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US 2017/0254526 A1Published application
Toilet With An LED Diffuser Strip
OwnerDavid R. Hall, Dan Allen +2inventors
InventorsDavid R. Hall, Dan Allen, Joshua Larsen, Jared Reynolds
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Abstract
A two-piece toilet with a seam and a channel at an intersection of the two toilet pieces is disclosed. An LED strip and diffuser strip are used to fill in the channel and hide seam of the intersection of the two toilet pieces. The LED strip transmits light into the channel and the light is refracted off of the channel and through the diffuser strip on the back side of the LED strip. An exterior and interior of a toilet may be lighted by the LED strip.
Claims20
A toilet apparatus comprising:
- a strip of LEDs (light emitting diodes), the strip of LEDs being adjacent to a first diffuser strip;
- a top section of the toilet apparatus attached to a bottom section of the toilet apparatus;
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- a seam forming a channel at an intersection of the top section and the bottom section, wherein the strip of LEDs and the diffuser strip are located within the channel and are used to hide the seam.
1 more element
A method of lighting a toilet comprising:
- providing a strip of LEDs (light emitting diodes), within a seam forming a channel at an intersection of a top toilet section and a bottom toilet section, the strip of LEDs being adjacent to a first diffuser strip and filling in the channel and hiding the seam.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.