Toshiba Lifestyle Products & Services Corporation

Hironori Sasaki

Yasuhiro Komori

Yuuki Marutani

Kota Watanabe

Kazuhiro Furuta

Hirokazu Izawa

Tomonori Uchiyama

Takahiro Murosaki

Satoshi Nagai

Hiroshi Nishimura

Shun Kato

Takayuki Honmura

Ken Isonaga

To provide an electric vacuum cleaning apparatus and a cleaning head can continuously perform both of suction cleaning and wiping for disinfecting the surface to be cleaned together. The apparatus includes: an electric blower that generates suction vacuum pressure; a suction air passage equipped with a suction port and fluidly connected to a suction side of the electric blower; an electrolyzed-water generator that electrolyzes water to produce electrolyzed water containing hypochlorous acid; a wiping-member attachment to which a wiping member is detachably attached; and a supply mechanism that supplies the electrolyzed water to at least one of a surface to be cleaned and the wiping member that is attached to the wiping-member attachment.

Electric vacuum cleaning apparatus and cleaning head

A microbubble generator is formed from at least two of a flow path constituting section that constitutes a flow path through which a liquid is passable, and a decompression member including a colliding section that is fitted into the flow path constituting section and locally reduces a cross-sectional area of the flow path to generate microbubbles in the liquid that passes through the flow path. This microbubble generator includes an outlet connecting to a negative pressure producing section of the decompression member, an outside air introduction port provided in the flow path constituting section to introduce outside air, and an outside air introduction path communicating between the outside air introduction port and the outlet.

Microbubble generator, washing machine, and home appliance

To provide an electric cleaning apparatus including a vacuum cleaner that loads an appropriate amount of electrolyzed water and does not reduce convenience in terms of power consumption and lightness. An electric cleaning apparatus includes a vacuum cleaner and a station. The vacuum cleaner comprises: a first reservoir configured to store electrolyzed water; and a first cleaner configured to clean a surface to be cleaned by using the electrolyzed water supplied from the first reservoir. The station comprises: a second reservoir configured to store water; an electrolyzed-water generator that generates the electrolyzed water by electrolyzing the water; and a supply system configured to supply the first reservoir with the electrolyzed water generated with the electrolyzed-water generator when the vacuum cleaner is connected to the station.

Electric cleaning apparatus, station, and vacuum cleaner

A minute bubble generator includes a flow path member including a flow path allowing a liquid to pass therethrough; and a colliding part provided in the flow path and generating minute bubbles in the liquid passing through the flow path by locally reducing a cross sectional area of the flow path. The colliding part is formed integrally with the flow path member and is provided closer to an upstream end or a downstream end relative to a lengthwise center of the flow path.

Minute bubble generator, home appliance provided with minute bubble generator, and method of manufacturing minute bubble generator

A washing machine () including a wash tub configured by a water tub () and a rotary tub (); a connecting port () connected to a water source; a water feeding case () connected to the connecting port () to receive water from the water source and containing a detergent storing part () in which a detergent is stored; a first water feeding port () configured to feed water flown into the water feeding case () into the wash tub; a minute bubble generator () configured to generate minute bubbles in water passing therethrough; a minute bubble water path (B) extending from the connecting port () and reaching into the wash tub from the first water feeding port () after passing through the minute bubble generator () and the detergent storing part () inside the water feeding case (); a tap water path (A) extending from the connecting port () to the wash tub without passing through the minute bubble generator (); a water supplying valve for tap water () provided midway of the tap water path (A) and capable of opening and closing the tap water path (A); and a water supplying valve for minute bubble water () provided midway of the minute bubble water path (B) and capable of opening and closing the minute bubble water path (B).

Washing machine

A washing machine includes a water tub storing water, a rotary tub arranged in the water tub, a dissolving area in which a detergent is fed and dissolved, an FB feed-water pathway which includes a fine-bubble generation apparatus allowing generation of fine bubble water and along which water fed from a feed-water source is passed through the fine-bubble generation apparatus to be fed to the dissolving area as fine bubble water, an FB feed-water valve opening and closing the FB feed-water pathway, and a control apparatus controlling opening and closing of the FB feed-water valve. The detergent and the fine bubble water are controllably brought into contact with each other to dissolve the detergent, in a washing course in which the washing machine is operated and during a period when the detergent is dissolved in feed-water.

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Hironori Sasaki