The invention relates to a water supply system, and more particularly to a water supply system capable of providing a fast water discharge function.
In the existing toilet flushing technology, fast drainage has become an important technology, because if the toilet is operated and fails to discharge water quickly, it will lead to hygienic problems such as reduced air quality in the toilet or increased risk of users contacting with excrement. In addition, in some special environments, if the toilet itself does not have the function of quick water drainage, it will cause impact more serious than sanitary problems. For example, if the toilet installed in a prison does not have the function of quick water drainage, it may cause detainees to deliberately commit suicide with the water retained in the toilet; or if the toilet is installed in a mental hospital, in order to prevent the mentally ill patients from eating the excrement in the toilet by mistake, it is necessary to quickly drain the water after the mentally ill patients go to the toilet. For the above reasons, rapid water drainage has become an important function that a toilet must have.
In view of the above, in the existing toilet flushing technology, trigger switches and related modules are often installed on the toilet, and the object of rapid water discharge after the user goes to the toilet is achieved in an inductive manner. The relevant content can be found in CN 202430798U.
However, although CN 202430798U discloses three embodiments, all the embodiments disclosed use the solenoid valve as the main actuator to drive the flush valve, and use the solenoid valve to directly actuate the rotating shaft or the sliding rod. The power of the solenoid valve itself is depended on in resisting the water pressure endured by the flush valve in order to open the flush valve, which not only depends on the performance of the solenoid valve, but also has the concern of failure in the long run. As a result, it is uncertain that the flush valve can be quickly opened reliably and can achieve the object of rapid water discharge.
A main object of the invention is to solve the problem that the conventional toilet flushing technology is incapable of reliably providing a fast water discharge function.
In order to achieve the above object, the invention provides a water supply system of a toilet tank, comprising a trigger switch, a water inlet pipe set, and a drain pipe set. The trigger switch is disposed on one of following groups: a toilet tank, a toilet seat, a component independent of a toilet. The water inlet pipe set is disposed in the toilet tank, and the water inlet pipe set comprises a main water inlet channel communicating with an inner space of the toilet tank, a divergent water channel communicating with the main water inlet channel, and a valve connected with the trigger switch and controlled by the trigger switch to determine whether the divergent water channel is communicated or not. The drain pipe set is disposed in the toilet tank, and the drain pipe set comprises a main drainpipe, an overflow manifold communicating with the main drainpipe, a drain valve, and a drain valve actuator attached to the overflow manifold and connected to the divergent water channel. The drain valve comprises a rubber valve seat disposed on a port of the main drainpipe, and a water stoppage valve cover cooperating with the rubber valve seat and pivotally connected to the overflow manifold. The rubber valve seat comprises a baffle extending to a junction between the main drainpipe and the overflow manifold. The baffle has a first state in which the baffle is not affected by water entering the main drainpipe, and a second state in which the baffle affected by the water entering the main drainpipe, wherein in the first state, the main drainpipe communicates with the overflow manifold, and in the second state, the junction between the main drainpipe and the overflow manifold is blocked by the baffle, and wherein the drain valve actuator drives the water stoppage valve cover when the divergent water channel is communicated.
In one embodiment, the drain valve actuator comprises a driving rod connected to the water stoppage valve cover, a manual operating element facing the driving rod and provided for pushing the driving rod, and a pusher facing the driving rod and provided for pushing the driving rod, a direction of acting force provided by the manual operating element to the driving rod is different from that of the pusher, the pusher is connected to the divergent water channel, and wherein the pusher comprises a body, a water inlet communicating with the overflow manifold and an inside of the body, and a push-up element disposed in the body and pushed by a water flow.
In one embodiment, the pusher comprises a spring disposed in the body and connected to the push-up element.
In one embodiment, the body is formed with a plurality of water outlets with horizontal heights higher than that of the water inlet.
In one embodiment, the water inlet pipe set comprises a connecting pipe provided as a part of the divergent water channel and connected to the drain valve actuator.
In one embodiment, the water inlet pipe set comprises a plurality of pipe fittings connected in sequence, one of the plurality of pipe fittings is formed with a divergent opening provided as a part of the divergent water channel, and the valve comprises a solenoid valve attached inside one of the plurality of pipe fittings, and an inner conduit disposed in at least one of the plurality of pipe fittings and communicated to the divergent opening.
In one embodiment, the inner conduit comprises a hollow core pipe, and an outer ring connected to the hollow core pipe, and wherein the outer ring comprises a water opening facing the divergent opening, at least one connecting rib connected to the hollow core pipe, and a water passage disposed in the at least one connecting rib and communicating with the water opening and the hollow core pipe.
In one embodiment, one of the plurality of pipe fittings providing for the solenoid valve to be attached thereon comprising an outer pipe and an inner pipe, and wherein the inner pipe is disposed in the outer pipe and provides for the inner conduit to be disposed therein, the outer pipe is formed with a first opening facing the solenoid valve, the inner pipe is formed with a second opening facing the solenoid valve, and the second opening is located in the first opening.
In one embodiment, the baffle is replaced by a baffle ring formed integrally with the rubber valve seat.
In one embodiment, a side of the rubber valve seat facing the water stoppage valve cover is an inclined surface.
In one embodiment, the baffle comprises a first surface facing the junction between the main drainpipe and the overflow manifold, and a second surface on an opposite side of the first surface, the first surface is an inclined surface, and the second surface is a flat surface.
In one embodiment, the rubber valve seat comprises a seat opening, an edge of the seat opening is connected to the second surface, and there is no stepped portion between the edge of the seat opening and the second surface.
According to the aforementioned content of the invention, compared with the conventional technology, the invention has the following features: the invention controls the valve when the trigger switch is operated, and the valve only controls whether the divergent water channel communicates or does not communicate, rather than serving as a main actuator for driving the water stoppage valve cover, so that the invention does not need to rely too much on a power of the valve itself, and instead uses a power generated by a water flow to drive the drain valve actuator, thereby driving the water stoppage valve cover to achieve an object of fast water discharge, and to improve the problem that the conventional toilet flushing technology relies too much on a performance of the solenoid valve itself and may fail under long-term use to be incapable of reliably providing a fast water discharge function. In addition, in the second state of the invention, the baffle blocks the junction between the main drainpipe and the overflow manifold, thereby specifically reducing an air resistance of water in the toilet tank to discharge from the main drainpipe, which is conducive to improving water drainage efficiency.
The detailed description and technical content of the invention are described below with reference to the accompanying drawings.
Hereinafter, the terms “first” and “second” used for components are intended to distinguish the components, and are not used to limit a sequence of the components.
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The drain pipe set 24 is disposed in the toilet tank 30, and the drain pipe set 24 includes a main drainpipe 241, an overflow manifold 242, a drain valve 243 and a drain valve actuator 244. Please refer to
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The following is an example of practical application of the invention. The water supply system 20 can be practically applied to a sitting toilet (not shown in the figures). During implementation, the trigger switch 21 is disposed in a toilet seat (not shown in the figures), and the water inlet pipe set 22 and the drain pipe set 24 are disposed in a water tank (not shown in the figures) of the sitting toilet, when a user (not shown in the figures) sits on the toilet seat and is finished with going to toilet and gets up and leaves the toilet seat, the trigger switch 21 senses the user is leaving and generates a control signal (not shown in the figures). The valve 223 receives the control signal and changes its state based on the control signal to make the divergent water channel 222 being communicated and enable water to flow into the divergent water channel 222, thereby the water flow 40 is capable of pushing the drain valve actuator 244 and driving the water stoppage valve cover 245 to achieve an efficacy of rapid water drainage.
From the above, it can be known that the valve 223 of the invention only controls whether the divergent water channel 222 communicates or does not communicate, rather than serving as a main actuator for driving the water stoppage valve cover 245, so that the invention does not need to rely too much on a power of the valve 223 itself, and instead uses a power generated by the water flow 40 to drive the drain valve actuator 244, thereby driving the water stoppage valve cover 245 to achieve an object of fast water discharge, and to improve the problem that the conventional toilet flushing technology relies too much on a performance of the solenoid valve itself and may fail under long-term use to be incapable of reliably providing a fast water discharge function.
Further, the baffle 247 has a first state in which the baffle 247 is not affected by water entering the main drainpipe 241, and the main drainpipe 241 communicates with the overflow manifold 242 under the first state; and a second state in which the baffle 247 is affected by water entering the main drainpipe 241, and the junction between the main drainpipe 241 and the overflow manifold 242 is blocked by the baffle 247 under the second state.
In detail, when water does not flow into the main drainpipe 241 from the toilet tank 30, the baffle 247 is in the first state, and the baffle 247 does not completely close the junction between the main drainpipe 241 and the overflow manifold 242, so that there is a gap at the junction to enable the water flowing into the overflow manifold 242 to flow out of the main drainpipe 241 through the junction between the main drainpipe 241 and the overflow manifold 242. On the other hand, when the water (as labeled by the reference numeral “51”) flows into the main drainpipe 241 from the toilet tank 30, the baffle 247 will be in the second state under influence of the water (as labeled by the reference numeral “51”). The baffle 247 resists an air resistance from the junction between the main drainpipe 241 and the overflow manifold 242, and enables the water (as labeled by the reference numeral “51”) to be capable of flowing into the main drainpipe 241 smoothly. The reference numeral “50” in
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The pusher 249 comprises a body 252, a water inlet 253, and a push-up element 254. The water inlet 253 communicates with the overflow manifold 242 and an inside of the body 252, and enables the water flow 40 from the overflow manifold 242 to pass through and flow into the body 252, the push-up element 254 is disposed in the body 252, the push-up element 254 receives the water flow 40 flowing into the body 252 and is pushed by the water flow 40 to push the driving rod 248. It should be noted that in the invention, after the push-up element 254 pushes the driving rod 248 and stops receiving the water flow 40, the driving rod 248 will be driven by the water stoppage valve cover 245 based on a linkage relationship between the driving rod 248 and the water stoppage valve cover 245, and when the water stoppage valve cover 245 is closed relative to the rubber valve seat 246, the driving rod 248 is driven to push the push-up element 254 to its original position, thereby completing a reset action of the push-up element 254. In one embodiment, in order to improve a reset efficiency of the push-up element 254, the pusher 249 includes a spring 255 disposed in the body 252 and connected to the push-up element 254. In addition, in one embodiment, the body 252 is formed with a plurality of water outlets 256, wherein horizontal heights of the plurality of water outlets 256 are higher than that of the water inlet 253, and the plurality of water outlets 256 enable water in the body 252 to flow out of the body 252.
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It can be known from the above that, in one embodiment, the divergent water channel 222 of the invention is formed by the inner space of the inner pipe 236, the inner space of the hollow core pipe 229, and an inner space of one of the at least one connecting rib 232 formed with the water passage 233, and communicates with the second opening 238, the water passage 233, the water opening 231, the divergent opening 226, and the connecting pipe 224 in sequence. The main water inlet channel 221 is formed sequentially by an interval between an outer wall of the inner pipe 236 and the outer pipe 235, an interval between an outer wall of the hollow core pipe 229 and at least one of the pipe fittings 225 that provides disposition for the inner conduit 228, and the water inlet passage 234.
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