Flush toilet

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9702135-B2
Application number	US-201615068553-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 12, 2016
Priority date	Mar 18, 2015
Publication date	Jul 11, 2017
Grant date	Jul 11, 2017

Abstract

A flush toilet wherein the rim inside wall portion comprises a rim inside wall upper sloped surface, and an improvement in user visibility and user rim portion cleanability is sought, flush water can be constrained from splashing outside the bowl portion by traveling by centrifugal force along the rim inside wall upper sloped surface from the inside surface formed at a relatively low height. The rim portion of the flush toilet of the invention includes a rim inside wall portion; the rim inside wall portion comprises a rim inside wall upper sloped surface, and an inside surface vertically extending straight up to the rim inside wall upper sloped surface; and the water supply apparatus comprises a constant flow rate valve for spouting a predetermined constant flow rate of flush water from the water spouting portion.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A flush toilet comprising:
a bowl portion including a bowl-shaped waste receiving surface and a rim portion formed on a top edge of the waste receiving surface;
a discharge path for discharging waste, the discharge path has an inlet that is connected at a bottom of the bowl portion;
a spout portion for generating a circulating current by spouting flush water to the bowl portion;
a water conduit for supplying flush water to the water spout portion;
and a water supply apparatus for supplying flush water to the water conduit;
wherein the rim portion comprises a rim inside wall portion forming an inner perimeter of the rim portion, and the rim inside wall portion comprises a rim inside wall upper sloped surface and an inner side surface, the rim inside wall upper sloped surface being positioned on a top region of the rim inside wall portion and being sloped downward toward the inner side surface, the inner side surface in a vertical cross section being formed in a straight line which rises vertically or overhangs toward an inside of the bowl portion up to the rim inside wall upper sloped surface; and
wherein the water supply apparatus comprises a constant flow rate device for spouting a constant flow rate of flush water from the water spout portion.

2. The flush toilet of claim 1 , wherein the rim portion comprises a rim top surface portion forming a top surface on the rim portion, and a rim outside wall portion forming an outer perimeter of the rim portion;
the rim outside wall portion comprises a rim outside wall upper sloped surface in which an outside of the rim outside wall portion upper region is sloped downward; and
the horizontal distance between the upper end of the rim inside wall upper sloped surface and the lower end of the rim inside wall upper sloped surface is longer than the horizontal distance between the upper end of the rim outside wall upper sloped surface and the lower end of the rim outside wall upper sloped surface.

3. The flush toilet of claim 1 , wherein the rim inside wall upper sloped surface is formed in an arc shape.

4. The flush toilet of claim 1 , wherein a bottom edge of the rim inside wall upper sloped surface is disposed above a top edge of the water spout portion.

5. The flush toilet of claim 3 , wherein the rim outside wall upper sloped surface is formed in an arc shape, and furthermore a ratio between the radius of the arc forming the rim outside wall upper sloped surface and the radius of the arc forming the rim inside wall upper sloped surface is formed to be within a ratio range of 1:2 to 1:5.

6. The flush toilet of claim 1 , wherein the rim inside wall upper sloped surface is formed such that the vertical distance between the upper end of the rim inside wall upper sloped surface and the lower end of the rim inside wall upper sloped surface is 10% to 60% of the vertical distance between the upper end of the rim inside wall portion and the lower end of the rim inside wall portion.

7. The flush toilet of claim 3 , wherein the rim inside wall upper sloped surface is configured to have an arc whose radius is between 10 mm and 30 mm inclusive.

8. The flush toilet of claim 1 , wherein the constant flow rate device comprises a constant flow rate valve.

9. The flush toilet of claim 1 , wherein the constant flow rate device comprises a pump.

10. A flush toilet comprising:
a bowl portion including a bowl-shaped waste receiving surface and a rim portion formed on a top edge of the waste receiving surface;
a discharge path for discharging waste, the discharge path has an inlet that is connected at a bottom of the bowl portion;
a spout portion for generating a circulating current by spouting flush water to the bowl portion;
a water conduit for supplying flush water to the water spout portion;
and a water supply apparatus for supplying flush water to the water conduit;
wherein the rim portion comprises a rim inside wall portion forming an inner perimeter of the rim portion, and the rim inside wall portion comprises a rim inside wall upper sloped surface and an inner side surface, the rim inside wall upper sloped surface being positioned on a top region of the rim inside wall portion and being sloped downward toward the inner side surface, the inner side surface in a vertical cross section being formed in a straight line which rises vertically up to the rim inside wall upper sloped surface in one region of the rim portion and overhanging toward an inside of the bowl portion in another region of the rim portion; and
wherein the water supply apparatus comprises a constant flow rate device for spouting a constant flow rate of flush water from the water spout portion.

Assignees

• Toto Ltd

Inventors

• Kashirajima Shu
• Asada Kyoji
• Yamakawa Satoshi
• Mizoguchi kazuyoshi
• Kitamura Masaki

Classifications

• E03D2201/40

  Devices for distribution of flush water inside the bowl · CPC title

• E03D11/08

  Bowls with means producing a flushing water swirl · CPC title

• E03D11/13

  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

• E03D11/06 Primary

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