Flush valve apparatus
AssigneeAS America, Inc.
InventorsEric B. Soberano, Walter Pitsch
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Abstract
A flush valve assembly for sanitaryware, comprising a flush valve having a valve inlet configured to be fluidly coupled to a water source inlet pipe and a valve outlet configured to be fluidly coupled to a flush water outlet pipe; a solenoid valve; a presence sensor; a controller; and a flow sensor and/or a pressure sensor, wherein the controller is configured to open the solenoid valve to initiate a flush cycle, the flow sensor and/or pressure sensor is configured to detect a volume of flush water delivered and to communicate the delivered flush water volume to the controller, and the controller is configured to close the solenoid valve when a pre-set delivered flush water volume has been reached.
Claims14
A flush valve assembly, comprising
- a flush valve having a valve inlet configured to be fluidly coupled to a pressurized water source and a valve outlet configured to be fluidly coupled to a toilet or to a urinal;
- a solenoid valve;
- a presence sensor;
- a controller;
- and
- a flow sensor or a pressure sensor,
- wherein
- the solenoid valve, the presence sensor, the controller, and the sensor or pressure sensor are in electrical communication,
- the flush valve comprises a piston,
- the flush valve is configured to deliver a first pre-set volume of flush water to the toilet and a second pre-set volume of flush water to the urinal during a flush cycle,
- the controller is configured to open the solenoid valve to initiate the flush cycle, causing the piston to lift off a valve seat to open the flush valve to allow the pressurized water to pass through the valve outlet to the toilet or the urinal,
- the controller is programmed with the first pre-set volume of flush water or the second pre-set volume of flush water to be delivered to the toilet or to the urinal during the flush cycle, respectively,
- the flow sensor or pressure sensor is configured to detect a volume of flush water entering the flush valve inlet and/or exiting the flush valve outlet and to communicate the flush water volume to the controller, and
- the controller is configured to close the solenoid valve when the first pre-set flush water volume or the second pre-set flush water volume has been reached.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.