IP Library Granted Patent US 10,435,877
Granted Patent B2
US 10,435,877 · App. 15/756,560 · Granted Oct 8, 2019

Flush toilet and bubble generation unit

Inventors: Kouji Fukuya (Tokyo, JP); Hirokazu Shimasaki (Tokyo, JP); Masato Wakabayashi (Tokyo, JP); Shuhei Haida (Tokyo, JP); Koji Shimizu (Tokyo, JP)
Assignee: LIXIL Corporation
E03D11/08E03D5/10E03D9/02E03D11/02
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Patent No.
US 10,435,877
App. No.
15/756,560
Granted
Oct 8, 2019
Kind
B2
Abstract

A flush toilet includes a toilet bowl part, flush water conduits that guides flush water toward the toilet bowl part, a bubble passage provided separately from the flush water conduits, the bubble passage that guides bubbles toward the toilet bowl part, and a bubble generator provided in the bubble passage, the bubble generator that generates bubbles.

Claims (18)

1. A flush toilet, comprising:

a toilet bowl part;

a flush water conduit in a pipe shape that guides flush water toward the toilet bowl part when the toilet bowl part is washed;

a bubble passage provided separately from the flush water conduit, the bubble passage guiding bubbles toward the toilet bowl part; and

a bubble generator provided in the bubble passage, the bubble generator that generates bubbles, wherein

a bubble discharge port of the bubble passage is connected to the flush water conduit.

2. The flush toilet of claim 1 ,

wherein the bubble discharge port of the bubble passage is connected to the flush water conduit in a downstream side of the bubble generator.

3. A flush toilet comprising:

a toilet bowl part;

a flush water conduit that guides flush water toward the toilet bowl part;

a bubble passage provided separately from the flush water conduit, the bubble passage guiding bubbles toward the toilet bowl part; and

a bubble generator provided in the bubble passage, the bubble generator that generates bubbles, wherein

a bubble discharge port of the bubble passage is connected to the flush water conduit,

the flush toilet further comprising:

a switching valve included at a connection part of the bubble discharge port of the bubble passage and the flush water conduit, the switching valve that switches between a first state in which bubbles are discharged toward the toilet bowl part and a second state in which bubbles are discharged into the flush water conduit.

4. The flush toilet of claim 1 ,

wherein a water supply route to the flush water conduit and a water supply route to the bubble passage are separated.

Assignments (3)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Mar 10, 2021
From: LIXIL GROUP CORPORATION
To: LIXIL CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 055545/0434 →
MERGER Recorded Mar 9, 2021
From: LIXIL CORPORATION
To: LIXIL GROUP CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 055532/0047 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 15, 2018
From: FUKUYA, KOUJI; SHIMASAKI, HIROKAZU; WAKABAYASHI, MASATO; HAIDA, SHUHEI; SHIMIZU, KOJI
To: LIXIL CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 046832/0449 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2015-171385 · Aug 31, 2015 · national
Continuity (1)
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