Patents Assigned to LIXIL Corporation
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Patent number: 10441118Abstract: Provided is a method of manufacturing a toilet seat that is formed by joining together a seat front member and a seat rear member. The method includes a cutting step of forming a processed surface of a joint part between the seat front member and the seat rear member by cutting the joint part between the seat front member and the seat rear member with a cutting tool having a curved cutting blade part such that the shape of the processed surface is formed in a curved shape in which the seat rear member side thereof protrudes outward in a cross section perpendicular to the direction in which the joint part extends.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2016Date of Patent: October 15, 2019Assignee: LIXIL CorporationInventors: Akitaka Hamajima, Yudai Morikawa, Motoki Kagawa, Toshiaki Ikeda, Ryuichi Yokoi, Kouta Higuchi, Ryosuke Nakamura, Ryosuke Suzuki
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Publication number: 20190309504Abstract: A wash basin includes a wash bowl portion and an outer lateral portion that is connected to an outer peripheral portion of the wash bowl portion and has a lower end portion mounted on the supporting member. On a lower surface side of the wash bowl portion, each of recessed grooves is formed in a connecting portion between an outer peripheral surface of the outer lateral portion and the wash bowl portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 1, 2017Publication date: October 10, 2019Applicant: LIXIL CorporationInventors: Yoshihiro YOSHIZAWA, Mamoru SAIDA, Tsutomu KOJIMA
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Patent number: 10435876Abstract: A bubble generator includes an ejector including a flow passage, a water supplier that supplies water into the flow passage, an air supplier that supplies air into the flow passage, a cleaner supplier that supplies a cleaner into the flow passage, and a bubble discharger that discharges bubbles generated by mixing the water, the air, and the cleaner; a water supply device that supplies water to the flow passage via the water supplier, and a cleaner supply device that supplies the cleaner to the flow passage via the cleaner supplier. The cleaner supplier is formed on a lower surface of the flow passage.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2016Date of Patent: October 8, 2019Assignee: LIXIL CorporationInventors: Hirokazu Shimasaki, Kouji Fukuya, Masato Wakabayashi, Shuhei Haida, Koji Shimizu
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Patent number: 10435878Abstract: A flush toilet is provided with a toilet main unit and a functional unit. The toilet main unit has a toilet bowl and an upper surface portion on which a recessed portion is formed. The functional unit is provided on the rear side of the toilet bowl and offers a function different from a function for washing the toilet bowl. The functional unit is able to move between an entering position where at least a portion of the functional unit is located inside the recessed portion and a retreating position where the entire functional unit is located outside the recessed portion.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2016Date of Patent: October 8, 2019Assignee: LIXIL CorporationInventors: Akiya Saeki, Hiroaki Watanabe, Tomoya Sasaki, Ryuichi Yokoi
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Patent number: 10435877Abstract: A flush toilet includes a toilet bowl part, flush water conduits that guides flush water toward the toilet bowl part, a bubble passage provided separately from the flush water conduits, the bubble passage that guides bubbles toward the toilet bowl part, and a bubble generator provided in the bubble passage, the bubble generator that generates bubbles.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2016Date of Patent: October 8, 2019Assignee: LIXIL CorporationInventors: Kouji Fukuya, Hirokazu Shimasaki, Masato Wakabayashi, Shuhei Haida, Koji Shimizu
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Patent number: 10392787Abstract: A detachment sensor detects attachment and detachment of a water discharger to and from a retainer. An object sensor detects presence of an object. A controller causes water discharge triggered by detection of an object by the object sensor while the water discharger is attached to the retainer and suppresses water discharge triggered by detection of an object by the object sensor while the water discharger is detached from the retainer. The controller suppresses water discharge triggered by detection of an object by the object sensor after attachment of the water discharger to the retainer until a non-detection state of an object by the object sensor continues for a predetermined period of time.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2017Date of Patent: August 27, 2019Assignee: LIXIL CORPORATIONInventors: Azumi Kamata, Yuki Shirai, Mamoru Hashimoto
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Patent number: 10392790Abstract: A flush toilet of the present invention includes a bowl; a toilet drainage water pathway which communicates with the bowl and a drainage water socket and into which a cleaning water flows from the bowl; and a valve portion which includes a rotating axis and a flapper, and which is configured to open and close the toilet drainage water pathway, the rotating axis being provided in the toilet drainage water pathway, the flapper being connected to the rotating axis and being provided so as to be capable of rotating about the rotating axis.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2016Date of Patent: August 27, 2019Assignee: LIXIL CorporationInventors: Reo Seike, Kouji Fukuya, Kazuya Yashima, Takamasa Ina, Yousuke Ban
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Patent number: 10358808Abstract: A toilet device includes a private part cleaning device, a warm air dying device, and a shutter and, when drying a private part using the warm air drying device, the shutter is configured to rotate such that a rear surface is directed toward an upper side and open an outlet, and the warm air drying device is configured to blow out warm air from the outlet to the rear surface of the shutter directed to the upper side and to cause the warm air guided by the shutter to be blown out to the private part side.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2016Date of Patent: July 23, 2019Assignee: LIXIL CorporationInventors: Toshihiko Komatsu, Hiroaki Watanabe, Yasuyuki Furutani, Ryosuke Nakamura, Tomoya Sasaki
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Publication number: 20190203455Abstract: The toilet device is provided with a toilet device including a relay coil that has a first coil connected to one end of a connecting line and a second coil connected to the other end of the connecting line and a power reception coil. The first coil is configured to output the power received from a power supply coil by utilizing magnetic resonance to the second coil via the connecting line. The second coil is configured to supply the power received via the connecting line to the power reception coil by utilizing magnetic resonance.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 9, 2017Publication date: July 4, 2019Applicant: LIXIL CorporationInventors: Hiroshi MATSUDA, Naohisa OOTA, Shunsuke TAKAHASHI
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Publication number: 20190153712Abstract: A flush toilet includes: a toilet main body; a rim which is provided on an upper portion of a toilet bowl of the toilet main body and which flows a flush water into the toilet bowl; and a water level detection sensor which is provided inside the rim.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 16, 2017Publication date: May 23, 2019Applicant: LIXIL CorporationInventors: Saori ICHIHARA, Isato HIRASAWA, Tomoya SASAKI, Takeya ICHIYANAGI, Sou OKUIZUMI, Makoto SARUTA
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Patent number: 10294644Abstract: Afforded are: a toilet body including a toilet bowl part, a rim conduit 36, and a rim part; and a functional component mounted on an upper surface part of the toilet body, rearward of the toilet bowl part. The upper surface part includes a cut-out part formed such as to be recessed downward from the other part of the upper surface part. The functional component is disposed on the cut-out part such as to be partially positioned downward with respect to an upper surface of the rim part, and such as to be partially stuck out into the toilet bowl part from upon the cut-out part, and, on a bottom surface of the stuck-out part, the functional component is provided with a conduit forming surface serving as an upper surface of the rim conduit.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2017Date of Patent: May 21, 2019Assignee: LIXIL CORPORATIONInventors: Akiya Saeki, Hiroaki Watanabe, Yukihiro Inoue, Tooru Higashino, Masato Takeda, Akiya Oohira, Takeya Ichiyanagi, Yasuhiro Kondo, Hironao Inoue, Tetsuo Hata
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Publication number: 20190112799Abstract: A flush toilet includes multiple discharge outlets formed in a rim part and provided to discharge flush water in one circumferential direction along an inner peripheral surface of the rim part, and, when a toilet bowl part is divided into four divided regions in plan view by a lateral center line, and a longitudinal center line, the multiple discharge outlets include a first discharge outlet provided in at least one of a first divided region and a second divided region, and a second discharge outlet provided in a third divided region, and a water discharge part is configured such that the amount of flush water discharged through the first discharge outlet is larger than the amount of flush water discharged through the second discharge outlet.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 24, 2017Publication date: April 18, 2019Applicant: LIXIL CorporationInventors: Takamasa INA, Takashi MARUYAMA, Kenichi ITO
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Publication number: 20190112797Abstract: A toilet device includes a toilet main body, a base plate-which is provided on an upper portion of the toilet main body and on which a functional unit is mounted, and a cover which covers the base plate from an upper side such that the functional unit is accommodated. The cover has a protrusion portion that protrudes further downward than the base plate and that is positioned closer to a toilet bowl of the toilet main body than the base plate. A recess portion, which communicates with the toilet bowl and is open to the upper side, is formed in the toilet main body. The base plate is arranged on the recess portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2017Publication date: April 18, 2019Applicant: LIXIL CorporationInventors: Isato HIRASAWA, Saori ICHIHARA, Kentarou TSUJI, Hiroto KUTSUZAWA, Tomoya SASAKI, Hiroaki WATANABE, Yuji NAKAYAMA, Tsunaki ITOU, Miyoko TATEISHI
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Publication number: 20190112798Abstract: A toilet flushing device includes a first rim water pipe within which is formed a first water passage through which water flows to a first rim discharge hole, through which water is discharged to a rim part of a toilet bowl. The first rim water pipe extends from the first rim discharge hole toward a rear part of the toilet bowl, and the rear part side of the first rim water pipe is positioned lower than the first rim discharge hole.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 24, 2017Publication date: April 18, 2019Applicant: LIXIL CorporationInventors: Ken HIGUCHI, Takeya ICHIYANAGI, Yasuhiro KONDO
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Publication number: 20190085544Abstract: A facility device includes a sensor which includes a light transmitting unit that transmits an optical signal and a light receiving unit that receives a reflected signal which is the optical signal transmitted from the light transmitting unit, reached a target object, and reflected, the light receiving unit transmitting a detection signal on the basis of the received reflected signal; and a panel which is arranged at a position in a first direction from the sensor. A display portion is provided on the panel, the display portion being configured to guide the target object to be placed at a predetermined position. The light transmitting unit includes a first light transmitting unit that is arranged to be capable of being directed toward a location which is in the first direction from the display portion. The display portion is arranged adjacent to the sensor in a front view of the facility device.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2018Publication date: March 21, 2019Applicant: LIXIL CorporationInventors: Hiroto KUTSUZAWA, Nobuyuki MATSUDA, Makoto KOTEGAWA, Keiko NAKAGAWA, Yoshifumi OGAWA, Tomokazu TOYA, Toshihiko KOMATSU, Kentarou TSUJI
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Publication number: 20190084895Abstract: A sanitary ware includes a base, and a glaze layer formed on an outer side than the base. In color representation by the Lab color system, an absolute value of a difference (?L) between an L value obtained from observation of a part with the glaze layer formed thereon and an L value obtained from observation of a part with the glaze layer substantially unformed thereon is not more than 12, or a color difference (?E) between a color in observation of the part with the glaze layer formed thereon and a color in observation of the part with the glaze layer 5 substantially unformed thereon is not more than 14. Even though the thickness of the glaze layer varies so that the color of the base may be shown more or less through the glaze layer, there is almost no difference in color seen from the glaze layer side.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2018Publication date: March 21, 2019Applicant: LIXIL CorporationInventors: Ryo YASUDA, Yuuki KAWAMURA
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Patent number: 10208470Abstract: A method for removing odors produced in a toilet main unit of a toilet is made available. Specifically, a deodorizing unit having an air expulsion port and an air suctioning port is provided in a rear portion of the toilet main unit, and air is circulated by expelling air through the expulsion port such as to laterally swirl the air along an inner surface of the toilet's bowl, and by suctioning swirled returning air via the suctioning port. Deodorization is carried out in the course of circulating the air.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2016Date of Patent: February 19, 2019Assignee: Lixil CorporationInventors: Toshihiko Komatsu, Hiroaki Watanabe, Yasuyuki Furutani, Dai Goto, Takuma Uchiyama, Kensaku Hiraoka, Tomoya Sasaki
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Publication number: 20190038090Abstract: A toilet system having a toilet device with a toilet seat and electricity-using equipment such as an electronic component unit; a power supplying device that is disposed behind a wall and that has a power supply coil by which power is supplied; and a power receiving device that has a power receiving coil built into the toilet seat, that has a resonance frequency with respect to the power supplying device set, and that supplies power received from the power supplying device by way of magnetic resonance to the electricity-using equipment such as the electronic component unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2017Publication date: February 7, 2019Applicant: LIXIL CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroshi MATSUDA, Naohisa OOTA
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Patent number: D840000Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2017Date of Patent: February 5, 2019Assignee: LIXIL CORPORATIONInventor: Shinichiro Yoshihara
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Patent number: D841778Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2016Date of Patent: February 26, 2019Assignee: LIXIL CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshihiko Ando, Kousuke Yasuma, Hiromi Awada, Nobuaki Itazu