Toto Ltd.

Kiyoshi Fujino

Osamu Tsutsui

Shinji Shibata

Hiroshi Tsuboi

Hisato Haraga

Takao Yoshida

Hidetaka Miyahara

Yoshinobu Uchimura

Takeshi Takaki

Shingo Tanaka

Takenori Fukushima

Yumiko Kataoka

Yoshiki Kawamura

Toilet bowl

A washing device for parts of human body comprises a thermostatic mixing valve which is disposed at a junction of a cold water supply passage and a heated water supply passage, a latching solenoid valve which is mounted on a heated water drainage passage branched out from said heated water supply passage and a latching solenoid valve which is mounted on a mixed hot water supply passage. Due to such construction, electric power for heating water is no longer necessary in the toilet bowl and electric power for mixing heated water and cold water to produce mixed hot water to be ejected from an ejecting nozzle also becomes unnecessary. Furthermore, electric power for operating the solenoid valve is minimized by means of a latching solenoid. Accordingly, the overall consumption of electric power necessary for operating and controlling the washing device can be minimized thus enabling the use of a small dry cell or battery as an electric power source of the washing device.

Washing device for parts of human body

A water supply control apparatus includes a flushing device to be supplied with water, a water supply valve for controlling the supply of water to the flushing device, a driving signal generator for selectively generating driving signals of first and second periods, respectively, a sensor responsive to one, at a time, of the driving signals for detecting whether there is a user of the flushing device at one of the first and second periods, to produce a sensor signal selectively including a user-present signal and a user-absent signal of the one period, and a control circuit responsive to the sensor signal for controlling the water supply valve. The control circuit includes a first control section having a switching element responsive to the user-absent signal for issuing a first switching signal to the driving signal generator to generate the driving signal of the first period and responsive to the user-present signal for issuing a second switching signal to the driving signal generator to generate the driving signal of the second period and an output element responsive to the sensor signal for issuing a water supply valve control signal, a second control section responsive to the water supply valve control signal for controlling the water supply valve, and a battery as a power supply for operating the water supply valve, the driving signal generator, the sensor, the first and second control sections. The second period is shorter than the first period.

Water supply control apparatus

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Kitakyushu, Japan

Kiyoshi Fujino