SANITARY WASHING DEVICE

• Main Authors: NISHIMURA MAKOTO, KUNIMOTO KEIJIRO
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 25.08.2011
• Subjects: FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS; FLUSHING VALVES THEREFOR; SEWERAGE; WATER SUPPLY; WATER-CLOSETS OR URINALS WITH FLUSHING DEVICES

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a sanitary washing device that substantially reduces uncomfortable feeling of a user and reliably removes waterdrops when drying a wet surface-to-be-dried. SOLUTION: The sanitary washing device includes: a nozzle having a washing water spouting vent and an air jetting vent; a washing water supplying part and a pressurized air supplying part that are connected to the nozzle; a support for supporting the nozzle so as to make the nozzle advance and retreat in the shaft direction, while supporting an end of the nozzle so as to make the end swingable within a plane substantially parallel to a seating surface in the lateral direction intersecting with the shaft direction; an advancing and retreating drive device for driving the nozzle to advance and retreat; a swinging drive device for driving the nozzle to swing; and a control part for controlling a drying processing step wherein waterdrops on the surface-to-be-dried are removed by pressurized air. In the step, a location of the air jetting vent is moved to the location configured to apply the pressurized air to the center part of the surface-to-be-dried including private parts of a human body and the pressurized air is spouted (step 2), and the location of the air jetting vent is moved to the location configured to apply the pressurized air to the outer edge of the surface-to-be-dried and the pressurized air is spouted (step 4). Velocity of flow of the pressurized air in the step 4 is lower than that of the step 2. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT