Toto Ltd.

Masateru Miyazaki

Masahiro Kuroishi

Kiyotake Ukigai

Katsuya Nagata

Yutaka Aihara

Masami Yamanaka

Satoko Morioka

Toshio Koguro

Shuhei Hayata

Yuta Sakai

Kei Watanabe

Nao Tanizaki

Hiroshi Nishijima

Tsuyoshi Miura

Hiroshi Kanemaru

Kenichi Aoyagi

Masato Yamahigashi

To provide a spout apparatus which is easily maintainable by a user even when, in a fluid device utilizing Karman vortices, scale adheres to the Karman vortex generating portion. A spout apparatus for discharging hot or cold water while causing it to reciprocally oscillate, having a spout apparatus body and an oscillating element; whereby the oscillating element has a water supply passage, a vortex generating passage, and a spout port passage; the spout port passage is formed of an elastically deformable soft member and is attached to the spout apparatus body so that a user can manipulate the spout port passage to deform it; and the vortex generating passage is formed of an elastically deformable soft member, and is integrally formed with the spout port passage so that deformations of the spout port passage can be transmitted to this vortex generating passage.

Spout apparatus

To provide a spout apparatus whereby expansion and deformation of the inner wall surface of the vortex generating portion such that a desired Karman vortex cannot be generated are prevented, even when the port portion is formed of an elastically deformable soft member. A spout apparatus for discharging hot or cold water with reciprocal motion, having a spout apparatus body and a vortex generating passage; whereby the oscillating element has a supply passage, a vortex generating passage, and a spout port passage, and the spout port passage is formed by an elastically deformable soft member, and is attached to the spout apparatus body so that a user can manipulate and deform the spout port passage, and the vortex generating passage is formed so as not to expand and deform even if internal pressure rises due to the supply of hot or cold water from the supply passage.

Spouting apparatus

An object of the present invention is to provide a remote control apparatus for a toilet seat apparatus which generates electric power by a user's pressing operation, the remote control apparatus being capable of balancing design quality and transmission accuracy of a signal at a high level. A remote control apparatus RC has a main button group MB, including a water spray button WB and a water stop button MB, and a sub-button group SB, including a stronger button SB, etc. Each button in the sub-button group SB has a circular shape with a diameter smaller than that of each button in the main button group MB from a front view. When a button in the main button group MB is pressed, mechanical energy is transferred to a power generation unit GU by a first slide memberand a second slide member. On the other hand, when a button in the sub-button group SB is pressed, mechanical energy is transferred only by the second slide memberand a loss in the mechanical energy in such situation is smaller than the situation where a button in the main button group MB is pressed.

Remote control apparatus

An object of the present invention is to provide a remote control apparatus for a toilet seat apparatus which generates electric power by a user's pressing operation, the remote control apparatus being capable of balancing operability and the ability to reliably stop water spray at a high level. When a cleansing button MB, being a button other than a stop button MB, is pressed, a slide memberreceives force F' at a branch. When the branchslides in a direction indicated by an arrow A, a main partalso slides in a direction indicated by an arrow A. A power generation unit GU generates electric power using mechanical energy input by a pressing force of an output partof the slide member. When the stop button MBis pressed, the slide memberreceives force Fat a stop input partand slides in the direction indicated by an arrow A. At this time, a loss in the mechanical energy caused until it is transferred to the power generation unit GU by the slide memberis smaller than that caused as a result of the pressing operation of the cleansing button MB

To provide a water spouting device capable of switching between spouting and stopping, flow volume adjustment, and spouted water temperature adjustment with a single operating portion. The present invention is a water faucet device () furnished with a flow volume adjustment function and a temperature adjustment function, including: an operating portion () capable of being pressed and rotated by a user; and flow volume/temperature adjustment means (), whereby in a stopped water state, spouting is commenced when the operating portion of this flow volume/temperature adjustment means is pressed; in a spouting state, spouted water flow volume is changed when the operating portion is pressed continuously for a predetermined long-press determining time; and water flow is stopped when pressing of the operating portion ceases in less than the long-press determining time.

Water faucet device

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Kitakyushu, Japan

Masateru Miyazaki