US 12,349,652 B2
Animal toilet
Junji Yoshinaga, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to DAIKI CO., LTD., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by DAIKI CO., LTD., Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Mar. 2, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/684,501.
Application 17/684,501 is a continuation of application No. PCT/JP2020/029869, filed on Aug. 4, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 2019-205185 (JP), filed on Nov. 13, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0183251 A1, Jun. 16, 2022
Int. Cl. A01K 1/01 (2006.01)
CPC A01K 1/0114 (2013.01) 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An animal toilet comprising:
a box-shaped body portion that has a bottom face part and a side face part; and
a plate-shaped partition portion that has a plurality of through holes that allow urine to pass therethrough and a plurality of surrounding parts, the partition portion dividing an inside of the body portion vertically,
wherein each through hole of the plurality of through holes is surrounded by a respective surrounding part of the plurality of surrounding parts,
wherein a first thickness that is a thickness of the partition portion in each surrounding part of the plurality of surrounding parts is smaller than a second thickness that is a thickness of the partition portion in a remaining part, the remaining part being a part other than the plurality of surrounding parts,
wherein the each surrounding part of the plurality of surrounding parts is an annular region located along an entire periphery of a respective through hole of the plurality of through holes,
wherein the first thickness of the partition portion is constant over an entirety of the each surrounding part of the plurality of surrounding parts,
wherein an upper surface of the each surrounding part of the plurality of surrounding parts is not flush with an upper surface of the remaining part, and
wherein the remaining part includes the upper surface and a lower surface with the lower surface facing the bottom face part of the body portion.