US 12,084,846 B2
Flush toilet
Eiji Shiohara, Fukuoka (JP); Yusuke Tone, Fukuoka (JP); Masaaki Momoe, Fukuoka (JP); Kazuya Esaki, Fukuoka (JP); and Masaki Mori, Fukuoka (JP)
Assigned to TOTO LTD., Kitakyushu (JP)
Filed by TOTO LTD., Kitakyushu (JP)
Filed on Jan. 28, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/586,824.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-057577 (JP), filed on Mar. 30, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0316198 A1, Oct. 6, 2022
Int. Cl. E03D 11/13 (2006.01)
CPC E03D 11/13 (2013.01) 4 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A flush toilet, comprising:
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 in such a manner that the one of the magnet and the magnetic body is moved toward another of the magnet and the magnetic body relative to the holding part, wherein
the holding part includes a supporting surface that is capable of contacting the one of the magnet and the magnetic body to suppress moving of the one of the magnet and the magnetic body toward the another of the magnet and the magnetic body, and
a tip part of the one of the magnet and the magnetic body is moved toward the another of the magnet and the magnetic body relative to the supporting surface in a state where the tip part of the one of the magnet and the magnetic body is parallel to the supporting surface, wherein
the one of the magnet and the magnetic body includes a protrusion part that protrudes toward a side of the another of the magnet and the magnetic body relative to the supporting surface, at least on a central part of the one of the magnet and the magnetic body in a longitudinal direction of the one of the magnet and the magnetic body, wherein
the holding part holds the one of the magnet and the magnetic body in such a manner that the one of the magnet and the magnetic body is moved in a direction that intersects with a direction toward the another of the magnet or the magnetic body.