Toilet bidet device and toilet
AssigneeShanghai Kohler Electronics, Ltd.
InventorYiguo Fang
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Abstract
A bidet device includes a bidet includes an opening formed at a front end of the bidet and includes a spray pipe including a nozzle. The bidet device also includes a blocking door pivotally disposed in the bidet through a pivot shaft and configured to rotate around the pivot shaft and block the opening. The nozzle is configured to be in a storage state in which the nozzle is retracted into a pipe body of the spray pipe and configured to be in an extension state in which the nozzle extends from the pipe body of the spray pipe. When the nozzle is in the storage state, the blocking door at least partially blocks the opening. When the nozzle is in the extension state, the nozzle allows the blocking door to rotate so as to open the opening and the nozzle extends from the opening.
Claims21
(canceled)
An apparatus comprising:
- a seat having an opening;
- a spray pipe mounted in a cavity at a front end of the seat, wherein the opening is formed in an inner side wall at the front end of the seat;
- a blocking door pivotally mounted in the seat and used for blocking the opening, wherein the blocking door is mounted in the seat through a pivot shaft, and the blocking door is capable of rotating around the pivot shaft;
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- a nozzle including a storage state in which the nozzle is stored in a pipe body and an extension state in which the nozzle extends out of the pipe body, wherein when the nozzle is in the extension state, the blocking door rotates around the pivot shaft into the cavity and a main part of the blocking door is located in the cavity.
A method for operating a blocking door, the method comprising:
- blocking an opening of a bidet device in a partially blocked state of a storage state of a nozzle, wherein in the storage state, the nozzle is retracted into a pipe body of the bidet device;
- maintaining the opening of the bidet device in the partially blocked state of the storage state of the nozzle and in a turning state of the bidet device;
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- unblocking the opening in an extension state of the nozzle wherein the nozzle extends from the pipe body through the opening and pushes the blocking door to rotate around a pivot shaft into a cavity wherein a main part of the blocking door is located in the cavity.
A toilet comprising:
- a bowl;
- a seat having an opening comprising a spray pipe mounted in a cavity at a front end of the seat, wherein the opening is formed in an inner side wall at the front end of the seat;
- a blocking door pivotally mounted in the seat and used for blocking the opening, wherein the blocking door is mounted in the seat through a pivot shaft, and the blocking door is capable of rotating around the pivot shaft;
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- a nozzle including a storage state in which the nozzle is stored in a pipe body and an extension state in which the nozzle extends out of the pipe body, wherein when the nozzle is in the extension state, the blocking door rotates around the pivot shaft into the cavity and a main part of the blocking door is located in the cavity.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.