US 12,480,293 B2
Sanitary device
Johann Dueck, Feurstenfeldbruck (DE); Fabian Kreuzer, Munich (DE); Thomas Richter, Munich (DE); Benjamin Mohrich, Munich (DE); Daniel Gemmecke, Munich (DE); Muya Hong, Munich (DE); and Lin Xiaowei, Fujian (CN)
Assigned to JOMOO KITCHEN & BATH DEUTSCHLAND GMBH, Munich (DE)
Filed by JOMOO KITCHEN & BATH DEUTSCHLAND GMBH, Munich (DE)
Filed on Nov. 17, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/512,660.
Application 18/512,660 is a continuation of application No. PCT/EP2022/062728, filed on May 11, 2022.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2021 113 089.1 (DE), filed on May 20, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2024/0084565 A1, Mar. 14, 2024
Int. Cl. E03C 1/05 (2006.01); E03C 1/04 (2006.01); G06F 3/0362 (2013.01)
CPC E03C 1/055 (2013.01) [E03C 1/0408 (2013.01); G06F 3/0362 (2013.01); E03C 2001/0418 (2013.01)] 22 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A sanitary facility comprising:
a cold-water supply;
a hot-water supply;
at least one water outlet;
a metering and mixing valve unit for influencing a total flow through the at least one water outlet and a ratio of a partial quantity of cold water and a partial quantity of hot water in the total flow; and
a programmable electronic control unit for controlling the metering and mixing valve unit,
wherein the electronic control unit comprises a program memory for storage of several different water-delivery programs and a central data-processing unit for controlling at least one actuator for operation of the metering and mixing valve unit;
wherein a user interface of the electronic control unit provides controls for program selection and manual modification of a selected water-delivery program of the several different water-delivery programs;
wherein the user interface has a display, a setting-selector ring extending around the display and rotatable about an axis perpendicular to the display, a circumferential gripping face accessible from radially outside the setting selector ring, and at least three buttons disposed around the setting-selector ring;
wherein the setting-selector ring or the display is axially movable for actuation of a confirmation switch;
wherein three of the at least three buttons of the user interface are a program-selection button, an output button and a temperature button, and wherein upon actuation of a button of the at least three buttons, a signal supplied by a rotary-position transducer of the setting-selector-ring is processed in the central data-processing unit, depending on the corresponding actuated button, to implement a water-delivery program, an output modification within a called water-delivery program, or a temperature modification within a called water-delivery program;
wherein the display has a central display region and a peripheral display region surrounding it annularly;
wherein the peripheral display region comprises at least three segments associated spatially with the at least three buttons and respectively having a function-value status display of a corresponding button function; and
wherein upon actuation of a button of the at least three buttons, a display of the instantaneous setting value of the corresponding button function appears in the central display region.