JPH05295783A - Trouble diagnosis and display method for hot water washing device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To display the troubled positions of a hot water washing device and a hot air drying device very finely and correctly. CONSTITUTION:A western style closet 12 is provided with a hot water washing device, a hot air drying device, a deodorizing device, a heated closet seat 26, and the like. A remote control 40 is provided on the wall 38 of a toilet room for operating these various electric apparatuses. This remote control 40 is provided with many shower switches, dryer switches, and the like. When a trouble is generated in the hot water washing device or the hot air drying device, the troubled position is self-diagnosed, and the LED provided on the switches of the remote control 40 is flashed so as to display the troubled position. Consequently, the troubled position can be displayed on the remote control 40. The remote control 40 is provided with many LEDs, and hence the troubled position can be very finely and correctly displayed. The trouble can be quickly repaired.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a method for displaying a failure diagnosis of a hot water cleaning device which self-diagnoses a failure of the main body of the hot water cleaning device and displays the diagnosis result.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A hot water washing device is a device which is mainly attached to a Western-style toilet bowl to wash hot water on the buttocks of a toilet user. This hot water washing device is often provided with a warm air fan for drying the buttocks and a deodorizing device for discharging odor from the toilet bowl.

By the way, a system in which a failure diagnosis device is incorporated in this hot water cleaning device and the result is displayed when a failure is found is disclosed in Japanese Examined Patent Publication No. 1-51616.
No. 51,617.

In the hot water washing apparatus described in these patent publications, the operating portion is directly attached to the main body of the hot water washing apparatus provided in the Western-style toilet (that is, without using the remote controller).
It is provided. Then, the failure point is displayed by lighting or blinking the light emitting element for device operation display of the operation unit.

[0005]

However, it is not possible to provide such a large number of light emitting elements in the operating portion directly provided on the main body of the hot water washing device. (One reason for this is that the operation part provided on the main body of the hot water washing device is located below the side part of the user who sits on the toilet bowl, so that the operation part and the face of the seated user are separated from each other. Another reason is that it is not preferable to provide too many light emitting elements in the main body of the hot water washing device because of the aesthetics of the Western-style toilet bowl. Therefore, in the conventional fault diagnosis display method for hot water cleaning devices, the number of faults that can be expressed is limited no matter how the lighting or blinking of the light emitting elements are combined, and there are detailed faults. There was a problem that it could not be displayed.

[0006]

According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method for displaying a failure diagnosis of a hot water washing device, wherein the hot water washing device main body for a human buttocks is provided on a toilet bowl in a toilet room, and is installed separately from the toilet bowl. A remote controller for operating the main body of the hot water cleaning device, and a plurality of light emitting elements provided on the remote controller for displaying an operating state of the hot water cleaning device,
In a failure diagnosis display method for a hot water washing device, comprising a failure finding device provided in the main body of the hot water washing device, the failure finding device is found by lighting or blinking a light emitting element provided in the remote controller. It is characterized in that the displayed failure is displayed.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method for displaying a fault diagnosis of a hot water washing device, wherein the remote controller has at least three levels of jetting strength of hot water of the hot water washing device. There are three or more light-emitting elements that are displayed separately as described above, and two or more light-emitting elements that display the air volume of the warm air dryer in at least two stages, and the hot water cleaning system malfunctions. In the case of 1, the light emitting element for displaying the strength of hot water is turned on or blinking, and in the case of a failure of the hot air drying system, the light emitting element for displaying the air volume is turned on or blinking.

[0008]

In the method for displaying a failure diagnosis of the hot water cleaning device of the present invention, the failure diagnosis result is displayed by turning on or off the light emitting element of the remote controller. Since this remote control is installed, for example, on the wall surface of the toilet room on the side or the front of the toilet bowl, it can be viewed in a comfortable posture, and even if a large number of light emitting elements are provided, it is easy to identify the light emitting elements accurately. Therefore, according to the present invention, by combining lighting or blinking of a large number of light emitting elements provided in the remote controller, an extremely large number of types of failure display can be performed.

Even if a remote controller is provided with a large number of light emitting elements, it is natural that the remote controller is originally provided with a large number of light emitting elements, so that the appearance of the remote controller is visually unsatisfactory. Not even.

In particular, according to the method for displaying a failure diagnosis of the hot water washing apparatus according to the second aspect, the failure of the hot water washing system is indicated by lighting or blinking the light emitting element for indicating the strength of the hot water washing, and the failure of the hot air system. Since the light-emitting element of the warm air drying system is displayed by lighting or blinking, it becomes easy and accurate to confirm the failure location.

[0011]

Embodiments Embodiments will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a Western-style toilet with a hot water washing device adopting the method of the present invention and a toilet room in which the Western-style toilet is installed. FIG. 2 is an enlarged front view of the sub-operation unit of the main body of FIG. FIG. 3 is a perspective view of the Western style toilet seen from the opposite side to FIG. FIG. 4 is an enlarged front view of the remote controller.

A Western-style toilet 12 is installed in the toilet room 10, and a low tank is installed on the rear upper surface of the Western-style toilet 12. In this embodiment, this raw tank is covered with a tank cover 14. This tank cover 14
A hand washing device 14a is integrally provided on the upper part of the, and a water spouting port 16 for discharging water toward the hand washing device 14a is provided.

A handle 20 is provided on one side surface of the tank cover 14 for supplying cleaning water to the toilet bowl 18 of the Western-style toilet 12. A water supply pipe 22 is connected to the other side surface of the tank cover 14. In addition, the other side surface is provided with a main body transceiver unit 24 for transmitting or receiving a signal.
Is provided.

A heating toilet seat 26 and a toilet lid 28 are pivotally attached to the upper surface of the western-style toilet 12 so as to be rotatable in the up and down direction.

In the lower part of the tank cover 14, a hot water washing device for washing the buttocks of the toilet user sitting on the heated toilet seat 26 with hot water, and the buttocks wet with the hot water are dried with warm air. A warm air drying device for blowing warm air,
A deodorizing device is provided.

Although not shown, this hot water washing device is provided with a hot water tank and a hot water washing nozzle (shower) which is supplied with hot water from the hot water tank and advances into the toilet bowl 18 to eject hot water toward the buttocks of the human body. There are two nozzles, a nozzle and a charm nozzle.) Etc. The warm air drying device is configured to include a fan and an air heater. The deodorizing device includes an exhaust fan and a duct.

Electric power is supplied to the hot water cleaning device, the deodorizing device and the hot air drying device from the commercial power source through the leakage preventing plug 34 inserted into the outlet 32 of the wall surface 30 of the toilet room. 36 is a ground wire.

Toilet room wall 3 beside Western style toilet 12
8 is provided with a remote controller 40 for operating the hot water washing device, the deodorizing device and the hot air drying device.
Reference numeral 41 is a remote control transmission / reception unit for exchanging optical signals with the main body transmission / reception unit 24.

As shown in FIG. 4, the remote controller 40 is
Six switches (shower switch) 4 so that the strength of hot water spray from the shower nozzle can be changed in 6 steps.
1, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46 are provided.
Each of the switches 41 to 46 is provided with an LED 41a to 46a as a light emitting element, and is configured to indicate which switch is operated.

Further, the remote controller 40 has six switches 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 5 so that the hot water jetting strength from the charm nozzle can be adjusted in six steps.
6 is provided, and these switches 51 to 56 similarly have LEs for displaying the selected switch.
D51a to 56a are provided.

Further, the remote controller 40 has three switches (dry switches) 61, 62, so that the amount of hot air blown from the warm air dryer can be adjusted in three steps.
63 are provided, and the switches 61 to 63 each have an LED 61a to display the selected switch.
63a is provided.

The remote controller 40 is further provided with a stop switch 70 for stopping the operation, and a flash switch 72 for supplying flush water to the toilet bowl 18 with a switch. The remote control 40 has a built-in clock function and is provided with a liquid crystal panel 74 for displaying the time.

Although not shown, the toilet seat 26 is provided with a seating switch so that the fan of the deodorizing device is activated when the toilet seat 26 is seated.

As shown in FIG. 1, the western-style toilet bowl 12 is provided with a main body sub-operation section 78 in addition to the remote controller 40. As shown in FIG. 2, the main body sub-operation unit 78 includes a stop switch 80, a shower switch 82, a deodorizing switch 84, a toilet seat temperature controller 86 for adjusting the temperature of the toilet seat 26, and a hot water temperature. A water temperature adjusting controller 88 is provided for this purpose.

The western-style toilet with a hot-water washing device thus constructed can be used in the same manner as a normal western-style toilet. Hot water washing device, hot air drying device, or
When a failure occurs in the deodorizing device, the heating toilet seat, etc., the LEDs 41a to 46a, 51a to 56a, 61a, 62
The failure location is displayed by blinking a and 63a.

The relationship between the blinking of each LED and the failure content is shown in the following Tables 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 as a list.

[0027]

[Table 1]

[0028]

[Table 2]

[0029]

[Table 3]

[0030]

[Table 4]

[0031]

[Table 5]

Even if such a device failure occurs,
Normal ordinary users cannot repair it. And
Since this breakdown repair is carried out exclusively by a specialist such as a construction shop, the display of the breakdown portion is displayed only by performing a special operation. In this example,
The failure diagnosis result is displayed by pressing the stop switch 80 provided on the sub-operation unit 78 for 30 seconds. That is, when the stop switch 80 is pressed for 30 seconds, the failure diagnosis result is transmitted from the main body transmitting / receiving unit 24 to the remote controller 40, the LED 41a and the like on the remote controller are turned on, and the abnormal portion is displayed.

As is clear from Tables 1 to 5, according to the method of this embodiment, an extremely large number of failure contents can be accurately displayed. Therefore, the failure location can be accurately identified and the repair can be performed quickly.

In the above embodiment, the LEDs of the shower switches 41 to 46 are operated when a failure occurs in the hot water washing system.
Since 41a to 46a are blinked to display the failure location, it is possible to quickly recognize that the failure location is the hot water washing system. Similarly, when a failure occurs in the hot air drying system, the failure location is displayed only by blinking the LEDs 61a to 63a, so that the failure is quickly and accurately identified as related to the hot air drying system.

In the above-described embodiment, the signal indicating the failure diagnosis result is output from the main body transmitting / receiving unit 24 to the remote controller 40 by a signal such as light. You may make it input the data which shows.

FIG. 5 shows an example adopted in such a structure, and an output connector 90 is provided in the sub-operation section 78 of the main body. By connecting the output connector 90 to the input section 92 provided on the back surface of the remote controller 40, the failure diagnosis data is input to the remote controller 40.

Further, according to the present invention, the input pin is set up on the back surface of the remote controller 40, and the pin is inserted into the pin connecting portion provided on the sub-operation unit 78 of the main body as shown in FIG. May be input to the remote controller 40.

Further, although not shown, the failure diagnosis data may be output to the commercial power source as a high frequency signal, the remote controller 40 may be connected to the commercial power source, and the failure diagnostic data may be input to the remote controller 40 through an electric wire of the commercial power source. Good.

Although not shown, in the present invention, the upper portion of the tank cover 14 is made detachable, and an output terminal for a failure diagnosis result is provided inside the upper portion of the tank cover 14, and a remote controller is connected to this output terminal. Then, the failure diagnosis data may be input to the remote controller. of course,
The output terminal for the failure diagnosis result may be provided at another location.

The above embodiments are all examples of the present invention, and the present invention is not limited to the above embodiments. For example, although two hot water washing systems of the shower and the charm are provided in the above-described embodiment, one system of only the shower may be used. Further, although the hot water jetting strength of these hot water washing systems is configured to be switched in six stages, it is obvious that other numbers of stages may be used. In addition, in order to be able to accurately display a wide variety of failure contents, three or more switches are provided so that the hot water washing strength can be adjusted in at least three steps, and an LED is provided for each switch. Is preferred.

Further, in the above embodiment, the hot air drying strength is switched over in three stages, but other stages may be used. The strength of this warm air drying is also preferably at least two levels.

[0042]

As described above, according to the failure diagnosis display method for the hot water cleaning apparatus of the present invention, various causes of failure can be accurately displayed by turning on or blinking the light emitting element of the remote controller. Therefore, even if the hot water cleaning device fails,
It is possible to identify the failure location accurately and quickly and to repair it quickly.

Further, according to the present invention, it is not necessary to provide a large number of display switches on the main body of the Western-style toilet provided with the hot water washing device, and the external appearance of the toilet such as the Western-style toilet is very good. .. Even if a large number of switches are provided on the remote controller, the remote controller is provided at a position where it can be easily seen by the user sitting on the toilet bowl, and is easy to operate and extremely convenient.

In the method for displaying a failure diagnosis of the hot water washing apparatus according to the second aspect, when a failure occurs in the hot water washing system, the light emitting element for displaying the hot water jetting intensity is turned on or blinked, and the hot air drying system is used. When a failure occurs, the light emitting element for displaying the air volume of the warm air dryer is turned on or blinks.Therefore, there is no risk of misunderstanding the cause of the failure, and the identification of the cause of the failure and accurate Quick repair support is possible.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a Western-style toilet bowl to which an example method is applied.

FIG. 2 is an enlarged front view of a main body sub-operation unit 78.

FIG. 3 is a perspective view from the opposite side of the Western-style toilet bowl to which the embodiment method is applied.

FIG. 4 is a front view of a remote controller.

FIG. 5 is a front view of a sub-operation unit of a main body used in a method of another embodiment.

FIG. 6 is a perspective view of a Western-style toilet having a hot water washing device to which a method according to another embodiment is applied.

[Explanation of symbols]

10 Toilet Room 12 Western Style Toilet 14 Tank Cover 26 Heating Toilet Seat 40 Remote Control 41-46 Shower Switch 51-56 Charm Switch 61-63 Dry Switch 41a-46a, 51a-56a, 61a-63a L
ED 78 Main body sub operation unit

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A hot water cleaning device main body for a human buttocks provided on a toilet bowl in a toilet room, a remote controller for operating the main body of the hot water cleaning device installed away from the toilet bowl, and a remote controller provided on the remote controller. In the method for displaying a fault diagnosis of a hot water washing device, the remote controller comprising: a plurality of light emitting elements for displaying an operating state of the hot water washing device; and a failure detection device provided in the main body of the hot water washing device. A failure diagnosis display method for a hot water washing device, characterized in that a failure found by the failure finding device is displayed by lighting or blinking a provided light emitting element. 2. The method for displaying a failure diagnosis of a hot water cleaning device according to claim 1, wherein the remote controller displays three or more light emission levels for displaying hot water jetting strength of the hot water cleaning device in at least three stages. It is equipped with an element and two or more light-emitting elements for displaying the air volume of the warm air dryer in at least two stages and displaying it. In case of failure of the hot water washing system, it is for displaying hot water jet strength. A method for displaying a failure diagnosis of a hot water washing device, characterized in that a light emitting element is turned on or blinks, and in the case of a failure of a hot air drying system, a light emitting element for air volume display is turned on or blinks.