IP Library Granted Patent US 7,594,282
Granted Patent B2
US 7,594,282 · App. 11/812,712 · Granted Sep 29, 2009

Western-style toilet facility

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Patent No.
US 7,594,282
App. No.
11/812,712
Granted
Sep 29, 2009
Kind
B2
Abstract

A pipe work 10 provided with a cleaning control valve V 1 is connected to a rim 3 of a toilet main body 1 in a hygienic western-style toilet facility provided with an ejector inhaling and discharging air from a water-discharge channel where there is no possibility for odors and filthy water to be supplied to a toilet bowl in cleaning operation. A branch pipe 11 is branched from more upstream side than the cleaning control valve V 1 of the water-supply pipe 10 , and is connected to the ejector 20 through a U-shaped pipe 12 and an ejector water-supply valve V 2 . A discharge outlet of water of the ejector 20 is connected to a second water-discharge channel 7 through a pipe work 13 . One end of a negative pressure transmission channel 21 is connected to an air suction inlet 20 a provided at a throat portion of the ejector 20 . The other end of the negative pressure transmission channel 21 is connected to an upper end 5 a of a rising portion of a first water-discharge channel 5.

Claims (31)

1. A western-style toilet facility comprising:

a western-style toilet body including;

a rim and a toilet bowl,

a first trap continuing into the toilet bowl,

a second trap disposed at a downstream side of the first trap,

a water-discharge channel for communicating the first trap and the second trap;

an ejector inhaling and discharging air from the a water-discharge channel when the western-style toilet body is cleaned;

a negative pressure transmission channel for transmitting negative pressure of the ejector to the water-discharge channel;

a negative pressure tank provided in a middle of the negative pressure transmission channel;

a negative pressure transmission valve opened when the western-style toilet body is cleaned, said negative pressure transmission valve being provided in the negative pressure transmission channel between the negative pressure tank and the water discharge channel,

a water-supply pipe for supplying water to the rim;

a cleaning control valve provided in a middle of the water-supply pipe;

a branch pipe branched from the water-supply pipe at a more upstream side than the cleaning control valve, and connected to the ejector;

an ejector water-supply valve for the ejector provided in the branch pipe; and

a valve control device first forming negative pressure in the negative pressure tank by opening the ejector water-supply valve for the ejector for a predetermined time preceding to the cleaning operation for the toilet body, and then opening the cleaning control valve and the negative pressure transmission valve.

2. A western-style toilet facility comprising:

a western-style toilet body including;

a rim and a toilet bowl,

a first trap continuing into the toilet bowl,

a second trap disposed at a downstream side of the first trap, and

a water-discharge channel for communicating the first trap and the second trap;

an ejector inhaling and discharging air from the a water-discharge channel when the western-style toilet body is cleaned;

a negative pressure transmission channel for transmitting negative pressure of the ejector to the water-discharge channel, the ejector being disposed in a manner so as to cause a discharge water flow to flow out to the second trap or a more downstream side than the second trap;

a negative pressure tank provided in a middle of the negative pressure transmission channel;

a negative pressure transmission valve provided in the negative pressure transmission channel between the negative pressure tank and the water discharge channel and opening when the western-style toilet body is cleaned;

a water-supply pipe for supplying water to the rim of the western-style toilet body;

a cleaning control valve provided in a middle of the water-supply pipe;

a branch pipe branched from the water-supply pipe at a more upstream side than the cleaning control valve, and connected to the ejector;

an ejector water-supply valve for the ejector provided in the branch pipe; and

a valve control device first forming negative pressure in the negative pressure tank by opening the ejector water-supply valve for the ejector for a predetermined time preceding to the cleaning operation for the toilet body, and then opening the cleaning control valve and the negative pressure transmission valve.

3. The western-style toilet facility according to claim 2 , further comprising a one-way device allowing air to flow into the ejector from the negative pressure tank, and blocking the same to flow into a direction opposite thereto, said one-way device being provided in the negative pressure transmission channel between the negative pressure tank and the ejector.

Assignments (2)
MERGER Recorded Jun 21, 2011
From: INAX CORPORATION
To: LIXIL CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 026472/0925 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jun 16, 2009
From: SHIRAI, YASUHIRO
To: INAX CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 022847/0957 →