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US 6,699,606 B2Granted
Sanitary ware and process for producing the same
AssigneeToto Ltd.
InventorsMitsuyoshi Machida, Koichi Hayashi, Hirotaka Ishibashi, Tomoyasu Ichiki, Masaaki Ito, Masami Ando, Atsushi Kitamura, Toshihiro Aoshima, Katsuhiro Kawakami, Satoshi Horiuchi, Makoto Hayakawa
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Abstract
A sanitary ware comprises a sanitary ware body and a surface glaze layer provided on the sanitary ware body. The surface glaze layer has a center line average roughness Ra of less than 0.07 μm as measured with a stylus type surface roughness tester according to JIS B 0651-1996.
Claims67
A sanitary ware comprising:
- a sanitary ware body;
- and
- a surface glaze layer provided on the sanitary ware body, the surface glaze layer having a center line average roughness Ra of less than 0.07 μm as measured with a stylus type surface roughness tester according to JIS B 0651-1996.
A sanitary ware comprising:
- a sanitary ware body;
- and
- a surface glaze layer provided on the sanitary ware body, the surface glaze layer having a kurtosis Rku of less than 2.70.
A sanitary ware comprising:
- a sanitary ware body;
- and
- a surface glaze layer provided on the sanitary ware body, the surface of the surface glaze layer consisting essentially of a vitreous component and, in addition, being free from silica particles having a particle diameter of not less than 10 μm after firing the surface glaze layer.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.