Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Person-detecting sensor and automatic water faucet
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Application No.: US14952174Application Date: 2015-11-25
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Publication No.: US09677255B2Publication Date: 2017-06-13
- Inventor: Yuki Shirai , Nobuaki Itazu , Hiroyuki Oura
- Applicant: LIXIL Corporation
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: LIXIL Corporation
- Current Assignee: LIXIL Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agent Claire Zopf
- Priority: JP2013-116112 20130531
- Main IPC: E03C1/05
- IPC: E03C1/05 ; G01V8/20 ; G01S17/02

Abstract:
A person-detecting sensor includes: a range-finding unit that decides whether a distance to a detection object falls within a predetermined detection distance range; a received-light quantity decision unit that decides whether a received-light quantity is equal to or greater than a predetermined received-light quantity threshold; and a continuation decision unit that decides whether a state of the detection object being present is ongoing. In the received-light quantity decision unit, after water discharge is started upon the detection determination unit determining a detection object to be under detection state, for a period during which the continuation decision unit decides the state in which the detection object being present is ongoing, the received-light quantity threshold is set to be lower than prior to when the water discharge is started.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160083943A1 PERSON-DETECTING SENSOR AND AUTOMATIC WATER FAUCET Public/Granted day:2016-03-24
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