Flush toilet
AssigneeToto Ltd.
InventorsKazuyoshi Mizoguchi, Satoshi Yamakawa, Masaki Kitamura, Shu Kashirajima
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Abstract
A flush toilet includes: a bowl portion; a rim portion disposed on a top edge of the bowl portion; a spout portion for spouting flush water supplied from the water supply source to the bowl portion to form a circulating current; a discharge passage for discharging waste in the bowl portion, an inlet portion of the discharge passage being connected at the bottom of the bowl portion; a sanitary washing device disposed at a rear of the bowl portion, the sanitary washing device including a nozzle for spraying flush water toward a user positioned over the bowl portion; and a skirt portion disposed to respectively cover sides of both the bowl portion and the discharge passage.
Claims9
A flush toilet for discharging waste with flush water supplied from a water supply source, comprising:
- a bowl portion;
- a rim portion disposed on a top edge of the bowl portion;
- a spout portion configured to spout flush water supplied from the water supply source to the bowl portion so as to form a circulating flow;
- a discharge passage for discharging waste in the bowl portion, the discharge passage including an inlet portion being connected at the bottom of the bowl portion;
- a sanitary washing device disposed at a rear of the bowl portion, the sanitary washing device including a nozzle which sprays the flush water toward a user positioned over the bowl portion;
- and
- a skirt portion configured to cover sides of both the bowl portion and the discharge passage;
- wherein a side surface of the skirt portion extending towards the rear of the bowl portion includes a projecting area, the projecting area being configured to project further upward than a top surface of the rim portion so as to cover the sides of the sanitary washing device, and a top surface of the sanitary washing device is disposed on an upper portion of the projecting area of the skirt portion.
A flush toilet for discharging waste with flush water supplied from a water supply source, comprising:
- a bowl portion;
- a rim portion disposed on a top edge of the bowl portion;
- a spout portion configured to spout flush water supplied from the water supply source to the bowl portion so as to form a circulating flow;
- a discharge passage for discharging waste in the bowl portion, the discharge passage including an inlet portion being connected at the bottom of the bowl portion;
- a sanitary washing device disposed at a rear of the bowl portion, the sanitary washing device including a nozzle which sprays the flush water toward a user positioned over the bowl portion;
- and
- a skirt portion configured to cover sides of both the bowl portion and the discharge passage;
- wherein the skirt portion is configured to project further upward than a top surface of the rim portion so that a side surface of the skirt portion extends toward the rear of the bowl portion to cover the sides of the sanitary washing device, and a top surface of the sanitary washing device is disposed on an upper portion of the skirt portion;
- wherein the nozzle of the sanitary washing device is positioned above a rear of the rim portion at a standby state prior to use, and a front end of the nozzle extends up to a predetermined position above the bowl portion so as to spray the flush water in a predetermined direction when in use;
- and
- wherein a height position of the top surface of a rear area of the rim portion is either set to a same height position as the top surface of a front area of the rim portion, or is set to a height position higher than the same height position, so that the nozzle in use does not submerge at near the same height position as the height position of the top surface of the bowl portion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.