Shower Head Nozzle Segmentation for Air Permeability
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional shower devices either fail to maintain a comfortable temperature, leading to chilliness in low atmospheric conditions or cause stuffiness due to hot air entrapment, making it difficult for users to shower for extended periods in a relaxed state.
Innovation Solution
A shower device with a ring-shaped shower head and nozzle units spaced to allow water to spread and fall while forming a water film, ensuring air permeability and moisture retention, preventing hot air from filling the space and providing uniform water coverage over a large area.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Quantity of substance
If the number of nozzle holes is significantly increased or film-like water is spouted over the entire periphery, then the body of the user is enveloped in hot water, but the periphery of the head of the user is enveloped by shower spouting water and hot air fills around the head, causing the user to feel hot and stuffy
Solution Approach 1:
The shower head divides the water spouting function into multiple separate nozzle units arranged at intervals around the periphery, rather than using a continuous film-like structure. This segmentation allows gaps between nozzle units to enable air circulation while still providing comprehensive water coverage on the user's body.
Solution Approach 2:
Different regions of the shower device provide different functions: nozzle units positioned to spray water downward onto the body, while upper regions maintain openings for air circulation to prevent hot air accumulation around the user's head.
2Device complexity
If nozzle holes are arranged on the circumference at equal intervals with linear spouting, then the structure is simple, but the area for spouting water landing on the user's body is small, making it impossible to sufficiently envelop the body in spouted hot water
Solution Approach 1:
The nozzle units are configured to spout water in a fan-like spreading pattern rather than linearly, creating dynamic water dispersion that covers a wider area. The water falls while spreading downward, increasing the coverage area on the user's body without increasing device complexity.
3Duration of action of moving object
If the user takes a shower for a long time in a relaxed state, then fatigue recovery and stress elimination effects are provided, but when atmospheric temperature is low, the user is affected by outside air temperature and feels chilly
Solution Approach 1:
The shower device maintains continuous hot water coverage on the user's body through multiple nozzle units operating simultaneously, ensuring sustained thermal protection against cold atmospheric conditions during extended shower periods.
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
Enables users to shower comfortably for longer periods without feeling chilly or stuffy, maintaining a relaxed state while efficiently using water resources.
Implementation Method 1
each of the nozzle units is configured so that the spouted water falls while spreading downward
Implementation Method 2
there are gaps in water spouted from the nozzle units in the vicinity of the shower head main body, which can prevent hot air from filling a space surrounded by the shower spouting water
Data Source
AI summary
There is provided a shower device that allows a user to continue to take a shower in a relaxed state for a long time. The present invention provides a shower device (1) fixed to enable a user to be showered from above with shower spouting water, the shower device comprising: a shower head main body (4), and a plurality of nozzle units (10) provided in the shower head main body at intervals so as to form the shower spouting water surrounding a head of the user standing below the shower head main body, in which each nozzle unit is configured so that the spouted hot water falls while spreading downward.