Disclosed are a heating device, a sanitary water supply device, and a sanitary cleaning device. The heating device comprises a main body and one or more ceramic heating plates. The main body comprises a heating cavity, and the one or more ceramic heating plates are disposed in the heating cavity to define a heating channel within the heating cavity. A first water inlet is defined at a first end of the heating channel, and a first water outlet is defined at a second end of the heating channel. The one or more ceramic heating plates comprise a first heating surface and a second heating surface facing away from each other, and a flow direction of cleaning water in the heating channel is along the first heating surface and the second heating surface in sequence.

An apparatus for managing hot water in a hot water storage tank heating system has one or more temperature sensors, a mounting bracket, a computer implemented processing arrangement configured to receive the temperature sensor signals and an interface to communicate with a user or additional processors either locally or remotely.

A variable power water heater is disclosed. In embodiments, the variable power water heater includes a water tank, a heating element, a power supply circuit, a switch, and a controller. The heating element may be disposed within or coupled to the water tank. The power supply circuit may be configured to generate a power signal for the heating element. The switch may be configured to couple the power supply circuit to the heating element, and the controller may be configured to toggle the switch according to a pulse width modulation (PWM) scheme to control a duty cycle of the power signal transmitted from the power supply circuit to the heating element.

A hot water tank for a bidet includes a tank main body in which a space for accommodating water is formed and an inclined surface having a portion of an upper side inclined downward is formed. The hot water tank also includes a heating unit inserted into and positioned in the tank main body and a bimetal positioned on the inclined surface.

A water-heating system includes a water reservoir having a storage tank adapted to hold water to be heated, an AC-powered heating element arranged to heat water in the storage tank when coupled electrically to an alternating current, and a DC-powered heating element arranged to heat water in the storage tank when coupled electrically to a direct current.

A control module for an electrical appliance is provided. The control module comprises a wireless interface, a processor coupled to the wireless interface and a plurality of pins extending from the bottom of the module coupled to the processor, the pins for twist lock interfacing with a receptacle of an appliance, wherein the processor can send and receive command related to the control of the appliance.

An electric water heater with a computing device used to heat water from a residential or industrial water tank while executing useful computational tasks for a network. It includes a water tank, a heat exchanger, a computing device, a connectivity system to connect the computing device to a network, the network supplying computing tasks to the computing device, such that running the computing tasks results in a heat production, and a temperature control system to control the heat production from the computing device responsive to the water and heat exchanging fluid temperatures. The computational tasks are defined by one or more network user.

A smart electric heating device comprises a storage unit, a first heating unit, a second heating unit, a control unit and a first temperature sensing unit. With the first temperature sensing unit to obtain an ambient temperature, the control unit compares the ambient temperature with a maximum increased temperature and a set temperature for controlling the first heating unit and the second heating unit to actuate. In this way, each user can use hot water of sufficient temperature better.

A method for operating a consumer appliance, as provided herein, may include detecting a preliminary first conversion value from a first sensor input pin electrically connected to an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) and detecting a preliminary second conversion value from a second sensor input pin electrically connected to the ADC in electrical parallel with the first sensor input pin. The method may further include determining a preliminary variation between the preliminary first and second conversion values is less than or equal to a predetermined preliminary threshold. The method may still further include activating a pull-up resistor in electrical communication with the first sensor input pin, identifying a fault state in response based on a conversion value variation following activating the pull-up resistor, and directing the appliance based on the determined fault state.

A controller provides power to a water heater having upper and lower heating elements. Various options for measurement units to measure electrical parameters reflecting the state of the water heater are implemented to provide sensing of a desired parameter, whether the controller is powering the heating elements or not. A power relay is operably connected to power a testing or sensing circuit in one embodiment whenever the relay switches away from powering the water heater. In another embodiment, sensing circuits operate both during powered operation or non-powered condition for heating elements. Component damage and wear is greatly reduced, while also providing the controller an ability to assess the state of the heating elements, assure hot water, and override conservation methods like off-peak use, voluntary load shedding, and the like, in favor of guaranteed hot water output, based on measurements even in “power-off” conditions.