Electro-mechanical toilet seat system
OwnerMax Pounanov, Mingyuan Li +2inventors
InventorsMax Pounanov, Mingyuan Li, Kevin Z. Tang, Greg Blonder
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Abstract
A self-lifting toilet system includes toilet seat configured to be sat upon by a user. A hinge rotatably couples the toilet seat to a base. The hinge is configured so that the toilet seat is transitionable between a down position and an up position. A mechanical lifting device is configured to lift the toilet seat towards the up position. A mechanical latch is configured to hold the seat in the down position. An electronic timing system is configured to cause a seat time delay before triggering an electro-mechanical latch release system to release the mechanical latch so that the mechanical lifting device lifts the toilet seat towards the up position.
Claims23
1-2. (canceled)
A self-lowering toilet lid system comprising:
- a toilet seat configured to be sat upon by a user;
- a toilet lid;
- a hinge rotatably coupling the toilet seat and lid, the hinge configured so that the toilet lid and seat are transitionable between a down position and an up position;
- a mechanical lowering device configured to self-lower the toilet lid towards the down position;
- a mechanical latch configured to hold the lid in the up position;
- an electronic timing system configured to cause a lid time delay before triggering an electro-mechanical latch release system to release the mechanical latch so that the mechanical lowering device lowers the toilet lid towards the down position.
A computer program product for controlling a toilet seat system, the computer program product comprising a tangible, non-transient computer usable medium having computer readable program code thereon, the computer readable program code comprising:
- program code for controlling an electronic timing system to cause a lid time delay;
- program code for controlling an electro-mechanical latch release system to release a mechanical latch after expiration of the seat time delay, wherein releasing the mechanical latch allows a mechanical device to rotate a toilet of lid towards the down position.
18-28. (canceled)
A method of self-lowering a toilet lid comprising:
- providing:
- a toilet seat configured to be sat upon by a user;
- a toilet lid;
- a hinge rotatably coupling the toilet seat and lid, the hinge configured so that the toilet lid and seat are transitionable between a down position and an up position;
- a mechanical lowering device configured to self-lower the toilet lid towards the down position;
- a mechanical latch configured to hold the lid in the up position after being rotated there by the user;
- an electronic system configured to cause a lid time delay before triggering an electro-mechanical latch release system to release the mechanical latch.
34-40. (canceled)
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.