Patent Application
20160208472
The present invention relates to an unpowered automatic water flushing toilet bowl seat and, more particularly, to an adjustment unit of an unpowered automatic water flushing toilet bowl seat having a function of controlling air discharge and intake only by a user's body weight, the toilet seat being able to adjust flushing time for removing excreta in response to upward movement of a toilet bowl seat that is moved by the weight of a user.
In general, a toilet is designed to discharge excreta with washing water supplied when a lever is operated to a sewage disposal tank after a user uses an indoor toilet, but recently, a “Device for non-power auto-flush of chamber pot” that automatically flushes using water pressure rather than a lever has been disclosed in Korean Patent Application Publication No. 10-2010-0022781.
According to this patent document, when a user sits on a toilet seat, water is supplied to an operation unit from a hydrant through a water pipe opened by the weight of the user, a cylinder rod is pressed and moved while compressing a spring by the pressure of the water supplied to the operation unit, and whether the waste from the user is urine or feces is determined in accordance with the movement distance of the cylinder rod. Thereafter, when the user stands up, the water moving the cylinder rod is supplied to a flushing unit by restoring force of the compressed spring, whereby flushing water corresponding to the excrement is discharged and removes the excrement.
However, according to the patent document, when the pressure of the water supplied from a hydrant is lower than the tension of the spring, the cylinder is not pressed and moved, it is difficult to determine whether the waste from the user is urine or feces and flushing is not appropriately performed.
Further, even if the pressure of water that is supplied from a hydrant is normal, when excrement is simultaneously discharged from a plurality of toilets, water pressure is distributed and weakened, so the cylinder rod cannot be moved to the position where excreta is determined and flushing water for urine is discharged. Accordingly, the toilets are clogged with remaining excreta or an offensive odor is caused with unsanitary problems. Further, it is troublesome to have to flush by manually operating the lever to remove the remaining excreta.
Further, the operation unit that is operated by water pressure is complicated, so productivity is low, and there are many parts, so water leaks at their joints or dirt is accumulated in the pipes, which causes malfunction.
Recently, for solving the problems, there is Korean Patent No. 10-1071981, titled “Body weight by dividing the energy-only feces toilet seat capable of automatic water in”.
According to this document, when a user sits on the toilet seat, the toilet seat is moved down by the weight of the user, the gap between first and second loading rollers decreases, tension of a loading wire is removed, and a loading wire-fixing member fixed to the loading wire is locked to a separation member on a flushing wire-fixing member fixed to an end of a flushing wire by a restoring force of a loading spring. When a moving contact member that moves while pressing fluid with downward movement of the toilet seat presses an excreta determining unit, the excreta is determined as urine, and when a cylinder rod presses the excreta determining unit, the excreta is determined as feces. When the user stands up from the toilet seat, the amount of fluid is adjusted in accordance with opening/closing of a hole depending on the determined urine or feces, the toilet seat is returned, the gap between the first and second loading rollers is increased, and the loading wire is tensed and pulls the flushing wire-fixing member and the flushing wire, so flushing water corresponding to the excreta is discharged into the toilet body and removes the excreta.
However, according to this configuration, when fluid is supplied to a cylinder in accordance with the weigh of the user who sits on and stands up from the toilet seat, the fluid flows through a complicated system and there are many parts, so assembling is difficult and the manufacturing cost is high, which deteriorates economical efficiency.
Further, maintenance is difficult and a defective proportion is high due to possibility of leaking of the fluid at the joints of the parts, and the operation time depends on the amount of injected oil and a viscosity difference according to a temperature difference, so malfunction frequently occurs. Furthermore, water is not supplied or keeps being supplied due to an on/off error of a separate pipe valve, so reliability of the product is deteriorated.
The present invention has been made in consideration of the problems of the related art and an object of the present invention is to provide an adjustment unit of an unpowered automatic water flushing toilet bowl seat having a function of controlling air discharge and intake only by body weight, the toilet seat being able to adjust flushing time for removing excreta in response to upward movement of a toilet bowl seat that is moved by the weight of a user and that has a simple configuration for adjusting the flushing time, thereby reducing the number of parts and the manufacturing cost with simple assembling.
Another object of the present invention is to provide an adjustment unit of an unpowered automatic water flushing toilet bowl seat having a function of controlling air discharge and intake only by a user's body weight, the toilet seat being able to prevent malfunction due to oil leakage and a temperature change of fluid and adjust flushing time by adjusting the amount of air that is sucked inside.
An aspect of the present invention provides an adjustment unit of an unpowered automatic water flushing toilet bowl seat having a function of controlling air discharge and intake only by a user's body weight, in an automatic flushing device that senses a user through seat springs compressed by the weight of the user when the user sits on a toilet seat and automatically removes excreta using water from a hydrant and a water tank while the toilet seat is restored by restoring force of the seat springs when the user stands up from the toilet seat. The adjustment unit includes: an adjusting body fixed to the toilet seat and having an air exhaust hole for sucking and discharging air in response to upward and downward movement of the toilet seat; a cover member opening and closing the air exhaust hole; an anti-separation member preventing separation of the cover member; and a vertical guide member fixed to a body sensing unit to discharge air in the adjusting body and suck air outside the adjusting body by moving up and down in the adjusting body.
According to the present invention, it is possible to adjust flushing time for removing excreta in response to upward movement of a toilet bowl seat that is moved by the weight of a user and that has a simple configuration for adjusting the flushing time, thereby reducing the number of parts and the manufacturing cost with simple assembling and improving economical efficiency.
Further, according to the present invention, it is possible to prevent malfunction due to oil leakage and a temperature change of fluid and adjust flushing time by adjusting the amount of air that is sucked inside, so the adjustment unit is useful.
The present invention is described hereafter in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.
The present invention provides an adjustment unit of an unpowered automatic water flushing toilet bowl seat having a function of controlling air discharge and intake only by a user's body weight, in an automatic flushing device of the present invention that senses a user through seat springs 130 compressed by the weight of the user when the user sits on a toilet seat 10 and automatically removes excreta using water from a hydrant and a water tank while the toilet seat 10 is restored by restoring force of the seat springs 130 when the user stands up from the toilet seat 10. The adjustment unit 500 includes: an adjusting body 510 fixed to the toilet seat 10 and having an air exhaust hole 511 for sucking and discharging air in response to upward and downward movement of the toilet seat 10; a cover member 520 opening/closing the air exhaust hole 511; an anti-separation member 530 preventing separation of the cover member 520; and a vertical guide member 510 fixed to a body sensing unit 100′ to discharge air in the adjusting body 510 and suck air outside the adjusting body 510 by moving up and down in the adjusting body 510, which is described in detail hereafter.
The adjustment unit 500 further includes an air adjusting filter 550 coupled to a hole 541 formed through the vertical guide member 540 to adjust the amount of air flowing inside through the hole 541 and a bolt 560 inserted in the hole 541 to prevent separation of the air adjusting filter 550 and adjust the movement amount of the air in accordance with the degree of compression of the air adjusting filter 550.
The adjustment unit 500 further includes a toilet paper-disposal time adjuster 570 that adjusts the time for a user to dispose toilet paper by adjusting the downward movement time of the vertical guide member 540. The toilet paper-disposal time adjuster 570 has a toilet paper time-adjusting rib 571 protruding on the top of the vertical guide member 540, a rib groove 572 formed on the adjusting body 510 to receive the toilet paper time-adjusting rib 571, a toilet paper time-adjusting hole 573 formed through the adjusting body 510, and a toile paper time-adjusting cover member 574 inserted in the toilet paper time-adjusting hole 573 so that the toilet paper time-adjusting rib 571 opens/closes the toilet paper time-adjusting hole 573 by being coupled to and separated from the rib groove 572.
The toilet paper-disposal time adjuster 570 further has a restoring member 575 for restoring the toilet paper time-adjusting cover member 574.
The toilet paper-disposal time adjuster 570 further includes an air adjusting filter 576 coupled to an end of the toilet paper time-adjusting hole 573 to adjust the amount of air sucked through the toilet paper time-adjusting hole 573, and a toilet paper time-adjusting bolt 577 being a hollow body for guiding air, coupling to the toilet paper time-adjusting hole 573, and preventing separation of the air adjusting filter 576.
The present invention having the configurations described above is described hereafter in detail.
First, the present invention can be operated only with the body sensing unit 100 and 100′, the operation unit 300, and the unloading unit 300 and only with the body sensing unit 100 and 100′, the operation unit 300, the unloading unit 400, and the adjustment unit 500, but the present invention is described hereafter in limitation to the configuration including the body sensing unit 100 and 100′, the excreta discriminating unit 200, the operation unit 300, the unloading unit 400, and the adjustment unit 500.
As shown in
When a user sits on the toilet seat 10, as shown in
Further, as the seat springs 130 between the toilet seat 10 and the sensing plate 110 are compressed, as shown in
The cylinder spring 215 can press the rod pin 213 using a restoring force, between the rod pin 213 and the first cap 214 at a first side of the cylinder body 210 and the cylinder rod 313′ protrudes through the second cap 214′ at the second side of the cylinder body 210.
As the cylinder rod 213′ is moved, the packing 216 is moved over the coupling groove 213b′ toward the coupling groove 213b, in which the packing 216 closes the inner side of the second cap 214′ and the groove 214a, thereby blocking air flowing inside. Further, as the cylinder rod 213′ is moved, the amount of the air flowing into the cylinder body 210 through the first cap 214 can be adjusted in accordance with the degree of compression of the air adjusting filter 213c disposed between the rod pin 213 and the cylinder rod 213′, so the speed of the cylinder rod 213′ can be adjusted.
If the cylinder rod 213′ moved by the restoring force of the cylinder spring 215 cannot pressure the excreta mode-switching member 217 and accordingly the contact member in the excreta mode-switching member 217 and the contact member 217b in the urine adjusting hole 218 keep in contact with each other, the excreta is determined as urine. On the contrary, if the cylinder rod 213′ is moved and presses the excreta mode-switching member 217 and accordingly the contact member in the excreta mode-switching member 217 and the contact member 217b in the urine adjusting hole 218 are separated from each other, the excreta is determined as feces. This is because as the contact members 217a and 217b are separated from each other or brought in contact with each other, the urine cover member 219 is moved and closes the urine adjusting hole 218 by the restoring force of the restoring member 220, and when the user stands up from the toilet seat 10, the amount of air flowing into the adjusting body 510 is adjusted.
Further, as shown in
Since the outer side of the pressing member 310 is curved or inclined, so it can press the lever 320, and when lever 320 is pressed by the pressing member 310, the lever 320 is rotated from a first side to a second side about an end.
The lever 320 can be rotated only in the rotational unloading member 321 accommodating the lever 3320 and fixed to the toilet seat 10.
As the lever 320 is rotated, the loading wire 330 connecting the lever 320 and the loading member 340 is pulled and pulls the loading member 340, in which the loading member 340 may be any one of a spiral spring, a leaf spring, and a coil spring.
When the loading member 340 stretches, only the loading member 340 stretches and the loading force of the flushing wire 30 is kept, because the unloading projection 442 of the unloading member 440 is locked to the loading projection 450 of the loading guide 350 for guiding the loading member 340.
Further, as shown in
The unloading wire-fixing body 421 of the unloading wire-fixing member 420 pulled by the restoring force of the unloading wire-supporting member 430 moves toward the unloading wire-supporting member 430, whereby the unloading wire projection 422 protruding on the unloading wire-fixing body 421 comes in close contact with the unloading wire projection 443 of the unloading member 440. Further, even in this state, the unloading wire-fixing body 421 is moved toward the unloading wire-supporting member 430 by the restoring force of the unloading wire-supporting member 430 and the unloading wire projection 422 is moved upward along the unloading sire projection 443, and when the unloading wire projection 422 passes the unloading wire projection 443, it is moved back downward by its own weight, the unloading wire projection 422 is positioned behind the unloading wire projection 443.
Further, as shown in
As the vertical guide member 540 is moved to the top inside the adjusting body 510, the toilet paper-adjusting rib 571 of the toilet paper time-adjuster 570 is fitted into the rib groove 572, the vertical guide member 540 moved to the top inside the adjusting body 510 presses the toilet paper time-adjusting cover member 574, the toilet paper time-adjusting cover member 574 compresses the restoring member 575, moves to the top inside the adjusting body 510, and opens the toilet paper time-adjusting hole 573, and the air inside the adjusting body 510 is discharged outside through the open toilet paper time-adjusting hole 573.
When the toilet paper time-adjusting rib 571 is fitted into the rib groove 572, the air in the rib groove 572 is discharged outside the adjusting body 510 through the urine adjusting hole 218. The urine adjusting hole 218 has been closed by the urine cover member 219 by the restoring force of the restoring member 220, but, as the pressure of the air inside the rib groove 572 is increased, the urine cover member 219 and the restoring member 220 are pushed and the urine adjusting hole 218 is opened. Further, since the air guide groove 218′ is formed on the urine adjusting hole 218, the air inside the rib groove 572 can be discharged outside even though the urine cover member 219 is inserted in the urine adjusting hole 218.
It is possible to adjust the amount of the air that is discharged through the toilet paper time-adjusting hole 573 and the urine adjusting hole 218 in accordance with the compressed degree of the air adjusting filters 576 and 221 by the toilet paper time-adjusting bolt 577 and the urine adjusting bolt 222 inserted in the toilet paper time-adjusting hole 573 and the urine adjusting hole 218, using the air adjusting filters 576 and the 221 in the toilet paper time-adjusting hole 573 and the urine adjusting hole 218.
When the user stands up from the toilet seat 10 after excreting on the toilet seat 10, as shown in
Since the air exhaust hole 511 of the adjusting body 510 is closed by the cover member 520, the external air cannot be sucked, so the toilet paper time-adjusting rib 571 protruding on the top of the adjusting body 510 is moved to the lower end of the rib groove 572 and the external air is sucked inside through the urine adjusting hole 218, the toilet paper time-adjusting hole 573, and the hole 541. In this process, since the air adjusting filters 221, 550, and 576 are disposed in the urine adjusting hole 218, the hole 541, and the toilet paper time-adjusting hole 573 by the urine adjusting bolt 222, the bolt 560, and the toilet paper time-adjusting bolt 577, so the amount of air can be adjusted in accordance with the compressed degree of the air adjusting filters.
A sealing member (not shown) is disposed on the inner side of the rib groove 572 for the toilet paper time-adjusting rib 571 and delays the time when the toilet paper time-adjusting rib 571 is separated from the rib groove 572, and the delayed time is the time that the user takes to dispose toilet paper.
As the toilet paper time-adjusting rib 571 is separated from the rib groove 572, the toilet paper time-adjusting cover member 574 with the pressing force by the vertical guide member 540 removed is moved down and closes the toilet paper time-adjusting hole 573 by the restoring force of the restoring member 575 and the restoring time of the vertical guide member 540 is delayed in accordance with the amount of the air sucked through the urine adjusting hole 218, in which the restoring time of the vertical guide member 540 is the operation time of the operation unit 300.
Further, as shown in
With the movement of the unloading wire-fixing member 420, when the unloading wire projection 422 presses the unloading wire projection 443 of the unloading member 440, the unloading wire projection 443 is moved up along the inclined surface of the unloading wire projection 422 and the unloading projection 442 of the unloading member 440 is separated from the loading projection 450, so the coupling force of the unloading projection 442 and the loading projection 450 is removed.
When the coupling force of the unloading projection 442 and the loading projection 450 is removed, the loading guide 350 and the flushing wire 30 connected to the loading guide 350 are instantaneously pulled and moved by the loading force of the loading member 340, in which the moving guide projection 352 protruding on the loading guide body 351 of the loading guide 350 moves toward the front of the guide body 361 along the guide groove 362 of the loading guide member 360 and the siphon cover 20 fixing the flushing wire 30 opens the exit of an overflow pipe by being rotated upward about the overflow pipe so that the water in a water tank is supplied to the toilet body 10 through the open exit.
As for the water supplied to the toilet body 10 from the water tank, as shown in
Since the gap between the toilet seat 10 and the body sensing unit 100′ has been increased, as the pressing force applied to the lever 320 by the pressing member 310 is removed after the excreta is removed through the process described above, as shown in
While the loading guide 350 moves to the rear portion of the loading guide-guiding member 360, the loading projection 450 pushes up the unloading projection 442 of the unloading member 440 and passes the unloading projection 442, and accordingly, the unloading member 440 is moved down by its own weight and the unloading projection 442 and the loading projection 450 are coupled.
Further, while the loading guide 350 is moved to the rear portion of the loading guide-guiding member 360, the loading member 340 is restored by its own elasticity and pulls the loading wire 330 connected to the loading member 340, the loading wire 330 pulls the lever 320 with the pressing force by the pressing member 310 removed, and the lever 320 is rotated from the first side to the second side about the end.
Further, as the gap between the toilet seat 10 and the body sensing unit 100 is increased by the restoring force of the seat springs 130 of the body sensing unit 100 and the cylinder wire 211 is tensed, as shown in
Further, as the gap between the toilet seat 10 and the body sensing unit 100′ is increased by the restoring force of the seat springs 130 of the body sensing unit 100′ and the unloading wire 410 is tensed, as shown in
The contact members 217a and 217b may be both magnets, or one of them may be a magnet and the other one may be a metallic part.
Although the present invention was described above with reference to limitative embodiments and drawings, the terminologies and terms used in the specification and claims should not be construed as being limited to common or dictionary meanings, but should be construed as being meanings corresponding to the spirit of the present invention. Therefore, the configurations described in the embodiments and drawings of the present invention are merely most preferable embodiments but do not represent all of the technical spirit of the present invention. Thus, the present invention should be construed as including all the changes, equivalents, and substitutions without departing from the claims.
| Number | Date | Country | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10-2013-0105626 | Sep 2013 | KR | national |
| Filing Document | Filing Date | Country | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|
| PCT/KR2014/008114 | 9/1/2014 | WO | 00 |
