Smart toilet with multi sensing electric fields
Abstract
A smart toilet with multi sensing fields comprises a toilet body, two or more proximity capacitive sensing electric field means and a flushing control unit. A toilet body, comprising a bowl face which forms a bowl area, and a and a cavity arranged inside the toilet body. The two or more proximity capacitive sensing electric field means, which are arranged in the cavity; an proximity capacitive sensing electric field is formed around the proximity capacitive sensing electric field means; said proximity capacitive sensing electric field means individually generate proximity capacitive sensing information according to a change of the electric field energy caused by the proximity capacitive sensing electric field corresponding to a sensed object. The flushing control unit, which receives the proximity capacitive sensing information, and controls the bowl area flushing according to one or more logic operation results in the received proximity capacitive sensing information.
Claims
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1 . A smart toilet with multi sensing fields comprises:
a toilet body, comprising a bowl face which forms a bowl area, and a cavity arranged inside the toilet body; two or more proximity capacitive sensing electric field means, which are arranged in the cavity; an proximity capacitive sensing electric field is formed around the proximity capacitive sensing electric field means; said proximity capacitive sensing electric field means individually generate proximity capacitive sensing information according to a change of the electric field caused by the proximity capacitive sensing electric field means corresponding to a sensed object; and a flushing control unit, which receives the proximity capacitive sensing information, and controls the bowl area flushing according to one or more logic operation results in the received proximity capacitive sensing information, wherein the flushing control unit controls flushing timing, flushing duration, and/or flush water amount.
2 . The structure defined in claim 1 , wherein the proximity capacitive sensing electric field element is a line, a plane or a body sensing element.
3 . The structure defined in claim 1 , wherein the proximity capacitive sensing electric field means are disposed corresponding to the bowl face, front side, back side and/or bottom of the toilet body.
4 . The structure defined in claim 1 , wherein the proximity capacitive sensing information includes size, position, motion direction/speed of the sensed object.
5 . The structure defined in claim 1 , wherein the proximity capacitive sensing electric fields have different sensitivity.
6 . The structure defined in claim 1 , wherein the flushing control unit comprises a solenoid valve and a flushing pipe; the solenoid valve is arranged on the flushing pipe, and an outlet of the flushing pipe is disposed on the bowl face.
7 . The structure defined in claim 1 , wherein the proximity capacitive sensing electric field covers space at the upper side of the bowl area of the toilet body.
8 . The structure defined in claim 1 , wherein the proximity capacitive sensing electric field covers space at the front side of the toilet body.
9 . The structure defined in claim 1 , a manual valve is further provided therewith to control flushing via hand.Join the waitlist — get patent alerts
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