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Granted Patent B2
US 11,124,955 · App. 16/579,669 · Granted Sep 21, 2021

Flush toilet

Inventors: Eiji Shiohara (Kitakyushu, JP); Satoshi Takano (Kitakyushu, JP); Hideyuki Nakatsu (Kitakyushu, JP); Yuki Kubota (Kitakyushu, JP)
Assignee: TOTO LTD.
E03D11/08E03D2201/30E03D2201/40
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Patent No.
US 11,124,955
App. No.
16/579,669
Granted
Sep 21, 2021
Kind
B2
Abstract

A flush toilet includes a first rim spout port provided in a rim on one side in a left-right direction of a bowl and a second rim spout port provided in the rim on the other side in the left-right direction of the bowl. The first rim spout port is disposed further in the front than the front end of a well portion. The second rim spout port causes the second rim spout to traverse a swirling direction of a swirling flow of the first rim spout and guide the flush water interfering with the swirling flow of the first rim spout to a rear region of the bowl further on the rear side than the well portion.

Claims (18)

1. A flush toilet configured to discharge waste by flushing the flush toilet with flush water supplied from a flush water source, the flush toilet comprising:

a bowl including a bowl-shaped waste receiving surface, a rim formed above the waste receiving surface, and a well portion provided below the waste receiving surface and configured to store reserved water and form sealing water;

a discharge trap portion, an inlet of which is connected to the well portion to discharge the waste;

a first rim spout portion provided in the rim on one side in a left-right direction of the bowl and configured to perform first rim spout for spouting the flush water forward and form a swirling flow swirling along the rim; and

a second rim spout portion provided in the rim on another side in the left-right direction of the bowl and configured to perform second rim spout for spouting the flush water having a flow rate smaller than a flow rate of the first rim spout portion,

wherein the first rim spout portion includes a first rim spout port disposed further in a front than a front end of the well portion, and

the second rim spout portion includes a second rim spout port configured to cause the second rim spout to traverse a swirling direction of the swirling flow of the first rim spout and guide the flush water interfering with the swirling flow of the first rim spout to a rear region of the bowl further on a rear side than the well portion, and

wherein the second rim spout port is disposed further in the front than a rear end of the well portion.

2. The flush toilet according to claim 1 , wherein the second rim spout port is disposed further in the rear than the front end of the well portion.

3. The flush toilet according to claim 1 , wherein the second rim spout port is disposed further in the rear than a center in a front-rear direction of the well portion.

4. The flush toilet according to claim 1 , wherein an opening end face of the second rim spout port is directed obliquely rearward such that the water flow of the second rim spout traverses a left-right direction of the rear region of the bowl.

5. The flush toilet according to claim 4 , wherein the second rim spout port includes a diffusing portion configured to diffuse the second rim spout in a film shape more widely than the swirling flow of the first rim spout.

6. The flush toilet according to claim 5 , wherein the diffusing portion is provided such that a direction of a channel center axis of the diffusing portion forms an angle with respect to a contact plane of a rim wall surface near a rear end of the second rim spout port in the rim.

7. The flush toilet according to claim 5 , further comprising a second rim conduit configured to guide the flush water supplied from the flush water source to the second rim spout portion, wherein

the second rim conduit includes a first bent conduit that turns rearward the flush water flowing forward from the upstream side of the second rim conduit and a second bent conduit provided in the rear on the downstream side of the first bent conduit, the second bent conduit includes a bent portion that turns obliquely rearward the flush water turned to flow rearward by the first bent conduit, and the diffusing portion is provided further on the downstream side than the bent portion.

8. The flush toilet according to claim 7 , wherein the diffusing portion is a downstream side conduit formed further on the downstream side than the bent portion of the second bent conduit, and width of the downstream side conduit is set larger than width of a conduit further on the upstream side than the bent portion in the second bent conduit.

9. The flush toilet according to claim 1 , wherein, in the rear region of the bowl, a surface formed obliquely rearward from the second rim spout port on the waste receiving surface of the bowl is inclined to rise toward the rear side.

10. The flush toilet according to claim 9 , wherein, in the rear region of the bowl, an upper edge of the waste receiving surface formed on a circumferential direction rear side of the bowl from a bottom surface of the second rim spout port is inclined to rise from the front side toward a rear end of the rim.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 23, 2019
From: SHIOHARA, EIJI; TAKANO, SATOSHI; NAKATSU, HIDEYUKI; KUBOTA, YUKI
To: TOTO LTD.
Reel/Frame 050466/0414 →
Priority Claims (4)
JP JP2018-178982 · Sep 25, 2018 · national
JP JP2018-178983 · Sep 25, 2018 · national
JP JP2018-178984 · Sep 25, 2018 · national
JP JP2018-178985 · Sep 25, 2018 · national
Continuity (1)
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