JPH053902A - Whirl pool bath - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To secure the operation in a prescribed time after the change of function, in a whirl pool bath having both a jet function and an air-blow function, by contriving it in such a way that the time-counting action of a timer can be renewed every time the function is specified for changing the functional operation and conditions, and that the function can be stopped with time-up. CONSTITUTION:When an operation switch is turned on, a sequence controller 19 reads out from the internal memory the mode data that have been used previously at the time the power supply has been cut off, and starts the operation. By the operation of a wireless remote controller 17, the sequence controller 19 receives the signal through an installed remote controller 18, and a processing part W3 controls the constituting elements in accordance with the specified function. In other words, it drives and functions a prescribed constituting element in accordance with the jet function or the air-blow function, and at the same time it drives a timer part W2 to newly start time-counting with regard to a new function. And, the operation of the processing part W3 is stopped by a time-up signal that is output simultaneously with time-up.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention has a jet function for ejecting hot and cold water containing bubbles in a bathtub and an air blow function for ejecting bubbles in a bathtub. It relates to a whirlpool bus having a designated switch.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In a conventional whirlpool bus of this type,
When specifying the operation of the jet function or air blow function,
This is done by operating each individual switch provided on the remote controller (remote control). The remote control is provided with a function designating switch for starting the operation of the jet function or the air blow function, and a condition designating switch for switching the jetting intensity of the jet or the air blow in, for example, three stages.

That is, the bather selects whether to operate the jet function and the air blowing function individually or simultaneously, depending on the mood at the time of bathing, and also selects the strength appropriately. These selections are appropriately made by operating the above switches.

[0004]

By the way, in the conventional whirlpool bus, in order to stop the operation by the predetermined function, it is necessary to always operate the switch for designating the stop, but an accidental mistake such as forgetting to turn it off may occur. ..

For this purpose, a timer may be used to limit the operation time. As an example of using the timer, it is common to stop the operation after a predetermined time has elapsed from the ON operation of the operation switch, Even if the jet function or the air blow function is changed during operation, the operation is uniformly stopped after a predetermined time has elapsed from the start of operation, regardless of the changes.

However, within the time limit of the timer,
The bather may use various functions, but if the function type is changed just before the end of the time limit, it will stop after a short drive after the change. In other words, it is pointed out that the specified function is inconvenient because the bather remains dissatisfied because the function has just started and the operation to restart driving is performed again.

The present invention was devised in view of such circumstances, and every time the function type is changed during operation,
It is an object of the present invention to allow a bather to continue driving for a certain period of time after changing the function without extending the operation time limit so that a satisfactory bathing is possible.

[0008]

In order to achieve such a subject, the present invention has a jet function for ejecting hot and cold water containing bubbles in a bathtub and an air blow function for ejecting bubbles in the bathtub. The whirlpool bus having a switch for designating conditions such as the type and strength of the function has the following configuration.

In the whirlpool bus of the present invention, of the switches, each time a switch relating to a function specification such as a jet function or an air blow function is operated, a timer for updating the timekeeping operation and a response to the operation of the various switches described above. In addition to performing the operation of the designated function and changing the condition, it is characterized in that it is provided with processing means for controlling to stop the function in operation in response to the time-up signal from the timer.

[0010]

[Function] That is, when the function designation switch is operated,
The operation with the specified function is executed. Then, the timer is started by this switch operation. If the function is not changed as it is, the operation is stopped in response to the time-out of the timer. However, the kind of function is changed from the first switch operation for designating the function to the time-up of the timer. When the switch operation to be changed is performed, the timer operation is newly performed in accordance with this new operation, so that the time is restarted from the beginning.

Therefore, even if the function is changed, the operation is not stopped immediately after the change unlike the conventional case.

[0012]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the drawings. 1 to 4 show an embodiment of the present invention. The whirlpool bus in this embodiment has many functions such as a jet function, an air blow function, and a fall function.

In the figure, 1 is a bathtub, 2 is a suction port provided on one side wall of the bathtub 3, 3 and 4 are dorsal jet nozzles, foot jet nozzles provided on two opposing side walls of the bathtub 5,
Is a plurality of air blow nozzles provided on the bottom wall of the bathtub 1,
Reference numerals 6 and 7 denote shoulder fall nozzles and Niagara fall nozzles provided above two opposing side walls of the bath 1.

Reference numeral 8 is a circulation pump provided in a circulation pipe connecting the suction port 2 and various nozzles 3 to 7, and 9 to 12 are water amount adjustments provided on the respective nozzles 3 to 7 side in each circulation pipe. Solenoid valves, 13 and 14 are each jet nozzle 3,
4 is an air pipe for inhaling the outside air, 15 is a solenoid valve for adjusting the amount of intake air, which is provided at the intake end connected to the air pipes 13 and 14, and 16 is an intake end of the air blow pipe. It is an air pump that is installed in the and controlled in phase.

Reference numeral 17 denotes a wireless remote controller for transmission (hereinafter simply referred to as a wireless remote controller),
Reference numeral 18 is a reception remote controller fixed to the bathroom wall (hereinafter, temporarily referred to as an installed remote controller), and 19 is a sequence controller. This wireless remote control 17
The infrared signal transmitted from the remote controller 18 is received by the remote controller 18, and the remote controller 18 sends the sequence controller 19
The sequence controller 19 controls the operations of the circulation pump 8, the water amount adjusting solenoid valves 9 to 12, the air amount adjusting solenoid valve 15, and the air pump 16.

As shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, the wireless remote controller 17 includes an upper case 20 and a lower case 21 made of synthetic resin which form a substantially disk-shaped container, and an upper case 20.
And a circuit board 23 provided inside the circular panel 22 in the upper case 20. Upper case 20 and lower case 2
1 is joined via a rubber packing PK. Circuit board 2
3 includes a plurality of operation switches S1 to S11 and a liquid crystal display (LCD) 2 for displaying what is operated.
4 and various electronic components not shown are mounted. The liquid crystal display 24 is arranged below the central portion of the surface of the circular panel 22, and the operation switches S1 to S11 are the liquid crystal display 24.
Is arranged around the periphery of the circular panel 22 and projects toward the front surface side of the circular panel 22. A battery housing portion 26 for housing two batteries 25 is provided in a central portion of the lower case 21, and a battery lid 27 is detachably fitted to the battery housing portion 26. In this wireless remote controller 17, infrared rays are emitted from the infrared ray emitting diode 28 to the outside by pressing the operation switches S1 to S11.

The operation switch S1 turns on / off the power source, the shoulder fall switch S2 turns on / off the shoulder fall function, the Niagara fall switch S3 turns on / off the Niagara fall function, and the back jet strength switch S7. And the foot side jet strength switch S8 switches the jet ejection strength (three levels of weak / medium / strong), the air blow strength switch S9 switches the air blow strength (three levels of weak / medium / strong), and the bubble presence / absence switch S10. The back / foot switching switch S11 is used to switch between the presence of bubbles and the absence of bubbles during jet operation, that is, the back side alone, the foot side alone, and back / foot simultaneous. Further, the jet switch S4 is used to select an operation stop and an arbitrary jet operation (simple) and a jet back-foot combination operation (swing, rhythm, fluctuation), and an air blow switch S5 is an operation stop and an arbitrary air blow operation (simple). ) And air blow strength / weakness combined operation (cycle, fluctuation) are selected, and the Omakase switch S6 selects special operation (sports, relaxation, dream) that combines operation stop and jet operation and air blow operation. ..

In this embodiment, the operation switch S1, the shoulder fall switch S2, the Niagara fall switch S3, the jet switch S4, the air blow switch S5, and the automatic switch S6 are referred to as function-designating switches, and the back jet strength switch S7 and the foot are used. The side jet strength switch S8, the air blow strength switch S9, the bubble presence / absence switch S10, and the back foot changeover switch S11 are referred to as condition specifying switches.

The sequence controller 17, as shown in FIG. 4, has a receiving section W1, a timer section W2, and a processing section W3.
And the signal received by the receiver W1 is
In the case of the output from the function designating switches (S1 to S6), individual function designating signals are given to the processing unit W3 and predetermined constituent elements (circulation pump 8, water amount adjusting solenoid valves 9 to 12, air) Solenoid valve for quantity adjustment 15, air pump 1
6) is operated, the function designating signal is also given to the timer section W2 as a set signal to execute the time counting operation. By the way, when the signal received by the receiving unit W1 is the one output from the condition designating switches (S7 to S11), the condition designating signal is supplied to the processing unit W3 without providing the signal to the timer unit W2 and the predetermined signal is supplied to the processing unit W3. Components (circulation pump 8, water amount adjusting solenoid valves 9 to 12, air amount adjusting solenoid valve 1)
5, any of the air pumps 16) is controlled. Then, when the timer unit W2 times out, the processing unit W3
A time-up signal to operate a predetermined component to stop the function during driving. However, when the receiving unit W1 receives a signal from the function designating switches (S1 to S6) before the timer unit W2 times out, the function designating signal is input to the processing unit W3 to perform the function in operation. While the components are operated so as to change, the function designating signal is also given as a set signal to the timer unit W2 which is being activated to newly perform the timing operation. Therefore,
Timing starts from this point, and the timing is restarted from the beginning. The time measured by the timer unit W2 is, for example, 1
It is set appropriately such as 5 minutes.

Next, the operation of the whirlpool bus will be briefly described.

When the power is turned on by the operation switch S1, the sequence controller 19 becomes active,
The usage mode data at the previous power-off time stored in the internal memory is read, and the operation in the usage mode is executed.

Then, when the various operation switches S1 to S11 of the wireless remote controller 17 are operated, the sequence controller 19 controls each component based on the signal transmitted from the wireless remote controller 17 and given through the installed remote controller 18. That is, in the jet operation, the circulation pump 8 and the opening amounts of the water amount adjusting solenoid valves 9 and 10 and the air amount adjusting solenoid valve 13 are controlled, and in the air blow operation, the phase of the air pump 16 is controlled to control the shoulder fall and the shoulder fall. In the Niagara Falls operation, the circulation pump 8 and the water amount adjusting solenoid valves 11 and 12 are controlled.

[A] Jet Operation (Simple, Swing, Rhythm, Fluctuation) In the simple mode, "back side alone", "foot side alone", "back and legs simultaneous", "weak", "medium", "strong""When,
The combination operation of "with bubbles" and "without bubbles" can be arbitrarily selected according to the bather's preference. At this time, it is necessary to operate the back / foot changeover switch S11, the back side jet strength switch S7, the foot side jet strength switch S8, and the bubble presence / absence switch S10.

In the swing mode, jetting with bubbles is performed on both the back side and the foot side, and the operation is performed in a pattern in which “weak” and “strong” are regularly repeated alternately on the back side and the foot side. Be seen.

In the rhythm mode, a jet pattern of “weak” is set on both the back side and the foot side, and “foaming” and “no foaming” are regularly repeated alternately on the back side and the foot side. Driving is performed.

In the fluctuation mode, the driving is performed in a pattern in which “weak”, “medium”, and “stop” are irregularly repeated independently on the back side and the foot side.

[B] Air Blow Operation (Simple, Cycle, Fluctuation) In the simple mode, one of "weak", "medium", and "strong" operation can be arbitrarily selected according to the preference of the bather. At this time, it is necessary to operate the air blow strength switch S9.

In cycle mode, “strong” → “medium”
→ "Weak" → "Strong" ... is regularly repeated.

In the fluctuation mode, “weak”, “medium”,
The operation is performed in a pattern in which "stop" is irregularly repeated.

[C] Random Driving (Sports, Relaxing, Dream) In the sports mode, a pattern of driving is appropriately combined with the above-mentioned swing mode of jet driving and repetition of "strong" and "stop" of air blow operation. Be seen.

In the relax mode, the rhythm mode of the jet operation and “medium” of the air blow operation,
The operation is performed in a pattern in which “weak” repetition is appropriately combined.

In the dream mode, the operation of a pattern is appropriately combined with the repetition of “weak” and “stop” of the jet operation and the repetition of “weak” and “stop” of the air blow operation.

Each mode in this automatic operation can be executed by appropriately combining the simple mode of jet operation and the simple mode of air blow operation.
If it can be executed only by operating the automatic selection switch S6 as in the present embodiment, the number of operations can be reduced.
Furthermore, it is possible to combine shoulder fall operation and Niagara fall operation with the above [A] to [C].

The present invention is not limited to the above-mentioned embodiment, and for example, although not shown, in the above whirlpool bath, a filtering device is provided on the inlet side and the outlet side of the circulation pump 8 to perform jet operation. The present invention also includes a filter capable of performing a filtering operation or a single filtering operation. Further, in the above embodiment, the entrusted driving is three types of sports, relaxing, and dream, but the number thereof is not particularly limited, and the selection designation is not performed by the rotary switch as in the above embodiment. Alternatively, individually associated switches may be used. Furthermore, the types of functions provided in the whirlpool bus are not limited to those described above, and the number of functions is not particularly limited.

[0035]

As described above, according to the present invention, each time the function designating switch is operated, a new time counting operation is performed by the timer, so that the operation with the changed function can always be continued for a certain period of time. Like Therefore, it is possible to prevent the occurrence of an insufficient situation in which the operation is stopped immediately after the function is changed as in the conventional case, and it is possible to achieve a satisfactory bath.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of a whirlpool bath according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a plan view showing a wireless remote controller according to an embodiment of the present invention.

3 is a cross-sectional view taken along the line AA of FIG.

FIG. 4 is a conceptual diagram of a configuration of a sequence controller.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 Bathtub 2 Suction port 3, 4 Jet nozzle 5 Air blow nozzle 8 Circulation pump 17 Wireless remote control S1 Operation switch S2 Shoulder fall switch S3 Niagara fall switch S4 Jet switch S5 Air blow switch S6 Omakase switch

 ─────────────────────────────────────────────────── ─── Continuation of the front page (72) Inventor Hajime Sanada 32 Akashi-cho, Chuo-ku, Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture Noritsu Ltd. (72) Hideaki Nagase 32, Akashi-cho, Chuo-ku, Kobe, Hyogo Noritsu Ltd. (72) Inventor Norihiko Tokage, No. 32, Akashi-cho, Chuo-ku, Kobe-shi, Hyogo Within Noritsu, Inc. (72) Inventor, Hiroshi Kita, No. 32, Akashi-cho, Chuo-ku, Kobe, Hyogo (72) Inventor Masayoshi Murakami 32, Akashi-cho, Chuo-ku, Kobe-shi, Hyogo In stock company Noritsu (72) Inventor Takeshi Yoshida 32, Akashi-cho, Chuo-ku, Kobe-shi, Hyogo In stock company Noritsu

Claims (1)

Claim: What is claimed is: 1. A jet function for ejecting hot and cold water containing bubbles in a bathtub, an air blow function for ejecting bubbles in a bathtub, and the conditions such as type and strength of the function. In a whirlpool bus having a designated switch, a timer whose timekeeping operation is updated each time one of the switches related to the function designation such as a jet function or an air blow function is operated, and a switch responding to the various switch operations described above. And a condition changing means for controlling the function to stop the function in operation in response to a time-up signal from the timer. Pool bath.