Patents by Inventor Hironao Inoue

Hironao Inoue 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: 10294644
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: LIXIL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akiya Saeki, Hiroaki Watanabe, Yukihiro Inoue, Tooru Higashino, Masato Takeda, Akiya Oohira, Takeya Ichiyanagi, Yasuhiro Kondo, Hironao Inoue, Tetsuo Hata
  • Publication number: 20170247870
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2017
    Publication date: August 31, 2017
    Applicant: LIXIL Corporation
    Inventors: Akiya SAEKI, Hiroaki WATANABE, Yukihiro INOUE, Tooru HIGASHINO, Masato TAKEDA, Akiya OOHIRA, Takeya ICHIYANAGI, Yasuhiro KONDO, Hironao INOUE, Tetsuo HATA
  • Patent number: 7165577
    Abstract: A cleaning valve drive unit constituted to be able to supply water to a toilet by manual rotational operation of a main shaft in which the main shaft is constituted to be able to pull out from a cleaning operation position to a draining operation position. Whereas an operation limiting mechanism with respect to the main shaft enables to carry out cleaning operation to the toilet by rotational operation around an axis line with respect to the main shaft when the main shaft is disposed at the cleaning operation position, when the main shaft is moved to the draining operation position, the operation limiting mechanism permits to drain water by the rotational operation around the axis line with respect to the main shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2007
    Assignee: Nidec Sankyo Corporation & Inax Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Iwashita, Tsuyoshi Nakasone, Katsunori Tomita, Takanori Idota, Hironao Inoue
  • Publication number: 20040244849
    Abstract: A cleaning valve drive unit constituted to be able to supply water to a toilet by manual rotational operation of a main shaft in which the main shaft is constituted to be able to pull out from a cleaning operation position to a draining operation position. Whereas an operation limiting mechanism with respect to the main shaft enables to carry out cleaning operation to the toilet by rotational operation around an axis line with respect to the main shaft when the main shaft is disposed at the cleaning operation position, when the main shaft is moved to the draining operation position, the operation limiting mechanism permits to drain water by the rotational operation around the axis line with respect to the main shaft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2003
    Publication date: December 9, 2004
    Applicants: SANKYO SEIKI MFG. CO., LTD, INAX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Iwashita, Tsuyoshi Nakasone, Katsunori Tomita, Takanori Idota, Hironao Inoue