Patents by Inventor Masaaki MOMOE
Masaaki MOMOE 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).
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Patent number: 11952764Abstract: A flush toilet according to embodiments includes: a toilet body, a function unit, a panel member, and a holding part. The function unit is arranged in a rear part of the toilet body. The panel member covers a side surface of the function unit. The holding part causes the toilet body and a side surface of the panel member to attract and hold to each other by using magnetic force. In a state where being attached to the toilet body, the panel member is formed to be curved toward the toilet body. The holding part is formed such that an attraction surface of a panel-side magnetic material that is provided to the panel member and an attraction surface of a body-side magnetic material that is provided to the toilet body are formed in plane-shaped.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2022Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: TOTO LTD.Inventors: Yusuke Tone, Masaaki Momoe, Eiji Shiohara
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Patent number: 11946239Abstract: A flush toilet includes: a toilet body; a function unit arranged in a rear part of the toilet body; a panel member covering a side surface of the function unit and including a protruding part protruding toward the toilet body; and a holding part causing the toilet body and the panel member to hold to each other by magnetic force. The toilet body includes: a reception part arranged under the protruding part and receiving the protruding part in a state where the panel member is attached to the toilet body; and a protrusion part extending upward from the reception part. When the panel member is attached to the toilet body, the protrusion part is in a position where at least a part of the protrusion part is overlapped with the protruding part in a rear view when the toilet body is viewed from behind.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: TOTO LTD.Inventors: Yusuke Tone, Masaaki Momoe, Eiji Shiohara
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Patent number: 11739518Abstract: A flush toilet includes a toilet body that includes a bowl part that receives waste, a functional part that is provided on a back side of the toilet body, a panel member that covers a side surface of the functional part, a first holding part that adsorbs and holds the toilet body and a side surface of the panel member by magnetic force, and a second holding part that adsorbs and holds the functional part and a side surface of the panel member by magnetic force. The panel member is capable of being slid frontward, backward, upward, and downward in a state where the panel member is adsorbed and held by the first holding part and the second holding part.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2022Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignee: TOTO LTD.Inventors: Eiji Shiohara, Yusuke Tone, Masaaki Momoe, Kazuya Esaki, Masaki Mori
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Publication number: 20230064176Abstract: A flush toilet according to embodiments includes: a toilet body, a function unit, a panel member, and a holding part. The function unit is arranged in a rear part of the toilet body. The panel member covers a side surface of the function unit. The holding part causes the toilet body and a side surface of the panel member to attract and hold to each other by using magnetic force. In a state where being attached to the toilet body, the panel member is formed to be curved toward the toilet body. The holding part is formed such that an attraction surface of a panel-side magnetic material that is provided to the panel member and an attraction surface of a body-side magnetic material that is provided to the toilet body are formed in plane-shaped.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 17, 2022Publication date: March 2, 2023Inventors: Yusuke Tone, Masaaki Momoe, Eiji Shiohara
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Publication number: 20230061790Abstract: A flush toilet includes: a toilet body; a function unit arranged in a rear part of the toilet body; a panel member covering a side surface of the function unit and including a protruding part protruding toward the toilet body; and a holding part causing the toilet body and the panel member to hold to each other by magnetic force. The toilet body includes: a reception part arranged under the protruding part and receiving the protruding part in a state where the panel member is attached to the toilet body; and a protrusion part extending upward from the reception part. When the panel member is attached to the toilet body, the protrusion part is in a position where at least a part of the protrusion part is overlapped with the protruding part in a rear view when the toilet body is viewed from behind.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 18, 2022Publication date: March 2, 2023Inventors: Yusuke Tone, Masaaki Momoe, Eiji Shiohara
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Patent number: 11549252Abstract: There are included a toilet body including a bowl part that receives waste; a function unit that is arranged in a rear portion of the toilet body; a panel member that covers a side surface of the function unit; a magnet that is provided to the panel member; and a magnetic material that is provided to an attachment part of the toilet body, wherein the magnetic material is elastically deformable, and is attached to the attachment part to put the attachment part therebetween.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2022Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: TOTO LTD.Inventors: Eiji Shiohara, Yusuke Tone, Masaaki Momoe, Kazuya Esaki, Masaki Mori
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Patent number: 11479956Abstract: There is provided a flush toilet that performs flushing by rim spouting, the flush toilet allowing the size of a flush water tank to be reduced while enabling discharge of a sufficient amount of flush water to a toilet main body. A flush toilet 1 includes a toilet main body 2 including a bowl 2a, a rim 2c and a rim spout port 2f for discharging supplied flush water to the rim 2c, a flush water tank device 4, a pump device 6, a water supply device 8, and a controller 10, where the controller 10 is capable of performing a flushing mode in which the total amount of discharge of flush water discharged to the rim spout port 2f by the pump device 6 is greater than a tank capacity of the flush water tank device 4, and the controller 10 controls driving of the pump device 6 and the water supply device 8 in the flushing mode such that at least a part of a water supply period when flush water is supplied by the water supply device overlaps a discharge period when flush water is discharged by the pump device 6.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2021Date of Patent: October 25, 2022Assignee: TOTO LTD.Inventors: Masaaki Momoe, Shu Kashirajima
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Patent number: 11473282Abstract: A flush toilet includes a toilet main body and a tank device, where the tank device includes a water supply part, a storage tank, a small tank, a pump, a float switch, and a controller, a collision part against which flush water that is supplied from the water supply part to the storage tank via the small tank collides is provided in the storage tank, and the collision part is formed to cause the flush water to fall onto a water surface on the float switch side in the storage tank after collision.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2020Date of Patent: October 18, 2022Assignee: TOTO LTD.Inventors: Masaaki Momoe, Shu Kashirajima
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Publication number: 20220316199Abstract: A flush toilet includes a toilet body that includes a bowl part that receives waste, a functional part that is provided on a back side of the toilet body, a panel member that covers a side surface of the functional part, a magnet that is provided on one of the panel member and the toilet body, and a magnetic body that is provided on another of the panel member and the toilet body, where at least one of the panel member and the toilet body includes an attachment part that includes a recessed part for attaching the magnet or the magnetic body to the attachment part.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2022Publication date: October 6, 2022Inventors: Eiji Shiohara, Yusuke Tone, Masaaki Momoe, Kazuya Esaki, Masaki Mori
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Publication number: 20220316197Abstract: There are included a toilet body including a bowl part that receives waste; a function unit that is arranged in a rear portion of the toilet body; a panel member that covers a side surface of the function unit; a magnet that is provided to the panel member; and a magnetic material that is provided to an attachment part of the toilet body, wherein the magnetic material is elastically deformable, and is attached to the attachment part to put the attachment part therebetween.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 3, 2022Publication date: October 6, 2022Inventors: Eiji Shiohara, Yusuke Tone, Masaaki Momoe, Kazuya Esaki, Masaki Mori
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Publication number: 20220316200Abstract: A flush toilet includes a toilet body that includes a bowl part that receives waste, a functional part that is provided on a back side of the toilet body, a panel member that covers a side surface of the functional part, a first holding part that adsorbs and holds the toilet body and a side surface of the panel member by magnetic force, and a second holding part that adsorbs and holds the functional part and a side surface of the panel member by magnetic force. The panel member is capable of being slid frontward, backward, upward, and downward in a state where the panel member is adsorbed and held by the first holding part and the second holding part.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 3, 2022Publication date: October 6, 2022Inventors: Eiji Shiohara, Yusuke Tone, Masaaki Momoe, Kazuya Esaki, Masaki Mori
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Publication number: 20220316198Abstract: A flush toilet includes a toilet body that includes a bowl part that receives waste, a functional part that is provided on a back side of the toilet body, a panel member that covers a side surface of the functional part, a magnet that is provided on one of the panel member and the toilet body, a magnetic body that is provided on another of the panel member and the toilet body, and a holding part that holds one of the magnet and the magnetic body so as to be capable of being moved or deformed toward another of the magnet and the magnetic body.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 28, 2022Publication date: October 6, 2022Inventors: Eiji Shiohara, Yusuke Tone, Masaaki Momoe, Kazuya Esaki, Masaki Mori
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Patent number: 11124956Abstract: The water conduit has: a first water-guiding portion extending from a water supply portion, where the flush water is supplied to the water conduit, to a first spout port located on one of right and left sides of the bowl portion; and a second water-guiding portion extending from the water supply portion to a second spout port located on the other side. The water supply portion is located at a position on the one side. The flush water is supplied to the water supply portion in a direction from the water supply portion toward the first water-guiding portion. A collision wall is provided on a way of the first water-guiding portion such that at least a part of the supplied flush water collides with the collision wall. The at least part of the flush water having collided with the collision wall is supplied to the second water-guiding portion.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2020Date of Patent: September 21, 2021Assignee: TOTO LTD.Inventors: Masaaki Momoe, Shu Kashirajima, Satoshi Takano, Masaki Mori
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Publication number: 20210238836Abstract: There is provided a flush toilet that performs flushing by rim spouting, the flush toilet allowing the size of a flush water tank to be reduced while enabling discharge of a sufficient amount of flush water to a toilet main body. A flush toilet 1 includes a toilet main body 2 including a bowl 2a, a rim 2c and a rim spout port 2f for discharging supplied flush water to the rim 2c, a flush water tank device 4, a pump device 6, a water supply device 8, and a controller 10, where the controller 10 is capable of performing a flushing mode in which the total amount of discharge of flush water discharged to the rim spout port 2f by the pump device 6 is greater than a tank capacity of the flush water tank device 4, and the controller 10 controls driving of the pump device 6 and the water supply device 8 in the flushing mode such that at least a part of a water supply period when flush water is supplied by the water supply device overlaps a discharge period when flush water is discharged by the pump device 6.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2021Publication date: August 5, 2021Inventors: Masaaki MOMOE, Shu KASHIRAJIMA
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Publication number: 20210095452Abstract: A flush toilet includes a toilet main body and a tank device, where the tank device includes a water supply part, a storage tank, a small tank, a pump, a float switch, and a controller, a collision part against which flush water that is supplied from the water supply part to the storage tank via the small tank collides is provided in the storage tank, and the collision part is formed to cause the flush water to fall onto a water surface on the float switch side in the storage tank after collision.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 18, 2020Publication date: April 1, 2021Inventors: Masaaki MOMOE, Shu KASHIRAJIMA
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Publication number: 20200378102Abstract: The water conduit has: a first water-guiding portion extending from a water supply portion, where the flush water is supplied to the water conduit, to a first spout port located on one of right and left sides of the bowl portion; and a second water-guiding portion extending from the water supply portion to a second spout port located on the other side. The water supply portion is located at a position on the one side. The flush water is supplied to the water supply portion in a direction from the water supply portion toward the first water-guiding portion. A collision wall is provided on a way of the first water-guiding portion such that at least a part of the supplied flush water collides with the collision wall. The at least part of the flush water having collided with the collision wall is supplied to the second water-guiding portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 18, 2020Publication date: December 3, 2020Inventors: Masaaki MOMOE, Shu KASHIRAJIMA, Satoshi TAKANO, Masaki MORI
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Patent number: 10738452Abstract: Disclosed is a flush toilet including: a bowl portion having a waste-receiving surface and a rim; a drain passage; a rim spout section provided in the rim; and a water-conducting passage configured to supply the flush water to the rim spout section. The bowl portion has a front region and a rear region, and the rim spout section includes: a rim water passage formed inside the rim; and the rim spout port formed at a downstream end of the rim water passage. The rim water passage is provided to extend from either one of right and left parts of the rim to the remaining one of the right and left parts of the rim, via a front end of the rim. Further, the rim water passage has, in the front region of the bowl portion, a cross-sectional area constant zone.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2017Date of Patent: August 11, 2020Assignee: TOTO LTD.Inventors: Shu Kashirajima, Masaaki Momoe, Yuuki Shinohara
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Patent number: 10676908Abstract: A flush toilet comprises a bowl including a shelf formed on the top edge of a bowl-shaped waste receiving surface, and a rim forming an inner wall surface rising from the outside edge of this bowl; and a rim spout portion for spouting flush water to the inside of the bowl. The rim spout portion is disposed on the bowl rim and forms a single rim spout port over the entire perimeter of the rim for spouting flush water, and the rim spout port is disposed on either the left or right of the front side region, and spouts flush water rearward. The region to the side of the rim spout port in the inner wall surface forms a continuous band over the entire bowl perimeter.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2017Date of Patent: June 9, 2020Assignee: TOTO LTD.Inventors: Shu Kashirajima, Masaaki Momoe, Yuuki Shinohara
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Patent number: 10633849Abstract: A flush toilet includes a shelf formed on the top edge of a bowl-shaped waste receiving surface, and a rim forming an inner wall surface rising from the outer edge of the shelf. The bowl includes a front side region and a rear side region, respectively, formed on the front side and the rear side of a center axis extending horizontally in the left-right direction so as to divide the bowl equally in the front-rear direction. The inner wall surface includes an overhang portion protruding toward inside of the bowl obliquely from the bottom end of the overhang portion. The ratio between the overhang amount and the width of the shelf is set smaller than 1.0.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2017Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignee: TOTO LTD.Inventors: Shu Kashirajima, Masaaki Momoe, Yuuki Shinohara
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Patent number: 10487489Abstract: A flush toilet bowl includes a bowl part, a rim nozzle, and a rim water spout part. The bowl part has a rim part on an upper edge of a receiving surface with a bowl shape. The rim nozzle is provided on a rear part of the bowl part and spouts flush water. The rim water spout part is provided on the rim part and spouts flush water that is spouted from the rim nozzle toward the receiving surface. The rim water spout part includes a rim water guide channel that is formed inside the rim part in such a manner that a cross-sectional area of a lower half part of the rim water guide channel is less than a cross-sectional area of an upper half part and a rim water spout port that is formed to be continuous with the rim water guide channel and in a front side region of the bowl part.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2017Date of Patent: November 26, 2019Assignee: TOTO LTD.Inventors: Shu Kashirajima, Masaaki Momoe, Yuuki Shinohara