Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Jetted bathtub
- Patent Title (中): 按摩浴缸
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Application No.: US12077528Application Date: 2008-03-18
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Publication No.: US08171576B2Publication Date: 2012-05-08
- Inventor: Hidekazu Kitaura , Katsushi Uryu , Hirotomo Suyama , Hidetaka Miyahara , Makoto Hatakeyama
- Applicant: Hidekazu Kitaura , Katsushi Uryu , Hirotomo Suyama , Hidetaka Miyahara , Makoto Hatakeyama
- Applicant Address: JP Fukuoka
- Assignee: Toto Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Toto Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Fukuoka
- Agency: Carrier Blackman & Associates, P.C.
- Agent Joseph P. Carrier; William D. Blackman
- Priority: JP2007-073535 20070320
- Main IPC: A47K3/10
- IPC: A47K3/10 ; A61H33/00

Abstract:
A jetted bathtub includes: a bathtub; a suction port opening in a wall of the bathtub and allowing water stored in the bathtub to be sucked therein; a pressurizer configured to suck water from the suction port, and pressurize and discharge the water; and a jet nozzle having a single tube held on the wall below a rim of the bathtub, the jet nozzle being configured to eject water introduced into the tube so that the water is ejected into the bathtub with its ejection direction being varied. The tube includes: a running water introduction section configured to receive water supplied from the pressurizer; a channel cross-section shrinking section communicating with the running water introduction section on the downstream side of the running water introduction section, and having a reduced channel cross section relative to the running water introduction section; and a chamber communicating with the channel cross-section shrinking section on the downstream side of the channel cross-section shrinking section, and having at its upstream end a channel cross-section abrupt expansion section with a channel cross section abruptly expanded relative to the channel cross-section shrinking section and at its downstream end an ejection port facing the inside of the bathtub.
Public/Granted literature
- US20080235863A1 Jet bath apparatus Public/Granted day:2008-10-02
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