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US 2017/0247866 A1Published application
Automatic water faucet
AssigneeLIXIL Corporation
InventorsSachiko KESSOKU, Nobuaki ITAZU, Yuki SHIRAI, Yuichiro KOMATSU, Azumi KAMATA
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Abstract
An automatic water faucet includes a spout pipe; a spout port member having a spout port, the spout port member being housed at a leading end of the spout pipe such that the spout port member can be freely pulled out; and a sensor provided in the vicinity of the spout port for causing water to start being discharged upon detecting an object underneath the spout port. The spout port member is configured to be pulled out from a side behind the sensor in an axial direction of the spout pipe.
Claims24
An automatic water faucet, comprising:
- a spout portion;
- a spout port member having a spout port, the spout port member being housed at a leading end of the spout portion such that the spout port member can be freely pulled out;
- and
- a sensor provided in the vicinity of the spout port for detecting an object below the spout port to cause water discharge to start;
- wherein
- the spout port member is configured to be pulled out from an end of the spout portion that is axially depthward of the sensor.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.