IP Library Granted Patent US 10,557,258
Granted Patent B2
US 10,557,258 · App. 15/887,306 · Granted Feb 11, 2020

Sanitary washing device

Inventors: Yoshihisa Tsuruta (Anjo, JP); Takehiro Shimoyama (Anjo, JP)
Assignee: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
E03D9/08A47K13/30E03D9/002
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Patent No.
US 10,557,258
App. No.
15/887,306
Granted
Feb 11, 2020
Kind
B2
Abstract

A sanitary washing device includes: a nozzle that injects a liquid so as to wash a local region of a human body; a nozzle washing unit that washes the nozzle with the liquid; a supply flow path that connects a supply source of the liquid and the nozzle; a branch flow path that connects the supply flow path and the nozzle washing unit; a vacuum breaker that is disposed in a flow path that connects the supply source and the nozzle washing unit, in the supply flow path and the branch flow path; and a tank that is disposed in the branch flow path between the vacuum breaker and the nozzle washing unit and accommodates therein a sterilizing agent, a sterilizing component of which is dissolved in the liquid passing through the tank.

Claims (17)

1. A sanitary washing device comprising:

a nozzle that injects a liquid so as to wash a local region of a human body;

a nozzle washing unit that washes the nozzle with the liquid;

a supply flow path that connects a supply source of the liquid and the nozzle;

a branch flow path that connects the supply flow path and the nozzle washing unit;

a vacuum breaker that is disposed in a flow path that connects the supply source and the nozzle washing unit, in the supply flow path and the branch flow path;

a tank that is disposed in the branch flow path between the vacuum breaker and the nozzle washing unit and accommodates therein a sterilizing agent, a sterilizing component of which is dissolved in the liquid passing through the tank; and

a bag disposed in the tank, the bag has liquid permeability and encloses the sterilizing agent therein; wherein

the vacuum breaker opens a flow path which is connected to a downstream side of the vacuum breaker to atmosphere when no liquid is introduced from a flow path which is connected to an upstream side of the vacuum breaker,

in the tank, an outlet port, through which the liquid is discharged, is disposed in a vertically upward position compared to an inner bottom surface of the tank, and

the bag is disposed inside the tank in a folded and overlapped state around the sterilizing agent.

2. The sanitary washing device according to claim 1 ,

wherein, in the tank, an inlet port, though which the liquid is introduced, is located in a vertically downward position compared to the outlet port.

3. The sanitary washing device according to claim 2 ,

wherein, in the tank, the inlet port and the outlet port are open in different directions.

4. The sanitary washing device according to claim 1 ,

wherein the bag has a mesh shape.

Assignments (4)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Mar 14, 2025
From: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
To: AISIN CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 070509/0418 →
NUNC PRO TUNC ASSIGNMENT Recorded Mar 14, 2025
From: AISIN CORPORATION
To: LIXIL CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 070509/0431 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Mar 13, 2025
From: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
To: AISIN CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 070506/0157 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 2, 2018
From: TSURUTA, YOSHIHISA; SHIMOYAMA, TAKEHIRO
To: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Reel/Frame 044819/0660 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2017-019166 · Feb 6, 2017 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20180223519A1 · Aug 9, 2018