US 11,866,923 B2
Toilet management system and management device
Makoto Saruta, Tokyo (JP); Shoji Ogawa, Tokyo (JP); Hiroki Shigetomo, Tokyo (JP); Hideyuki Ida, Tokyo (JP); Rina Nagai, Tokyo (JP); Keita Matsudate, Tokyo (JP); Misaki Nagata, Tokyo (JP); Sadaaki Shichino, Tokyo (JP); and Toshiki Hashida, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to LIXIL Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by LIXIL Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Feb. 28, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/683,144.
Application 17/683,144 is a continuation of application No. 16/971,299, granted, now 11,326,330, previously published as PCT/JP2018/040060, filed on Oct. 29, 2018.
Claims priority of application No. 2018-028231 (JP), filed on Feb. 20, 2018; application No. 2018-028232 (JP), filed on Feb. 20, 2018; application No. 2018-028233 (JP), filed on Feb. 20, 2018; application No. 2018-028234 (JP), filed on Feb. 20, 2018; and application No. 2018-169333 (JP), filed on Sep. 11, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2022/0251815 A1, Aug. 11, 2022
Int. Cl. E03D 9/00 (2006.01); G01F 23/80 (2022.01)
CPC E03D 9/00 (2013.01) [G01F 23/802 (2022.01)] 11 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A toilet management system, comprising:
a toilet bowl device; and
a management device structured to manage the toilet bowl device,
wherein the management device comprises:
an acquirer structured to acquire use situation information related to a use situation of the toilet bowl device,
an abnormality detector configured to detect an abnormality of the toilet bowl device or a facility or equipment installed around the toilet bowl device when the use situation information acquired by the acquirer matches a predetermined condition, and
an instruction determiner configured to instruct the toilet bowl device to execute a function to be executed by the toilet bowl device according to the abnormality detected by the abnormality detector,
wherein the toilet bowl device comprises:
a control unit configured to execute a function instructed from the management device, and
the instruction determiner instructs the toilet bowl device to stop a cleaning drainage function when the abnormality is detected by the abnormality detector.