Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Faucet generator
- Patent Title (中): 水龙头发电机
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Application No.: US12263460Application Date: 2008-11-01
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Publication No.: US07956480B2Publication Date: 2011-06-07
- Inventor: Naoyuki Onodera , Tomoko Sato , Masahiro Kuroishi , Takeshi Shimizu
- Applicant: Naoyuki Onodera , Tomoko Sato , Masahiro Kuroishi , Takeshi Shimizu
- Applicant Address: JP
- Assignee: Toto Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Toto Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: JP
- Agency: Kimble Intellectual Property Law, PLLC
- Priority: JPP.2008-137713 20080527; JPP.2008-153576 20080611
- Main IPC: F03B13/00
- IPC: F03B13/00 ; H02P9/04

Abstract:
A faucet generator includes a case having water inflow and outflow ports and in which a water supply channel is formed, a rotor vane disposed inside the water supply channel, a magnet which is rotatable integrally with the rotor vane, a bearing which supports a force that the rotor vane receives from a water flow, a coil which produces an electromotive force by a rotation of the magnet, and a yoke having a base part surrounding the coil and a plurality of inductors spaced apart from each other and extending from the base part. The coil is spaced apart from the magnet in an axial direction of a rotation center axis of the magnet and is disposed to face the magnet, the magnet is magnetized on an outer circumferential face which intersects with a plane perpendicular to the rotation center axis, and the inductors are disposed outside the case to face the outer circumferential face of the magnet.
Public/Granted literature
- US20090146431A1 FAUCET GENERATOR Public/Granted day:2009-06-11
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