Panasonic Corporation

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Hideki Ohno

Shigeru Shirai

Makoto Nishimura

Yoshiharu Shimada

Yuji Yamamoto

Masahiro Inoue

Kazuya Kondoh

Muneo Tao

Kazushige Nakamura

Tomohide Matsumoto

Hiroaki Fujii

Shinji Fujii

Shinichi Maruyama

Tomoko Ishida

Yoshiko Kurimoto

Toru Ueno

A linear heater is formed of an enamel wire composed of a heating wire and an enamel layer. The heating wire is made of a copper alloy containing silver, for example. The enamel layer is made of polyester imide (PEI), polyimide (PI) or polyamide imide (PAI), for example. The enamel layer is coated with an insulating coating layer. The insulating coating layer is made of fluororesin such as perfluoroalkoxy mixture (PFA), polyimide (PI), or polyamide imide (PAI). The linear heater is bonded to the lower surface of an upper toilet seat casing such that it is sandwiched between a metal foil and a metal foil made of aluminum, for example.

Toilet seat apparatus

When a user sets water power using a water power adjustment switch in a remote control device, a controller controls the period of pressure fluctuations, the width of pressure fluctuations, and the central pressure of the discharge pressure of a pump on the basis of a signal transmitted by radio from the remote control device. When the user sets the divergent angle of washing water using a washing area adjustment switch in the remote control device, the controller controls the divergent angle of the washing water sprayed from a posterior nozzle on the basis of the signal transmitted by radio from the remote control device. Consequently, the washing water supplied to a side surface of a cylindrical swirl chamber from a first flow path in the posterior nozzle is sprayed from a spray hole as dispersed spiral flow, and the washing water supplied to a lower part of the cylindrical swirl chamber from a second flow path in the posterior nozzle is sprayed from the spray hole as linear flow.

Sanitary washing apparatus

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Nara, Japan

Hideki Ohno