JPH03202580A - Automated door for toilet booth - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To promote hygience by making a door open when there is a person outside an automated door, making the door close when there is a person inside the automated door to lock, and maintaining the door in a state of locking when there is one person outside the door in such a state as the other person stands outside the door. CONSTITUTION:When a person stands in front of a door 8, an outside sensor 17 detects the person to operate a control driving section 9, and the door 8 is opened. After that, when the person enters a toilet booth 1, an inside sensor 18 detects the person to operate the driving section 9, and the door 8 is closed. Then, a lock device is operated to lock the door 8, and an occupied indicating lamp 11a is turned ON. Even if the outside sensor 17 detects one person standing in the front of the door 8 in such a state as the other person is in the booth 1, the door 8 is maintained in a state of locking. In addition, when the person stands inside the door 8 after using the toilet, the inside sensor 18 detects the person to operate the driving section 9, and the door 8 is opened.

Description

[Detailed description of the invention] (Industrial application field) The present invention relates to an automatic door for a toilet booth.

(Prior art) The door installed in the toilet booth cannot be said to be clean because the user touches it after using the toilet, so it is necessary to make this door an automatic door so that the user can enter and exit the toilet booth without touching the door. will be carried out.

(Problem to be solved by the invention) However, a general automatic door opens when a person stands outside even if there is a person inside, so when applying such an automatic door to a toilet booth, it is necessary to Install a locking device and lock it when entering the toilet booth.
It was necessary to prevent the door from opening even if someone was standing outside.

As described above, in the conventional automatic door structure, the user had to touch the lock, so no improvement in hygiene could be expected and it was inconvenient.

The present invention was developed in view of the above-mentioned conventional circumstances, and its object is to provide a sanitary and convenient automatic door for a toilet booth.

(Means for Solving the Problems) In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the present invention provides sensors 17 and 18 on the inside and outside of the automatic door 7 attached to the toilet booth 1 so as to be openable and closable, and a locking device on the automatic door. The automatic door 7 is opened when a person stands outside the automatic door 7, and the automatic door 7 is closed and locked when a person enters the inside of the automatic door 7. The automatic door 7 is characterized in that the locked state is maintained when a person stands outside the automatic door 7 while there is a person inside.

(Function) If someone stands outside the automatic door while there is someone inside, the automatic door will not open, so it is no longer necessary to lock or unlock it from inside the automatic door as in the past. do not have. Therefore, there is no need to touch the automatic door at all, which is sanitary and convenient.

(Embodiment) A preferred embodiment of the present invention will be described below based on the accompanying drawings.

FIG. 1 shows a perspective view of a toilet booth. This toilet booth 1 is composed of a front wall 2, side walls 3, 4, and a rear wall 5, and a toilet bowl 6 is arranged inside the toilet booth 1.

The front wall 2 is provided with an automatic door 7, which consists of a door part 8 and a control drive part 9. The door section 8 consists of a left door 10 and a right door 11, and the right door 11 has a use indicator light 11a,
Provide a key hole Jlb for unlocking. The left side of the left door 1o is rotatably attached to a column (not shown), and the right door 11 is rotatably attached to a column 12 at its right side. Further, the right side of the left door 10 and the left side of the right door 11 are rotatably attached to the support column 13.

A guide 14 is arranged below the door 8, and this guide 14 consists of a straight section 15 and a curved section 16.
is slidably engaged with the straight portion 15, and the support column 13 is slidably engaged with the curved portion 16, respectively. Therefore, when the door part 8 opens, the support 12
slides along the straight part 15, and the support column 13 slides along the curved part 16, so that the left door 10 and the right door 11 are bent and opened.

An outer sensor 17 is attached to the outer surface of the upper left of the front wall 2, and an inner sensor 18 is attached to the inner surface of the upper left of the front wall 2. These sensors 17.18 are located in toilet booth 1
It detects the entry and exit of people, and is composed of, for example, ultrasonic sensors, photoelectric sensors, heat ray sensors, etc.

In the above, as shown in FIG.
is activated, and the door portion 8 opens as shown in FIG. When the person A enters the toilet booth 1, the inside sensor 18 detects this, and the control drive section 9 is activated to close the door section 8 as shown in FIG. When the door part 8 is closed, the locking device (
(not shown) is activated, the door portion 8 is locked, and the use indicator light 11a lights up. In such a state, that is, when person A is inside the toilet booth 1 and another person B is standing in front of the door 8 (the state shown in FIG. 5), even if the outside sensor 17 detects this, the door will not open. Part 8 remains closed. Therefore, there is no possibility that the door section 8 will be opened by mistake while using the toilet.

When person A stands inside the door part 8 after using the toilet, the inside sensor 18 detects this, the control drive part 9 is activated, and the door part 8 is opened. This allows person A to exit through the door section 8.

In the above, when person A uses the toilet, the door part 8
There is no need to lock and unlock the door part 8.
It is possible to enter and leave the toilet booth 1 without touching the toilet, which is sanitary and convenient.

In this embodiment, if the key is inserted into the release keyhole 11b and operated, the door portion 8 can be opened even in the state shown in FIG. 5, and a person may faint inside the toilet booth 1. It is now possible to deal with abnormal situations such as this.

(Effects of the Invention) As described above, according to the present invention, even if a person stands outside the automatic door while there is a person inside the automatic door, the automatic door will not open. There is no need to lock or unlock the door inside. Therefore, there is no need to touch the automatic door at all, which is sanitary and convenient.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of the toilet booth, and FIGS. 2 to 6 are simplified plan views of the toilet booth to show the operation of the automatic door. 1... Toilet booth, 7... Automatic door, 17°18
···sensor

Claims (2)

[Claims] (1) Sensors are installed on the inside and outside of the automatic door installed in the toilet booth so that it can be opened and closed freely, and a locking device is installed on this automatic door, so that the automatic door opens when a person stands outside the automatic door. The automatic door is closed and locked when a person enters the inside of the door, and the locked state is maintained when a person stands outside the automatic door while the person is inside the automatic door. An automatic door for a toilet booth that is characterized by the following features: (2) The automatic door is configured such that the lock is released by operating a key from outside.
) The automatic door of the toilet booth.