KR100484520B1 - Apparatus for controlling dry in bidet - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a drying control apparatus of a bidet to change the power cycle during drying to dry quickly, this invention checks whether the drying function is selected, and if the drying function is selected, the operation number of the drying button is selected If the search button is pressed once, the drying is performed by the same drying control method as the previous one. If the search button is pressed twice in succession, it is determined as turbo drying and the power cycle is controlled. do. In addition, by operating the direct current motor based on the controlled power supply to operate the blower fan to turbo, and to control the heater corresponding to the heater level with the controlled power supply to increase the heating value of the heater to perform high-speed drying.

Description

Apparatus for controlling dry in bidet}

The present invention relates to a drying control of the bidet, and more particularly, to a drying control apparatus of the bidet to change the power cycle during drying to quickly dry.

In general, the bidet (bidet) is a device having a function to clean the stool area by spraying water automatically when the user presses the rinse button after stool, and the drying function to dry the residual water buried in the washing area by pressing the dry button It is widely known as.

1 is a perspective view showing a general bidet installation state for performing a function as known, the bidet is installed on the toilet seat 10, the inside of the operation panel 21 formed on one side of the bidet body 20 Hot water is sprayed through the nozzle 27 to automatically perform anal cleaning, local cleaning or massage cleaning, and after cleaning, the operation of the operation panel 21 generates hot air to automatically dry.

In addition, the seat 22 seated by the user in front of the bidet body 20 is rotatably provided, the cover 23 for receiving the seat 22 in the upper end of the bidet body 20 is rotatable It is provided.

In the above, the anal rinsing is to wash the anus without toilet paper with washing water sprayed through the nozzle after seeing the toilet, the local rinsing is to automatically wash the women's local area with hot water, the massage cleaning is to clean the nozzle to which the washing water is sprayed It is a cleaning to make a massage effect by moving forward and backward continuously and repeatedly.

Figure 2 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a drying apparatus of a conventional bidet.

Here, reference numeral 21 denotes an operation panel, reference numeral 30 denotes a power supply unit for supplying power, reference numeral 40 denotes a control unit for controlling the overall operation of the drying apparatus of the bidet, and reference numeral 50 denotes the power supply unit 30. A rectifying unit converts the supplied AC power into a predetermined DC voltage, and reference numeral 60 denotes a DC motor 60 for driving the blower fan 70 by driving the DC voltage converted by the rectifying unit 50. Indicates.

Also, reference numeral 80 denotes a heater driving unit for driving the heater 90 by the AC power supplied from the power supply unit 30.

The operation of the drying apparatus of the conventional bidet configured as described above will be described with reference to FIG. 3.

First, the power supply unit 30 rectifies the commercial AC power input to make a DC voltage to supply driving power to the control unit 40.

The controller 40 searches for the state of the plurality of operation buttons provided in the operation panel 21 in the activated state, and if it is recognized that the drying button is operated as a result of the search, the control unit 40 searches for the heater control level set by the user.

Here, the heater control level is from 1 to 5 stages, the drying temperature is different for each stage. In particular, the higher the level (the higher the stage), the higher the drying temperature.

Meanwhile, when recognizing the heater control level as a result of the search, the heater driver 80 is controlled accordingly.

The heater driver 80 controls the amount of heat generated by the heater 90 by using AC power supplied from the power supply unit 30 in response to the control of the controller 40 so that a heat source having a temperature corresponding to each heater control level is generated. do.

Next, the rectifying unit 50 rectifies the AC power supplied from the power supply unit 30 to make a predetermined DC voltage, and the DC motor 60 drives the DC voltage generated by the rectifying unit 50 to blow a fan ( Rotate 70).

The blowing fan 70 serves to transfer the heat source generated from the heater 90 to the anal region or the local region of the user.

This operation is to dry the water remaining in the anal region and the local area of the user.

4 is a flowchart illustrating a drying control process of a conventional bidet.

As shown therein, it is checked in step S11 whether the drying switch is on. This is to determine if the drying function is selected.

As a result of the check, when the drying switch is pressed (in the on state), the blowing fan control and the heater driving are controlled.

Here, the blowing fan control is driven by driving the direct current motor in step S12, by rotating the blowing fan connected to the shaft of the motor in step S13.

The heater control also retrieves the heater level in step S14. Here, the heater level is set from 1 to 5 levels, and the level is selected by the user.

When the heater level is recognized as a result of the search, the heater heating amount is controlled in a manner of controlling the heater power consumption corresponding to the heater level in step S15. Thereafter, the heater is driven in step S16.

Then, in step S17, the heat source generated by the heater by the operation of the blower fan is transferred to the portion of the user's water remaining to proceed with drying.

In step S18, it is determined whether the set time has elapsed. Here, the elapse of the set time indicates the heater driving time according to the heater level.

If the set time has not elapsed as a result of the determination, the drying process, which is a previous process, is performed until the set time has elapsed. If the set time has passed, the heater is turned off in step S19. Thereafter, in step S20, the blower fan is driven for a predetermined time and then the blower fan is turned off.

However, in the conventional bidet drying control apparatus and method, the driving power is controlled by turning on one cycle of the commercial DC power supply and turning off the next one cycle. Therefore, the rotation speed of the motor is low and the heat generation amount of the heater is insufficient. There was a drawback to lengthening. According to the actual experiment, when the power source is controlled in a manner of controlling one cycle of the commercial AC power as described above, a drying time takes more than 10 minutes.

The longer the drying time, the longer the user sits on the toilet, the longer the time the user sits on the toilet has been reported to adversely affect the human body in the medical community.

Therefore, the present invention has been proposed to solve all the problems occurring in the drying control apparatus of the conventional bidet as described above,

It is an object of the present invention to provide a drying control apparatus for a bidet in which drying is performed quickly by changing a power cycle during drying.

"Drying control device for bidet" according to the present invention for achieving the above object,

Control panel, power supply unit, rectifier for converting AC power into DC voltage, DC motor for driving with DC voltage supplied from rectifier, blower fan rotated according to driving of DC motor, heater according to 1 to 5 stage control signal In the drying apparatus of a bidet provided with the heater drive part which controls a calorific value,

A control unit which searches for a dry button operation state of the operation panel and generates a control signal for changing a power cycle when the dry button is two-touched;

And a power cycle control unit configured to convert a cycle of the commercial AC power supplied from the power supply unit according to the power cycle change control signal generated by the control unit to supply driving power to the rectifier and the heater driving unit.

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Hereinafter, described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings, preferred embodiments of the present invention according to the technical spirit as described above.

5 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a bidet drying control apparatus according to the present invention.

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Here, reference numeral 120 denotes an operation panel, reference numeral 110 denotes a power supply unit for supplying input commercial AC power to a required portion of the drying control device, and reference numeral 130 denotes a dry button operation state of the operation panel 120. When the drying button is searched and touched, the controller generates a control signal for changing the power cycle, and reference numeral 140 is supplied from the power supply 110 according to the power cycle change control signal generated by the controller 130. And a power cycle control section for converting the cycle of the commercial AC power.

In addition, reference numeral 150 denotes a rectifier for converting AC power supplied from the power cycle controller 140 into a DC voltage, and reference numeral 160 drives the blower fan 170 by driving the DC voltage supplied from the rectifier 150. The reference numeral 180 denotes a heater driving unit that controls the amount of heat generated by the heater 190 according to the first to fifth stage control signals of the heater 130 of the controller 130.

The operation of the drying control apparatus of the bidet according to the present invention configured as described above will be described in detail with reference to FIG. 6 as follows.

First, the power supply unit 110 transfers the input commercial AC power (AC110V to AC220V) to the power cycle control unit 140 as it is, and at the same time rectifies the commercial AC power to make a predetermined DC voltage (normally, DC5V) and the control unit 130 To pass).

The controller 130 searches for a button manipulation state of the manipulation panel 120 after being activated by the transmitted DC voltage. When the dry button of the search result manipulation panel 120 is operated, the operation count is counted. When it is determined that the drying button is pressed once as a result of the counting, the control signal is transmitted to the power cycle controller 140 so that the power is supplied as before, and at the same time, the heater level operated by the user is searched through the operation panel 120. do. Thereafter, the driving of the heater driving unit 180 is controlled according to the heater level operated by the user. Here, the heater level is 1 to 5 stages, the control for each stage is controlled by controlling the power consumption.

Next, the power cycle controller 140 transfers the power supplied from the power supply unit 110 to the rectifier 150 and the heater driver 180 as they are.

The rectifier 150 rectifies the supplied AC power to make a predetermined DC voltage and supplies the DC motor 160 to the DC motor 160. The DC motor 160 drives the blower fan 170 by driving at the supplied DC voltage. Will be driven.

In addition, the heater driver 180 drives the heater 190 in response to the heater level according to the power consumption control signal transmitted from the controller 130.

The heat source generated by the driving of the heater 190 is transferred to the portion of the user's water remaining by the blower fan 170 to perform the drying.

On the other hand, if it is determined that the drying button of the operation panel 120 is pressed twice in a row as a result of searching the operation panel 120, the control unit 130 recognizes the turbo function and performs a power cycle to the power cycle control unit 140. It transmits a control signal to control the, and at the same time retrieves the heater level that the user operates through the operation panel 120. Thereafter, the driving of the heater driving unit 180 is controlled according to the heater level operated by the user.

Next, the power cycle controller 140 controls the cycle of the power supplied from the power supply unit 110 according to the power cycle control signal transmitted from the control unit 130.

That is, as shown in FIG. 6, one cycle and a half of the input AC power is transferred to the rectifier 150 and the heater driver 180, and the power supply is stopped for half cycle (1/2 cycle), and again. One cycle and a half supply power, and a half cycle delivers AC power to the rectifier 150 and the heater driver 180 in a control manner to stop the power supply.

Accordingly, the rectifier 150 rectifies the AC power to be transmitted to make a DC voltage to supply the DC motor 160. In this case, the DC voltage supplied to the DC motor 160 is longer by a predetermined amount than before. That is, the driving time of the DC motor 160 becomes long. In addition, the DC motor 160 is driven by the supplied DC voltage to rotate the blowing fan 170, wherein the rotation amount of the blowing fan 170 is increased compared to the conventional.

Next, the heater driver 180 also drives the heater 190 at an AC voltage controlled by the power cycle controller 140. At this time, the heat generation amount of the heater 190 also increases due to the increase in the power supply amount.

On the other hand, the heat source generated by the driving of the heater 190 is delivered to the portion of the user's water remaining by the blowing fan 170 to perform the drying, at this time increase the number of revolutions of the blowing fan 170 and High-speed drying is possible due to the increase in the amount of heat source generated, and drying time can be shortened. [0027] FIG. 7 is a flowchart showing a drying control operation of a bidet according to the present invention.

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As shown therein, a step of checking whether or not to select drying is selected, a step of searching for the number of operations of a drying button when drying is selected as a result of the check (S102), and whether the drying button is pressed once (one-touch) Determining step (S103), and if the drying button is pressed once, performing the drying in the same manner as before (S104), and determining whether the drying button is pressed twice (two-touch) in succession (S105), and if the drying button is pressed twice in succession is determined as turbo drying, and controlling the power cycle (S106), by operating the direct-current motor to the turbo by the controlled power supply blower fan at high speed Operating step (S107 to S108), controlling the operation of the heater by the controlled power source to increase the amount of heat (S109 ~ S111), and the heat source generated by the heater based on the blowing fan to the user's water remaining part Performing a drying step (S112), checking whether the set time for controlling the heater has elapsed (S113), turning off the heater when the set time has elapsed (S114), and the heater After the predetermined time elapses after the turning off, the blowing fan is turned off (S115).

The drying control method of the bidet according to the present invention thus made is first checked whether drying is selected in step S101, and if drying is not selected, the process returns to the first step, and if drying is selected, the drying button in step S102. Search the operation count of.

Thereafter, in step S103, it is determined whether the drying button is pressed once, and as a result, if it is determined that the drying button is pressed once, the process moves to step S104 to perform drying in the same manner as before. Here, the drying process of the same method as before is to advance drying based on the procedure similar to FIG. 4 well-known, and detailed description is abbreviate | omitted in order to avoid duplication description.

On the other hand, if the search result in step S103 is not a one-touch operation, it is checked whether the drying button is pressed twice (two-touch) in step S105. If the drying button is pressed twice in succession as a result of the confirmation, the flow advances to step S106 to control the power cycle. Here, as shown in FIG. 6, the power cycle control supplies the power for one cycle and a half of the input AC power and stops the power supply for the half cycle (1/2). For reference, conventionally, the power was controlled by supplying power for 1 cycle and powering off for the next cycle.

Next, in step S107, the DC motor is driven by a turbo, and accordingly, the blowing fan is operated at high speed in step S108.

In addition, in step S109, the heater level is searched. In step S110, the heater heating amount is increased to correspond to the heater level, and the heater is controlled. In step S111, the heater operates according to the above control.

Then, in step S112, the heat source whose heat generation amount is increased based on the blowing fan rotated at high speed is transferred to the part where the user's water is left to dry at a high speed.

Thereafter, in step S113, it is checked whether or not the set time for controlling the heater has elapsed, and as a result, if the set time has not elapsed, the process moves to step S112 to proceed with drying. The heater is turned off, and in step S115, the drying process is completed by driving the blower fan for a predetermined time after the heater is turned off, and then turning off the blower fan.

According to the "drying control apparatus of the bidet" according to the present invention as described above, it is possible to operate the blower fan at high speed and increase the amount of heat generated by simple power cycle control according to the user's request, so that drying can be performed at high speed There is an advantage.

In addition, since the drying time can be shortened by the above advantages, there is an advantage that the overall power consumption can be reduced.

1 is a perspective view showing an installation state of a general bidet,

2 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a drying apparatus of a conventional bidet,

3 is a timing diagram of power supply when drying a conventional bidet,

4 is a flowchart illustrating a drying control method of a conventional bidet,

5 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the drying control apparatus of the bidet according to the present invention,

6 is a timing of supplying power during drying of the bidet in the present invention,

7 is a flowchart illustrating a drying control method of the bidet according to the present invention.

<Explanation of symbols for the main parts of the drawings>

110 ..... Power Supply

120 ..... Operator Panel

130 ..... Controls

140 ..... Power Cycle Controls

150 ..... Rectifier

160 ..... DC motor

170 ..... Blower Fan

180 ..... Heater drive

190 ..... Heater

Claims (3)

Control panel, power supply unit, rectifier for converting AC power into DC voltage, DC motor for driving with DC voltage supplied from rectifier, blower fan rotated according to driving of DC motor, heater according to 1 to 5 stage control signal Heater driving unit for controlling the amount of heat generated, the control button for searching the drying button operation state of the operation panel and the drying button is operated twice, if it is determined to turbo drying and generates a control signal for changing the power cycle In the drying apparatus of the bidet, According to the power cycle change control signal generated by the control unit, the power is supplied for one cycle and a half of the commercial AC power supplied from the power supply unit, and the power cycle is repeatedly changed by repeatedly shutting off the power supply during the half cycle. And a power cycle controller configured to supply driving power to the rectifier and the heater driving unit. delete delete