Patents by Inventor Michitarou MAKI

Michitarou MAKI 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: 20230146496
    Abstract: Provided is a mobile toilet that can be used well. A mobile toilet includes a trailer, a toilet bowl disposed in a cargo box of the trailer, a drain tank disposed in the cargo box and storing sewage discharged from the toilet bowl, a drain passage communicating between the toilet bowl and the drain tank, and a second conveyance device provided in the middle of the drain passage. The toilet bowl has a drain trap communicating with an upstream end of the drain passage, and the drain passage passes a position higher than a sealing water level of the drain trap, and has a spout space provided in a position higher than the sealing water level of the drain trap.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2021
    Publication date: May 11, 2023
    Applicant: LIXIL Corporation
    Inventors: Tatsuyuki TAKEUCHI, Katsuhisa FUKUMOTO, Hiroaki WATANABE, Michitarou MAKI, Yasuhiro SHIRAI
  • Publication number: 20230038184
    Abstract: Devices facilitating recovery of polymers are disclosed. A crushing device (25) includes a housing (13) into which a paper diaper (D) containing polymers (P) in a water-absorbed state is thrown, and a crushing member (28) that is accommodated in the housing (13) and crushes the paper diaper (D). A moving speed of the crushing member (28) is 0.1 m/s or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2020
    Publication date: February 9, 2023
    Applicant: LIXIL Corporation
    Inventors: Katsuhisa FUKUMOTO, Hiroaki WATANABE, Michitarou MAKI, Ikunori HATANAKA
  • Publication number: 20180368818
    Abstract: Provided is a toilet device that obtains a more detailed estimation result of a health condition. A toilet device (1) includes a toilet body (10) that includes a toilet bowl part (11), a camera (20) that photographs feces discharged and falling into the toilet bowl part (11) in time series and acquires a plurality of still images of the feces, and a fecal properties estimation part (30) that estimates a change in property of the feces from the plurality of still images acquired by the camera (20). The toilet device (1) estimates the change ire the property of the feces from the still images of the feces photographed in time series by the camera (20). Therefore, it is possible to obtain more detailed information on a user's health condition, in particular, the health condition of a digestive system (an intestinal environment).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2017
    Publication date: December 27, 2018
    Applicant: LIXIL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koji OGURI, Emi UEDA, Michitarou MAKI, Haruyuki MIZUNO, Haruki KAWANAKA, Atsushi ISOMURA, Chizuru HONDA