Automatic faucet and water discharging device

An automatic faucet, which is provided with a light emitting section and a light receiving section of an optical sensor, and a water spout member in a front end section that is a tip section of a water spout pipe, and which automatically discharges water from a water spout due to a detection of a detection target using an optical sensor,

• wherein the water spout pipe has a shape, in which a portion of the front end side is directed forward and obliquely downward with respect to a user and an opening, which has an opening face intersecting with a pipe axis and forms a face facing obliquely downward, is formed on the front end face of the water spout pipe, and
• wherein the light emitting section, the light receiving section and the water spout member are inserted from the opening into the inner section of the front end section of the water spout pipe in a pipe axial direction in a state of being held by the holding member, each of the light emitting section, the light receiving section and the water spout member is extended to forward and obliquely downward, the light emitting section and the light receiving section are positioned above the water spout member, and the water spout of the front end of the water spout member is mounted in a state of being positioned in back-side of the water spout pipe than the light emitting window of the light emitting section side and the light receiving window of the light receiving section side, and
• wherein a lower section leading to the light emitting window of the front face of the holding member is a face having a shape, which shifts to the back-side of the water spout pipe, as separating from the light emitting window toward the water spout side.