Patent ID: 7821182
Filing Date: 2010-10-26
Classification: E03C,G05D,H03K

Abstract:
1. A device for actuating a sanitary appliance, the device comprising: a) a housing; b) at least one sensor arranged in the housing and provided with a pressure-sensitive element, wherein, for the purpose of actuating the sanitary appliance, a force that causes the element to be deformed can be applied to a sensitive region of the sensor; and c) a control system, which measures the deformation of the element and thereupon generates a signal by which a function of the sanitary appliance is controllable, wherein d) a coupling means is provided, which extend, in a direction perpendicular to the direction of actuation of the sensor, beyond the sensitive region of the sensor, and which enable a force applied at a distance from the sensitive region of the sensor to be transferred to the sensitive region of the sensor wherein the coupling means comprise a cover which projects, in a direction perpendicular to the direction of actuation of the sensor, beyond the sensitive region of the sensor and which cooperates with the sensitive region of the sensor by means of an elevation arranged on its inner surface that faces towards the sensor, and wherein the sensor is carried by a mount and a carrying structure that connects the mount to the cover is provided on the inner surface of the cover that faces towards the sensor.