Shower Device Edge Nozzle Segmentation for Pattern Flexibility
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing shower devices lack flexibility in creating water jet patterns and lighting effects, resulting in a limited and ordinary shower experience.
Innovation Solution
The shower device features a structural assembly with a large exit opening and an outer edge region that accommodates a nozzle assembly and lighting assembly, allowing for partial occupation by water and light, enabling diverse water jet patterns and lighting effects by varying the nozzle distribution and valve actuation, and incorporating a reflector for optical depth effects.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If the exit opening is fully occupied by water (as in conventional nozzles), then the water flow is maximized, but the flexibility in creating water jet patterns is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The nozzle assembly is divided into multiple individual nozzles distributed along the edge region of the exit opening, allowing selective activation and varied water jet patterns while maintaining partial occupation of the exit opening
Solution Approach 2:
Different regions of the exit opening can be selectively occupied by water jets depending on which nozzles are activated, allowing local variation in water flow patterns and creating diverse shower experiences
2Adaptability or versatility
If light sources are arranged in the visible surface (as in conventional lighting assemblies), then the lighting structure is simple, but the lighting effects are limited and ordinary
Solution Approach 1:
The lighting assembly is merged with the nozzle assembly and positioned in the edge region, allowing coordinated water and light effects while using the same structural space, thus enhancing lighting effects without proportionally increasing overall device complexity
Solution Approach 2:
Light is directed to emerge through the exit opening along with water, adding a new dimension to the shower experience by combining visual and tactile elements in the same spatial plane
3Productivity
If the nozzle assembly is positioned to maximize water flow directly through the exit opening, then the water delivery is efficient, but the ability to create diverse water jet patterns is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The valve assembly enables dynamic control of individual nozzles, allowing the water jet pattern to be changed on demand while maintaining efficient water delivery through the same exit opening structure
Solution Approach 2:
The same exit opening structure serves multiple functions: it allows efficient water delivery when all nozzles are active, and creates various patterns when selective nozzles are activated, making the system multi-functional
Data Source
AI summary
The disclosure concerns a shower device for creating at least one water jet pattern with a structural assembly, with a nozzle assembly and with a lighting assembly. It is proposed that the structural assembly provides an exit opening for the emergence of the water discharged by the nozzle assembly and has an outer edge region running about the edge of the exit opening, that the exit opening during the shower operation is only partly occupied with emerging water at any given time, that the nozzle assembly is arranged distributed along at least a portion of the edge of the exit opening at the edge region and that the path of the water discharged by the nozzle assembly during the shower operation runs each time from the edge region in the direction of the exit opening and then through the exit opening.