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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 17, 2015
Filed:
Jun. 22, 2011
Applicants:
Kiyotake Ukigai, Kitakyushu, JP;
Minoru Sato, Kitakyushu, JP;
Katsuya Nagata, Kitakyushu, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Toto Ltd., Fukuoka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
E03C 1/08 (2006.01); A61H 9/00 (2006.01); A61H 33/02 (2006.01); B05B 1/18 (2006.01); B05B 7/04 (2006.01); B05B 7/08 (2006.01); A61H 33/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61H 9/0021 (2013.01); A61H 33/027 (2013.01); B05B 1/18 (2013.01); B05B 7/0425 (2013.01); B05B 7/0892 (2013.01); A61H 33/6052 (2013.01); A61H 33/6057 (2013.01); A61H 9/0007 (2013.01); A61H 2033/022 (2013.01);
Abstract
The present invention provides a shower apparatus which allows a user to enjoy spray of water with a voluminous feel even when a small volume of water is discharged as well as with a comfortable stimulus sensation of an instantaneous flow rate of the spray varying greatly. The shower apparatus periodically varies a volume of air taken into an aeration unit by periodically changing a traveling direction of a water stream ejected to the aeration unit from a throttle unit and produces pulsating spray by varying the instantaneous flow rate of bubbly water discharged from a nozzle unit.