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US 11,596,281 B2Granted
Toilet device and toilet seat unit
AssigneeLIXIL Corporation
InventorsHideki Tamura, Hiroshi Kobayashi, Shinichi Gomita, Kojiro Watari, Keisuke Sakakibara
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Abstract
A toilet device includes a toilet body that has a toilet bowl, a toilet seat that is attached to the toilet body and has a bowl facing surface facing an inner surface of the toilet bowl in the up-and-down direction and provided on a back surface thereof, a discharge part that can discharge a cleaning liquid so that the cleaning liquid runs along a bowl facing surface, and a guide that can guide a part of the cleaning liquid so that the cleaning liquid runs along an inner peripheral side portion of the bowl facing surface.
Claims24
A toilet seat unit comprising:
- a function device that is provided on a toilet body;
- a toilet seat that is at least movably or detachably attached to the function device;
- and
- a discharge part structured to discharge a cleaning liquid for cleaning at least a back surface of the toilet seat or an inner surface of a toilet bowl of the toilet body,
- wherein the discharge part is provided on the function device and wherein the discharge part includes:
- a first discharge part structured to discharge the cleaning liquid so that the cleaning liquid runs along the back surface of the toilet seat toward one side in a circumferential direction of the toilet seat;
- and
- a second discharge part structured to discharge the cleaning liquid so that the cleaning liquid runs along the back surface of the toilet seat toward an other side in the circumferential direction of the toilet seat.
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A toilet seat unit comprising:
- a function device that is provided on a toilet body;
- a toilet seat that is at least movably or detachably attached to the function device;
- and
- a discharge part structured to discharge a cleaning liquid for cleaning at least a back surface of the toilet seat or an inner surface of a toilet bowl of the toilet body,
- wherein the discharge part is provided on the function device and
- wherein
- the toilet seat is rotatably attached to the function device, and
- the toilet seat unit further includes a changing mechanism structured to change at least a discharge direction or a discharge range in which the discharge part discharges the cleaning liquid according to a rotational position of the toilet seat.
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A toilet seat unit comprising:
- a function device that is provided on a toilet body;
- a toilet seat that is at least movably or detachably attached to the function device;
- and
- a discharge part structured to discharge a cleaning liquid for cleaning at least a back surface of the toilet seat or an inner surface of a toilet bowl of the toilet body, wherein the discharge part is provided on the function device;
- and
- a plurality of the discharge parts structured to discharge the cleaning liquid,
- wherein the toilet seat is attached to a toilet body having the toilet bowl via the function device, and
- the plurality of discharge parts have
- a first discharge part structured to discharge the cleaning liquid so that the cleaning liquid runs along a back surface of the toilet seat toward one side in a circumferential direction of a toilet seat, and
- a second discharge part structured to discharge the cleaning liquid so that the cleaning liquid runs along the back surface of the toilet seat toward an other side in the circumferential direction of the toilet seat, and
- the toilet seat unit ends an operation of discharging, by the first discharge part, the cleaning liquid so that the cleaning liquid runs along the back surface and then start an operation of discharging, by the second discharge part, the cleaning liquid so that the cleaning liquid runs along the back surface.
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A toilet device, comprising:
- a toilet body having a toilet bowl;
- and
- a toilet seat unit comprising:
- a function device that is provided on the toilet body;
- a toilet seat that is at least movably or detachably attached to the function device;
- and
- a discharge part structured to discharge a cleaning liquid for cleaning at least a back surface of the toilet seat or an inner surface of the toilet bowl of the toilet body,
- wherein the discharge part is provided on the function device
- the toilet seat is attached to the toilet body via the function device and has a bowl facing surface facing an inner surface of the toilet bowl in an up-and-down direction and provided on a back surface thereof, and
- the discharge part discharges the cleaning liquid so that the cleaning liquid runs along the bowl facing surface, and
- the toilet device further includes a guide structured to guide a part of the cleaning liquid so that the cleaning liquid runs along an inner peripheral side portion of the bowl facing surface.
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A toilet device, comprising:
- a toilet body having a toilet bowl;
- and
- a toilet seat unit comprising:
- a function device that is provided on the toilet body;
- a toilet seat that is at least movably or detachably attached to the function device;
- and
- a discharge part structured to discharge a cleaning liquid for cleaning at least a back surface of the toilet seat or an inner surface of the toilet bowl of the toilet body,
- wherein the discharge part is provided on the function device,
- the toilet seat is attached to the toilet body via the function device,
- the discharge part includes a first discharge part structured to discharge the cleaning liquid so that the cleaning liquid runs along the back surface of the toilet seat toward one side of the toilet seat in the circumferential direction, and
- the back surface of the toilet seat is provided with a first inclined surface that becomes downward gradient toward the one side of the toilet seat in a circumferential direction in at least a part of a range in which the cleaning liquid discharged from the first discharge part reaches.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.