US20210140160A1

US20210140160A1 - Toilet bowl with an infrared generator

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Publication number: US20210140160A1
Application number: US17/042,287
Authority: US
Inventors: Jun Gue LEE
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 2018-02-27
Filing date: 2018-08-16
Publication date: 2021-05-13
Also published as: KR101899762B1; CN111315940B; KR101899760B1; CN111315940A; WO2019216488A1; KR101899759B1; EP3792412A1; KR101899761B1

Abstract

To this end, the present invention related to a toilet with an infrared generator in which, since all regions of the body are integrally formed without punching the infrared ray transmitting region which is an inner surface of a groove portion configured such that infrared rays generated by the infrared generator provided in the groove portion penetrate into the inner space of the toilet, dirt such as stools and urine is prevented from leaking to the infrared generator, and thus, the infrared generator does not fail and malfunction.

Description

TECHNICAL FIELD

This invention relates to a toilet with an infrared generator.
Specifically, the present invention relates to a toilet including a body formed of glass or plastic materials, and relates to a toilet with an infrared generator in which, since a groove portion formed concavely from an outer surface is formed on one side of the body and an infrared generator is inserted into and fixed to the groove portion, infrared rays generated by the infrared generator penetrate into an inner space of the toilet storing contents so as to be applied to the body of a person seated at the toilet, thereby obtaining beneficial effects by the irradiation of the infrared rays.
In addition, the present invention relates to a toilet with an infrared generator in which infrared rays generated by the infrared generator inserted in a groove portion intensively transmit through an infrared ray transmitting region formed on an inner surface of a body having the groove portion formed therein.
To this end, the present invention related to a toilet with an infrared generator in which, since all regions of the body are integrally formed without punching the infrared ray transmitting region which is an inner surface of a groove portion configured such that infrared rays generated by the infrared generator provided in the groove portion penetrate into the inner space of the toilet, dirt such as stool and urine is prevented from leaking to the infrared generator, and thus, the infrared generator does not fail and malfunction.

BACKGROUND

Generally, a toilet is a device that allows a user to have a bowel movement in a sitting state.
Among toilets, the toilet disclosed in Korean Patent No. 10-0398536 includes a far infrared lamp which is attached to the toilet and can apply far-infrared rays to a genital area and an anal area while a user is seated at the toilet.
The toilet with the far infrared lamp disclosed in Korea Patent No. 10-0398536 has a structure in which the far infrared lamp is installed in a hole formed in an inner wall of a main body of the toilet, and far infrared rays generated by the far infrared lamp are applied to the inside of the inner wall of the main body of the toilet through the hole, and thus, there are problems that it takes a long production time and production cost increases because a process of punching a hole in the inner wall of the main body of the toilet is hard and complicated.
In addition, even though packing is provided between the far infrared lamp and the hole formed in the inner wall of the main body of the toilet, packing is loosened in summer and shrinks in winter due to long-term use, and thereby, the packing is easily damaged to cause leakage of stool and urine and as a result, the toilet cannot be used.
In addition, there is a problem that stink is generated around the toilet and germs and bacteria multiply due to leakage of dirt such as stool and urine, which causes environment of the toilet to be greatly deteriorated, and also there is a problem that an electrical configuration of the far infrared lamp is short-circuited by the dirt, resulting in malfunction or inoperability of the device.
Also, disclosed is a toilet with a functional light source in Korean Patent Publication No. 10-2015-0122380.
In this technology, a device includes a single light source unit disposed on front and rear surfaces of an inner wall of a toilet for outputting a single LED light or a single laser light; a multi-plane light source unit disposed on the left and right sides of the inner wall of the toilet for outputting multi-plane LED light or the multi-plane laser light; and a light source control unit electrically connected to the single light source unit and the multi-plane light source unit to adjust the single LED light and the multi-plane LED light, or the single laser light and the multi-plane laser light. According to the present invention, a risk of electric leakage can be minimized even during frequent cleaning and washing of the toilet, a reaction speed can be improved, and convenience of a user can be improved with a simple configuration.
In addition, the light source can accurately emit light onto a site to be treated and uniformly emit over a large area to be able to perform effective treatment even in a short time, and effect of therapy and beauty performed by the light source can be obtained conveniently at home or at work without visiting a medical institution.
The technology is configured such that each light source unit is disposed in the inner wall of a body of the toilet to provide a functional light source. For this disposition, specifically, each light source unit is configured to be buried in the inner wall of the body of the toilet.
However, since the light source unit is buried in the inner wall of the body of the toilet, an outline of the buried region may cause a gap due to long-term use, stool and urine is leaked through the gap, and thereby, there is a problem that use of the toilet is restricted.
In addition, there is a problem that stink is generated around the toilet and germs and bacteria multiply due to leakage of dirt such as stool and urine, which causes environment of the toilet to be greatly deteriorated, and also there is a problem that an electrical configuration of the far infrared lamp is short-circuited by the dirt, resulting in malfunction or inoperability of the device.
In addition, even if a general technician is designed to allow transmission of light by combining conventional specialized knowledge, a partition wall is formed between the inner wall of the body of the toilet and the light source portion for burial and penetration, the partition wall is weakened in strength and durability in any material to cause a risk to a user who has to sit on the toilet, and thus, an optimal design is needed, but there is no optimal design in the technology.

DISCLOSURE

Technical Problem

An object of the present invention is to provide a toilet with an infrared generator, and relates to a toilet with an infrared generator in which, since a groove portion formed concavely from an outer surface is formed on one side of a body of a toilet including the body formed of glass or a plastic material and an infrared generator is inserted into and fixed to the groove portion, infrared rays generated by the infrared generator penetrate into an inner space of the toilet storing contents to be applied to the body of a person seated at the toilet, and thus, it is possible to obtain advantageous effects according to application of the infrared rays.
Another object of the present invention is to provide a toilet with an infrared generator in which infrared rays generated by the infrared generator inserted in a groove intensively transmit through an infrared ray transmitting region formed on an inner surface of a body having the groove portion formed therein.
Still another object of the present invention is to provide a toilet with an infrared generator in which, since all regions of the body are integrally formed without punching the infrared ray transmitting region which is an inner surface of a groove portion configured such that infrared rays generated by the infrared generator provided in the groove portion penetrate into the inner space of the toilet, dirt such as stool and urine is prevented from leaking to the infrared generator, and thus, the infrared generator does not fail and malfunction.
Still another object of the present invention is to provide a toilet with an infrared generator in which, when the toilet is formed of glass or plastic, a colored region and an infrared ray transmitting region of a body of the toilet are simultaneously produced by using a solution obtained by dissolving a raw material of the glass (or the plastic), and thereby, it is possible to provide a toilet in which the colored region and the infrared ray transmitting region are integrally formed, and to provide a toilet which can prevent dirt in an inner space of the toilet from being seen from the outside the toilet and can have various colors depending on color of the colored region.
Still another object of the present invention is to provide a toilet with an infrared generator in which color represented in an appearance of a body 10 of a toilet through a colored region is changed.
Still another object of the present invention is to provide a toilet with an infrared generator in which, since the infrared ray transmitting region formed on the inner surface of the groove portion has a smaller thickness than the body of the toilet, the infrared ray transmitting region is designed such that a thickness t1 of the infrared ray transmitting region can withstand a load of a person even if the person is seated at the toilet and infrared ray transmittivity is not sharply decreased.

Technical Solution

In order to achieve the aforementioned objectives, a toilet with an infrared generator according to an embodiment of the present invention, including a body with an inner space for storing contents, includes:
a groove portion that is formed on one side of the body and has a predetermined depth from an outer surface;
an infrared generator that is formed in the groove portion, and
an infrared ray transmitting region that is formed on an inner surface of the body where the groove portion is formed such that infrared rays generated by the infrared generator are capable of being applied to the inner space.
The infrared ray transmitting region is formed without punching the inner surface of the body in which the groove portion is formed and is configured to make light and heat that are generated by the infrared generator transmit therethrough.
All regions of the body except for the infrared ray transmitting region are configured with non-transparent or semi-transparent colored regions.
All regions including the colored region and the infrared ray transmitting region of the body are integrally formed of glass or plastic materials.
The infrared ray transmitting region may have a thickness of 2 to 25 mm which is smaller than a thickness of the body.
At least one groove portion may be formed in the body, and the groove portion may be formed concavely in a direction of the inner space from an outer surface of the body.
In addition, color of an appearance of the body may change depending on a color of the colored region.
The glass may be heat-resistant glass or tempered glass.
The plastic may be heat-resistant plastic or impact-resistant plastic.
The infrared ray may be far infrared ray or near infrared ray.
The infrared ray transmitting region may be formed in a convex shape like a convex lens.

Advantageous Effects

First, since a complicated production process of punching a hole in a body of a toilet and installing an infrared lamp in the hole as in the existing method is not performed, the production is easy and a structure thereof is simple, and thereby, production time and production cost are reduced, there is no unhygienic problem that dirt such as spool or urine is leaked through a hole formed in the body of the toilet, and there is no problem such as failure or malfunction of a device due to leakage of dirt.
Second, infrared rays generated by an infrared generator penetrate into an inner space of a toilet to be applied to the body of a person seated at the toilet, and thus, it is possible to obtain advantageous effects according to the infrared rays.
Third, it is possible to obtain an effect of providing a toilet in which infrared rays generated by an infrared generator inserted into a groove portion can transmit through only an “infrared ray transmitting region” formed on an inner surface of the groove portion, and at the same time, since all regions of a body of a toilet except for the “infrared ray transmitting region” are formed as transparent or non-transparent colored regions, contents (dirt) stored in an inner space of the body of the toilet are not seen from the outside of the body of the toilet, and various colors are obtained by configuring the colored region with various colors.
Fourth, it is possible to obtain an effect of providing a toilet in which an infrared ray transmission is stable and efficient since the infrared ray transmitting region is designed such that a thickness t1 of the infrared ray transmitting region can withstand a load of a person even if the person is seated at the toilet and infrared ray transmittivity is not sharply decreased.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

FIG. 1 illustrates a toilet with an infrared generator according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 illustrates the infrared generator of the toilet including the infrared generator according to the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a graph of the results according to Experiment Example 2. FIG.

BEST MODE

The term or word used in the present specification and claims should not be construed as limited to normal or lexical meaning and should be construed as meaning and a concept consistent with the technical idea of the present invention based on the principle that the inventor can properly define a concept of the term in order to describe his or her invention in the best way.
Therefore, embodiments described in the present specification and illustrations of the drawings are merely the most preferred examples of the present invention and does not represent all of the technical ideas of the present invention, and thus, it should be understood that there are various equivalents and modifications that can be substituted with the embodiments and illustrations at the time of filing the present application.
Hereinafter, prior to describing embodiments with reference to the drawings, it is noted that what is not required to reveal the gist of the present invention, that is, the known configuration that a person skilled in the art can readily add is not illustrated or specifically described.
The present invention relates to a toilet with an infrared generator.
Specifically, the present invention relates to a toilet with an infrared generator, and relates to a toilet with an infrared generator in which, since a groove portion formed concavely from an outer surface is formed on one side of a body of a toilet including the body formed of glass or a plastic material and an infrared generator is inserted into and fixed to the groove portion, infrared rays generated by the infrared generator penetrate into an inner space of the toilet storing contents to be applied to the body of a person seated at the toilet, and thus, it is possible to obtain advantageous effects according to application of the infrared rays.
In addition, the present invention relates to a toilet with an infrared generator in which infrared rays generated by the infrared generator inserted in a groove intensively transmit through an infrared ray transmitting region formed on an inner surface of a body having the groove portion formed therein.
To this end, the present invention related to a toilet with an infrared generator in which, since all regions of the body are integrally formed without punching the infrared ray transmitting region which is an inner surface of a groove portion configured such that infrared rays generated by the infrared generator provided in the groove portion penetrate into the inner space of the toilet, dirt such as stool and urine is prevented from leaking to the infrared generator, and thus, the infrared generator does not fail and malfunction.
In addition, the present invention relates to a toilet with an infrared generator in which, when the toilet is formed of glass or plastic, a colored region and an infrared ray transmitting region of a body of the toilet are simultaneously produced by using a solution obtained by dissolving a raw material of the glass (or the plastic), and thereby, it is possible to provide a toilet in which the colored region and the infrared ray transmitting region are integrally formed, and to provide a toilet which can prevent dirt in an inner space of the toilet from being seen from the outside the toilet and can have various colors depending on color of the colored region.
In addition, the present invention relates to a toilet with an infrared generator in which, since the infrared ray transmitting region formed on the inner surface of the groove portion has a smaller thickness than the body of the toilet, the infrared ray transmitting region is designed such that a thickness t1 of the infrared ray transmitting region can withstand a load of a person even if the person is seated at the toilet and infrared ray transmittivity is not sharply decreased.
In the present invention, a toilet including an infrared generator will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings.
FIG. 1 illustrates a toilet including an infrared generator according to the present invention, and FIG. 2 illustrates the infrared generator of the toilet including the infrared generator according to the present invention.
Prior to description, an infrared ray described in the present invention means an electromagnetic wave in a category outside the end of a red line when light emitted by the sun is dispersed by a prism, and accordingly, the infrared ray includes a far infrared ray, a mid-infrared ray and a near infrared ray.
Effects of the far infrared ray will be described.
The far infrared ray is an infrared ray having a wavelength of 25 μm or greater.
The far infrared ray has a longer wavelength than visible light, is invisible to the eye, has a large thermal effect, and has a strong penetration.
In addition, the far infrared ray has strong resonance and resonance action with organic compound molecules. With the attributes, the far infrared ray is applied to various industries and a medical field.
In addition, effects of the near infrared ray will be described.
The near infrared ray is an infrared ray having a wavelength of 0.75 to 3 μm.
In the same manner as the far infrared ray, the near infrared ray is not visible because having a longer wavelength than visible light, has property of penetrating a skin layer of the skin to a dermal layer, and provides a basic improvement effect by accelerating an activity of mitochondria for supplying energy to cells of a human body such that the cells become active.
In addition, the infrared ray having a wavelength of 3 to 25 μm which is the wavelength of the infrared ray band of the remaining infrared ray except for the far infrared ray and the near infrared ray described above is called the mid-infrared ray, and the infrared ray having this wavelength range may be used.
Such an infrared ray is excellent in body penetration ability and can warm the body of a person sitting on a toilet, and is useful for removing bacteria causing various diseases by such a heat effect. The infrared ray also expands the capillary blood vessels to help blood circulation and cell tissue formation and also has effects on prevention of adult disease such as anti-aging, metabolism promotion, and chronic fatigue resolution.
In addition, by being used for the toilet, the infrared ray provides an effect on removal of foreign materials and bacteria caused by stool or urine adsorbed on an inner wall of the toilet and has an effect on removal of stool odor, urine odor or bathroom odor.
In addition, glass required for the present invention will be described.
The glass includes heat-resistant glass or tempered glass.
The heat-resistant glass is glass that can withstand rapid heating and rapid cooling, has a small thermal expansion coefficient, can withstand a rapid change of temperature, and has a high softening temperature (approximately 1,000° C.) compared with a common glass (about 1,000° C.).
The tempered glass is a glass obtained by heating sheet glass up to 500 to 600° C. near the softening temperature, rapidly cooling the glass using compressed air to compress and deform a surface of the glass, and tempering the inside by tensile deformation. The tempered glass has a bending strength of three to five times the common glass, a shock resistance of three to eight times stronger than the common glass, and excellent heat resistance.
In addition, plastic described in the present invention is FRP.
The fiber reinforced plastics (FRP) is a plastic-based composite material tempered with glass and carbon fiber. The FRP is a high-performance and high-functionality material which is excellent in light weight, corrosion resistance, moldability and the like, and a typical example thereof includes glass-unsaturated polyester and carbon epoxy, and also includes fiber reinforced thermo-plastics (FRTP) using thermoplastic plastic as matrix, in addition to that.
On the other hand, a plastic material having a high heat resistance and a high impact resistance may be used for the plastic.
A toilet 1 according to the present invention is configured to include a body 10, a pedestal unit 20, and a toilet cover 40.
The present invention is configured to form a groove portion 104 formed concavely in an inner side direction from one side of an outer surface of the body 10 of the toilet.
At this time, the body 10 of the toilet is integrally formed and is configured with heat-resistant glass, a tempered glass material, or heat-resistant or impact-resistant plastic. In addition, the remaining elements such as the pedestal unit 20, and the toilet cover 40 other than the body 10 can also be configured with the heat-resistant glass, a tempered glass material, or heat-resistant or impact-resistant plastic in the same manner as the body of the toilet, and can be configured with the existing material.
As described above, the groove portion 104 is a groove concavely formed in the inner side direction from the outer surface of the body 10 of the toilet, and the infrared generator 110 is inserted into the inner portion and fixed thereto.
As such, after the infrared generator 110 is inserted, finishing may be made by filling with a resin such as silicon, or finishing and bonding may be made by configuring a tempered glass material and a heat resistant tempered plastic as a plate shape.
At this time, the groove portion 104 formed in the body 10 of the toilet is illustrated as one in the drawing, but this is merely an example for the sake of easy understanding of the present invention, and actually, a plurality of groove portions 104 may be formed.
In the following description, one groove portion 104 is described as a target, but when a plurality of groove portions 104 are formed, it should be understood according to this.
An infrared ray transmitting region 101 a is formed on the inner surface of the body of the toilet where the groove portion 104 is formed such that the infrared ray generated by the infrared generator 110 can be applied to an inner space of the body 10 of the toilet.
The infrared ray transmitting region 101 a is formed without punching the inner surface of the body 10 of the toilet formed with the groove portion 104, and this is to prevent an unhygienic problem such as leakage of stool, such as feces or urine stored in the inner space of the body 10 of the toilet through a hole formed in the body 10 of the toilet, and to prevent a problem such as failure or malfunction of the infrared generator 110 due to dust leakage.
In addition, light and heat generated by the infrared generator 110 are configured to be applied to the inner space of the body 10 of the toilet through the infrared ray transmitting region 101 a.
As illustrated in FIG. 1, in the body 10 of the toilet, the infrared ray transmitting region 101 a and remaining colored region other than the infrared ray transmitting region 101 a are integrally formed of glass or plastic.
More specifically, in order to produce the body 10 of the toilet using solution obtained by dissolving a raw material of glass (or plastic), a mold of the body 10 of the toilet having the infrared ray transmitting region 101 a and a shape of the remaining colored region are prepared, and thereafter, a plurality of injection pipes are provided in the mold such that the solution obtained by dissolving the raw material of glass (or plastic) can be injected.
Specifically, a part (for example, one) of the plurality of injection tubes is configured such that the solution obtained by dissolving the raw material of glass (or plastic) is injected into a space where the infrared ray transmitting region 101 a is formed, and the remaining pipes are configured such that the solution obtained by dissolving the raw material of colored glass (or plastic) is injected into a space where the remaining colored region except for the infrared ray transmitting region is formed.
Here, it is possible to form the body 10 of the toilet including the infrared ray transmitting region 101 a illustrated in FIG. 1 and the remaining colored regions except for the infrared ray transmitting region through a process of appropriately repeating injection and blocking when a predetermined amount of glass (or plastic) is injected into the infrared ray transmitting region 101 a and the remaining colored regions except for the infrared ray transmitting region.
As such, by simultaneously injecting the solution obtained by dissolving glass into the infrared ray transmitting region 101 a and the remaining colored region and simultaneously hardening, the groove portion 104 is formed on one side of the body 10 of the toilet, the infrared ray transmitting region 101 a having a color tone different from a color tone of the colored region of the body 10 of the toilet is formed on the inner surface of the groove portion 104, and thereby, the body 10 of the toilet in which the infrared ray transmitting region 101 a and the remaining colored region except for the infrared ray transmitting region are integrated can be formed.
FIG. 1 of the accompanying drawing illustrated that the infrared ray transmitting region 101 a and the remaining colored region of the body 10 of the toilet are separated by a boundary, but this is because the color tones are separated from each other due to injection of the solution obtained by dissolving the raw material of other glass (or plastic), and it should not be construed that the infrared ray transmitting region 101 a of the body 10 of the toilet and the remaining colored regions are configured separately.
At this time, a solution obtained by dissolving a raw material of colored glass (or plastic) having a predetermined color is used as the solution obtained by dissolving the raw material of glass (or plastic) injected into the body 10 of the toilet.
Accordingly, all the colored regions other than the infrared ray transmitting region of the body 10 of the toilet may be configured by non-transparent or semi-transparent colored regions.
In this case, specifically, the color means a color that makes transparent glass (or plastic) to be non-transparent such that contents stored in the inner space of the body 10 of the toilet are not seen from the outside of the body 10 of the toilet, and may mean a color through which an infrared ray does not transmit.
By using a variety of colors for the colored region, it is possible to have an effect of changing a color of an appearance of the body 10 of the toilet, and to have an effect of preventing the contents stored in the inner space from being seen from the outside of the body 10 of the toilet.
However, it is sufficient that the solution obtained by dissolving the raw material of glass (or plastic) for the infrared ray transmitting region 101 a has a color (for example, red) through which an infrared ray can transmit, and the solution is not limited to this and may be colorless.
Depending on a design condition, the toilet can be produced such that the infrared ray transmitting region is transparent or semi-transparent to the extent that an infrared ray can transmit therethrough by injecting a colored solution into both the infrared ray transmitting region and the colored region at once, and then, by removing only the color of the infrared ray transmission region using medicine or a device that removes color, when injecting the solution obtained by dissolving the raw material of glass (or plastic) that is injected into the body 10 of the toilet.
With this structure, infrared rays generated by the infrared generator 110 inserted in and fixed to the groove portion 104 are transmitted through the inner space of the body 10 of the toilet, and the Infrared rays are not transmitted to the outside of the body 10 of the toilet by the colored body 10 of the toilet.
That is, the infrared rays can transmit to the inner space of the body 10 of the toilet only through the infrared ray transmitting region 101 a on the inner surface of the body in which the groove portion 104 is formed, and can be applied to the body of a seated person.
A structure of the infrared generator will be described with reference to FIG. 2 of the accompanying drawings.
Referring to FIG. 2 of the accompanying drawings, the infrared generator 110 is configured such that an infrared lamp 111 is joined to a socket portion 113 formed in an installation bracket 112, and a bonding portion 112 a is provided in a front portion of the installation bracket 112 so as to be bonded to an inner side wall of an inner surface of the groove portion 104.
In addition, a fixing rib 116 is formed on an inner surface of the installation bracket 112, and a heat radiation cap 115 surrounding the infrared lamp 111 is installed in an inner side end of the fixing rib 116.
In addition, a power supply cable 118 for supplying power to the infrared lamp 111 is provided on one side of the installation bracket 112, and the power supply cable 118 is electrically connected to the socket portion 113 to supply power to the infrared lamp 111.
The infrared generator 110 can be installed by bonding the bonding portion 112 a to the inner side wall of the inner surface of the groove portion 104. The bonding portion 112 a may be bonded through an adhesive such as an epoxy resin adhesive.
Meanwhile, in the above description, the infrared generator 110 is described as bonding the bonding portion 112 a to the inner side wall of the inner surface of the grove portion 104 using an adhesive, but the present invention is not limited thereto, and a female Velcro is bonded to the bonding portion 112 a and a male Velcro member is bonded to the inner wall of the groove portion 104 such that the infrared generator 110 is detachably attached by a Velcro attach and detach method.
The infrared generator 110 can be turned on or off by on/off switches 119 a and 119 b on the side of a water tray formed on the rear upper portion of the body 10 of the toilet as before.
That is, when a user is seated at the toilet, infrared rays are generated by the infrared generator 110 when the on switches 119 a or 119 b is switched on, the emitted infrared rays transmit through the infrared ray transmitting region 101 a of the inner surface of the body 10 of the toilet to be applied to the user (genital and anal area), and thereby, health of the genital and anal area of the user can be improved.
At this time, depending on the design condition, the infrared generated by the infrared generator 110 may be automatically turned on or off.
This is achieved by using a sensor (a non-contact sensor or a contact sensor) provided on either side of pedestal unit 20 or the inner surface of the body 10 of the toilet, and if seating of the user or proximity of the body of the user is sensed, the infrared generator 110 emits infrared rays, and if rising of the user or remoteness of the body of the user is sensed, the infrared generator 110 stops emitting the infrared rays.
To this end, the present invention may further include a control unit together with the sensor described above.
As described above, the present invention has a structure in which the body 10 of the toilet including the infrared ray transmitting region 101 a and the remaining colored region is integrally formed of glass or a plastic material, and infrared rays generated by the infrared generator 110 is applied to a user through the infrared ray transmitting region 101 a, and thereby, there is no unhygienic problem that dirt such as spool or urine is leaked and failure of a device can be reduced. In particular, the infrared generator 110 is easily installed and the structure is simplified.
In the above description, the infrared generator 110 according to the present invention is described as being configured as an infrared lamp type, and the present invention is not limited thereto, and it is needless to say that the infrared generator 110 may be configured with any device or member that emits infrared rays.
The pedestal unit 20 is rotatably installed at the top of the body 10 of the toilet so as to support the hip (buttocks) of a user during stool.
On the other hand, depending on the design condition, the structure described above may have a convex lens effect by forming the infrared ray transmitting region 101 a into a convex shape like a convex lens.
At this time, by forming the infrared ray transmitting region 101 a into a convex shape, the infrared rays generated by the infrared generator 110 may be concentrated on a use site (anal, hip, or the like) of the user.
In the structure described above, as the groove portion 104 is formed in the body 10 of the toilet according to the present invention, a thickness t1 of the infrared ray transmitting region 101 a formed on the inner surface of the body 10 of the toilet formed with the groove portion 104 is smaller than a thickness of the remaining colored region where the groove portion 104 is not formed.
At this time, since the material of the body 10 of the toilet is formed of heat-resistant tempered glass, the thickness t1 of the infrared ray transmitting region 101 a is smaller than the thickness of the other region, and thereby, strength thereof is weak.
Accordingly, the thickness t1 of the infrared ray transmitting region 101 a has to be proper, and thus, in the present invention, the thickness t1 of the infrared ray transmitting region 101 a is designed to be 2 to 25 mm.
The technical significance of this design will be described with reference to the following Experiment example.

Experiment Example 1. Load Evaluation in Comparison with Control Group

(Experiment Method)
First, the present applicant performed an experiment to evaluate a load using a toilet (experiment group) produced according to the above-described structure and a toilet (control group) of a conventional ceramic material as a target.
This load evaluations were also performed for Experiment Example 2 to Experiment Example 3 below in the same manner. Specifically, a conventional load meter was used, and an external force was applied from an upper side to a lower side of the toilet for 10 minutes to check whether or not the toilet was cracked, and thereby, the allowable load of the toilet was evaluated.
Experiment Results

	TABLE 1

	Target evaluation	Allowable load

	Control group	1300N
	Experiment group	1350N

That is, it is confirmed that the control group which is a conventional toilet of a ceramic material can withstand 1300 N, that is, approximately 132.7 kg of a user weight when calculating in consideration of a gravitational acceleration of 9.8 m/sec2, and it is confirmed that the experiment group according to the present invention can withstand 1350 N, that is, 137.8 kg of a user weight.
In summary, the allowable loads of the control group and the experiment group are significant, and the experiment group was evaluated to be relatively high.
However, although the result is significant as described above, if infrared rays generated by the infrared generator are allowed to transmit through the infrared ray transmitting region 101 a to the inner space of the body 10 of the toilet in a state where the infrared generator 110 according to the present invention is stored in the groove portion 104 of the toilet, purpose may not be achieved by a conventional ceramics material, and in view of achieving the purpose of the present invention, the present invention is characterized in that an allowable load equal to an allowable load of ceramics is provided even though glass having a weaker strength than ceramics is used as a material, and thus, the present invention has an advantage of creating new effects and improving problems.
However, since the groove portion 104 is formed on one side of the body 10 as described above, the thickness of the infrared ray transmitting region 101 a is smaller than the thickness of the remaining colored region.
Therefore, since the infrared ray transmitting region 101 a may not withstand the load evaluated above and can be damaged, an optimized design for the thickness t1 of the infrared ray transmitting region 101 a is required.

Experiment Example 2. Evaluation with Respect to Thickness t1: Load and Infrared Ray Transmittivity

(Experiment Method)
An experiment method according to Experiment Example 2 is the same as Experiment Example 1, and the thickness t1 of the infrared ray transmitting region 101 a was set at 1 mm to 30 mm, i.e., a total of 30 experiment groups, each group having a thickness increment by 1 mm, to evaluate an allowable load of the toilet according to the present invention.
(Experiment Results)
The results of Experiment Example 2 will be described with reference to FIG. 3 of the accompanying drawings.
FIG. 3 is a graph illustrating the results of Experiment Example 2.
Referring to FIG. 3, the allowable load of Experiment Example 1 in which the load evaluation of a conventional toilet formed of a ceramic material was performed was 1300 N, while it has been revealed that the experiment group having an allowable load exceeding 1300 N is from experiment group 2 in which the thickness t1 of the infrared ray transmitting region 101 a is equal to or greater than 2 mm.
With the experiment results, it is confirmed that, if the thickness t1 of the infrared ray transmitting region 101 a is 2 mm or larger, the load exceeds 1300 N and gradually increases, and thus, it is satisfactory to design the infrared ray transmitting region 101 a to have the thickness t1 of 2 mm or greater.
However, the transmittivity of the infrared rays rapidly decreases from the experiment group 26 in which the thickness t1 of the infrared ray transmitting region 101 a is 26 mm.
It is considered that this may be due to the property of glass material to absorb the infrared rays, and thereby, glass material transmittivity of the infrared rays is low and the amount of absorption increases while scattering occurs inside the glass from a constant thickness of 26 mm, resulting in steep decrease in the transmittivity of the infrared rays.
The above description made by using the drawings is merely a description on main features of the present invention, and it is obvious that various designs are available within the technical scope and the present invention is not limited to the configuration of the drawing.

INDUSTRIAL AVAILABILITY

According to the present invention, since a groove portion formed concavely from an outer surface is formed on one side of a body of a toilet including the body formed of glass or a plastic material and an infrared generator is inserted into and fixed to the groove portion, infrared rays generated by the infrared generator penetrate into an inner space of the toilet storing contents to be applied to the body of a person seated at the toilet, and thus, it is possible to obtain advantageous effects according to application of the infrared rays.
Particularly, in the present invention, since all regions of the body are integrally formed without punching the infrared ray transmitting region which is an inner surface of a groove portion configured such that infrared rays generated by the infrared generator provided in the groove portion penetrate into the inner space of the toilet, dirt such as stools and urine is prevented from leaking to the infrared generator and the infrared generator does not fail and malfunction, and thus, the present invention can be used industrially.

Claims

What is claimed is:

1. A toilet including a body with an inner space storing contents, comprising:

a groove portion formed on one side of the body and having a predetermined depth from an outer surface;

an infrared generator formed in the groove portion; and

an infrared ray transmitting region formed on an inner surface of the body where the groove portion is formed such that infrared rays generated by the infrared generator are capable of being applied to the inner space,

wherein the infrared ray transmitting region is formed without punching the inner surface of the body having the groove portion and is configured such that light and heat generated by the infrared generator transmit therethrough,

wherein the body has non-transparent or semi-transparent colored regions except for the infrared ray transmitting region, and

wherein the body including the colored region and the infrared ray transmitting region thereof is integrally formed of glass or a plastic material.

2. The toilet with an infrared generator according to claim 1, wherein the infrared ray transmitting region has a thickness of 2 to 25 mm which is smaller than a thickness of the body.

3. The toilet with an infrared generator according to claim 1, wherein at least one groove portion is formed in the body, and the groove portion is formed concavely in a direction of the inner space from an outer surface of the body.

4. The toilet with an infrared generator according to claim 1, wherein color of an appearance of the body changes depending on a color of the colored region.

5. The toilet with an infrared generator according to claim 1, wherein the glass is heat-resistant glass or tempered glass.

6. The toilet with an infrared generator according to claim 1, wherein the plastic is heat-resistant plastic or impact-resistant plastic.

7. The toilet with an infrared generator according to claim 1, wherein the infrared ray is a far infrared ray or a near infrared ray.

8. The toilet with an infrared generator according to claim 1, wherein the infrared ray transmitting region is formed in a convex shape like a convex lens.