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| 3L024 | Control for baths | |
| F24H15/196 -15/196,303@Z | ||
| F24H15/196-15/196,303@Z | CC | CC00 PURPOSE |
CC01 | CC02 | CC03 | CC04 | CC05 | CC06 | CC07 | CC08 | CC09 | CC10 |
| . Speeding up | . Purification and sterilization of bath water (including cleaning by filter) | . Cleaning of bathtubs and pipes (excluding cleaning by filter) | . Cooling of apparatus and control parts | . Energy saving and utilization of bath water | . Operability and ease of identification (ease of use and seeing) | . Noise prevention | . Improvement of detection accuracy | . Prevention of detection error | . Special functions | |||
| CC11 | CC12 | CC13 | CC14 | CC15 | CC16 | CC17 | CC18 | CC19 | CC20 | |||
| . Pleasant bathing | . . Abundance | . . Jet (jet stream), bubble bath | . . Fluctuations | . . Carbonic baths (Contact with combustion gas, injection of bath agents) | . Substitute functions, downsizing, space-saving | . Safety | . . Prevention of overheating (Hot water supply, hot water in bathtub) | . . Prevention of high temperature water ejection | . . Prevention of gas leakage | |||
| CC21 | CC22 | CC23 | CC24 | CC25 | CC26 | CC27 | CC28 | CC30 | ||||
| . Prevention of abnormality occurrence | . . Prevention of overflow | . . Prevention of air ingestion | . . Prevention of waste clogging | . . Prevention of condensation (Prevention of drain adhesion) | . . Prevention of freezing | . . Prevention of heating empty bathtubs | . . Prevention of water leakage (Prevention of unclosed drain plug) | . Others (FW) | ||||
| F24H1/196-15/196,303@Z | DD | DD00 APPARATUS COMPOSITION |
DD01 | DD02 | DD03 | DD04 | DD05 | DD06 | DD07 | |||
| . Bath apparatus (composition of boilers) | . . Single boiler, double channel | . . . Hot water storage tank type | . . . Shared heater for supplying and reheating hot water | . . . Branching to bathtub and hot water supply plug (DD03 is given to hot water storage types) | . . Double boiler, double channel | . . Simple thermal insulation, purifying units | ||||||
| DD11 | DD12 | DD13 | DD14 | DD15 | DD16 | DD17 | DD19 | |||||
| . Hot water supply circuits | . . Composition of hot water supply circuits | . . . Cold water bypass circuits | . . . Diverter valves for hot water supply path and circulation path | . . Position and structure of connecting part to bathtubs | . . . Direct connection to bathtubs | . . . Connection to circulation paths | . Drainage circuits | |||||
| DD21 | DD22 | DD23 | DD24 | DD26 | DD27 | DD28 | DD29 | |||||
| . Heating apparatus | . . Gas combustion apparatus | . . Electric heaters | . . Solar heating (Solar system) | . Bathtub circuits (Circulation circuits) | . . Circulation pumps | . . Bypass circuits for bathtub heat exchangers | . . Air injection circuits | |||||
| DD31 | DD32 | DD33 | DD34 | DD35 | DD36 | DD37 | DD38 | |||||
| . Accessory apparatus | . . Filtering apparatus | . . . Decomposition of organic matter | . . Sterilizing apparatus | . . Bathtub cleaning apparatus (including cleaning of heat exchangers and pipes) | . . Showers | . . Heating of bathroom | . . Bath water collection tanks | |||||
| DD41 | DD42 | DD43 | DD45 | DD46 | DD50 | |||||||
| . Associated apparatus | . . Illumination, ventilation, and drying apparatus | . . Telephone, televisions , radios or the like | . Component details (Structures, mounting) | . . Structure and mounting of detectors | . Others (FW) | |||||||
| EE | EE00 OPERATION CONTROL APPARATUS |
EE01 | EE02 | EE03 | EE04 | EE05 | EE07 | EE08 | EE09 | EE10 | ||
| . Operation units | . . Remote controllers | . . . Plural remote controllers | . . . . Priority (Operation, display) | . . . Special functions | . Signal processing, transmission | . . Digital transmission (A/D conversion) | . . Wireless | . . Telephone lines | ||||
| EE11 | EE12 | EE13 | EE14 | EE15 | EE16 | EE20 | ||||||
| . Storage apparatus (storage values) | . . Standard values, deviation, coefficients or the like (prescribed values) | . . Correlation values (Relationship between water volume and water level, and between temperature and pressure or the like) | . . Personal information | . . Preceding control variables (Initial control variables) | . . Learning functions | . Others (FW) | ||||||
| FF | FF00 DISPLAYS AND ALARMS |
FF01 | FF02 | FF03 | FF04 | FF05 | FF06 | FF07 | FF08 | FF09 | ||
| . Displaying (reporting) of states | . . Operating states (Start, stop, arrival to target value) | . . Priority selection, priority display | . . Abnormalities, cautions, life spans | . . Control information (Detected values, set values) | . . . Bathtub temperatures | . . . Hot water supply temperatures | . . . Bathtub water levels | . . . Time | ||||
| FF11 | FF12 | FF13 | FF14 | FF15 | FF16 | FF17 | FF18 | FF20 | ||||
| . Display means | . . Illumination means | . . . Illumination patterns | . . . Color changes | . . Characters, symbols, numerals | . Reporting means | . . Buzzers, bells | . . Voices, sounds | . Others (FW) | ||||
| GG | GG00 DETECTION |
GG01 | GG02 | GG03 | GG04 | GG05 | GG06 | GG07 | GG08 | |||
| . Temperature | . . External temperature (Temperature in bathroom) | . . Inlet temperature of hot water supply heat exchangers (Intake water temperature) | . . Outlet temperature of hot water supply heat exchangers | . . Hot water supply temperature | . . Bath water (hot water) temperature | . . Outlet temperature of bath heat exchangers | . . Intake (exhaust) temperature | |||||
| GG11 | GG12 | GG13 | GG14 | GG15 | GG17 | GG18 | ||||||
| . Water levels | . . Bathtub water levels | . . . Standard water levels | . . Hopper water levels | . . Water level of water heaters (Storage type water heaters) | . Water volume | . . Hot water volume supplied to bathtubs | ||||||
| GG21 | GG22 | GG23 | GG24 | GG25 | GG26 | GG27 | GG28 | GG29 | GG30 | |||
| . Flow rates | . . Hot water supply path for baths | . . Circulation paths for reheating | . . Intake water paths | . . Hot water supply paths in general (including showers) | . Water flow (Presence or absence of flow) | . . Hot water supply path for baths | . . Circulation paths for reheating | . . Intake water paths | . . Hot water supply paths in general (including showers) | |||
| GG31 | GG32 | GG33 | GG34 | GG36 | GG37 | GG38 | GG39 | |||||
| . Detection of operating states | . . Operation of hot water supply | . . Reheating operations | . . Pump operations | . Detecting operating states | . . Judgment of other taps (hot water supply in general, showers) | . . Switch operations | . . . Revision of set values | |||||
| GG41 | GG42 | GG43 | GG45 | GG46 | GG47 | GG48 | GG50 | |||||
| . Time (Consecutive time, hour, seasons, or the like) | . Bathing (Person) | . . Detection by change in water levels | . Detection of abnormality | . . Combustion apparatus | . . Abnormality in detectors | . Judgment of models and rating capabilities | . Others (FW) | |||||
| HH | HH00 CONTROL |
HH01 | HH02 | HH03 | HH04 | HH05 | HH06 | HH07 | HH08 | HH09 | ||
| . Calculation processes, techniques | . . Amount of change (Magnitude and speed of change) | . . Integrated amounts (including calculation of average values) | . . Residual water levels, residual water volume (Additional water volume) | . . Cross-sectional area of bathtubs | . . Calculation techniques | . . . Fuzzy | . . . Neural network (NN) | . . . Artificial intelligence (AI) | ||||
| HH11 | HH12 | HH13 | HH14 | HH15 | HH16 | HH17 | HH18 | HH19 | ||||
| . Hot water supply control (flow rate, flow path, temperature) | . . Flow rate (hot water supply volume), regulation, circuit switching | . . . Switching valves | . . . Flow rate adjustment valves | . . . Hot water supply, circulation switching | . . . High speed hot water supply | . . Temperature regulation | . . . Additional hot water, additional water | . . . Mixing valves for hot and cold water | ||||
| HH21 | HH22 | HH23 | HH24 | HH26 | HH27 | HH28 | HH30 | |||||
| . Bath water temperature control | . . Temperature increase control (Reheating) | . . Temperature decrease control (Making less hot) | . . Thermal insulation control (including rise and fall control) | . Control of thermal dose | . . Proportional control | . . Intermittent control (including fluctuation control) | . Ventilation fans (Intake and exhaust) | |||||
| HH31 | HH32 | HH33 | HH34 | HH35 | HH36 | HH38 | HH39 | HH40 | ||||
| . Circulation paths, circulation pumps | . . Air purge | . . Priming water | . . Intermittent operations (including fluctuation control) | . . Circulation flow rate (Rotation rate) | . . Switching of circulation path | . Bathtub cleaning (including cleaning of heat exchangers and pipes) | . Draining (Excluding draining of cleaning water) | . . Utilization of bath water (washing water, collection of waste heat or the like) | ||||
| HH41 | HH42 | HH43 | HH44 | HH45 | HH46 | HH47 | HH48 | HH49 | ||||
| . Purification of bath water | . . Filtering | . . . Decomposition of organic matter | . . Switching of flow paths (Switching of bath water purifying circuits in particular) | . . . Reverse washing (Filter washing) | . . Sterilization | . . . Heat treatment (temperature control) | . . . Irradiation of ultraviolet rays | . . . Injection of chemical agents (including chlorine, ozone or the like) | ||||
| HH51 | HH52 | HH54 | HH55 | HH56 | HH58 | HH60 | ||||||
| . Reservation time control | . . Operation start time, heating completion time | . Priority control | . . Priority to hot water supply destination (volume) | . . Priority to temperature | . Test operation, malfunction diagnosis | . Others (FW) |