Patents by Inventor Eiji Shiohara

Eiji Shiohara 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).

  • Publication number: 20170241119
    Abstract: There is provided a flush toilet that cleans a bowl using a swirl flow formed by cleaning water flowing down from a slit aperture formed on a rim. The flush toilet has a discharge passage an inlet of which is connected to a lower portion of a waste receiving having a bowl shape, and an inlet of an inlet conduit of the discharge passage is formed such that on a horizontal cross-section plane a maximum width of a front portion in a left-right direction is larger than a maximum width of a rear portion in the left-right direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2017
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Applicant: TOTO LTD.
    Inventors: Naoto MATSUO, Eiji SHIOHARA, Hiroyuki HARA
  • Publication number: 20170044751
    Abstract: To provide a flush toilet in which: a circulating flow can be formed to uniformly circulate over a waste receiving surface while flushing; localized changes in external appearance of a toilet main body can be inhibited; and impression of a left-right symmetrical external shape can be conveyed to users so that design characteristics thereof are favorably preserved. A rim portion in a flush toilet includes a slit opening portion formed between an upper edge portion of the waste receiving surface formed to be left-right asymmetrical and a rim inside wall formed to be left-right symmetrical. The slit opening portion is formed such that a slit gap on one side, to which a connecting water conduit is directed, is smaller than a slit gap on the other side. A circulating flow is formed on the waste-receiving surface by flush water spouted from the slit opening portion having the different slit gaps.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2016
    Publication date: February 16, 2017
    Inventors: Naoto MATSUO, Eiji SHIOHARA, Masaki KITAMURA, Masaaki INOUE
  • Publication number: 20050049925
    Abstract: A user ID and a corporation ID for identifying an organization to which the user belongs are pre-registered in association, and the corporation ID of the organization to which the user belongs is specified based on a login name entered when the user logs in a shopping site by a terminal (S1). Based on the specified corporation ID, a user ID of a user which is associated with the same corporation ID is specified (S2). Based on the specified user ID, order placement information corresponding to the user ID is searched for (S3), and an order placement condition for a predetermined period, of the organization to which the user belongs is displayed on the terminal (S4).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2002
    Publication date: March 3, 2005
    Inventors: Keisuke Kataoka, Atsushi Hanai, Sachiko Misumi, Eiji Shiohara, Shizuo Kamimura, Tatsuto Torikai