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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 30, 2019
Filed:
Dec. 13, 2016
Toto Ltd., Kitakyushu-shi, Fukuoka, JP;
Kiyotake Ukigai, Kitakyushu, JP;
Katsuya Nagata, Kitakyushu, JP;
Masateru Miyazaki, Kitakyushu, JP;
Yutaka Aihara, Kitakyushu, JP;
Shuhei Hayata, Kitakyushu, JP;
Kei Watanabe, Kitakyushu, JP;
Nao Tanizaki, Kitakyushu, JP;
Hiroshi Nishijima, Kitakyushu, JP;
TOTO LTD., Kitakyushu-Shi, Fukuoka, JP;
Abstract
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.