Flush toilet

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12084847-B2
Application number	US-202217588364-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 31, 2022
Priority date	Mar 30, 2021
Publication date	Sep 10, 2024
Grant date	Sep 10, 2024

Abstract

A flush toilet includes a toilet body that includes a bowl part that receives waste, a functional part that is provided on a back side of the toilet body, a panel member that covers a side surface of the functional part, a magnet that is provided on one of the panel member and the toilet body, and a magnetic body that is provided on another of the panel member and the toilet body, where at least one of the panel member and the toilet body includes an attachment part that includes a recessed part for attaching the magnet or the magnetic body to the attachment part.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A flush toilet, comprising:
a toilet body that includes a bowl part that receives waste;
a functional part that is provided on a back side of the toilet body;
a panel member that covers a side surface of the functional part;
a magnet that is provided on one of the panel member and the toilet body; and
a magnetic body that is provided on another of the panel member and the toilet body, wherein
the toilet body includes a toilet-body-side attachment part that includes a toilet-body-side recessed part for attaching the magnet or the magnetic body to the toilet-body-side attachment part, and
the toilet-body-side attachment part includes a lower side supporting surface that forms the toilet-body-side recessed part and is provided on a lower side of the magnet or the magnetic body, wherein
the lower side supporting surface is non-magnetic, and
a tip of the lower side supporting surface on a side of the panel member protrudes toward the side of the panel member relative to the magnet or the magnetic body that is provided on the toilet-body-side attachment part.

2. The flush toilet according to claim 1 , wherein
the toilet-body-side attachment part includes an upper side supporting surface that forms the toilet-body-side recessed part and is provided on an upper side of the magnet or the magnetic body,
an amount of protrusion of the magnet or the magnetic body that is attached to the toilet-body-side attachment part toward the panel member is less than an amount of protrusion of the tip of the lower side supporting surface on the side of the panel member, and
the amount of protrusion of the magnet or the magnetic body that is attached to the toilet-body-side attachment part toward the panel member is less than an amount of protrusion of the tip of the upper side supporting surface on the side of the panel member.

3. The flush toilet according to claim 2 , wherein
a part of the magnet or the magnetic body that is attached to the side of the panel member is contained in the toilet-body-side recessed part.

4. The flush toilet according to claim 1 , further comprising
a yoke that attaches the magnet that is provided on one of the toilet body and the panel member to the yoke, and covers a periphery of the magnet, wherein,
when the panel member is attached to the toilet body, the yoke is contained in the recessed part for attaching the magnetic body to the attachment part.

5. The flush toilet according to claim 1 , wherein
the panel member includes a panel-member-side attachment part that includes a panel-member-side recessed part for attaching the magnet or the magnetic body to the panel-member-side attachment part, and
an inner side surface that forms the panel-member-side recessed part slopes to increase a thickness of the panel member with increasing a distance from an edge of an attachment surface that attaches the magnet or the magnetic body to the attachment surface.

6. The flush toilet according to claim 1 , wherein,
when the panel member is attached to the toilet body, a part of the magnet or the magnetic body that is attached to the toilet body is provided on a side of the panel member relative to a tip of the magnet or the magnetic body that is attached to the panel member in a lower side area relative to an upper end of the magnet or the magnetic body that is attached to the panel member.

7. The flush toilet according to claim 1 , further comprising:
another magnetic body that is provided on the functional part; and
another magnet that is provided on the panel member at a position that corresponds to a position of the another magnetic body when the panel member is attached to the toilet body.

8. The flush toilet according to claim 7 , wherein
the functional part includes a functional-part-side attachment part that includes a functional-part-side recessed part for attaching the another magnetic body to the functional-part-side attachment part.

9. The flush toilet according to claim 7 , wherein
the panel member includes a panel-member-side attachment part that includes a panel-member-side recessed part for attaching the another magnet to the panel-member-side attachment part.

Assignees

• Toto Ltd

Inventors

• Shiohara Eiji
• Tone Yusuke
• Momoe Masaaki
• Esaki Kazuya
• Mori Masaki

Classifications

• E03D11/02 Primary

  Water-closet bowls (auxiliary chambers with connections to flushing water for bowl-cleaning utensils E03D9/06; modified for using upwardly-directed sprays E03D9/08; seats or covers A47K13/00 ){; Bowls with a double odour seal optionally with provisions for a good siphonic action; siphons as part of the bowl (parts or details of bowls E03D11/13)} · CPC title

• E03D11/13 Primary

  Parts or details of bowls; Special adaptations of pipe joints or couplings for use with bowls {, e.g. provisions in bowl construction preventing backflow of waste-water from the bowl in the flushing pipe or cistern, provisions for a secondary flushing, for noise-reducing} · CPC title