IP Library Granted Patent US 9,938,706
Granted Patent B2
US 9,938,706 · App. 15/105,253 · Granted Apr 10, 2018

Flush toilet

Inventor: Hiroshi Matsunaga (Osaka, JP)
Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
E03D11/08E03D9/00E03D11/13E03D2201/40
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Patent No.
US 9,938,706
App. No.
15/105,253
Granted
Apr 10, 2018
Kind
B2
Abstract

The flush toilet includes a bowl that includes a drainage outlet portion in a bottom portion and a discharge port in an upper inner surface portion. The flush toilet is configured to wash an inner surface of the bowl by allowing washing water discharged from the discharge port to flow down while swirling along the inner surface of the bowl. The inner surface of the bowl includes a guide passage configured to control flow of the washing water that flows down.

Claims (18)

1. A flush toilet, comprising a bowl including a drainage outlet portion in a bottom portion and a discharge port in an upper inner surface portion, the flush toilet being configured to wash an inner surface of the bowl by allowing washing water discharged from the discharge port to flow down while swirling along the inner surface of the bowl, wherein

the inner surface of the bowl comprises a guide passage configured to control flow of the washing water that flows down along the inner surface of the bowl,

the guide passage comprises a concave surface that is concave in at least one vertical cross section of the bowl,

the guide passage is helical in shape and becomes gradually lower toward the drainage outlet portion from an upper portion of the bowl, and

in the at least one vertical cross section of the bowl, every inclined tangent on the inner surface in the at least one vertical cross section goes downward toward a drainage outlet portion side.

2. The flush toilet according to claim 1 , wherein a convex curved surface that is convex in the at least one vertical cross section is continuous to a lower side of the concave surface, and a tangent at an inflection point between the concave surface and the convex curved surface is inclined downward toward the drainage outlet portion in the at least one vertical cross section of the bowl.

3. The flush toilet according to claim 1 , wherein the every inclined tangent on the inner surface of the bowl goes downward toward the drainage outlet portion side in every vertical cross section of the inner surface of the bowl.

4. The flush toilet according to claim 1 , wherein the guide passage has a helical shape that reaches the drainage outlet portion in a bottom portion of the bowl from the upper portion of the bowl in two or less turns.

5. The flush toilet according to claim 1 ,

wherein the bowl includes a water guide passage surrounded by a peripheral wall in an upper peripheral edge, and the discharge port is configured to discharge the washing water along a circumferential direction of the bowl, and supply the washing water inside the bowl via the water guide passage,

the water guide passage makes a round along the upper peripheral edge of the bowl, and is inclined downward toward an inner peripheral side, and

the guide passage is for guiding washing water that flows down as a swirling flow from the water guide passage to the drainage outlet portion.

6. The flush toilet according to claim 1 ,

wherein a convex curved surface that is convex in the at least one vertical cross section is continuous to a lower side of the concave surface, and

a curvature radius of the convex curved surface, on one side of the bowl, whose inflection point with the concave surface has a small height from the bottom portion of the bowl is larger than a curvature radius of the convex curved surface, on another side of the bowl, whose inflection point with the concave surface has a large height from the bottom portion of the bowl.

7. The flush toilet according to claim 6 , wherein an inner wall surface on a lower side of the convex curved surface on the other side of the bowl having the small curvature radius has a larger inclination than an inner wall surface on a lower side of the convex curved surface on the one side of the bowl having the large curvature radius.

8. The flush toilet according to claim 6 , wherein a range of the convex curved surface on the one side of the bowl having the large curvature radius is a range in an approximately half round in a circumferential direction.

9. The flush toilet according to claim 2 , wherein the guide passage has a helical shape that reaches the drainage outlet portion in a bottom portion of the bowl from the upper portion of the bowl in two or less turns.

Assignments (3)
CHANGE OF ADDRESS Recorded Mar 17, 2026
From: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
To: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 075166/0563 →
NUNC PRO TUNC ASSIGNMENT Recorded Mar 17, 2026
From: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
To: PANASONIC HOUSING SOLUTIONS CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 075144/0149 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jun 19, 2016
From: MATSUNAGA, HIROSHI
To: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 038949/0706 →
Priority Claims (2)
JP 2013-267709 · Dec 19, 2013 · national
JP 2014-107311 · May 23, 2014 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20160312457A1 · Oct 27, 2016