Flow system for bidets

Abstract

There is provided a flow system for bidets capable of feeding room-temperature raw water to a sterilizer. The flow system for bidets comprises a flow path change valve changing flow paths so that raw water flowing from a raw water supply unit flows through at least one out of a plurality of flow paths; a sterilizer coupled to an outlet side of the flow path change valve to generate nozzle-cleaning water containing an antibacterial and / or disinfectant substance from the fed raw water; a heating member coupled to the outlet side of the flow path change valve to heat the fed raw water; and a nozzle unit coupled to the sterilizer and the heating member, the nozzle unit having at least one nozzle installed therein for feeding nozzle-cleaning water or hot water. The flow system for bidets may be useful to improve the use efficiency of hot water and cold water since the raw water of adequate temperature may be feed to components of a bidet by disposing a flow path change valve in the front end of a heating member.

Description

TECHNICAL FIELD[0001]The present invention relates to a flow system for bidets, and more particularly, to a flow system for bidets capable of feeding room-temperature raw water to a sterilizer.BACKGROUND ART[0002]In general, a washing machine generally known as a bidet is an apparatus that is integrally mounted on a seat of a toilet to wash users' anus and women's vulva with washing water sprayed through nozzles without use of toilet paper after stool. Also, the nozzles is composed of a water-jet nozzle for washing users' anus and a bidet nozzle for washing women's vulva. In this case, the bidet may be provided with a nozzle-cleaning water discharging unit for washing the water-jet nozzle and / or the bidet nozzle.[0003]Also, the bidet has a flow path change valve mounted therein for changing flow paths to selectively provide washing water or nozzle-cleaning water to the water-jet nozzle, the bidet nozzle and nozzle-cleaning water discharging unit. Therefore, the washing water or nozz...

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Benefits of technology

[0026]As described above, the flow system for bidets according to one exemplary embodiment of the present invention may be useful to improve the use efficiency of hot water since water of suitable temperature may be fed to bidet components by disposing the flow path change valve in the front end of the heating member.

[0027]Also, the flow system for bidets according to one exemplary embodiment of the present invention may be useful to generate nozzle-cleaning water having an improved sterilizing activity since room-temperature raw water rather than the hot water may be fed to the sterilizer by disposing the flow path change valve in the front end of the heating member, and thus to enhance washing performances (i.e. sterilizing activity) of the nozzles.

[0028]In addition, the flow system for bidets according to one exemplary embodiment of the present invention may be useful to prevent an unnecessary waste of hot water since room-temperature raw water is fed to the sterilizer.

[0029]Furthermore, the flow system for bidets according to one exemplary embodiment of the present invention may be useful to simplify a configuration of the flow paths and reduce the number of bidet components since a plurality of flow paths are coupled with one flow path change valve.

Problems solved by technology

Therefore, the hot water is used even when the water-jet nozzle and the bidet nozzle are cleaned, resulting in a waste of hot water.

As a result, energy used to heat raw water runs to waste since the hot water is used even when there is no need to supply the hot water, and an increase in storage capacity of the hot water tank 12 is unnecessarily required since the storage capacity of the hot water tank 12 has to be designed in consideration of the amount of hot water being unnecessarily wasted.

Also, the conventional flow system 10 for bidets has a problem in that, since the hot water is fed to the sterilizer 17, the electrolysis efficiency may be more degraded than when cold water is fed to the sterilizer 17, which leads to the loss of sterilizing efficiency of nozzle-cleaning water.

That is, the conventional flow system 10 for bidets has a problem in that, since hot water is used instead of room-temperature water (or cold water) as the raw water used to generate nozzle-cleaning water containing an antibacterial and disinfectant substance, nozzle-cleaning water having a more degraded sterilizing activity is generated, compared to when the room-temperature water is used to generate nozzle-cleaning water.

As a result, since a negative pressure is created in the hot water tank 12, it is necessary to reinforce the strength of the hot water tank 12 so that the hot water tank 12 can withstand the negative pressure, which leads to an increase in manufacturing costs.

Also, electric shock accidents may be caused due to the leakage of water caused by the negative pressure in the hot water tank 12.

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