JPS62275422A - Toilet apparatus - Google Patents

Abstract

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Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] 3. Detailed Description of the Invention [Technical Field] The present invention relates to a toilet device that can be easily used by people such as elderly people and people with physical disabilities.

[Background technology 1] Conventionally, the toilet seat was simply rotatably attached to the f& part of the toilet bowl, so the user could recline the toilet seat and sit on it to relieve himself (including urination in the case of women). ). However, since the toilet seat is located low, users have to sit on the toilet seat with their buttocks on the toilet seat, and in order to stand up from the toilet seat after using it, they have to lift their hips from the low seat. It is something that must be lifted up and then stood up. In this way, the motion of sitting on the toilet seat or rising from the toilet seat involves first entering a half-sitting position, then sitting down, or once entering a half-sitting posture, then rising from this half-sitting posture. However, sitting down after sitting down or standing up after sitting down is extremely painful for elderly people, people with physical disabilities, and other people with physical disabilities, and people who are unable to sit down while sitting down on the toilet seat may find it extremely painful. There was a problem with not being able to sit down or get up from the toilet seat.

[Objective of the Invention 1 The present invention was invented in view of the above-mentioned points, and its purpose is to enable even people with physical disabilities such as the elderly and those suffering from physical VQ to avoid having to sit in a half-hip posture. To provide a toilet device that allows one to sit on or stand up from a toilet seat.

[Disclosure of the Invention] The toilet device of the present invention is characterized in that a toilet seat 2 is provided in a toilet bowl 1 so as to be movable up and down. The purpose of the invention has been achieved. That is, in the present invention, the toilet seat 2 is provided so as to be movable up and down relative to the toilet bowl 1 as described above, so that the user can sit on the toilet seat 2 with the toilet seat 2 raised, and when using the toilet seat 2, the toilet seat 2 must be lowered. After using the toilet, etc., raise the toilet seat 2 and move your buttocks away from the toilet seat 2.
It is now possible to stand up from the ground.

The present invention will be described in detail below with reference to embodiments shown in the accompanying drawings. The toilet bowl 1 is a Western-style toilet bowl, and a toilet seat lifting device 3 is attached to the toilet bowl 1. The toilet seat lifting device 3 is composed of a base frame 4, a lifting means 5, an arm 6 and a toilet seat 2.

For mounting the toilet, a metal fitting 7 protrudes forward from the center of the base frame 4, and arm bodies 8 protrude forward from both sides of the metal fitting 7 for mounting the toilet. . To install the toilet bowl, the odor absorber 7 is placed on the rear upper surface of the toilet bowl 1, and the hole 9 provided at the rear of the toilet bowl 1 (i.e., a general toilet bowl 1) is installed.
In order to attach the bearing part to the toilet bowl 1, a bolt 10 is inserted into the hole 9 using a bearing for rotatably supporting the toilet seat. Insert and hinge the nut to remove the toilet bowl, attaching the metal fitting 7
is attached to the rear of toilet bowl 1. In addition, the arm body 8 has a contact piece 11 at the tip thereof that protrudes laterally, and the contact piece 11 is placed on the upper surface of the side of the toilet bowl 1.

The side body 1 protrudes upward from the center of the upper surface of the base frame 4.
2 is a protruding type. The toilet seat 2 includes a support 13 that can move up and down with respect to the toilet bowl 1 and a rotating toilet seat main body 1 that can be placed on the support 13.
It consists of 4. The support body 13 has a support frame 15 protruding forward from both sides of the rear body 31, and the rear body 14 of the rotating toilet seat body 14 is rotatably supported on the rear body 31. When the toilet seat body 14 is folded down to be horizontal, the rotating toilet seat main body 14 is placed and supported on the upper surface of the support frame 15 of the support body 13. *There is stool in the rear body 31! ! 40 is rotatably supported. The rear body 31 of the support body 13 is provided with an id 16 projecting from the rear body 31, which is open at the bottom toward the top. The id portion a 16 is fitted into a protruding guide body 12 that protrudes upward from the base frame 4 so as to be slidable in the vertical direction.

Buoy)' As shown in Figure tjIJ5, a roller support 17 is fixed to the cylindrical portion 16 with screws 18, and a roller 19 is rotatably attached to the roller support 17. 〃Rails 2 provided above and below the ID body 12
0, so that roller 19 is transferred. The protruding guide body 12 and the inner tube portion 16 are raised and lowered by a lifting means 5, and the raising and lowering means 5 is a lifting means using hydraulic pressure. That is, the protruding id body 12
A hydraulic cylinder 21 is disposed and fixed inside, and the rod 22 of the hydraulic cylinder 21 is inserted into the idle cylinder part 16, and the upper end of the loft 22 is fixed to the upper part of the inner cylinder part 16. It is. The operation of the hydraulic cylinder 21 causes the id cylinder portion 16 to move up and down with respect to the protruding id body 12, thereby causing the toilet seat 2 to move up and down with respect to the toilet bowl 1. Note that a hydraulic power source 23 is attached to the base frame 4. Supports 24 are provided on both sides of the base frame 4 to protrude upward, and arms 6 are attached to the supports 24 toward the front as armrests.

In the embodiment shown in the drawings, the armrest 7-mu 6 is provided with a fitting part 25 opening rearward and downward at the base, and this fitting part B: 625 is fitted into the upper Qu of the pillar 24,
The support column 24 and the fitted portion 25 are rotatably attached by a rotary wheel 26. Here, an adjustment screw 28 is screwed into the front part 27 of the fitting part 25, and by rotating the adjustment screw 28 with the tip of the adjustment screw 28 in contact with the front surface of the support 24, the adjustment screw 28 can be rotated. The armrest is adapted to adjust the angle formed by the arm 6. When the armrest is raised, the upper surface of the fitted part 25 is on the support 24.
The arm 6 of the arm rest hits the upper part of the rear surface and prevents the arm 6 from rotating any further. Therefore, the armrest is arm 6
is adapted to rise and fall from a substantially horizontal state to a substantially vertical state. An operation switch 33 for controlling the lifting means 5 is provided at the tip of the arm 6 of the armrest. Further, the arm rest 6 is provided with a nurse fool switch 34. In the embodiment shown in the drawings, one armrest is provided with an operation switch 33 at the tip of the arm 6, and the other armrest is provided with a nurse call switch 34 at the tip of the arm 6. The tip of the armrest 7-m 6 on which the operation switch 33 and the nurse call switch 34 are provided is slightly bent inward.

Therefore, the use of the toilet device having the above-mentioned configuration is carried out as follows. That is, with the toilet seat 2 raised as shown in FIG.
(At this time, the toilet seat 40 is rotated and raised up.) The user sits directly on the toilet seat 2 from a standing position without going through a half-sitting position, then hangs his elbow on the arm 6 and operates the operation switch 33. Then lower the toilet seat 2 and position it at the level of the normal toilet seat 2. In this state, the user takes a toilet, and when the toilet is finished, the user shakes the operating switch 33 to raise the toilet seat 2 and return to the state shown in FIG. 11. If you move your hips away from the toilet seat 2 in this state, you can move to the main posture without going through the half-hip posture.

When a user sits on the rotating toilet seat body 14, the load is applied to the rear upper surface of the toilet bowl 1 via the toilet fitting 7; 11 hits the upper surface of the approximately central portion of the toilet bowl 1 in the front-rear direction to prevent the toilet seat lifting device 3 from rotating forward and falling over.

In addition, when the toilet seat 2 is lowered, the support frame 15 is pressed against the contact piece 11.
This prevents the 1*X* support frame 15 from colliding with the top surface of the ceramic toilet bowl 1 and damaging the toilet bowl 1 when the support frame 15 is lowered.

When sitting on the toilet seat 2 or standing up from the toilet seat 2, by raising the arm 6 of the armrest, the user can sit on the toilet seat 2 or stand up from the toilet seat 2 from the side of the toilet bowl 1.

If it is possible to sit on the toilet seat 2 or stand up from the toilet seat 2 from the side in this way, a user in a wheelchair can easily transition from the chair to the toilet seat 2 and from the toilet seat 2 to the wheelchair. It is something.

By the way, when a boy does errands, the rotating toilet seat body 14
This is done with the body rotated and raised.

In addition, when raising and lowering the toilet seat 2 by the lifting means 5, if an upper limit switch 29 and a lower limit switch 30 are provided as shown in FIGS. 1 to 4, the maximum raised position and maximum lowered position of the toilet seat 2 The position can be set accurately. And the above upper limit switch 2
By selecting the position 9, the maximum raised position of the toilet seat 2 can be freely selected according to the user. Of course, the toilet seat 2 may be able to freely stop rising and falling between the maximum raised position and the maximum lowered position, and in this way, the toilet seat 2 can be raised and lowered at any level depending on the height of the user. 2
This is because it can be stopped.

In the embodiments shown in FIGS. 3 and 4, a hot water washing device 32 is attached to the rear body 31 of the support 13. This warm water washing station 32 is a washing nozzle (not shown).
After using the toilet, hot water is discharged from the cleaning nozzle to clean the anus. This hot water cleaning Vcra 32 may further include a hot air blowing device, and may blow out warm air to dry the anal area after cleaning.

In FIGS. 7 to 9, the legs 35 are installed vertically from the base 4, and the lower part of the legs 35 is attached by stacking the piece 36 on the floor fixing part 37 of the toilet bowl 1, and fixing the floor fixing part 37. The mounting is done by fixing the piece 36 to the floor 38 together with the floor fixing part 37 using bolts 39 fixed to the floor 38. In this way, the toilet seat lifting/lowering Vc station 3 can be installed more stably.

[Effects of the Invention] As described above, in the present invention, since the toilet seat is provided so as to be movable upwards relative to the toilet bowl, the toilet seat can be moved directly from a standing position without going through a half-slumped posture with the toilet seat raised. When using the toilet, lower the toilet seat to relieve yourself, etc., and after use, raise the toilet seat and move your buttocks away from the seat to return to a standing position without having to take a half-slumped posture. As described above, the present invention allows the user to sit on or stand up from the toilet seat without having to go through a half-slumped posture as in the past, and is particularly useful for elderly people and people with physical disabilities. Ideal for people with physical disabilities.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the toilet seat of the present invention in a raised state;
The figure is a perspective view of the same armrest with the arm and rotating toilet seat body removed, Figure 3 is a perspective view of another embodiment of the present invention, and Figure 4 is a perspective view of the same armrest with the arm and rotating toilet seat body FIG. 5 is a perspective view with the toilet seat main body removed; FIG.
7 is a front view of still another embodiment of the present invention, and FIG.
The figure is a partially omitted plan view of the same as above, and FIG. 9 is a side view of the same as above, where 1 is a toilet bowl and 2 is a toilet seat. Agent Patent Attorney Ishi 1) Ai 7Figure 2Figure 3Figure 4Figure 5Figure 6Figure 7Figure 8Figure 9

Claims (3)

[Claims] (1) A toilet device characterized in that a toilet seat is provided so as to be movable up and down relative to the toilet bowl. (2) The toilet device according to claim 1, wherein the toilet seat is comprised of a support body that can move up and down relative to the toilet bowl, and a rotating toilet seat body that can be placed on the support body. (3) The toilet device according to claim 1, wherein the means for moving the toilet seat up and down is a hydraulic cylinder.