Hybrid fitting with water jet detection
AssigneeGrohe AG
InventorsHeiko Schoenbeck, Andreas Jung, Stefan Steinhoff
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Abstract
A method for operating a sanitary fitting, and to a sanitary fitting. The sanitary fitting is equipped to deliver a water jet and has at least one manual actuator for manual regulation of at least one water jet flow rate or a water jet temperature, and a sensor arrangement that is equipped for sensor-controlled regulation of a predefined water jet flow rate and a predefined water jet temperature. The sensor arrangement is equipped to detect the presence of an object in an external detection area and a control unit is provided to distinguish whether the object detected first is a water jet or a different object.
Claims9
A method for operating a sanitary fitting that is adapted to deliver a water jet, having at least one manual actuator for a manual regulation of at least one of water jet flow rate or a water jet temperature, and a sensor arrangement that is equipped for sensor-controlled regulation of a predefined water jet flow rate and a predefined water jet temperature, the method comprising:
- monitoring an external detection area by the sensor arrangement;
- detecting a presence of an object in the detection area by the sensor arrangement, the object being a first detected object;
- evaluating the first detected object and distinguishing whether the first detected object is a water jet or a different object;
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- sensor-controlled regulating of the predefined water jet flow rate and the predefined water jet temperature if the first detected object is the different object, the sensor-controlled regulating being inhibited if the first detected object is the water jet.
A sanitary fitting adapted to deliver a water jet, the sanitary fitting comprising:
- at least one manual actuator for a manual regulation of at least one of a water jet flow rate or a water jet temperature;
- a sensor arrangement for sensor-controlled regulation of a predefined water jet flow rate and a predefined water jet temperature, the sensor arrangement being adapted to detect a presence of an object in an external detection area, the object being a first detected object;
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- a control unit adapted to evaluate the first detected object and to distinguish whether the first detected object is a water jet or a different object,
- wherein the control unit is configured to:
- evaluate the first detected object and distinguish whether the first detected object is the water jet or the different object;
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- perform sensor-controlled regulation of the predefined water jet flow rate and the predefined water jet temperature if the first detected object is the different object, the sensor-controlled regulating being inhibited if the first detected object is the water jet.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.