IP Library › Granted Patent US 10,349,793
Granted Patent B2
US 10,349,793 · App. 15/675,960 · Granted Jul 16, 2019

Toilet apparatus

Inventors: Megumi Takeshita (Kitakyushu, JP); Mihoko Sato (Kitakyushu, JP); Tomomi Rokuta (Kitakyushu, JP); Akihiro Ashihara (Kitakyushu, JP); Ayaka Shigeta (Kitakyushu, JP); Minoru Tani (Kitakyushu, JP); Hirotaka Nakabayashi (Kitakyushu, JP); Tomohiro Miyazaki (Kitakyushu, JP)
Assignee: TOTO LTD.
A47K13/305A47K13/04A47K13/30A47K13/00G01S17/026
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Patent No.
US 10,349,793
App. No.
15/675,960
Granted
Jul 16, 2019
Kind
B2
Abstract

The toilet apparatus includes a main part and a toilet seat. The main part includes a case cover covering a function part and is attached on a toilet bowl. The toilet seat is attached rotatably to the case cover, and shifts between a closed state and an open state. The case cover includes an extending portion. A height becomes low toward forward. The toilet seat includes a toilet seat main body and a heating part. The toilet seat main body includes a first portion and a second portion. The first portion is positioned in front of the case cover in the closed state. The second portion rises backward from the first portion in the closed state, and overlaps the extending portion. An upper end surface of the extending portion changes to lower a height toward forward and to lower a height toward a side.

Claims (20)

1. A toilet apparatus comprising:

a main part including a function part, and a case cover covering the function part, the main part being attached on a toilet bowl; and

a toilet seat attached rotatably to the case cover, the toilet seat shifting between a closed state and an open state, in the closed state a user being capable of seating upward the toilet bowl, in the open state an upper surface of the toilet bowl being exposed,

the case cover including an extending portion, a height of the extending portion becoming low toward in a front direction,

the toilet seat including

a toilet seat main body including a first portion and a second portion, the first portion being positioned forward the case cover in the closed state, the second portion rising backward from the first portion in the closed state, overlapping the extending portion, and being pivotally supported to the case cover, and

a heating part incorporated in the toilet seat main body, and heating a seating surface of the toilet seat main body,

the extending portion having an upper end surface, a height of the upper end surface of the extending portion becoming low toward in the front direction and becoming low toward in a horizontal direction, the horizontal direction being perpendicular to the front direction and a vertical direction,

the second portion of the toilet seat main body having a lower end surface, a height of the lower end surface of the second portion becoming low toward in the horizontal direction along the upper end surface of the extending portion in the closed state.

2. The toilet apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein

the upper end surface of the extending portion has a convex curved surface shape,

the lower end surface of the second portion of the toilet seat main body has a concave curved surface shape, and

a curvature of the lower end surface of the second portion at a prescribed position is generally same as a curvature of the upper end surface of the extending portion at a position opposing the prescribed position in the closed state.

3. The toilet apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein

in a cross-section orthogonal to a front-back direction, a lowest point of the lower end surface of the toilet seat in the closed state is positioned downward a highest point of the upper end surface of the extending portion.

4. The toilet apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein

a change ratio of a height of a center portion of the upper end surface of the extending portion is smaller than a curvature of a height of a side end portion of the upper end surface of the extending portion, and

a change ratio of a height of a center portion of the lower end surface of the second portion of the toilet seat main body is smaller than a curvature of a height of a side end portion of the lower end surface of the second portion.

5. The toilet apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein

a side face lower end of the second portion is generally parallel to a side face upper end of the extending portion in the closed state.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 14, 2017
From: TAKESHITA, MEGUMI; SATO, MIHOKO; ROKUTA, TOMOMI; ASHIHARA, AKIHIRO; SHIGETA, AYAKA; TANI, MINOTI; NAKABAYASHI, HIROTAKA; MIYAZAKI, TOMOHIRO
To: TOTO LTD.
Reel/Frame 043283/0007 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2016-159953 · Aug 17, 2016 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20180049607A1 · Feb 22, 2018