Flush toilet

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11414850-B2
Application number	US-202117178014-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 17, 2021
Priority date	Feb 25, 2020
Publication date	Aug 16, 2022
Grant date	Aug 16, 2022

Abstract

A flush toilet includes a toilet main body and a tank device that supplies flush water to the toilet main body, where the tank device includes a storage tank provided behind the toilet main body and above a floor surface, and a water supply device that supplies the flush water to the storage tank, a capacity of an upper part located at a position higher than a middle height position that equally divides the storage tank into two in an up-down direction is greater than a capacity of a lower part located at a position lower than the middle height position, and the storage tank includes a plurality of upper surfaces with height differences, and a water passage port is provided in a manner penetrating a highest surface among the upper surfaces to allow the flush water supplied from the water supply device to flow into the storage tank.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A flush toilet comprising:
a toilet main body including a bowl configured to receive waste, and a discharge trap configured to discharge the waste in the bowl; and
a tank device configured to supply the flush water to the toilet main body,
wherein the tank device includes:
a storage tank configured to store the flush water to be supplied to the toilet main body, the storage tank being provided behind the toilet main body and above a floor surface,
a water supply device configured to supply the flush water to the storage tank, and
a pump configured to pressurize and feed the flush water in the storage tank to the toilet main body,
wherein the storage tank includes an upper part and a lower part, and the upper part is located at a position higher than a middle height position that equally divides the storage tank into two in an up-down direction, and the lower part is located at a position lower than the middle height position, and a capacity of the upper part is greater than a capacity of the lower part, and
the storage tank includes a plurality of upper surfaces with height differences, and a water passage port is provided to penetrate a highest surface among the upper surfaces to allow the flush water that is supplied from the water supply device to flow into the storage tank, the water passage port being always open, and the highest surface being positioned on one of left and right sides relative to a vertical plane that divides the storage tank into two at a center in a left-right direction.

2. The flush toilet according to claim 1 , wherein the upper surface of the storage tank is formed such that the upper surface becomes lower from a surface where the water passage port is formed toward an outer periphery in a continuous or stepwise manner.

3. The flush toilet according to claim 1 , wherein the toilet main body is made of ceramics, and the storage tank includes fixing portions that are fixable to the toilet main body.

4. The flush toilet according to claim 3 , wherein the storage tank includes a top tank section and a bottom tank section that are joined to each other in the up-down direction, and
the fixing portions are provided at least on the bottom tank section among the top tank section and the bottom tank section, with the number of the fixing portions being greater for the bottom tank section than for the top tank section.

5. The flush toilet according to claim 3 , wherein the storage tank has a left-right asymmetrical shape including a large tank section and a small tank section, the large tank section being a large-capacity side of the storage tank that is divided into two at a center in a left-right direction, the small tank section being a small-capacity side of the storage tank that is divided into two at the center in the left-right direction,
a surface of the toilet main body facing the large tank section in a front-back direction forms a sloping surface that slopes obliquely downward to below the storage tank, and
in a state where the fixing portions of the storage tank are fixed to the toilet main body, a front end portion of the large tank section is disposed adjacent to the sloping surface of the toilet main body in a manner sloping along the sloping surface of the toilet main body.

6. A flush toilet comprising:
a toilet main body including a bowl configured to receive waste, and a discharge trap configured to discharge the waste in the bowl; and
a tank device configured to supply the flush water to the toilet main body,
wherein the tank device includes:
a storage tank configured to store the flush water to be supplied to the toilet main body, the storage tank being provided behind the toilet main body and above a floor surface,
a water supply device configured to supply the flush water to the storage tank, and
a pump configured to pressurize and feed the flush water in the storage tank to the toilet main body,
wherein the storage tank includes an upper part and a lower part, and the upper part is located at a position higher than a middle height position that equally divides the storage tank into two in an up-down direction, and the lower part is located at a position lower than the middle height position, and a capacity of the upper part is greater than a capacity of the lower part, and
the storage tank includes a plurality of upper surfaces with height differences, and a water passage port is provided to penetrate a highest surface among the upper surfaces to allow the flush water that is supplied from the water supply device to flow into the storage tank,
wherein the toilet main body is made of ceramics, and the storage tank includes fixing portions that are fixable to the toilet main body,
wherein the storage tank includes a top tank section and a bottom tank section that are joined to each other in the up-down direction, and
the fixing portions are provided at least on the bottom tank section among the top tank section and the bottom tank section, with the number of the fixing portions being greater for the bottom tank section than for the top tank section.

Assignees

• Toto Ltd

Inventors

• Tone Yusuke
• Kashirajima Shu
• Iwaki Hideo

Classifications

• E03D2201/30

  Water injection in siphon for enhancing flushing · CPC title

• E03D11/06 Primary

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

• E03D5/01 Primary

  using flushing pumps · CPC title

• E03D1/012

  Details of shape of cisterns, e.g. for connecting to wall, for supporting or connecting flushing-device actuators {(mounting frames with incorporated cisterns E03D11/146)} · CPC title

• E03D1/00

  Water flushing devices with cisterns {; Setting up a range of flushing devices or water-closets; Combinations of several flushing devices} · CPC title