid-Open No. 62-115124, an extension mechanism consisting of a multi-stage cylinder mechanism is provided at the rear of a Western-style toilet, a cup is attached to the tip of the extension mechanism, and the cup is inserted into the toilet bowl. To receive urine.

In the urinalysis apparatus disclosed in Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 60-233551, a cup is always inserted into the toilet bowl, a sensor is installed in the cup, and the urine discharged in the cup is detected by the sensor. It was designed to be analyzed.

[0006]

In the conventional urinalysis toilet bowl described above, a part of the released urine is collected and analyzed, and the total amount of urine cannot be measured. Therefore, it is impossible to detect the total amount of the target component discharged from the living body (for example, the amount discharged per day. (Concentration) × (total urine amount)).

An object of the present invention is to provide a toilet bowl having a urine collecting device capable of measuring the total amount of discharged urine.

[0008]

A toilet having a urine collecting device according to claim 1 has a western-style toilet body, a toilet seat provided on an upper surface of the western-style toilet body, and a total amount of urine discharged from a seated person on the toilet seat. A urine receiver to receive, a preparative device for preparatively collecting the urine received by the urine receiver, a reservoir for storing the urine preparatively collected by the preparative device, and the amount of urine stored And a measuring device for quantifying.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, there is provided a toilet bowl having a urine collecting device, wherein the reservoir is provided with a stirring device.

A toilet bowl having a urine collecting device according to claim 3 is the toilet device according to any one of claims 1 or 2, wherein the analyzer analyzes the concentration of components in the urine in the reservoir, and the concentration analyzed by the analyzer and the measuring device. It is characterized in that it is provided with a computing device for computing the amount of the target component by integrating with the quantitative value measured in.

A toilet bowl having a urine collecting device according to claim 4 is the toilet device according to claim 1, wherein the collecting device has a collecting posture in which a tip is inserted until it abuts a bottom surface of the urine receiver, and the tip is the urine receiver. A urine collecting tube having at least a tip that can be moved up and down so that the urine in the urine collecting tube can be held in a standby position, and a liquid that sends urine in the urine collecting tube to the reservoir. It is characterized by comprising a transportation device and a valve device capable of communicating the inside of the urine collecting tube with the atmosphere.

[0012]

[0013]

According to the toilet bowl having the urine collecting device according to any one of claims 1 to 4, the total amount of urine released is received by the urine receiver, and the urine can be stored at a fixed rate. Therefore, the total amount of released urine can be measured. Moreover, since not a whole amount of excreted urine is stored but only a part thereof is stored, the storage amount of urine can be small.

According to the second aspect, since urine collected a plurality of times can be mixed in the reservoir, it is possible to sample the uniformly mixed urine and analyze the components.

According to the third aspect, the total amount of excreted components is calculated by integrating the component concentration and the total urine amount.

In the preparative device used in the toilet of claim 4, the valve device is opened and the inside of the urine collecting tube is connected to the atmosphere, and the tip of the urine collecting tube is inserted into the urine collecting device. The tip of the abutment against the bottom of the urine receiver. As a result, urine enters the urine collection tube to the same level as the level of urine in the urine receiver.

Therefore, after closing the valve device to block the communication between the inside of the urine collecting tube and the atmosphere, the urine collecting tube is pulled up from the urine receiver. Then, the urine inside the urine collecting tube is also pulled up from the urine receiver together with the urine collecting tube.

When the liquid transport device is operated in this state, the urine in the urine collecting tube is transferred to the reservoir.

If the urine receiver has the same horizontal cross-sectional area in the height direction, and the cross-sectional area of the urine collection tube is s and the bottom area of the urine receiver is S, the urine in the urine receiver is The total amount of urine, which is exactly s / S, will be collected through the urine collecting tube.

[0020]

[0021]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS A toilet bowl having a urine collecting device according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a toilet bowl having the urine collecting device, and FIG. 2 is a perspective view of a toilet seat portion of the toilet bowl having the urine collecting device.

A toilet seat box 3 having a urine collecting function is placed on the upper edge of the toilet bowl 2 of the toilet bowl 1 of this embodiment. A wash water supply pipe 4 extending from the wall surface of the toilet room is connected to the toilet bowl 1. A flush valve 5 is provided in the middle of the wash water supply pipe 4.

The toilet seat box 3 is formed by integrally molding a front case 3A placed along the upper edge of the toilet bowl 2 and a rear case 3B placed on the rear upper surface of the toilet bowl 1. There is. The rear case 3B is provided to be taller than the front case 3A, and a step is formed at a connecting portion between the front case 3A and the rear case 3B.
A toilet seat 8 is pivotally attached to the rear case 3B below the step. Although not shown, a seating switch is provided below the toilet seat 8 to detect the seating of the user.

The toilet seat box 3 is substantially D-shaped in a plan view, and both side arm portions 10 of the front case 3A have inner surfaces 3C which are parallel to each other. A slit 11 is provided on the inner surface 3C. The slit 11 extends from the front part of the front case 3A to the rear part of the rear case 3B in parallel with the bottom surface of the toilet seat box 3.

There is a capacity of 4 in the inner area of the toilet seat box 3.
A urine receiver 12 of 00 cc or more is provided. The urinal 12 is a cylindrical container having a flat bottom surface and having the same horizontal cross-sectional area at any position in the height direction, and the major axis of the oval is the toilet bowl. It is oriented in the width direction of 1. In addition, an ultrasonic hydrometer 9 for measuring the specific gravity of the received urine is provided on the bottom surface of the urine receiver 12.

Two arm members 13 are laterally extended from the urine receiver 12. The arm member 13 is fitted in the slit 11.

In the lower part of the rear case 3B of the toilet seat box 3, a urine sucking device 14 for sucking up and collecting urine collected by the urine receiver 12, the urine receiver 12 and the urine sucker. A cleaning device 15 for cleaning the upper device 14 and the like is provided.

FIG. 3 is a longitudinal sectional view of a toilet bowl having this urine collecting device. Further, FIG. 4 is a cross-sectional view of the toilet seat portion taken along the line IV-IV in FIG. 3, FIG. 5 is a vertical sectional view of the toilet seat portion and the toilet bowl along the line VV of FIG. 4, and FIG. FIG. 6 is an enlarged view of a VI portion of the figure.

The trap portion 16 at the bottom of the toilet bowl 2 of this toilet bowl 1
Is connected to the drain pipe 17. Also, this toilet bowl 2
Is provided so as to extend widely rearward. A wash water chamber 19 is provided at the rear of the toilet bowl 2, and the wash water supply pipe 4 is connected from above. The inside of the flush water chamber 19 communicates with the rim water passage 20 provided at the upper edge of the toilet bowl 2 and the zet water chamber 21 provided at the bottom of the toilet bowl 2 at the upper portion thereof. The washing water can be supplied to.

An opening is provided in the top plate of the wash water chamber 19, and a pipe 23 with a pump 22 is inserted into the wash water chamber 19 through the opening. The opening is watertightly sealed by a packing 19P.

In the rear case 3B of the toilet seat box 3, the pipe 23 is connected to a urine receiver cleaning nozzle 24 and a urine suction device cleaning nozzle 25.
3, the nozzles 24 and 25, and the pumping pump 22 constitute the cleaning device 15. The urinal washing nozzle 24
Is installed along the rear wall of the rear case 3B and is capable of ejecting cleaning water forward. The suction device cleaning nozzle 25 is capable of ejecting cleaning water toward the urine suction device 14.

The urine suction tube 14 is composed of a urine suction tube 26 and a urine suction tube driving device 27. As shown in FIG. 6, the urine suction tube driving device 27 is provided with the casing 2
7A, a motor 27M, a pinion 27B attached to the shaft of the motor 27M, and a rack 26A engraved on the urine suction tube 26,
The urine suction tube 26 can be moved up and down in the vertical direction. By rotating the motor 27M forward, the urine suction tube 2
6 is lowered until its lower end comes into contact with the bottom surface of the urine receiver 12. A cutout portion 26a is provided at the lower end of the urine suction tube 26, and even when the lower end of the urine suction tube 26 is in contact with the bottom surface of the urine receiver 12, the urine suction tube 26 has urine inside the urine suction tube 26. It is possible to inhale.

The urine suction tube 26 is provided so that its cross-sectional area s has a constant ratio of s: S = 1: N to the bottom area S of the urine receiver 12.

The upper end of the urine suction tube 26 has an electric three-way valve 28.
Also, it is connected to a later-described preparative pump 67 (FIG. 14) via a flexible elastic tube 29.

Incidentally, one port of this electric three-way valve 28 is communicated with the atmosphere.

In the urine sucking device 14, when the urine receiver 12 that has received the discharged urine is moved to the urine sucking position 12 'shown in FIG. 3, the motor 27M rotates in the normal direction. Then, the urine suction tube 26 is lowered. At this time, the inside of the urine suction pipe 26 is communicated with the atmosphere by the electric three-way valve 28. Therefore, as the urine suction tube 26 descends, urine flows into the urine suction tube 26 so as to have the same level as the liquid level in the urine receiver 12.

When the tip of the urine suction tube 26 is brought into contact with the bottom surface of the urine receiver 12, the motor 27M is stopped, and then the electric three-way valve 28 is actuated. The communication with the atmosphere is cut off. Next, the motor 27M is rotated in the reverse direction, and the urine suction tube 26 is raised.
As a result, the urine having entered the urine suction tube 26 is pulled out of the urine receiver 12 together with the urine suction tube 26 as it is.

As described above, since the ratio of the bottom area of the urine receiver 12 to the cross-sectional area of the urine suction tube 26 is N: 1, the amount of urine released into the urine receiver 12 and the The volume ratio N: 1 is exactly the volume of urine in the urine suction tube 26. After the urine suction tube 26 is pulled up above the urine receiver 12, the preparative pump 67 is operated. As a result, the urine in the urine suction tube 26 is sent to the sample collection bottle 72 (Fig. 14).

A control device 30 for controlling the operation of the urine collecting device and the like is provided in the space below the flush water chamber 19 of the toilet bowl 1. The control device 30 includes the urine receiver 12,
The drive control of the urine suction device 14 and the cleaning device 15 and the component analysis of the collected urine are controlled. The configuration of the control device 30 will be described later in detail with reference to FIG.

A waterproof packing 31 is stretched on the back side surface of the slit 11 of the both side arm portions 10 of the toilet seat box 3. The waterproof packing 31 is a long tape-shaped member, and the waterproof packing 31 fits along the slit 11.
A cleavage portion is provided at an intermediate portion in the width direction of the. The arm member 13 of the urine receiver 12 is inserted into the cleavage portion of the waterproof packing 31.

The forward / backward moving mechanism of the urine receiver 12 will be described with reference to FIGS.

A rail member 32 is extended inside the waterproof packing 31. The rail member 32 extends from the front end of the slit 11 to the rear edge of the toilet bowl 2. On the upper surface of the rail member 32, a groove 32A is provided along the longitudinal direction.

The recessed groove 32A is provided from the front part of the rail member 32 to the vicinity of the lower part of the urine suction device 14,
A narrow rail 32 having no recessed groove 32A is provided between the lower portion of the urine suction device 14 and the rear edge of the toilet bowl 2.
B is extended.

A sliding member 33 is fixed to the arm member 13. The sliding member 33 is the rail member 3
It is engaged with the two concave grooves 32A. The bottom surface of the sliding member 33 is a flat surface having high slidability. The sliding member 33 engages with the concave groove 32A, and the bottom surface of the sliding member 33 contacts the groove bottom surface of the concave groove 32A, whereby the upper edge of the urine receiver 12 becomes horizontal. Is configured. The groove 32A is formed by the arm member 13 and the rail member 32.
Has a depth in contact with the upper edge of the.

A stopper 37 for preventing the sliding member 33 from moving is provided at the front end of the groove 32A. Also,
As indicated by reference numeral 12 'in FIG. 3, the weight of the entire urine receiver 12 including the arm member 13 is measured at a position where the urine sucking device 14 sucks and collects urine from the urine receiver 12. A weight sensor 34 is provided in the middle of the rail member 32 so that the rail sensor 32 can be operated.

The rail members 32 are arranged in parallel with each other with the toilet bowl 2 interposed therebetween. Therefore, the distance between the rail members 32 is constant. In addition, the groove 3 of the rail member 32
The bottom surface of 2A and the bottom surface of the sliding member 33 are in long contact with each other in the front-back direction with respect to the sliding direction. Therefore, even while the sliding member 33 is sliding, the upper edge of the urine receiver 12 is stably held horizontally.

A pinion gear 35 is fixedly provided outside the sliding member 33 of the arm member 13. Further, the pinion gear 35 is provided on the rear portion of the rail member 32.
A rack 36 that meshes with is provided. The rack 36
A stopper 38 for preventing the pinion gear 35 from moving is provided at the rear end portion.

The pinion gear 35 of the arm member 13
As shown in FIG. 8, yarns 40 and 41 for driving the urine receiver 12 are tied to the tip portion on the further outer side. These yarns 40, 41 are large pulleys 42, 43 and small pulley 4 axially supported inside the toilet seat box 3.
5 and 46 and a thread guide 47 are stretched.

The large pulleys 42 and 43 are pivotally supported near the corners of the rear portion of the toilet seat box 3. Large pulley 4
2 is driven by a motor 50 via gears 48, 49. Further, the small pulleys 45 and 46 are pivotally supported on the front side of the side arm portion 10 of the toilet seat box 3. The thread guide 47 has a two-step groove portion on the upper and lower sides, and is provided in the front curved portion of the front case 3A of the toilet seat box 3.

The thread 40 is fixed to the arm member 13 on one side (lower side in FIG. 8) of the urine receiver 12, and the small pulley 45.
After that, it is wound around the large pulleys 42 and 43 by about 270 degrees each. The thread 41 is fixed to the arm member 13 on the other side of the urine receiver 12, passes through the small pulley 46, and is wound around the large pulleys 42 and 43 by about 90 degrees.

Therefore, when the motor 50 rotates as indicated by the symbol M in FIG. 8, the tips of both arm members 13, 13 of the urine receiver 12 are pulled by the yarns 40, 41 in equal amounts, and The urine receiver 12 will move. The motor 50
When is rotated in the reverse direction, the urine receiver 12 also moves in the reverse direction.

In the urinal 12 which is moved back and forth as described above,
Details of the operation of the toilet seat box 3 inside the rear case 3B will be described with reference to FIGS. 9 to 11 (side views of main parts).

In FIG. 9, while the sliding member 33 of the arm member 13 is still engaged with the concave groove 32A of the rail member 32, the arm portion is pulled by the threads 40 and 41, and the urine receiver 12 is As indicated by the arrow A, it is moved to the left in the drawing.

As described above, the rail 32B for guiding only one side surface of the sliding member 33 extends rearward from the rear portion of the rail member 32 (on the left hand side in the drawing). The upper surface of the rail 32B is flush with the upper surface of the rail member 32. The rack 36 along the rail 32B
Is installed. Further, as shown in FIG. 9, the bottom surface of the sliding member 33 is in sliding contact with the bottom surface of the groove 32A of the rail member 32, and the arm member 33 is attached to the upper surface of the rail member 32.
Are in sliding contact with each other.

Therefore, when the urine receiver 12 is moved to the rear end of the rail member 32, the pinion gear 35 fixed to the arm member 13 meshes with the rack 36, and the urine receiver 12 moves to the first position. Start turning as shown in Fig. 10. At this time, the urine receiver 12 is supported by the arm member 13 that contacts the upper edge of the rail 32B.
Starts turning on the rail 32B similarly to the urine receiver 12.

As shown in FIG. 11, the urine receiver 12 rotates until the pinion gear 35 comes into contact with a stopper 38 provided at the rear end of the rack 36. Also,
At this time, the side surface of the sliding member 33 rotates while contacting the side surface of the rail 32B.
Then, as indicated by reference numeral 12 ″ in FIGS. 11 and 3, the urine in the urine receiver 12 is discharged into the toilet bowl 2 by rotating the urine receiver 12 by about 90 ° or more. .

FIG. 12 shows the configuration of a toilet bowl controller having a urine collecting device according to this embodiment. In the control device 30, the input device 52 is connected to the storage device 53 and the arithmetic device 54. The input device 52 includes a keyboard and an I
It is a remote control type equipped with an input means such as a D card reader and an oscillator for transmitting an input signal by infrared rays or the like, and is attached to the wall surface of the toilet room as shown in FIG. Information is input to the input device 52 from an ID card of a toilet user (sometimes referred to as a seated person or a user). In addition to the information identifying the user, information such as the normal urination position of the user is input to the ID card.

The control device 30 includes a urine receiver driving device 5
6, connected to the urine collection device 57, the urine analysis device 58, the cleaning device 15, and the output device 60. The control device 30 is
The ID information of the user is stored, the information transmitted from each of the devices is processed, and the operation of the toilet having the urine collecting device is controlled. The configuration and function of each device connected to the control device 30 will be described below.

The urine receiver drive device 56 comprises the motor 50 for driving the urine receiver 12 and a position detector 62 for detecting the position of the urine receiver 12. As shown in FIG. 13, the position detecting device 62 includes a urine receiver 12, an arm member 13, a rail member 32, a linear potentiometer 63 and a resistance measuring device 65.

The urine receiver 12 and the arm member 13 are made of a metal material, and the upper surface of the rail member 32 which is in contact with the arm member 13 is a linear potentiometer 63. The measuring terminal of the resistance measuring device 65 is connected to the ends of the linear potentiometers 63, 63, and the urine receiver 1
The resistance value between both ends of the linear potentiometers 63, 63 at the stop position 2 is detected. Since the resistance value increases or decreases in proportion to the stop position of the urine receiver 12, the resistance value is set to the control device 3
The stop position of the urine receiver 12 is specified by calculating 0. It should be noted that by setting the detected resistance value when the urine receiver 12 is retracted to the retreat limit to point O, this calculation is performed so as to cancel the contact resistance between the arm member 13 and the linear potentiometer 63.

The motor 50 has a position detecting device 62.
The control device 30 controls the urine receiver 12 to move to the normal urine position of the toilet user based on the detection signal of the above. The urine receiver 12 can also be moved directly by operating the keyboard of the input device 52.

The urine collecting device 57 collects the urine arranged in the urine receiver 12 and stores the collected urine for each user. The urine collecting device 57 includes a urine sucking device 14 that sucks up 1 / N of the urine discharged into the urine receiver 12 described above,
As shown in FIG. 14, it is connected to the urine suction device 14 and includes a preparative pump 67, a turntable 68, a drainage pump 69 and the like for storing the sucked 1 / N amount of urine. Composed.

FIG. 14 is a schematic perspective view showing the arrangement of the toilet bowl 1, pumps 67, 69, turntable 68 and urine analyzer 58.

As shown in FIG. 14, the elastic tube 29 of the urine suction device 14 extends from the side wall of the rear case 3B of the toilet seat box 3 of the toilet 1. A tube 71 connected to the elastic tube 29 is extended to above the turntable 68. A preparative pump 67 is provided in the middle of the tube 71. As the preparative pump 67, a peristaltic pump, a syringe pump or the like is used.

The end of the tube 71 is fixed at the mouth level of the urine sample collection bottle 72 placed on the turntable 68. A plurality of the urine sample collection bottles 72 are placed on the turntable 68. On the turntable 68, a waste pipe 73 having the same size as the sample collecting bottle 72 is provided. A tube 75 is connected to the bottom of the waste pipe 73.

The tube 75 corresponds to the turntable 6
The lower surface of the toilet bowl 8 extends into the toilet bowl 2 of the toilet bowl 1. In the middle of the tube 75, the drain pump 6
9 is provided. Further, the tip end side of the tube 75 is connected to a drain pipe 76 extending into the toilet bowl 2 at the lower portion of the side wall of the rear case 3B of the toilet seat box 3.

A drive device 77 is provided in the lower center of the turntable 68. The drive device 77 rotates while detecting the rotation angle of the turntable 68. The preparative pump 67, the drainage pump 69, and the drive device 77.
Is connected to the control device 30.

Further, the urine analyzer 58 measures the amount of excretion of the specific component in urine by analyzing the amount of urine and the concentration of the specific component in the urine. This urine analyzer 58
Is a hydrometer 9 provided on the bottom surface of the urine receiver 12, a weight sensor 34 embedded in a rail member 32 on which the urine receiver 12 slides, and various sensor units 8 for measuring a specific component in the urine.
1 and 1.

In this example, the components in urine are glucose, total protein, albumin, urea, creatinine, N
It refers to physiological components that appear in urine, such as a-ions and K-ions. Therefore, the various sensor units 81 refer to analysis devices such as so-called biosensors, colorimetric methods, ion electrodes, and electric conductivity meters.

The cleaning device 15 comprises the pump 22 and the urine suction device 14.

The output device 60 comprises a monitor 88 and a printer 89. The monitor 88 is arranged in parallel with the input device 52, and the printer 89 is mounted near the toilet bowl.

In this embodiment, the sensor section 81 is installed in the sensor unit casing 84 (FIG. 14). In this embodiment, a three-way valve 82 is provided on the tube 71 on the downstream side of the preparative pump 67, and a pipe 83 branched from this three-way valve 82 is drawn into a casing 84.

The urine, the components of which are sensed by the sensor unit 81, is discharged into the toilet bowl of the toilet 1 through the discharge pipe 85 from the casing 84.

When the urine receiver 12 that has received the urine discharged from the subject is retracted into the rear case 3B of the toilet seat box 3, the urine suction tube 26 is lowered and raised as described above. Urine in an amount of 1 / N of the urine received by the urine receiver 12 is dispensed into the sample collection bottle 72. Thereafter, the flow path is switched so that the three-way valve 82 connects the tube 71 and the pipe 83 on the pump 67 side, the urine suction pipe 26 is lowered again, and then the pump 67 is operated. As a result, the urine in the urine receiver 12 is sent to the various sensor units 81, and the concentrations of various components are detected.

From this concentration and the weight of the released urine, the total amount of the components excreted from the subject with one urine excretion is calculated. The total amount of excreted urine per day can be calculated by performing such a measurement and integrating the total amount of excreted urine per day.

The operation of the toilet bowl having the urine collecting device according to the embodiment configured as described above will be described below.

Since the toilet bowl of the present invention is intended to collect the entire amount of urine, it is premised that the user urinates while sitting on the toilet seat 8 of the toilet bowl 1.

When the toilet bowl 1 is on standby, the urine receiver 12 is located at the rear of the toilet bowl 1 as indicated by reference numeral 1 in FIG.
2 ", the toilet seat box 3 is located below the rear case 3B and has a posture of turning backward.

The user sits on the toilet seat 8 and the input device 5
When the ID card is inserted into 2, the motor 50 in the toilet seat box 3 is actuated, the urine receiver 12 moves while turning forward, and the normal urination position (age, height,
Position according to gender, etc. (Or, the position registered in advance)
At, the urinal 12 is stopped with the upper edge thereof horizontal. (If the user is using the toilet bowl 1 for the first time, the urine receiver 12 is moved to the optimum position by operating the keyboard of the input device 52.) Then, the user receives the urine receiver. Piss into 12. The capacity of the urine receiver 12 is sufficiently large as 400 cc or more, and can receive the entire amount of urination.

When the information from the ID card is input, the urine collecting device 57 is operated, the turntable 68 is rotated, and the sample collection bottle 72 corresponding to the ID information is selected, and the urine extraction tube is selected. It is moved to the bottom of 71. The ID of the sample collection bottle to be placed at which position on the turntable 68 is previously input to the control device 30. If there is no sample collection bottle corresponding to the ID on the turntable 68, the urine is not collected.

When the user finishes urination, the input device 5
When the end of urination is input by 2, the urinal 12 will be the toilet 1.
Is moved to the rear of. Then, as indicated by reference numeral 12 ′ in FIG. 3, the ultrasonic hydrometer 9 is temporarily stopped at the entrance of the rear case 3 B and is provided at the bottom of the urine receiver 12.
The specific gravity of urine is measured by the weight sensor 34 and
Measures the weight of urine. These measurement results are
It is input to the calculation device 54 of the control device 30 and calculated.

Since the weight of the urine receiver 12, the arm member 13 and the like are added to the measurement result of the urine weight, the weights of these devices are subtracted from the measurement result to calculate the weight of only urine. Further, the excreted urine volume (volume) is calculated from the measurement results of these urine specific gravity and urine weight.

Then, a urine suction tube 26 is hung from the urine suction device 14 into the urine receiver 12 located at the entrance of the rear case 3B, and the tip portion of the urine suction tube 26 is aforesaid. The urine is sucked by being brought into contact with the bottom surface of the urine receiver 12. The sucked urine is stored in the sample collection bottle 72 on the turntable 68 by the collecting pump 67 of the urine collecting device. The amount of urine collected at this time is 1 / N in the volume ratio of urine released from the user.

Thereafter, the urine suction tube 26 is lowered again, the urine in the urine receiver 12 is sent to the sensor portion 81, and the component analysis is performed. The analysis data is output to the arithmetic unit 54.

When the urine specific gravity and the urine weight are measured, the urine is collected and the urine is analyzed as described above, the urine receiver 12 is started to move backward again. And reference numeral 12 "in FIG.
As shown in FIG. 5, the rear case 3B is turned upside down and inverted at the innermost portion of the rear case 3B, and the entire amount of urine in the urine receiver 12 is discarded in the toilet bowl 2.

The washing device 15 is operated while the urine receiver 12 is rotated backward, and washing water is jetted from the urine receiver washing nozzle 24 into the urine receiver 12 for washing. Since the urine receiver 12 is still turned upside down, the wash water that has been ejected to clean the inside of the urine receiver 12 is directly discarded in the toilet bowl 2. Further, at this time, the cleaning water is jetted from the urine suction device cleaning nozzle 25, and the urine suction device 14
The outer surface of the urine suction tube 26 is washed.

After washing for a certain period of time, the urine receiver 12 is moved again to the position 12 'in FIG. 3 while the washing device 15 is still operated. As a result, the clean wash water discharged from the nozzles 24, 25 is stored in the urine receiver 12.

Then, the urine suction device 14 is activated again,
The urine suction tube 26 is lowered into the urine receiver 12. At this time, in the urine collecting device 57, the turntable 68 rotates,
A waste pipe 73 is arranged below the extraction tube 71. The three-way valve 82 is switched so as to connect the pump 67 and the waste pipe 71.

Thereafter, the preparative pump 67 connected to the urine suction pipe 26 is operated to suck up the clean wash water stored in the urine receiver 12, and the urine suction pipe 26 and the elastic tube 29 are sucked. The insides of the tube 71 and the preparative pump 67 are cleaned. The cleaning waste water is discarded into the waste pipe 73 and then discharged into the toilet bowl 2 via the tube 75, the drainage pump 69 and the water distribution pipe 76.

When the urine collecting device 57 is washed for a certain period of time, the three-way valve 82 causes the collecting pump 67 and the various sensor parts 8
1 and the sensor section 81 and the pipes 83 and 85 are similarly washed.

After that, the fractionation pump 67 and the drainage pump 69 of the urine fractionation device 57 are stopped. Also, the urinal 1
2 is turned upside down in the posture of reference numeral 12 "in FIG.

The urine analysis result and the like are output from the output device 60 after being calculated by the calculation device 54 in the control device 30. In addition, necessary information is stored in the storage device 53. The information stored in the storage device 53 can be output from the output device 60 as needed.

All the urine that has been analyzed and collected as described above is discharged into the toilet bowl 2. Therefore, after that, when the user operates the flush valve 5, urine is discharged from the toilet bowl 2 to the drain pipe 17.

In order to prevent the urine stored in the sample collection bottle 72 from being deteriorated, it is preferable to mix an antiseptic agent or to provide the turntable portion with a refrigerating function.

According to the toilet bowl having the urine collection container of this embodiment, urine is sampled into the sample collection bottle at a constant rate from the total urine volume released each time, so that the daily urine collection volume is reduced and the sample is collected. The collection bottle can be miniaturized. Therefore, it is possible to easily bring exactly 1 / N of the total urine released for one or more days to a testing organization such as a hospital.

In the above embodiment, the flush valve is manually operated to automatically clean the inside of the toilet bowl after the automatic cleaning of the urine collecting device. An electric remote control type flash valve may be connected so that automatic cleaning of the urine collecting device and automatic cleaning of the toilet bowl are automatically linked.

In the embodiment, each time urine is excreted, the sensor analyzes the urine, but the urine accumulated in the sample collection bottle may be sent to the sensor section for component analysis. In this case, it is preferable to attach a stirring device to the sample collection bottle.

FIG. 15 is a flow path system diagram when the urine is taken out from the sample collection bottle and analyzed in this way.
Is a three-way valve provided in the middle of the tube 71, 91 is a bidirectional pump, 92 is a stirrer, and 93 is a pipe branched from the three-way valve 90.

[0099]

According to the toilet bowl having the urine collecting device of the first to fourth aspects, since only a part of the total amount of discharged urine is stored, the urine storage bottle can be downsized and the storage space of the urine storage bottle can be reduced.

According to the toilet bowl having the urine collecting device of the second aspect, the urine components can be analyzed after the urine collected a plurality of times is mixed in the urine storage bottle.

According to the toilet having the urine collecting device of the third aspect, it is possible to calculate the urine component concentration and the total urine amount to obtain the total excreted amount of each urine component. Therefore, it is possible to reduce the amount of accumulated urine.

In the toilet having the urine collecting device according to the fourth aspect, since the cross-sectional area of the urine collecting tube and the cross sectional area of the urine collecting vessel are constant, it is possible to measure the urine volume in the urine collecting tube by The total amount of urine released to the urine receiver can be calculated.

[0103]

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a toilet bowl having a urine collecting device according to an embodiment.

FIG. 2 is a perspective view of a toilet seat box used in the embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a vertical sectional view of a toilet bowl having the urine collecting device of the embodiment.

FIG. 4 is a sectional view taken along line IV-IV of FIG.

5 is a vertical cross-sectional view taken along the line VV of FIG.

FIG. 6 is a vertical cross-sectional view showing the structure of a urine wicking apparatus used in Examples.

FIG. 7 is a perspective view showing a driving method of the urine receiver used in the embodiment.

FIG. 8 is a perspective view showing a driving method of the urine receiver used in the embodiment.

FIG. 9 is a schematic side view showing the operation of the urine receiver used in the example.

FIG. 10 is a schematic side view showing the operation of the urine receiver used in the example.

FIG. 11 is a schematic side view showing the operation of the urine receiver used in the example.

FIG. 12 is a configuration diagram of a control means of a toilet bowl having a urine collecting device used in Examples.

FIG. 13 is a schematic diagram showing a position detecting means of a urine receiver used in an embodiment.

FIG. 14 is a schematic configuration diagram of a urine collecting device used in Examples.

FIG. 15 is a schematic configuration diagram of a urine analyzer according to another embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 toilet bowl 2 toilet bowl 3 toilet seat boxes 5 flush valves 8 toilet seats 12 Urine 13 Arm member 14 Urine wicking device 15 Cleaning device 22 Pumping pump 24 Urinal cleaning nozzle 25 Urine suction device cleaning nozzle 30 control device 32 Rail member 33 Sliding member 40,41 thread 52 Input device 53 storage device 54 arithmetic unit 56 Urine receiver drive 57 Urine collection device 58 Urine analyzer 60 Output device 81 Sensor part

─────────────────────────────────────────────────── --- Continuation of the front page (56) Reference JP-A-57-82744 (JP, A) JP-A-3-84127 (JP, A) JP-A-2-27263 (JP, A) JP-A-60- 233551 (JP, A) JP 7-259165 (JP, A) JP 7-234219 (JP, A) JP 6-258316 (JP, A) JP 64-79658 (JP, A) 62-115124 (JP, U) 1-180769 (JP, U) 5-18654 (JP, U) 5-74654 (JP, B2) (58) Fields investigated (Int.Cl. ⁷ , DB name) G01N 33/493 E03D 9/00 A61B 5/20

Claims (4)

(57) [Claims] 1. A western-style toilet bowl body, a toilet seat provided on the upper surface of the western-style toilet bowl body, a urine receiver for receiving the entire amount of urine discharged from a seated person on the toilet seat, and urine received by the urine receiver. A urine collecting device comprising: a collecting device for collecting a fixed amount of urine, a reservoir for storing urine collected by the collecting device, and a measuring device for quantifying the amount of stored urine. Toilet bowl with. 2. The toilet bowl having a urine collecting device according to claim 1, wherein the reservoir is provided with a stirring device. 3. The analyzer according to claim 1, which analyzes the concentration of components in urine in the reservoir, and integrates the concentration analyzed by the analyzer and the quantitative value measured by the measuring device. A toilet bowl having a urine collecting device, which is provided with a computing device for computing the amount of the target component. 4. The dispensing device according to claim 1, wherein the dispensing device can take a collecting posture in which a tip is inserted until it abuts a bottom surface in the urine receiver and a standby posture in which the tip is pulled up from the urine receiver. As described above, at least the tip of which can move up and down, a drive device for moving the tip of the urine collection tube up and down, a liquid transport device for sending urine in the urine collection tube to the reservoir, and the inside of the urine collection tube A toilet bowl having a urine collecting device, which is provided with a valve device capable of communicating with the atmosphere.