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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 01, 2019
Filed:
Sep. 21, 2016
Toto Ltd., Kitakyushu-shi, Fukuoka, JP;
Katsuya Nagata, Kitakyushu, JP;
Kiyotake Ukigai, Kitakyushu, JP;
TOTO LTD., Kitakyushu-shi, Fukuoka, JP;
Abstract
The present invention is a spout apparatus (), including: a shower head main body (), and an oscillation inducing element () for discharging water while allowing it to oscillate reciprocally, wherein the oscillation inducing element includes: a water supply passageway (), a water collision portion () for generating vortexes of alternately mutually opposing circulations; a vortex street passageway () for guiding and growing vortexes formed by the water collision portion; a discharge passageway () for causing water guided by the vortex street passageway to be discharged; a bypass passageway () for allowing water to detour the water collision portion and flow into the vortex street passageway; and a flow volume ratio adjusting member (), capable of varying the flow volume ratio of water flowing into the vortex street passageway through the water collision portion to water flowing into the vortex street passageway through the bypass passageway.