IPC분류정보
국가/구분 |
United States(US) Patent
등록
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국제특허분류(IPC7판) |
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출원번호 |
UP-0503767
(2003-02-06)
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등록번호 |
US-7748649
(2010-07-26)
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우선권정보 |
JP-2002-030163(2002-02-06); JP-2002-031383(2002-02-07); JP-2002-235990(2002-08-13) |
국제출원번호 |
PCT/JP2003/001258
(2003-02-06)
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§371/§102 date |
20050111
(20050111)
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국제공개번호 |
WO03/066976
(2003-08-14)
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발명자
/ 주소 |
- Fujii, Makoto
- Miura, Shoji
- Kiyofuji, Yoshihiro
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출원인 / 주소 |
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대리인 / 주소 |
Carrier, blackman & Associates, P.C.
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인용정보 |
피인용 횟수 :
9 인용 특허 :
9 |
초록
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It is an object to provide a novel water discharging apparatus capable of rapidly enhancing an outer appearance and a cleaning property and enjoying a plurality of water discharging configurations. In order to achieve the object, the water discharging apparatus comprises a hot and cold water mixing
It is an object to provide a novel water discharging apparatus capable of rapidly enhancing an outer appearance and a cleaning property and enjoying a plurality of water discharging configurations. In order to achieve the object, the water discharging apparatus comprises a hot and cold water mixing portion including a housing to which a cold water supply tube and a hot water supply tube are connected respectively, and a hot and cold water generating portion provided in the housing and serving to mix cold water and hot water which are supplied from the cold water supply tube and the hot water supply tube, thereby generating hot and cold water, and a water discharging portion coupled to the hot and cold water mixing portion and serving to discharge the generated hot and cold water from at least one water discharging nozzle, wherein the housing of the hot and cold water mixing portion is formed longitudinally in a vertical direction and the water discharging portion is coupled to an upper part and/or a lower part of the housing.
대표청구항
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The invention claimed is: 1. A water discharging apparatus including a plurality of functional units coupled to each other in a vertical direction to form a pole-shaped structure, the plurality of functional units comprising: a hot and cold water mixing portion including a housing to which a cold w
The invention claimed is: 1. A water discharging apparatus including a plurality of functional units coupled to each other in a vertical direction to form a pole-shaped structure, the plurality of functional units comprising: a hot and cold water mixing portion including a housing to which a cold water supply tube and a hot water supply tube are connected respectively, a hot and cold water generating portion provided in the housing and serving to mix cold water and hot water which are supplied from the cold water supply tube and the hot water supply tube, and a hot and cold water supply passage provided in the housing and serving to supply the mixed hot and cold water for discharge from the apparatus, thereby generating hot and cold water; and a water discharging unit which comprises at least one water discharging nozzle, and a fluid passage which is integrally assembled with said at least one water discharging nozzle so as to receive the supply of the hot and cold water that is generated in the hot and cold water generating portion, wherein the water discharging unit is coupled to at least one of an upper part of the housing and a lower part of the housing, said hot and cold water supply passage provided in the housing, and said fluid passage provided with the water discharging unit are constituted to be communicated with each other, the pole-shaped structure is vertically disposed on an exposed side of a wall of a shower room such that the housing of the hot and cold water mixing portion is exposed to water discharged from said at least one water discharging nozzle; and said hot and cold water mixing portion further includes a pair of leg portions through which the cold water supply tube and the hot water supply tube, which extend from said wall, are respectively connected to the housing, and said pair of leg portions are provided on a rear part of the housing facing the wall. 2. The water discharging apparatus according to claim 1, said plurality of functional units comprising at least one additional water discharging unit, and a water discharge switching device for selectively switching the supply of mixed hot and cold water to different ones of said water discharging units, the water discharge switching device including a housing in which a plurality of passages for supplying the supply of mixed hot and cold water to the water discharging units are formed by a partition, at least one water discharging valve accommodated in the housing and serving to control a water supply/water stop of the hot and cold water to the water discharging units, and operating apparatus for operating the water discharging valve, and the water discharge switching device housing being arranged longitudinally in the vertical direction in said pole-shaped structure. 3. The water discharging apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the water discharge switching device is constituted as a water discharge switching unit having the water discharge switching device housing, the at least one water discharging valve and the operating apparatus assembled integrally. 4. The water discharging apparatus according to claim 2, wherein after the water discharging apparatus has been installed at least one of said at least one water discharging valve and the water discharging nozzle can be attached and removed via a forwardly-facing part of the water discharge switching unit housing facing away from said wall. 5. The water discharging apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said at least one water discharging nozzle is at least one selected from the group consisting of a faucet nozzle for intensively discharging the supply of mixed hot and cold water downward, a hand shower nozzle, being connected to a tip of a flexible shower hose, capable of dispersedly and intensively discharging the supply of mixed hot and cold water to a user's body, a body shower nozzle capable of dispersedly and intensively discharging the supply of mixed hot and cold water toward the user's body, and a head shower nozzle capable of dispersedly and intensively discharging the supply of mixed hot and cold water toward an upper part of the user's body. 6. The water discharging apparatus according to claim 1, said plurality of functional units comprising at least one additional water discharging unit, said water discharging units are operatively coupled together with said hot and cold water mixing portion in the vertical direction in said pole-shaped structure, the mixing portion housing is cylindrically shaped, and each of the water discharging units has an exterior cylindrically shaped body which extends longitudinally in the vertical direction and has an outermost diameter equal to an outermost diameter of the housing of the hot and cold water mixing portion such that the mixing portion housing and the cylindrically shaped bodies of the water discharging units define exterior surfaces of said pole-shaped structure which extend flush with each other. 7. The water discharging apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the water discharging unit is a head shower having a head shower nozzle, and which is capable of dispersedly and intensively discharging hot and cold water from the head shower nozzle toward an upper part of the user's body, and the head shower nozzle includes a plurality of water discharging portions which are curved and protrude from a flat water discharging plate and the hot and cold water is discharged from a plurality of water discharging holes provided dispersedly in the vicinity of tops of the water discharging portions. 8. The water discharging apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the hot and cold water mixing portion includes a temperature regulating handle for regulating a temperature of hot and cold water to be generated, and a temperature control portion for controlling the temperature of the supply of mixed hot and cold water in accordance with an operation of the temperature regulating handle, the temperature control portion has a control valve member for sliding in the hot and cold water mixing portion in the vertical direction to change a mixing ratio of cold water and hot water which is supplied from the cold water supply portion and the hot water supply portion, a temperature sensitive spring for pressing and energizing the control valve member toward one side in the vertical direction by using a shape-memory alloy, and a bias spring for pressing and energizing the control valve member toward the other side in the vertical direction, and the temperature control portion controls a position in the vertical direction of the control valve member by a balance of the two springs. 9. The water discharging apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said plurality of functional units have respective outside diameters which are equal to each other and extend substantially fully along a vertical length of the functional units, respectively, such that when said plurality of functional units are assembled end-to-end they extend flush with each other in the pole-shaped structure. 10. The water discharging apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said pair of leg portions are arranged vertically one above the other. 11. A water discharging apparatus including a plurality of functional units coupled to each other in a vertical direction to form a pole-shaped structure, the plurality of functional units comprising: a hot and cold water mixing portion including a housing which extends longitudinally in the vertical direction and has a cold water supply tube and a hot water supply tube connected respectively thereto, a hot and cold water generating portion provided in the housing and serving to mix cold water and hot water which are supplied from the cold and hot water supply tubes for thereby generating a mixture of the hot and cold water; a plurality of water discharging units which are coupled to more than one of upper parts and lower parts of the housing; and a water discharge switching unit which selectively switches supply of the mixture of the hot and cold water to said plurality of water discharging units, wherein each of said plurality of water discharging units comprises at least one water discharging nozzle for discharging the mixture of hot and cold water, and a water discharging unit body integrally assembled with the water discharging nozzle and having a fluid passage for supplying the mixture of hot and cold water to the water discharging nozzle, said water discharge switching unit comprises a housing which extends longitudinally in the vertical direction and having a plurality of fluid passages formed therein in a segmentation arrangement to supply the mixture of hot and cold water to said plurality of water discharging units, at least one water discharging valve which is provided in the housing so as to control supply or stoppage of the mixture of hot and cold water to said plurality of water discharging units, and operating apparatus for operating said at least one water discharging valve, said switching unit housing, said at least one water discharging valve, and said operating apparatus being integrally assembled, said water switching unit and any one of said plurality of water discharging units are coupled in the vertical direction, the pole-shaped structure is vertically disposed on an exposed side of a wall of a shower room such that the housing of the hot and cold water mixing portion is exposed to water discharged from at least one of the water discharging nozzles of the plurality of water discharging units; and said hot and cold water mixing portion further includes a pair of leg portions through which the cold water supply tube and the hot water supply tube, which extend from said wall, are respectively connected to the housing, and said pair of leg portions are provided on a rear part of the housing facing the wall. 12. The water discharging apparatus according to claim 11, wherein the hot and cold water mixing portion comprises a hot and cold water mixing unit having the mixing portion housing and the hot and cold water generating portion assembled integrally, and the water discharging units, the hot and cold water mixing unit and the water discharge switching unit are coupled in the vertical direction so as to define said pole-shaped structure. 13. The water discharging apparatus according to claim 11, wherein the mixing portion housing is cylindrically shaped, and each of the water discharging units has an exterior cylindrically shaped body which extends longitudinally in the vertical direction and has an outermost diameter equal to an outermost diameter of the housing of the hot and cold water mixing portion such that the mixing portion housing and the cylindrically shaped bodies of the water discharging units define exterior surfaces of said pole-shaped structure which extend flush with each other. 14. The water discharging apparatus according to claim 11, wherein said plurality of functional units have respective outside diameters which are equal to each other and extend substantially fully along a vertical length of the functional units, respectively, such that when said plurality of functional units are assembled end-to-end they extend flush with each other in the pole-shaped structure. 15. The water discharging apparatus according to claim 11, wherein said pair of leg portions are arranged vertically one above the other.
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