Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Automatic water faucet
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Application No.: US15080204Application Date: 2016-03-24
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Publication No.: US09598846B2Publication Date: 2017-03-21
- Inventor: Yuki Shirai , Azumi Kamata
- Applicant: LIXIL Corporation
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: LIXIL CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: LIXIL CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agent Claire Zopf
- Priority: JP2013-205103 20130930
- Main IPC: E03C1/00
- IPC: E03C1/00 ; E03C1/05 ; G01S17/88 ; G01S17/02 ; G01S17/08

Abstract:
An automatic water faucet includes: a water faucet; an imaging unit provided in a water discharge port of the water faucet and that images light reflected from a measure-distance target; a distance measurement unit that measures a distance from the imaging unit to the measure-distance target based on image data; a threshold setting unit that sets a threshold for distance; a detection unit that detects the measure-distance target as a detection object if the distance is shorter than the threshold set by the threshold setting unit; and a water supply control unit that causes the water faucet to discharge water in response to the detection unit detecting a detection object and causes the water faucet to stop supplying water in response to the detection unit not detecting a detection object. The threshold setting unit increases the threshold setting in response to the detection unit detecting a detection object.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160201306A1 AUTOMATIC WATER FAUCET Public/Granted day:2016-07-14
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