Hand Drying Apparatus
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Abstract
In a hand drying apparatus, an infrared light absorber absorbs infrared light, when a hand is not present, emitted from an infrared light emitter provided on an inner surface of a drying space.
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18 Claims
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1-9. -9. (canceled)
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10. A hand drying apparatus comprising:
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a high pressure airflow generator configured to generate high pressure airflow; a nozzle that discharges the high pressure airflow generated by the high pressure airflow generator; a drying space forming unit that has a hand insertion portion that allows insertion and pulling-out of hands and is formed with a drying space where hands inserted through the hand insertion portion is dried by the high pressure airflow discharged from the nozzle; at least one hand detector constituted of an infrared light emitter and an infrared light receiver configured to detect hands inserted into the drying space that are arranged on the same wall face of the drying space forming unit, wherein driving of the high pressure airflow generator is controlled based on a detection signal from the hand detector; and an infrared light absorber whose infrared light reflectivity is smaller than that of hands and absorbs infrared light, formed on at least a portion of the wall face of the drying space forming unit that is opposed to the infrared light emitter of the hand detector. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
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