Flush toilet

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10774511-B2
Application number	US-201715626524-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 19, 2017
Priority date	Jun 27, 2016
Publication date	Sep 15, 2020
Grant date	Sep 15, 2020

Abstract

A flush toilet is provided, which can enhance discharge performance of waste from an inside of a water discharge trap conduit even with a smaller amount of flushing water, in the flush toilet discharging waste by a siphon action. A flush toilet of the present invention has a bowl section, a water discharge trap conduit, and a jet spout port connected to a lower portion of the bowl section and opened toward the water discharge trap conduit, with an outlet portion bottom surface of an outlet portion thereof and a bottom surface of the bowl section being connected, and a bottom surface of the bowl section forms a curved surface that diagonally inclines more downward than the outlet portion bottom surface from a tip end of an outlet portion bottom surface of the jet spout port.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A flush toilet of a siphon type that is washed by flushing water supplied from a flushing water source, comprising:
a bowl section including a bowl-shaped waste receiving surface, and a rim section formed on an upper edge of the waste receiving surface;
a water discharge trap conduit that is connected to a lower portion of the bowl section; and
a jet spout port including an outlet portion that is connected to the lower portion of the bowl section and is opened toward the water discharge trap conduit, wherein a bottom surface of the outlet portion and a bottom surface of the bowl portion are connected,
wherein the bottom surface of the bowl section includes a curved surface that diagonally inclines downward from a tip end of the bottom surface of the outlet portion of the jet spout port,
wherein the waste receiving surface comprises a concave portion above the jet spout port being inclined further downwardly than a front side bottom surface of the waste receiving surface below a water level defined by a top of a bottom surface of the water discharge trap conduit, and an inclined surface that inclines downwardly from the lower end of the concave portion to the outlet portion of the jet spout port, and
wherein the concave portion comprises a concave portion inclined surface forming an inclination which is bigger than an inclination of the front side bottom surface, and an inclination of the inclined surface is smaller than the inclination of the concave portion inclined surface.

2. The flush toilet according to claim 1 , wherein a flow path in the outlet portion of the jet spout port is directed toward an area lower than a central portion in an inlet of the water discharge trap conduit.

3. The flush toilet according to claim 1 , wherein a ratio of an inclination angle of a rising conduit of the water discharge trap conduit to horizontal, and an inclination angle of the jet spout port to horizontal is set as a ratio in a range of 26 : 1 to 6.5 : 1.

4. The flush toilet according to claim 1 , wherein an angle between the bottom surface of the outlet portion of the jet spout port, and a tangential line of the bottom surface of the bowl section, which extends downward from the tip end of the bottom surface of the outlet portion, is formed in a range of 140 degrees to 165 degrees.

Assignees

• Toto Ltd

Inventors

• Kashirajima Shu
• Shinohara yuuki

Classifications

• E03D11/08 Primary

  Bowls with means producing a flushing water swirl · CPC title

• E03D11/06

  Bowls with downwardly-extending flanges {for the sake of flushing} · CPC title

• E03D2201/30

  Water injection in siphon for enhancing flushing · CPC title

• E03D1/263 Primary

  provided with a bell or tube siphon · CPC title

• E03D11/18

  Siphons (for pipes in general F16L43/00, F16L45/00 {; if as part of the bowl E03D11/02; connecting the siphon to the bowl}) · CPC title