Patents by Inventor Masayuki Mochita
Masayuki Mochita has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 10724221Abstract: According to one embodiment, a sanitary washing device includes a nozzle being capable of discharging water toward a human body private part, a solenoid valve provided on a water channel between a water supply source and the nozzle, the solenoid valve opening and shutting the water channel, and a pressure regulator valve provided on the water channel between the solenoid valve and the nozzle, the pressure regulator valve regulating a pressure of water flowing through the water channel. At least a portion of the pressure regulator valve is disposed in a range to which the solenoid valve is projected from upward to downward.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2017Date of Patent: July 28, 2020Assignee: TOTO LTD.Inventors: Takakuni Yoshida, Masayuki Mochita, Yoshihiro Koto, Takeshi Yamakawa
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Publication number: 20200056358Abstract: According to one embodiment, a sanitary washing apparatus includes a private part washing nozzle configured to wash a human body private part, a tube configured to supply water to the private part washing nozzle, an incoming water connection part connected to an upstream side of the tube and configured to supply water to the tube, a casing storing the private part washing nozzle, the tube, and the incoming water connection part, and a nozzle wash part configured to wash the private part washing nozzle. The private part washing nozzle is curved upward to be convex, and has a first region positioned frontward of the nozzle wash part in an advanced state in which the private part washing nozzle advances from the casing. The incoming water connection part is provided under the private part washing nozzle, and is rotatable.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 16, 2019Publication date: February 20, 2020Inventors: Yuki Ko, Masayuki Mochita, Junki Hamada
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Patent number: 10344463Abstract: A sanitary washing device according to an embodiment includes a casing, a water supply pipe, and a recess. The water supply pipe is connected to the casing. The recess is arranged on one of left and right peripheral sides of the casing and forms, on a lower surface of the casing, an open space capable of laying the water supply pipe.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2017Date of Patent: July 9, 2019Assignee: TOTO LTD.Inventors: Satoshi Kawada, Masayuki Mochita, Takeshi Yamakawa
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Publication number: 20190200819Abstract: According to one embodiment, a toilet lid device includes a casing, a toilet seat and a toilet lid rotatably supported with respect to the casing, and a first support portion and a second support portion rotatably supporting the toilet lid with respect to the casing. The casing is provided between left and right side surfaces of the casing. The casing includes first and second grooves. The first and second grooves are not exposed on the left and right side surfaces. The toilet lid includes first and second hinge portions. The first hinge portion is connected to the first support portion in the first groove, and the second hinge portion is connected to the second support portion in the second groove. Each of the left and right side surfaces of the casing does not include a step backward a rear end of the toilet seat.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2018Publication date: July 4, 2019Inventors: Masayuki Mochita, Yukari Kawazu, Megumi Hirayama, Minoru Matsui
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Publication number: 20190200820Abstract: According to one embodiment, a toilet lid device includes a casing, and a toilet seat and a toilet lid rotatably supported with respect to the casing. A lower surface of the toilet lid covers an upper surface of the toilet seat and an upper surface of the casing in a state of the toilet lid closed. The lower surface of the toilet lid has a first lower surface parallel to the upper surface of the toilet seat and a second lower surface parallel to the upper surface of the casing.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2018Publication date: July 4, 2019Inventors: Masayuki Mochita, Yukari Kawazu, Megumi Hirayama
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Patent number: 10299640Abstract: A sanitary washing apparatus according to an embodiment includes a base plate and a body part. The base plate has a pair of mounting holes that corresponds to a pair of through-holes formed on an upper surface of a toilet bowl and is mounted on the upper surface of the toilet bowl by inserting fastening members mounted on the pair of mounting holes through the pair of through-holes. The body part incorporates a functional component that includes a washing nozzle, and is mounted on the toilet bowl via the base plate. Furthermore, a mounting part for the body part is formed only between the pair of mounting holes on the base plate.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2017Date of Patent: May 28, 2019Assignee: TOTO LTD.Inventors: Tomomi Rokuta, Akihiro Ashihara, Yukari Kawazu, Tomoaki Suetsugu, Masayuki Mochita
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Publication number: 20180058054Abstract: According to one embodiment, a sanitary washing device includes a nozzle being capable of discharging water toward a human body private part, a solenoid valve provided on a water channel between a water supply source and the nozzle, the solenoid valve opening and shutting the water channel, and a pressure regulator valve provided on the water channel between the solenoid valve and the nozzle, the pressure regulator valve regulating a pressure of water flowing through the water channel. At least a portion of the pressure regulator valve is disposed in a range to which the solenoid valve is projected from upward to downward.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 1, 2017Publication date: March 1, 2018Inventors: Takakuni Yoshida, Masayuki Mochita, Yoshihiro Koto, Takeshi Yamakawa
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Publication number: 20180058057Abstract: A sanitary washing device according to an embodiment includes a casing, a water supply pipe, and a recess. The water supply pipe is connected to the casing. The recess is arranged on one of left and right peripheral sides of the casing and forms, on a lower surface of the casing, an open space capable of laying the water supply pipe.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 8, 2017Publication date: March 1, 2018Inventors: Satoshi Kawada, Masayuki Mochita, Takeshi Yamakawa
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Publication number: 20180049606Abstract: A sanitary washing apparatus according to an embodiment includes a base plate and a body part. The base plate has a pair of mounting holes that corresponds to a pair of through-holes formed on an upper surface of a toilet bowl and is mounted on the upper surface of the toilet bowl by inserting fastening members mounted on the pair of mounting holes through the pair of through-holes. The body part incorporates a functional component that includes a washing nozzle, and is mounted on the toilet bowl via the base plate. Furthermore, a mounting part for the body part is formed only between the pair of mounting holes on the base plate.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 9, 2017Publication date: February 22, 2018Inventors: Tomomi Rokuta, Akihiro Ashihara, Yukari Kawazu, Tomoaki Suetsugu, Masayuki Mochita
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Patent number: 9096997Abstract: A sanitary washing apparatus is provided according to one aspect of the invention, where the sanitary washing apparatus includes: a washing nozzle having a water discharge port, where the washing nozzle is configured to wash a body of a user by squirting water from the water discharge port; and a casing capable of storing the washing nozzle. The washing nozzle is configured to change from a stored state to an advanced state while transitioning to an orientation having a greater angle of an axis of the washing nozzle with respect to a horizontal plane, where the washing nozzle is stored in the casing in the stored state, and the washing nozzle is configured to wash the body in the advanced state.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2011Date of Patent: August 4, 2015Assignee: TOTO LTD.Inventors: Masayuki Mochita, Takeshi Yamakawa, Nobutake Sakumoto, Jun Kawamata, Mayako Adachi, Aiko Sato, Yosuke Inoue, Nanae Yamada
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Patent number: 9074361Abstract: According to one embodiment, a sanitary washing apparatus includes a nozzle including a jetting port and configured to squirt water from the jetting port and to cause the water to impinge on female private parts. The nozzle is operable to switch between a first jetting and a second jetting. The first jetting squirts the water from the jetting port to cause the water to impinge on a first range of the female private parts, and the second jetting squirts the water from the jetting port more diffusively than the first jetting to cause the water to impinge evenly on a second range wider than the first range without moving the jetting port. The water is squirted so that flow velocity in the first range of the first jetting is slower than flow velocity in the second range of the second jetting.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2011Date of Patent: July 7, 2015Assignee: TOTO LTD.Inventors: Masayuki Mochita, Minoru Sato, Masako Numao
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Patent number: 8561223Abstract: According to one aspect of the invention, there is provided a bathtub device including a bathtub 2, a jetting unit 3, a jetting driving unit 4, and a controller 5. The bathtub includes a first bathtub wall surface and a second bathtub wall surface opposed to the first bathtub wall surface. The jetting unit is provided in the second bathtub wall surface and configured to jet a jet flow to a sole of a bather bathing in the bathtub. The jetting driving unit is connected to the jetting unit and configured to adjust jetting flow rate of the jet flow jetted from the jetting unit. The controller is configured to control the jetting driving unit. The controller is configured to control the jetting driving unit to cause the jetting unit to intermittently jet the jet flow with a strength, a leg of the bather being passively bent by the jet flow with the strength.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2009Date of Patent: October 22, 2013Assignee: Toto LtdInventors: Minoru Sato, Tomohisa Kato, Masako Fujita, Masayuki Mochita
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Patent number: 8418278Abstract: A sanitary washing device includes a washing nozzle including a water discharge port; and a pressurizing device for pressurizing the wash water from the water discharge port, the device being configured to perform a first and a second water discharge process, in the first process, the wash water discharged later in a first time span higher than pressure of wash water discharged at beginning of the first water discharge process so that the wash water discharged later in the first time span overtakes and unites with the wash water discharged at beginning of the first water discharge process to form a first water drop at a predetermined position, in the second process, the pressure of wash water discharged later in the second time span higher than pressure of wash water discharged at beginning of the second water discharge process so that the wash water discharged later in the second time span overtakes and unites with the wash water discharged at beginning of the second water discharge process to form a secondType: GrantFiled: February 5, 2010Date of Patent: April 16, 2013Assignee: Toto LtdInventors: Masayuki Mochita, Minoru Sato, Akihiro Uemura, Hiroshi Hashimoto
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Patent number: 8381323Abstract: A sanitary washing apparatus having a bidet washing function for jetting water at private parts of a female user, the apparatus includes: a nozzle including a jetting port configured to jet water; a swirling chamber and a communication channel for jetting water as a hollow-conic-shape liquid film flow at the private parts of the female user from the jetting port; and a fluid squiring device for generating an intermittent granular flow of granular water balls so as to fill inside the liquid film before the liquid film flow impinges on the private parts.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2010Date of Patent: February 26, 2013Assignee: Toto LtdInventors: Masayuki Mochita, Minoru Sato, Masako Fujita
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Patent number: 8272077Abstract: A sanitary washing apparatus includes: a washing nozzle; and a pressurizing device. The sanitary washing apparatus that performs first and second jetting processes alternately jetted with a prescribed waiting time there between. The pressurizing device makes minimum pressure of water in the second jetting process higher than minimum pressure of water in the first jetting process and makes maximum pressure of water in the second jetting process higher than maximum pressure of water in the first jetting process so that the second water mass is faster than the first water mass. The prescribed waiting time between the first and the second jetting processes is set so that before the first water mass impinges on the human body, the second water mass having faster velocity than the first water mass overtakes the first water mass to enlarge jetting water cross-sectional area of the first water mass.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2011Date of Patent: September 25, 2012Assignee: Toto LtdInventors: Hiroshi Hashimoto, Minoru Sato, Masayuki Mochita, Akihiro Uemura
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Publication number: 20120117722Abstract: A sanitary washing apparatus is provided according to one aspect of the invention, where the sanitary washing apparatus includes: a washing nozzle having a water discharge port, where the washing nozzle is configured to wash a body of a user by squirting water from the water discharge port; and a casing capable of storing the washing nozzle. The washing nozzle is configured to change from a stored state to an advanced state while transitioning to an orientation having a greater angle of an axis of the washing nozzle with respect to a horizontal plane, where the washing nozzle is stored in the casing in the stored state, and the washing nozzle is configured to wash the body in the advanced state.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 11, 2011Publication date: May 17, 2012Applicant: TOTO LTD.Inventors: Masayuki Mochita, Takeshi Yamakawa, Nobutake Sakumoto, Jun Kawamata, Mayako Adachi, Aiko Sato, Yosuke Inoue, Nanae Yamada
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Publication number: 20120011647Abstract: According to one embodiment, a sanitary washing apparatus includes a nozzle including a jetting port and configured to squirt water from the jetting port and to cause the water to impinge on female private parts. The nozzle is operable to switch between a first jetting and a second jetting. The first jetting squirts the water from the jetting port to cause the water to impinge on a first range of the female private parts, and the second jetting squirts the water from the jetting port more diffusively than the first jetting to cause the water to impinge evenly on a second range wider than the first range without moving the jetting port. The water is squirted so that flow velocity in the first range of the first jetting is slower than flow velocity in the second range of the second jetting.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 14, 2011Publication date: January 19, 2012Applicant: TOTO LTD.Inventors: Masayuki Mochita, Minoru Sato, Masako Numao
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Publication number: 20110191951Abstract: A sanitary washing apparatus includes: a washing nozzle; and a pressurizing device. The sanitary washing apparatus being configured to perform first and second jetting processes alternately jetted with a prescribed waiting time there between. In the first jetting process, the pressurizing device makes pressure of water subsequently jetted higher than pressure of water previously jetted in the first jetting process so that the water subsequently jetted overtakes and unites with the water previously jetted in the first jetting process In the second jetting process, the pressurizing device makes pressure of water subsequently jetted higher than pressure of water previously jetted in the second jetting process so that the water subsequently jetted overtakes and unites with the water previously jetted in the second jetting process.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 7, 2011Publication date: August 11, 2011Applicant: TOTO LTDInventors: Hiroshi Hashimoto, Minoru Sato, Masayuki Mochita, Akihiro Uemura
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Publication number: 20110167554Abstract: According to one aspect of the invention, there is provided a bathtub device including a bathtub 2, a jetting unit 3, a jetting driving unit 4, and a controller 5. The bathtub includes a first bathtub wall surface and a second bathtub wall surface opposed to the first bathtub wall surface. The jetting unit is provided in the second bathtub wall surface and configured to jet a jet flow to a sole of a bather bathing in the bathtub. The jetting driving unit is connected to the jetting unit and configured to adjust jetting flow rate of the jet flow jetted from the jetting unit. The controller is configured to control the jetting driving unit. The controller is configured to control the jetting driving unit to cause the jetting unit to intermittently jet the jet flow with a strength, a leg of the bather being passively bent by the jet flow with the strength.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 3, 2009Publication date: July 14, 2011Applicant: TOTO LTDInventors: Minoru Sato, Tomohisa Kato, Masako Fujita, Masayuki Mochita
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Publication number: 20110072571Abstract: A sanitary washing apparatus having a bidet washing function for jetting water at private parts of a female user, the apparatus includes: a nozzle including a jetting port configured to jet water; jetting means for jetting water as a hollow-conic-shape liquid film flow at the private parts of the female user from the jetting port; and granular-flow generating means for generating an intermittent granular flow of granular water balls so as to fill inside the liquid film before the liquid film flow impinges on the private parts.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2010Publication date: March 31, 2011Applicant: TOTO LTD.Inventors: Masayuki Mochita, Minoru Sato, Masako Fujita