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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 30, 2017
Filed:
May. 15, 2015
Applicant:
Defond Components Limited, Hong Kong, CN;
Inventors:
Assignee:
DEFOND HOLDINGS (H. K.) CO. LIMITED, Hong Kong, HK;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
E03D 9/08 (2006.01); F24H 1/10 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
E03D 9/08 (2013.01); F24H 1/101 (2013.01);
Abstract
A toilet apparatus includes a toilet bowl with a seat, a reservoir for containing water for flushing the toilet bowl, and a water jet device including a conduit with an inlet, an outlet, and a nozzle at the outlet and located in the toilet bowl for generating a water jet to clean a user. A thermoelectric heat pump having a cold side in thermal communication with water in the reservoir extracts heat from the water in the reservoir and a hot side in thermal communication with a conduit section of the conduit supplies heat extracted from water in the reservoir and increases the temperature of water flowing through the conduit.