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US 2020/0002928 A1Published application
Toilet bowl device
AssigneeLIXIL Corporation
InventorsYu KUROKI, Takumi DOMAE, Tomohisa ASHIDA, Sho ITO, Kouji FUKUYA, Reo SEIKE, Takaomi ASAI
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Abstract
To provide a toilet bowl device allowing bubbles to be discharged with ease even in a case where a bowl is supplied with the bubbles. In a toilet bowl device, a control unit executes a pre-jet washing step for bubbles of supplying wash water to a bowl via a jet discharge port and a pre-rim washing step for bubbles of supplying wash water to the bowl via a rim discharge port after the pre-jet washing step for bubbles is initiated in a case where bubbles are present on a stored water surface.
Claims6
A toilet bowl device comprising:
- a bowl having a rim discharge port in an upper portion of the bowl and having a jet discharge port in a bottom portion of the bowl;
- a rim wash water supply device supplying wash water to the bowl via the rim discharge port;
- a jet wash water supply device supplying wash water to the bowl via the jet discharge port;
- a drain trap provided on a toilet bowl drain path from the bottom portion of the bowl to a drain pipe and determining a height of a stored water surface of wash water collected in the bottom portion of the bowl by performing water sealing on the toilet bowl drain path;
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- a control unit controlling the rim wash water supply device and the jet wash water supply device,
- wherein, in a case where bubbles are present on the stored water surface, the control unit executes
- a pre jet washing step for bubbles of supplying wash water to the bowl via the jet discharge port and
- a pre-rim washing step for bubbles of supplying wash water to the bowl via the rim discharge port after the pre-jet washing step for bubbles is initiated.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.