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Title:
TOILET SEAT DEVICE
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP2013185387
Kind Code:
A
Abstract:

To widen the use environment in a non-contact operation of a remote controller.

A toilet seat device includes a body 200 which is arranged on a toilet bowl 110 and incorporates a plurality of electric functions, and a remote controller 400. The remote controller 400 is provided with an illuminance sensor 440, a control part 500 which detects a change in detection voltage of the illuminance sensor 440 caused by approaching of a user's body part and detects non-contact operation movement of the electric functions, and a transmitting part 436 which transmits a control signal of the control part 500 to the body 200. At least a part of a light path 404, which introducing light from the front surface of the remote controller 400 to the illuminance sensor 440, is formed with a path directed upward toward the outside, whereby high illuminance light from above can be easily received by the illuminance sensor 440 and a change in illuminance can be easily detected even in the dark at nighttime or the like, which widens the use environment of non-contact operation of the remote controller 400.


Inventors:
MATSUI KENJI
IWANAGA MASAZUMI
ONISHI HIRONAO
Application Number:
JP2012052667A
Publication Date:
September 19, 2013
Filing Date:
March 09, 2012
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Assignee:
PANASONIC CORP
International Classes:
E03D9/08; A47K13/10; A47K13/24; H04Q9/00
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Hiroki Naito
Daisuke Nagano
Kentaro Fujii



 
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