Patents by Inventor Hidetaka Miyahara

Hidetaka Miyahara 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: 8171576
    Abstract: A jetted bathtub includes: a bathtub; a suction port opening in a wall of the bathtub and allowing water stored in the bathtub to be sucked therein; a pressurizer configured to suck water from the suction port, and pressurize and discharge the water; and a jet nozzle having a single tube held on the wall below a rim of the bathtub, the jet nozzle being configured to eject water introduced into the tube so that the water is ejected into the bathtub with its ejection direction being varied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2012
    Assignee: Toto Ltd.
    Inventors: Hidekazu Kitaura, Katsushi Uryu, Hirotomo Suyama, Hidetaka Miyahara, Makoto Hatakeyama
  • Publication number: 20080235863
    Abstract: A jetted bathtub includes: a bathtub; a suction port opening in a wall of the bathtub and allowing water stored in the bathtub to be sucked therein; a pressurizer configured to suck water from the suction port, and pressurize and discharge the water; and a jet nozzle having a single tube held on the wall below a rim of the bathtub, the jet nozzle being configured to eject water introduced into the tube so that the water is ejected into the bathtub with its ejection direction being varied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2008
    Publication date: October 2, 2008
    Applicant: Toto Ltd.
    Inventors: Hidekazu Kitaura, Katsushi Uryu, Hirotomo Suyama, Hidetaka Miyahara, Makoto Hatakeyama
  • Publication number: 20030213055
    Abstract: A toilet 10 has a bowl 20, a connection pathway 31, an ascending pathway 32, and a descending pathway 33 across a weir 34. The descending pathway 33 includes an expanded section 33a having a greater pipeline diameter and a tapered end 33b having a narrower opening area than that of the expanded section 33a, and is connected with a drain socket 70. The drain socket 70 has an inner drain conduit socket member 72 that is attached to be located inside a drain conduit 90. The inner drain conduit socket member 72 has an extended socket section 75, which is located below a floor surface FL of a lavatory and has a greater pipeline diameter, and a tapered conduit section 76, which has a narrowed diameter. These sections 75 and 76 constitute a siphon action induction module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2003
    Publication date: November 20, 2003
    Applicant: TOTO LTD.
    Inventors: Toshifumi Yoneda, Masaya Sou, Shinji Shibata, Takayuki Ohtani, Hidetaka Miyahara, Noboru Shimbara, Koji Sakemi, Masahiro Shinkawa, Masaki Kitamura, Hiroshi Tomonari, Takeshi Shimizu
  • Publication number: 20030204902
    Abstract: A toilet 10 has a bowl 20, a connection pathway 31, an ascending pathway 32, and a descending pathway 33 across a weir 34. The descending pathway 33 includes an expanded section 33a having a greater pipeline diameter and a tapered end 33b having a narrower opening area than that of the expanded section 33a, and is connected with a drain socket 70. The drain socket 70 has an inner drain conduit socket member 72 that is attached to be located inside a drain conduit 90. The inner drain conduit socket member 72 has an extended socket section 75, which is located below a floor surface FL of a lavatory and has a greater pipeline diameter, and a tapered conduit section 76, which has a narrowed diameter. These sections 75 and 76 constitute a siphon action induction module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2003
    Publication date: November 6, 2003
    Inventors: Toshifumi Yoneda, Masaya Sou, Shinji Shibata, Takayuki Ohtani, Hidetaka Miyahara, Noboru Shimbara, Koji Sakemi, Masahiro Shinkawa, Masaki Kitamura, Hiroshi Tomonari, Takeshi Shimizu
  • Patent number: 6115853
    Abstract: When a cleaning button for cleaning the toilet bowl is operated, by a manner as pressing, a switching valve 41 switches the flushing water supply destination to a position for cleaning the bowl part. The flushing water is then jetted out of a spout nozzle 35 disposed inside a Z water conduit 161 as a jet flow. The jet flow from the spout nozzle 35 causes water inside the Z water conduit 161 and water inside the flushing water reservoir 104 to flow through the Z water conduit 161 and to be spouted toward an inlet 121 of a waste trap 102, like a jet flow spouted by a jet pump. This supplies a heavy flow of flushing water amplified in the volume into the waste trap 102 all at once to flush out the filth in the bowl part 101.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 1998
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2000
    Assignee: Toto Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinji Shibata, Takeshi Takaki, Yumiko Kataoka, Kiyoshi Fujino, Takenori Fukushima, Shingo Tanaka, Hiroshi Tsuboi, Hidetaka Miyahara
  • Patent number: 5865966
    Abstract: A non-membrane type electrolytic cell (10) comprises an anode plate (16, 20) and a cathode plate (18) which are arranged opposite to each other with an electrically insulating spacer (22) sandwiched therebetween. The spacer (22) is formed of plastics having a water absorption of not more than 0.3%, preferably not more than 0.2%, more preferably not more than 0.01%. Deposition of scale, such as calcium carbonate, on the spacer (22) is prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 1996
    Date of Patent: February 2, 1999
    Assignee: Toto Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Watanabe, Hiroshi Takamatsu, Hidetaka Miyahara, Shigeru Ando, Tomohiro Nishi
  • Patent number: 5858201
    Abstract: A strong acid sterilizing liquid containing hypochlorous acid at a low concentration consists of electrolyzed salt water, wherein the pH of the liquid is 3 or less and the concentration of the hypochlorous acid is 0.2 ppm to 2 ppm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 1997
    Date of Patent: January 12, 1999
    Assignee: Toto, Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshiharu Otsuka, Toshio Eki, Akemi Takeshita, Hidetaka Miyahara, Sigeru Ando
  • Patent number: 5534120
    Abstract: A water electrolyzer for electrolyzing water to produce and recover acidic and/or alkaline water. The electrolyzer is of the membraneless laminar-flow type which is designed to electrolyze water without placing a membrane between the electrodes. To this end, the anode and cathode are arranged closely with one another with a very small spacing (generally less than 1 mm) to establish a laminar flow in a narrow flow path. The anode is provided with a slit-shaped aperture for separating a thin layer of acidic water flowing along the anode surface. This aperture is situated sufficiently upstream of the downstream end of the flow path to ensure that the layer of acidic water is separated away from the remainder of the laminar flow while the laminar flow is sustained in the flow path. Accordingly, formation of turbulence at a point of acidic water separation is minimized so that highly acidic water can be recovered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 9, 1996
    Assignee: Toto Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigeru Ando, Hisato Haraga, Hidetaka Miyahara, Junji Tanaka, Hiroshi Takamatsu