Shower bath apparatus and spray nozzle
AssigneeMatsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
InventorsHiroaki Yoshida, Shigeru Shirai, Masaaki Kawaguri, Kazushige Kawahara, Masaaki Inagi, Masaki Yamamoto, Hirofumi Gyokusen
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Abstract
A shower bath apparatus which enables hot water bathing in a relaxed condition and provides a warm feeling over the whole body, equivalent to bathing in a bath tub. The shower bath apparatus comprises a shower bath apparatus body, a seat, on which a bathing person is seated, a spray nozzle for jetting hot water to the bathing person, and an arm provided with at least one spray nozzle. Sprayed hot water envelops the whole body of a user in a seated position to give the user a warm feeling.
Claims46
A shower bath apparatus comprising,
- a shower bath apparatus main body,
- a nozzle support means movably mounted on the shower bath apparatus main body,
- a first nozzle installed on the shower bath apparatus main body, and
- a second nozzle installed on the nozzle support means,
- wherein both of the first nozzle and the second nozzle are able to simultaneously out-flow a fluid.
A shower bath apparatus comprising:
- a shower bath apparatus main body,
- a nozzle support means movably mounted on the shower bath apparatus main body,
- a first nozzle installed on the shower bath apparatus main body, and
- a second nozzle installed on the nozzle support means,
- wherein the nozzle support means has an arm,
- the arm has the second nozzle, and
- the arm may be stowed away into the shower bath apparatus main body placed in a storage position when not in use.
A shower bath apparatus comprising:
- a shower bath apparatus main body,
- a seat means on which a user is seated, and which includes a support unit which has a support plate, wherein when the seat means is stowed away, the support plate is interlocked with the seat means and is placed in a storage position when not in use,
- a nozzle support means movably mounted on the shower bath apparatus main body,
- a first nozzle installed on the shower bath apparatus main body, and
- a second nozzle installed on the nozzle support means,
- wherein both of the first nozzle and the second nozzle are able to simultaneously out-flow a fluid.
A shower bath apparatus comprising:
- a shower bath apparatus main body;
- a foldable seat means;
- a nozzle for injecting fluid to a user;
- and
- a high cut valve for preventing injection of fluid
- wherein the high cut valve includes a flow inlet through which the fluid flows in, a flow outlet through which the fluid flows out, a high temperature discharge port for discharging the fluid, a valve body for changing over the flow outlet and high temperature discharge port, a temperature sensing element for thrusting the valve body in a direction of closing the flow outlet when fluid above a temperature is supplied, and a bias spring for thrusting the valve body in an opposite direction of the thrusting direction of the temperature sensing element.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.