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US 12,502,038 B2Granted
Sitting toilet having foot health care device attached thereto
OwnerDeok Woo Kiminventor
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Abstract
A sitting toilet has a foot health care device attached thereto. The sitting toilet contains: a main body having a receiving part in the lower front-end portion and a portion of the lower rear end; and a foot health care device mounted in the receiving part of the main body and capable of being expandably adjusted according to an operation of a user. The main body may include: a toilet bowl formed across the upper front-end portion and rear portion, and having a sewage discharge port on a center line (the center line connecting the front and rear of the sitting toilet); and a sewage discharge unit connected to the sewage discharge port of the toilet bowl and eccentrically disposed so as to diverge from the center line so as to discharge sewage to the outside.
Claims19
A sitting toilet comprising:
- a main body having a receiving part in parts of a bottom of the main body at a front thereof and the bottom of the main body at a rear thereof;
- and
- a foot health care device held in the receiving part of the main body and comprising a hinge located at a lower portion of the foot health care device,
- wherein the main body comprises:
- a toilet bowl formed across a top of the main body at the front thereof and the rear part of the main body and comprising a wastewater outlet on a center line, which connects a front and rear of the sitting toilet;
- and
- a wastewater discharge unit connected to the wastewater outlet of the toilet bowl, eccentrically disposed away from the center line, and configured to discharge wastewater to an outside, and
- wherein the foot health care device is movable, by user manipulation, between an upright stowed position and a horizontal deployed position, such that the foot health care device rotates around the hinge forward to the horizontal deployed position and backward to the upright stowed position.
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A sitting toilet comprising:
- a main body having a receiving part in parts of a bottom of the main body at a front thereof and the bottom of the main body at a rear thereof;
- and
- a foot health care device held in the receiving part of the main body and comprising a hinge located at a lower portion of the foot health care device,
- wherein the main body comprises:
- a toilet bowl formed across a top of the main body at the front thereof and the rear part of the main body and comprising a wastewater outlet that is eccentrically disposed on any one of left and right sides on the basis of a center line, which connects a front and rear of a center of the sitting toilet;
- and
- a wastewater discharge unit connected to the wastewater outlet of the toilet bowl, eccentrically disposed from the center line on the same side as the wastewater outlet of the toilet bowl, and configured to discharge wastewater to an outside, and
- wherein the foot health care device is movable, by user manipulation, between an upright stowed position and a horizontal deployed position, such that the foot health care device rotates around the hinge forward to the horizontal deployed position and backward to the upright stowed position.
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A sitting toilet comprising:
- a main body having a receiving part in parts of a bottom of the main body at a front thereof and the bottom of the main body at a rear thereof;
- and
- a foot health care device held in the receiving part of the main body and capable of being unfolded and adjusted in response to a user's manipulation,
- wherein the main body comprises:
- a toilet bowl formed across a top of the main body at the front thereof and the rear part of the main body and comprising a wastewater outlet on a center line, which connects a front and rear of the sitting toilet;
- and
- a wastewater discharge unit connected to the wastewater outlet of the toilet bowl. eccentrically disposed away from the center line, and configured to discharge wastewater to an outside,
- wherein the foot health care device comprises:
- a foot washing bowl having an inside space in which user's feet are placed;
- a user input unit configured to provide various types of function buttons;
- and
- a driving unit configured to unfold and adjust the foot washing bowl forward and backward in response to an instruction signal from the user input unit,
- wherein the foot washing bowl is set by default so that the foot washing bowl is folded and held in the receiving part of the main body, and is able to be slid and moved and rotatably moved and unfolded and adjusted to the front and rear of the main body in response to a user's manipulation,
- wherein:
- when the foot washing bowl is held in the receiving part of the main body, an internal box is maintained in a state in which the internal box has been folded within an external box that forms an outward appearance of the foot washing bowl, and
- when the foot washing bowl is unfolded from the main body, the external box is rotatably moved, seated in a floor, and then forward moved horizontally, so that the internal box moves upward from the external box.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.