Lighting shower

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11543117-B2
Application number	US-202017126602-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 18, 2020
Priority date	Oct 13, 2020
Publication date	Jan 3, 2023
Grant date	Jan 3, 2023

Abstract

A lighting shower includes a body, a lighting device, a control module, and a hydraulic power generating device. The body has a first portion and a second portion facing opposite directions and includes an inlet tube and an outlet cover plate disposed on the second portion. The lighting device includes a transparent cover disposed on the first portion and a light-emitting element disposed in the transparent cover. The control module includes a storage battery and a controller electrically connected to the light-emitting element and adapted to control the light-emitting element to turn on or turn off. The water flows into a first chamber of the body from the inlet tube and through the hydraulic power generating device out from the outlet cover plate. The hydraulic power generating device is electrically connected to the control module to output an electrical energy to the storage battery for storage for providing an electricity required by the lighting device.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A lighting shower, comprising:
a body having a first portion and a second portion which face opposite directions and comprising an inlet tube and an outlet cover plate, wherein the inlet tube is disposed on the first portion of the body and is adapted to be connected to an external water source; the outlet cover plate is disposed on the second portion of the body;
a lighting device comprising a light-emitting element and a transparent cover, wherein the transparent cover is disposed on the first portion of the body; the light-emitting element is disposed in the transparent cover;
a control module comprising a controller and a storage battery, wherein the controller is electrically connected to the light-emitting element and is adapted to control the light-emitting element to turn on or turn off; the storage battery is adapted to provide an electricity required by the lighting device; and
a hydraulic power generating device disposed in the body, wherein a water flowing through the hydraulic power generating device from the inlet tube, and then flows out through the outlet cover plate; the hydraulic power generating device is electrically connected to the control module to output an electrical energy to the storage battery for storage;
wherein the light-emitting element and the transparent cover are located out of the body of the lighting shower to allow the lighting device to protrude from an outer surface of the first portion of the body.

2. The lighting shower as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the lighting device comprises a photosensitive element; the controller is electrically connected to the photosensitive element and controls the light-emitting element to emit light when a brightness detected by the photosensitive element is lower than a predetermined brightness.

3. The lighting shower as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the lighting device comprises a fixing member; the transparent cover has a perforation; the transparent cover fits around the inlet tube by the perforation; an end of the inlet tube is connected to the first portion of the body, and another end of the inlet tube is engaged with the fixing member, thereby to locate the transparent cover between the fixing member and the body.

4. The lighting shower as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the hydraulic power generating device comprises a cover cap, a magnet, an impeller, and a coil; a side wall of the cover cap has an oblique inlet; the impeller is rotatably disposed in the cover cap; the coil is fixed in the cover cap; the impeller is linked with the magnet.

5. The lighting shower as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the body has a first chamber and a second chamber therein; the first chamber and the second chamber are separated; the first chamber communicates with the inlet tube; the hydraulic power generating device is disposed in the first chamber; the controller is disposed in at least one of the first chamber and the second chamber; the storage battery is disposed in at least one of the first chamber and the second chamber; the body comprises a blocking plate disposed in the body; the blocking plate has a drain hole; the first chamber and the second chamber are located on a same side of the blocking plate; the water flows into the first chamber from the inlet tube, and then flows through the drain hole of the blocking plate, and flows out through the outlet cover plate.

6. The lighting shower as claimed in claim 5 , wherein the body has a third chamber therein; the third chamber is located between the blocking plate and the outlet cover plate; the water flows into the first chamber from the inlet tube, and then flows through the drain hole of the blocking plate and the third chamber out through the outlet cover plate; the blocking plate has two wire holes, one of the wire holes communicates with the first chamber and the third chamber, and the other wire hole communicates with the second chamber and the third chamber.

7. The lighting shower as claimed in claim 2 , wherein the photosensitive element comprises one of an infrared sensor, an ultraviolet sensor, a phototube, a phototransistor, or a photoresistor.

Assignees

• Purity Xiamen Sanitary Ware Co Ltd

Inventors

• Wu James
• Wu Alex
• Yang Ce-Wen
• Wu Ching-Yin

Classifications

• Y02E10/30

  Energy from the sea, e.g. using wave energy or salinity gradient · CPC title

• F21V33/004 Primary

  Sanitary equipment, e.g. mirrors, showers, toilet seats or paper dispensers · CPC title

• F03B13/00

  Adaptations of machines or engines for special use; Combinations of machines or engines with driving or driven apparatus (if the apparatus aspects are predominant, see the relevant subclasses for such apparatus, e.g. H02K7/18); Power stations or aggregates (incorporating only machines or engines of positive-displacement type F03C; hydraulic engineering aspects E02B; {combinations with wind energy converters F03D9/008}) · CPC title

• F21V23/0464

  the sensor sensing the level of ambient illumination, e.g. dawn or dusk sensors · CPC title

• Y02B10/50

  Hydropower in dwellings · CPC title