JPH0782774A - Flush toilet seat with deodorizing function - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To attach a deodorizing device without widening the width of a toilet bowl, by vertically putting the deodorizing mechanism under a hot air blowing mechanism for a dryer placed on the toilet bowl and sucking the air in the toiler bowl for deodorization. CONSTITUTION:A hot air blowing mechanism 20 composed of a heater 16, a motor 17, a fan 18, an air duct 19, etc., is installed in the housing 12, 12C placed on a toilet bowl 11. And a deodorizing mechanism 24 composed of a cartridge type deodorizer 15, a fan 21, an air duct 23, etc., is connected to vertically superpose with it thereunder. The deodorizing mechanism and the deodorizer chamber are combined so as not to protrude breadthwise in the toilet bowl and the deodorizing device is placed so as to be installed even in a small space toilet. In this deodorizing mechanism 24, the air in the toilet bowl is sucked by the motion of switches and naturally dissipated after deodorizing action. In this way, the circumstances of a narrow toilet room having a narrow toilet bowl width can be improved.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a cleaning toilet seat device having a deodorizing function, in which a deodorant is exchangeably loaded in a housing in a cartridge form.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Toilet seats and toilet lids can be freely opened and closed with respect to the open space of a Western-style toilet bowl, and the human body part is washed with washing water after use.
In addition, a flush toilet seat device that blows warm air after drying to dry is widely used in general households. In the above-mentioned flush toilet seat device, for example, Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 63-210319 discloses
It is disclosed that the deodorant can be replaced in the housing in the form of a cartridge.

7 and 8 partially show a flush toilet seat device having the above deodorizing function. The housing 1 constituting the apparatus main body is long in the width direction of the toilet bowl, and has a horizontally installed portion 1C installed on the rear portion of the toilet bowl and a right sleeve protruding from the horizontally installed portion 1C to the outside of the toilet bowl width range. The seat 1A and the left sleeve portion (not shown) support the toilet seat and the toilet lid so that they can be opened and closed with respect to the toilet bowl (not shown). The housing 1 has a cleaning nozzle mechanism including one or both of an anus cleaning nozzle and a bidet cleaning nozzle that discharges cleaning water toward a human body part, a warm air blowing mechanism that blows warm air after drying and blows it out, etc. On the upper surface of the sleeve portion 1A, an ON-OFF switch 2 such as a cleaning nozzle mechanism or a warm air blowing mechanism, and a manual adjustment switch 3 for cleaning water pressure or water temperature are provided.

The cartridge type deodorant 4 is a sleeve portion 1A.
It can be taken in and out through an opening 5a (FIG. 8) under the lid 5 provided on the upper surface of the. The opening 5a communicates with the wind tunnel 6 formed from the laterally installed portion 1C to the right sleeve portion 1A, and one end of the wind tunnel 6 has a window 6a formed at the front surface of the laterally installed portion 1C.
Has become a suction port installed in the open space of the toilet bowl,
The other end of the wind tunnel 6 communicates with a storage chamber 9 of a deodorizing mechanism including a motor 7 and a fan 8.

Therefore, in the deodorant 4, the odor particles are adsorbed by the deodorant 4 by operating the motor 7 and rotating the fan 8 to remove the odor in the toilet room.

[0006]

In the above conventional device, the deodorant is taken in and out in the vertical direction or in the front-back direction of the toilet bowl, and it can be seen that the space in the width direction of the toilet bowl is not used. However, in the sleeve part of the housing, other mechanisms such as a hot water tank for temporarily storing wash water and its piping, a valve unit for water pressure adjustment and the like assembled in the piping, and an automatic toilet seat and toilet lid by a rotary actuator are used. An opening / closing mechanism may be built in, and adding a storage room for the deodorant and the deodorizing mechanism on top of that may enlarge the sleeve part and take up space in the width direction of the toilet bowl. Therefore, it may be difficult to install the toilet in a toilet room having a narrow width direction.

In recent years, in particular, in view of the housing situation in Japan, it has been attempted to design the sleeve portion projecting in the width direction of the toilet bowl as described above to be more compact, if possible, with the aid of a remote controller to have almost no sleeve portion. Is about to be taken. The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and a deodorant storage chamber is formed without expanding the housing in the width direction of the toilet bowl, which facilitates installation in a small toilet room with a housing that saves space. An object is to provide a deodorant storage structure.

[0008]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION According to the present invention, there is provided a housing, which is installed on a rear portion of a toilet bowl in a mounted form, and holds a toilet seat and a toilet lid so as to be openable and closable with respect to the toilet bowl, and an intake port in an open space of the toilet bowl. A temporary air guide duct, a lid for taking in and out a deodorant formed on either the front side portion or the rear side portion or the upper side portion of the housing facing in the front-rear direction of the toilet bowl, and the approximately width range of the toilet bowl. A deodorant storage chamber formed in the housing above the toilet bowl with one opening communicating with the air duct, and the one opening or another opening facing the lid, and the middle of the air duct. And a deodorizing mechanism installed in the device.

[0009]

The deodorant accommodating chamber of the present invention is formed in the housing above the toilet bowl in the substantially width range of the toilet bowl. Therefore,
The housing is dimensionally unaffected by the formation of the deodorant storage chamber in the width direction of the toilet bowl, and can be configured to occupy less space in the toilet room.

Of course, when the deodorant is taken in and out, a lid for taking in and out the deodorant is formed on either the front side or the rear side or the upper side of the lateral portion facing in the front-rear direction of the toilet bowl, and Since it faces one opening or another opening of the deodorant storage chamber communicating with the air duct, the space in the width direction of the toilet is not used.

[0011]

As described above, according to the present invention, the deodorant agent accommodating chamber is formed in the housing above the toilet bowl in the substantially wide range of the toilet bowl, and the deodorant agent accommodating chamber is used for taking in and out the deodorant agent. Since one opening or another opening communicating with the air guide duct is formed facing the lid, the housing can be configured to occupy less space in the width direction of the toilet, and the deodorant can be put in and taken out. However, since the space in the width direction of the toilet bowl is not used, it is easy to install the toilet bowl in a small toilet room.

[0012]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of a cleaning toilet seat device with a deodorizing function according to the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to FIGS.
As shown in FIG. 1, the flush toilet seat device with a deodorizing function of the present embodiment is provided with a horizontal portion 12C installed on the rear portion of the toilet 11 in a mounted form and a portion of the toilet 11 slightly from the right side of the horizontal portion 12C.
The housing 12 is composed of a right sleeve portion 12A protruding in the width direction, and a toilet seat 13 and a toilet lid 14 that are openably and closably held with respect to the toilet 11 by the laterally installed portion 12C. The left side surface is almost flush with the left side surfaces of the toilet seat 13 and the toilet lid 14, and a design that limits the length of the toilet bowl 11 in the width direction is adopted.

With respect to the housing 12 having such a structure,
The cartridge type deodorant 15 is, as shown in FIG.
It is replaceably loaded on the left end of the lateral portion 12C on the toilet bowl. More specifically, as shown in FIG. 3, the housing 12 has a warm air blowing mechanism 20 including a heater 16, a motor 17, a fan 18, and an air guide duct 19 in which these are installed.
To the upper part, and a deodorizing mechanism 24 composed of a fan 21, a motor 22 and a wind guide duct 23 in which these are installed, to the lower part.
It is stored in layers.

As shown in FIG. 4, the lower air guide duct 23 has a suction port 23a located at the edge D of the open space of the toilet bowl 11, and a storage chamber 23b for the fan 21 and the motor 22.
Is communicated with the deodorant storage chamber 26 via the intermediate duct 25. The deodorant storage chamber 26 has a tubular shape having both openings 26a and 26b in the front-back direction of the toilet 11, its rear opening 26a is connected to the above-mentioned intermediate duct 25, and its front opening 26b is as shown in FIG. The front surface portion of the laterally arranged portion 12C faces. A lid 27 is provided on the front surface portion. The lid 27 is kept in a normally closed state by, for example, spring means (not shown). Further, the lid 27 is formed with an orbiting circle in the opening direction and a flat friction opening operation surface 27a tangentially, and the lid 27 can be opened by a frictional force between the friction opening operation surface 27a and the hand. Further, the deodorant 15 is prevented from coming off by elastic claws 28 formed on the wall of the deodorant storage chamber 26.

A motor 22 for rotating the fan 21
Is operated by a timer when seated on the toilet seat 13, for example. On the other hand, the upper air duct 19
Has a blowout port 19a slightly forward of the edge line D, and the blowout port 19a is provided with a lid 29 that is opened by a blowing force of warm air, for example. The air duct 19 has a storage chamber 19b in which a fan 18 is installed and a heater 16b.
And a storage chamber 19c in which is installed. The motor 22 is housed in a housing outside the air duct 19.

A low tank 30 is installed at the rear of the housing 12, a hot water tank into which wash water is introduced, and wash nozzles for discharging the wash water in the warm water tank toward a human body part are provided. However, these configurations are omitted because they are not directly related to the present invention. Furthermore, various operation switches shown in FIG. 7 may be arranged on the sleeve portion 12A.

According to the flush toilet seat device having the above structure, the odor sucked from the suction port 23a facing the toilet 11 while the motor 22 is rotating is stored by the fan 21 by the suction action of the fan 21. It is sent to the chamber 23b, further bent by the intermediate duct 25 at the left end corner of the lateral portion 12C, guided to the deodorant storage chamber 26, and adsorbed by the deodorant 15 in the deodorant storage chamber 26. Further, the air that has passed through the deodorant 15 is naturally discharged to the outside from the internal space of the housing 12.

As can be seen from FIG. 6, the warm air blowing mechanism 20.
Then, the air flow direction of the deodorizing mechanism 24 is opposite. In the warm air blowing mechanism 20, the warm air is sucked from the storage chamber 19c of the heater 16 into the storage chamber 19b of the fan 18 by the rotation of the fan 18, and is blown from the storage chamber 19b toward the human body part through the blowout port 19a. The storage chamber 19c is also in communication with the internal space of the housing 12, and since the internal space of the housing 12 is filled with the air from which the odor has been removed as described above, the warm air blown out must contain the odor. There is no.

According to the deodorant storage structure of the present invention, the deodorant storage chamber 26 is formed in the laterally-arranged portion 12C in the width range of the toilet bowl 11. Therefore, the width direction of the toilet bowl 11 of the housing 12 is extremely large. Can be made smaller. In addition, the deodorant 15
The lid 27 is formed on the front surface of the lateral portion 12C, and the front opening 26b of the deodorant storage chamber 26 faces the lid 27. You can

Further, in this embodiment, the warm air blowing mechanism 20 is used.
By stacking the deodorizing mechanism 24 and the deodorizing mechanism 24 in two layers, the deodorizing mechanism 24 is prevented from spreading in the width direction of the toilet bowl 11. Further, in the present embodiment, as shown in FIG. 6, the suction port 23a of the air duct 23 has the edge D of the open space of the toilet 11.
Since it is retracted by a predetermined distance d from the (inner wall) and does not face downward to the open space like the window 6a of the conventional device shown in FIG. Excellent waterproof effect.

As another embodiment, the lid 27 may be provided on the rear side (rear surface) of the horizontal portion 12C or on the upper side. When provided on the rear side, an opening is formed in the intermediate duct 25, and the deodorant is put in and taken out from the rear opening 26a.
Further, each motor 1 of the warm air blowing mechanism 20 and the deodorizing mechanism 24
The configuration in which 7, 21 are shared also belongs to the present invention.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is an external perspective view of a cleaning toilet seat device with a deodorizing function according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a plan view of FIG.

3 is a sectional view taken along the line AA of FIG.

FIG. 4 is a plan sectional view of a left end portion of the horizontal installation portion.

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

6 is a sectional view taken along the line BB of FIG.

FIG. 7 is a perspective view showing a loading mode of a deodorant in a conventional flush toilet seat device.

FIG. 8 is a cross-sectional view illustrating the storage form of FIG.

[Explanation of symbols]

11 ... Toilet bowl, 12 ... Housing, 13 ... Toilet seat, 14 ... Toilet lid, 15 ... Deodorant, 20 ... Warm air blowing mechanism (16 ... Heater, 17 ... Motor, 18 ... Fan, 19 ... Wind duct), 24 ... Deodorization mechanism (21 ... fan, 22 ... motor,
23 ... wind duct). 26 ... Deodorant storage room, 27 ... Lid.

 ─────────────────────────────────────────────────── ─── Continuation of the front page (72) Rin Matsubara 2-1-1 Asahi-cho, Kariya city, Aichi Prefecture Aisin Seiki Co., Ltd. (72) Inventor Atsushi Sawaki 2-1-1 Asahi-cho, Kariya city, Aichi prefecture Aisin Seiki Co., Ltd. Incorporated (72) Inventor Ikuya Iwata 3-6, Koiehonmachi, Tokoname City, Aichi Prefecture Inax Co., Ltd.

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A housing which is installed on a rear portion of a toilet bowl and holds a toilet seat and a toilet lid so as to be openable and closable with respect to the toilet bowl, an air guide duct having a suction port provided in an open space of the toilet bowl, and a toilet bowl. And a lid for taking in and out a deodorant formed on either the front side portion, the rear side portion, or the upper portion of the housing facing in the front-back direction, and the above-mentioned housing in the housing above the toilet bowl in a substantially width range of the toilet bowl. A deodorant accommodating chamber formed with one opening communicating with the air duct and having the one opening or another opening facing the lid, and a deodorizing mechanism installed in the middle of the air duct. A cleaning toilet seat device with a deodorizing function, which is characterized by being provided. 2. The cleaning toilet seat with a deodorizing function according to claim 1, wherein the deodorizing mechanism is composed of two layers, a warm air blowing mechanism and a warm air blowing mechanism for drying the human body local part after cleaning the human body local part. apparatus. 3. The cleaning toilet seat device with a deodorizing function according to claim 1, wherein the suction port of the air duct is retracted outside the edge line of the open space of the toilet bowl.