Local washing device of flush toilet

Claim 1

A local washing device of flush toilet comprising a flushing water reservoir supplying water to a toilet bowl, conduit means having an outlet and an inlet communicating with said water reservoir, a heated-water tank communicating with said outlet to receive water from the water reservoir and having means for heating the water supplied, a nozzle arm connected at one end to said heated-water tank and being rotatable so that the other, free end is movable between respective retracted and extended positions inside said bowl, a nozzle provided at said free end of said nozzle arm to be capable of opposing the user's body part to be washed when said nozzle arm is positioned in said extended position, said nozzle arm communicating said nozzle arm with said heated-water tank, an electromagnetic pump disposed in said reservoir and communicating with said inlet of said conduit means, and an electric circuit for supplying to said pump an initially small amount of exciting current for slowly starting a stream of water from said nozzle toward said user's body part at a low pressure, and a subsequently higher amount of exciting current for increasing the pressure of the water stream after an initial amount of water has been ejected at low pressure from said nozzle.