Patents by Inventor Hideaki Kashimura

Hideaki Kashimura 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).

  • Patent number: 11572682
    Abstract: A flush toilet apparatus includes a toilet body that includes a rim water spout port, a tank that stores washing water, a rim side water supply channel that supplies washing water to the rim water spout port, a tank side water supply channel that supplies washing water to the tank, a flow channel switching part that adjusts an amount of washing water that is supplied to one or both of the rim side water supply channel and the tank side water supply channel, and an electrical power failure detection part that detects electrical power failure, wherein, in a case where electrical power failure is caused when washing water is supplied to the tank side water supply channel, the flow channel switching part decreases washing water that is supplied to the tank side water supply channel and increases washing water that is supplied to the rim side water supply channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: TOTO LTD.
    Inventors: Hideaki Kashimura, Hiroki Tanaka, Kenji Watanabe, Satoshi Takano, Yoshikatsu Adachi, Koichi Motooka, Yuki Hayashi
  • Patent number: 11505932
    Abstract: A water supply mechanism includes a switching part that executes switching between water supply and water shut-off, a manual operation valve on the switching part that is capable of a manual operation thereof, and a pushing member that pushes the manual operation valve to provide a valve-closed state. The manual operation valve is pulled in a direction opposite to a pushing direction of the pushing member to provide a valve-opened state. The manual operation valve includes a plunger, an external cylinder member that encloses the plunger, a first engaging point in the external cylinder member, and a fixation part in the external cylinder member that fixes the plunger in the valve-closed state or the valve-opened state. The plunger moves beyond the first engaging point as the manual operation valve is pulled, and is fixed in the valve-opened state as a pull of the manual operation valve is released.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: TOTO LTD.
    Inventors: Hideaki Kashimura, Hiroki Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20220275625
    Abstract: A flush toilet apparatus includes a toilet body that includes a rim water spout port, a tank that stores washing water, a rim side water supply channel that supplies washing water to the rim water spout port, a tank side water supply channel that supplies washing water to the tank, a flow channel switching part that adjusts an amount of washing water that is supplied to one or both of the rim side water supply channel and the tank side water supply channel, and an electrical power failure detection part that detects electrical power failure, wherein, in a case where electrical power failure is caused when washing water is supplied to the tank side water supply channel, the flow channel switching part decreases washing water that is supplied to the tank side water supply channel and increases washing water that is supplied to the rim side water supply channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2022
    Publication date: September 1, 2022
    Inventors: Hideaki Kashimura, Hiroki Tanaka, Kenji Watanabe, Satoshi Takano, Yoshikatsu Adachi, Koichi Motooka, Yuki Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20210404161
    Abstract: A water supply mechanism includes a switching part that executes switching between water supply and water shut-off, a manual operation valve on the switching part that is capable of a manual operation thereof, and a pushing member that pushes the manual operation valve to provide a valve-closed state. The manual operation valve is pulled in a direction opposite to a pushing direction of the pushing member to provide a valve-opened state. The manual operation valve includes a plunger, an external cylinder member that encloses the plunger, a first engaging point in the external cylinder member, and a fixation part in the external cylinder member that fixes the plunger in the valve-closed state or the valve-opened state. The plunger moves beyond the first engaging point as the manual operation valve is pulled, and is fixed in the valve-opened state as a pull of the manual operation valve is released.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2021
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Inventors: Hideaki Kashimura, Hiroki Tanaka
  • Patent number: 6418119
    Abstract: In a communication system pursuant to the frame relay (FR) architecture, to prevent disability of a data transmission due to the discarding of LMI data. When receiving FR frames from an FR terminal 16, a multiplexer 14-2 separates LMI frames stored with LMI data from user frames stored with user frames, based on values of DLCI address fields, and queues them separately. The multiplexer 14-2 sends all of the queued LMI frames via the data transmission path 18 in a preferential manner and, then, it sends a portion of the queued user frames that is transmissible by a remaining portion of the transmission capacity to the data transmission path 18, thereby causing the user frames alone to be subjected to shaping processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2002
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Tomoaki Hatta, Hideaki Kashimura