JPH05316242A - Signal transmitter - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To speedily cope with a fault repair, and to reduce a cost required for a service by confirming the fault situation of a housing equipment provided at each household through a telephone line, in a fault supervisory center. CONSTITUTION:When the fault of the heater of the heated toilet seat of a shower-stool 1 occurs, a fault detection transmitter 3 detects the fault, and outputs the coded signal of the locating fault from an antenna 2 in the configuration of a radio wave. The locating fault coded signal is received by an antenna 5 of a repeater system 4, converted into a line signal which can be transmitted through a telephone line TW by the line transmission circuit of the repeater system 4, and transmitted through the telephone line TW to the fault supervisory center altogether with a user code and an equipment code. Thus, a service staff can confirm the fault situation in the fault supervisory center.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a signal transmission device for transmitting a signal obtained by encoding a failure mode to a failure monitoring center via a telephone line when a failure occurs in a housing equipment.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, household equipment such as sanitary washing devices and water heaters are generally sold individually as with home appliances.
When housing equipment breaks down, service personnel go to the site to check the failure situation, check the parts necessary for the repair, and then go to the site again with those parts to repair the failed part. Has been done.

[0003]

As described above, when the housing equipment such as the sanitary washing device and the water heater fails,
Since the service staff has to go to the site twice, it takes a lot of trouble to repair the failure.
There is also the problem that the cost associated with failure repairs will also be high. Therefore, in the present invention, the failure status of the housing equipment installed in each house in the failure monitoring center can be confirmed through a telephone line so that the failure repair can be promptly dealt with, and the comprehensive service required. The technical problem to be solved is to reduce the cost.

[0004]

A technical means for solving the above-mentioned problems is to detect a failure of a housing equipment by using a signal transmission device used for centrally managing the failure of the housing equipment and to detect the failure. -Fault detection means for outputting a coded signal obtained by encoding the code, and coded signal transmission means for transmitting the coded signal output from the fault detection means using radio waves, light, or power lines, and A line relay means for converting the coded signal transmitted by the coded signal transmission means into a line signal which can be transmitted by a telephone line and transmitting the line signal to a predetermined failure monitoring center through the telephone line. It is to have a configuration provided.

[0005]

According to the signal transmission device having the above structure, when a failure occurs in the housing equipment monitored by the failure monitoring center, the failure detection means detects the failure of the housing equipment and codes the failure mode. The encoded coded signal is output. The encoded signal is transmitted by an encoded signal transmission means, for example, a power line,
Alternatively, when the signal is transmitted to the line relay means by a wireless transmission method using radio waves or light as a transmission medium, the line relay means converts the encoded signal into a line signal that can be transmitted by a telephone line, and then converts the line signal. It is transmitted to a predetermined failure monitoring center via a telephone line. Since the failure monitoring center can recognize the failure of the housing equipment based on the coded signal transmitted through the telephone line, the service staff goes to the site with the parts for repairing the failure, and The failure can be repaired.

[0006]

Embodiments of the present invention will now be described with reference to the drawings. Figure 1 shows that when a failure occurs in housing equipment,
FIG. 3 is a system diagram showing an overall configuration of a signal transmission device for transmitting a signal obtained by encoding the failure mode to a failure monitoring center via a telephone line. As shown in FIG. 1, in this embodiment, a system for monitoring a failure of a shower toilet 1 which is one of the housing equipment will be described. Shower
Failure detection / transmission device 3 that detects a failure in each part of the toilet 1, for example, a failure in which a heater of a heating toilet seat is cut off, and outputs a signal obtained by coding the failure location as a radio wave from an antenna 2
Is attached near the shower room 1. On the other hand, the fault location coded signal of the shower toilet 1 output from the antenna 2 of the fault detection transmission apparatus 3 in the form of radio waves is received by the antenna 5 attached to the relay apparatus 4, and the fault location code is received. The converted signal is converted into a line signal that can be transmitted through the telephone line TW in the line transmission circuit built in the relay device 4.

The relay device 4 operates by obtaining 100 volt power from the power plug 6. Further, a telephone plug (not shown) is attached to the relay device 4, and when the telephone plug is attached to the telephone line outlet 7, the relay device 4 is connected to the telephone line TW. Incidentally, a telephone outlet (not shown) is attached to the relay device 4,
The plug 9 of the telephone 8 is attached. Therefore, the relay device 4 puts a signal obtained by coding the fault location of the shower toilet 1 and other housing equipment on the telephone line TW, while automatically using the telephone line TW when the telephone 8 is used. It incorporates a switching circuit for switching to the telephone 8 side.

When transmitting the fault location coded signal from the relay device 4 to the fault monitoring center (not shown) through the telephone line TW, the shower toilet 1 is attached together with the fault location coded signal. By transmitting the code (user code) of the home and the equipment code, the monitoring device provided in the failure monitoring center is equipped with the shower toilet 1 in the failed state. The address, telephone number, and model of the shower-toilet 1 as well as the existing house are programmed so that the location of the failure of the shower-toilet 1 can be immediately recognized.

In the signal transmission device configured as described above, when a failure such as the heater of the shower room 1 is cut off, for example, the heater of the shower toilet 1, a failure detection transmission device 3
Detects the failure and outputs a coded signal at the failure location from the antenna 2 in the form of radio waves. The fault location coded signal is received by the antenna 5 of the repeater 4 and converted into a line signal which can be transmitted by the telephone line TW in the line transmission circuit of the repeater 4, and then the user code. , Fault monitoring center via telephone line TW with equipment code
Since the information is transmitted to the service personnel, the service personnel can confirm the failure status at the failure monitoring center without going to the site. As for the failure data, all the data may be sent to the failure monitoring center first, or a part of the failure data may be sent to the failure monitoring center and then the detailed data may be sent by an inquiry signal from the failure monitoring center. It may be configured.

FIG. 2 is a perspective view of a telephone 10 having the relay device 4 built therein. As shown in FIG.
Since the relay device 0 has the relay device 4 built therein, an antenna 5 for the relay device 4 is provided upright. In addition, the common plug 11 of the relay device 4 and the telephone 10 is the telephone line outlet 7
When the power is supplied from a power plug (not shown), the failure data of the shower toilet 1 can be transmitted to the failure monitoring center as in the above embodiment.

The fault-coded signal output from the fault detection transmission device 3 to the relay device 4 may use light as a transmission medium, instead of using radio waves as a transmission medium as described above. .. Alternatively, the power line may be used as the transmission medium. Further, if the configuration is such that the telephone number is transmitted to the fault monitoring center via the telephone line TW by toll-free dial, the user is not burdened with telephone charges.

[0012]

As described above, according to the present invention, when a failure occurs in the housing equipment, a signal encoding the failure mode can be transmitted to the failure monitoring center via the telephone line. Therefore, the failure can be automatically transmitted to the failure monitoring center without the user having to bother, and the service staff can recognize the failure status of the housing equipment at the failure monitoring center. -Service personnel will be able to quickly complete failure repairs with a single site visit, which has the effect of reducing the overall cost required for service.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a system diagram showing an overall configuration of an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a perspective view of another embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 shower-toilet 2 antenna 3 failure detection transmission device 4 relay device 5 antenna 7 telephone line outlet TW telephone line

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A failure detecting means for detecting a failure of a housing equipment and outputting a coded signal obtained by coding the failure mode, and the coded signal outputted from the failure detecting means by radio waves or Coded signal transmission means for transmitting by using light, and after converting the coded signal transmitted by the coded signal transmission means into a line signal that can be transmitted by a telephone line, the line signal is transmitted through the telephone line. A signal transmission apparatus comprising: a line relay means for transmitting to a predetermined failure monitoring center. 2. A failure detecting means for detecting a failure of the housing equipment and outputting an encoded signal obtained by encoding the failure mode, and a power supply line for supplying the encoded signal output from the failure detecting means. And a coded signal transmitting means for transmitting the coded signal, the coded signal transmitted by the coded signal transmitting means is converted into a line signal that can be transmitted by a telephone line, and the line signal is transmitted through the telephone line in a predetermined manner. A signal transmission device comprising: a line relay means for transmitting to a failure monitoring center.