IP Library Granted Patent US 8,991,432
Granted Patent B2
US 8,991,432 · App. 13/823,660 · Granted Mar 31, 2015

Touch switch shower

Inventors: Huasong Zhou (Xiamen, CN); Guoqiang Lu (Xiamen, CN); Xiaozhao Sun (Fujian, CN); Xianguo Zou (Xiamen, CN)
Assignees: Xiamen Solex High-Tech Industries Co., Ltd.; Huasong Zhou
F16K31/0675B05B1/18B05B12/002B05B12/004B05B1/1627B05B1/1636
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Patent No.
US 8,991,432
App. No.
13/823,660
Granted
Mar 31, 2015
Kind
B2
Abstract

A touch switch shower includes a shower body and a switch control device. The shower body is disposed with a root waterway, several diversion waterways and an outlet cover unit, each diversion waterway is disposed with an electromagnetic valve to control the on-off thereof. The front side of the outlet cover unit is divided into several touch areas with the same number of electromagnetic valves. The switch control device is disposed at least a processing unit, several touch modules with same number with the electromagnetic valves and a power device connected to the processing unit, the touch layer of the touch module is separately disposed in the corresponding touch area of the outlet cover unit, the processing unit is connected to the touch module in signal way, the processing unit is connected to the electromagnetic valve in signal way. The touch layer is separately disposed in the touch area.

Claims (19)

1. A touch switch shower, which is provided with a shower body and a switch control device;

the shower body is provided with a root waterway, a number of diversion waterways and an outlet cover unit, and each diversion waterway is provided with an electromagnetic valve to control on-off operation thereof; wherein:

a front side of the outlet cover unit is divided into a number of touch areas equal to a number of the electromagnetic valves;

the switch control device is provided with at least a processing unit, a number of touch modules equal to the number of the electromagnetic valves and a power device connected to the processing unit, touch layers of the touch modules are separately disposed in the corresponding touch areas of the outlet cover unit, the processing unit is connected to the touch modules, and the processing unit is connected to the electromagnetic valves.

2. A touch switch shower according to claim 1 , wherein the outlet cover unit includes a number of outlet covers equal to the number of the diversion waterways and corresponding to the diversion waterways one by one, the front sides of the outlet covers form the touch areas, and the outlet covers form distinct outlet areas.

3. A touch switch shower according to claim 2 , wherein a back side of each outlet cover is convex and provided with a connection cylinder, and the connection cylinder is coated with a signal connection layer;

the touch module further provided with a touch processing circuit, the signal connection layer connected to the touch layer and the touch processing circuit.

4. A touch switch shower according to claim 3 , wherein the outlet cover unit includes three outlet covers concentrically arranged, an edge of the back side of each outlet cover is provided with a limited cylinder of which a central axis is parallel to a central axis of the concentric circle, the limited cylinder fixed to a valve seat and passes through the valve seat.

5. A touch switch shower according to claim 1 , wherein the power device includes a power generating module.

6. A touch switch shower according to claim 1 , wherein the power device includes a power generating module and a battery module electrically connected to the power generating module, the battery module electrically connected to the processing unit.

7. A touch switch shower according to claim 6 , wherein the power module includes an impeller rotatably disposed inside the root waterway and a generator fixed to the shower body, the impeller rotating relative to the generator under the force of the flow inside the root waterway.

8. A touch switch shower according to claim 7 , wherein a rectifier and filter circuit and a voltage reduction and stabilizing circuit are electrically connected between the output of the generator and the battery module.

9. A touch switch shower according to claim 1 , wherein the power device is provided with a lead electrically connected to the processing unit and a plug connected to the lead, the plug being configured to connect to an outside power resource.

10. A touch switch shower according to claim 9 , wherein the generator is provided with a detecting module to detect a state of the root waterway, the detecting module connected to the processing unit.

11. A touch switch shower, which includes a shower body and a switch control device;

the shower body is provided with a root waterway, a number of diversion waterways and an outlet cover unit;

a rotation water diversion body is rotatably disposed inside the shower body, the rotation water diversion body provided with a through hole, one end of the through hole connected to the root waterway, the other end of the through hole is corresponding to one of the diversion waterways; wherein:

a front end of the outlet cover unit is divided into a number of touch areas equal to a number of the diversion waterways;

the switch control device is provided with at least a processing unit, a number of touch modules equal to a number of the diversion waterways, a power device connected to the processing unit and a motor, touch layers of the touch modules are separately disposed in corresponding touch areas of the outlet cover unit, the processing unit is connected to the touch modules, the processing unit is connected to the motor, and the motor is connected to the water diversion body.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Nov 21, 2017
From: XIAMEN SOLEX HIGH-TECH INDUSTRIES CO., LTD.; ZHOU, HUASONG
To: XIAMEN SOLEX HIGH-TECH INDUSTRIES CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 044599/0786 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 14, 2013
From: ZHOU, HUASONG; LU, GUOQIANG; SUN, XIAOZHAO; ZOU, XIANGUO
To: XIAMEN SOLEX HIGH-TECH INDUSTRIES CO., LTD.; ZHOU, HUASONG
Reel/Frame 030004/0912 →
Priority Claims (1)
CN 2010 2 0533165 U · Sep 16, 2010 · national
Continuity (1)
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