US 12,329,333 B2
Toilet device
Masahiko Watanabe, Kitakyushu (JP); Katsushi Maeta, Kitakyushu (JP); Fumiya Midori, Kitakyushu (JP); Yoshitaka Imamura, Kitakyushu (JP); and Jun Kawamata, Kitakyushu (JP)
Assigned to TOTO LTD., Fukuoka (JP)
Filed by TOTO LTD., Kitakyushu (JP)
Filed on Sep. 12, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/931,154.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-161701 (JP), filed on Sep. 30, 2021; and application No. 2022-056818 (JP), filed on Mar. 30, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0094041 A1, Mar. 30, 2023
Int. Cl. A47K 13/30 (2006.01)
CPC A47K 13/302 (2013.01) 7 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A toilet device, comprising:
a casing mounted to an upper surface of a toilet;
a lock part restricting movement of the casing with respect to the toilet; and
a release part releasing the restricting by the lock part,
the release part including
an operation part, and
a transmission part transmitting an operating force to the lock part, the operating force being applied to the operation part,
the operation part being located at a position separated upward or downward from a lower end of the casing,
the operation part being positioned higher than the lower end of the casing, or positioned lower than the lower end of the casing, wherein
the operation part is located at a different position from the lock part in a vertical direction, and
the transmission part includes an extension part extending in the vertical direction, wherein
the transmission part includes:
a first part extending in a horizontal direction from the operation part;
the extension part extending from the first part; and
a second part extending from the extension part toward the lock part, and
the casing includes:
a first guide part guiding the first part; and
a second guide part guiding the second part, and wherein
the extension part connects the first part and the second part, and
the extension part extends obliquely downward or upward from the first part toward the second part.