Toilet-seat device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2025072672-A1
Application number	US-202418786675-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Jul 29, 2024
Priority date	Aug 31, 2023
Publication date	Mar 6, 2025
Grant date	—

Abstract

A toilet-seat device according to an embodiment includes a hollow toilet seat and a sensor unit. The sensor unit includes a sensor case that is fixed to be exposed from an opening formed in the toilet seat, the sensor case housing therein a sensor substrate. The sensor case includes an engaging part that is engaged with the toilet seat to fix the sensor case to the toilet seat. The engaging part is arranged in a position that is inner than an outer edge of the sensor case.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A toilet-seat device comprising:
a hollow toilet seat; and a sensor unit including a sensor case that is fixed to be exposed from an opening formed in the toilet seat, the sensor case housing therein a sensor substrate, wherein the sensor case includes an engaging part that is engaged with the toilet seat to fix the sensor case to the toilet seat, and the engaging part is arranged in a position that is inner than an outer edge of the sensor case.

2 . The toilet-seat device according to claim 1 , wherein
the sensor case is exposed from the opening that is formed in a seating surface of the toilet seat, and the engaging part is arranged in a position that is upper than the sensor substrate.

3 . The toilet-seat device according to claim 1 , wherein
the sensor case includes:
a main body part; and
a protruding part that protrudes from the main body part to be exposed from the opening of the toilet seat, and
a protruding-part-side elastic member is arranged between the protruding part and the toilet seat.

4 . The toilet-seat device according to claim 3 , wherein
the protruding-part-side elastic member is arranged such that a height of the protruding-part-side elastic member in an up-and-down direction is substantially equal to a height of the engaging part in the up-and-down direction.

5 . The toilet-seat device according to claim 1 , wherein
the sensor case includes:
a main body part that is fixed to the toilet seat; and
a pressing member that is fixed to the main body part, and
the sensor substrate is fixed to the pressing member.

6 . The toilet-seat device according to claim 5 , wherein
the pressing member includes:
a non-contact part that is not in contact with the sensor substrate.

7 . The toilet-seat device according to claim 5 , wherein
the sensor substrate is arranged between the pressing member and the main body part to be fixed, and in a side view, a main body part side length by which the main body part is in contact with the sensor substrate is set to be shorter than a pressing member side length by which the pressing member is in contact with the sensor substrate.

8 . The toilet-seat device according to claim 5 , further comprising:
a substrate-side elastic member that is arranged between the sensor substrate and the main body part.

9 . The toilet-seat device according to claim 8 , wherein
the substrate-side elastic member is formed to cover a part other than a sensor that is mounted on the sensor substrate.

Assignees

• Toto Ltd

Inventors

• Goto Kosuke
• Motoda Yusuke
• Hata Hiroki
• Yasugata Takeshi

Classifications

• A61B5/6887

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• A61B5/024

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• A61B5/0261

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• G01G19/44

  for weighing persons · CPC title

• G01G19/52

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