Patent ID: 7364097

Claim:
A shower head comprising: a shower head body having a cylindrical water passage and an inflected water passage connected to the cylindrical water passage, the passages being provided inside the shower head body from a proximal portion thereof having a water inlet through a head portion thereof; a sprinkler cap having a ring-shaped cap body and a sprinkler plate, the cap body having a fitting opening formed in a central portion of the cap body and being fixed to the head portion of the shower head body via a screw mechanism, the sprinkler plate having a plurality of sprinkler holes and being secured to the fitting opening; and a flow control member having a diameter-reduced water passage and being placed on an upstream side of the sprinkler plate; wherein a partition plate having only one through-hole is disposed between the flow control member and the sprinkler plate to divide space therebetween into a first chamber and a second chamber, and said one through-hole is eccentrically disposed in the partition plate, wherein the sprinkler plate is made of a circular plate having an outer wall gradually increased in diameter in the flow direction and conforming to an inner wall of the cap body, and the sprinkler holes include a plurality of inner sprinkler holes and a plurality of outer sprinkler holes, the inner sprinkler holes being formed in an inner portion of the sprinkler plate except a periphery thereof and extending in parallel to an axis of the sprinkler cap, the outer sprinkler holes being formed by a plurality of grooves and the inner wall of the cap body, each of the grooves having an arc-shaped or a U-shaped cross section with an outer side thereof opened and being provided in the outer wall of the sprinkler plate.