Toto Ltd.

Keisuke Tashiro

Satoru Matsumoto

Toshinari Yaoka

Minoru Sato

Yo Morotomi

Shogo Kanda

Kazuma Baba

Hiroshi Tsuboi

Takeshi Takaki

Hiroaki Amemori

Hitoaki Higuchi

Koji Sonoda

Tomohiro Hara

Sena Sakai

Disclosed is a hypochlorous acid generating electrode that is substantially free from rhodium, which is comparable in performance to a rhodium-containing electrode and is more durable than the rhodium-containing electrode. The electrode to be used for generating hypochlorous acid by electrolyzing water that contains a chloride ion has excellent hypochlorous acid water generation ability and durability, in which the electrode has an electrode substrate comprising titanium or titanium alloy, and a composite layer that is electrically connected with the electrode substrate and that contains iridium or a compound thereof, tantalum or a compound thereof, and ruthenium or a compound thereof and/or platinum, and does not contain rhodium oxide.

Hypochlorous acid generating electrode

A sanitary washing device includes a private part washing nozzle, a casing, a sterilizing water generator, and an illuminator. The private part washing nozzle discharges water toward a private part of a user in a state of the private part washing nozzle is advanced into a toilet. The casing includes a nozzle storage part configured to store an entirety of the private part washing nozzle in a state of the private part washing nozzle is retracted. The sterilizing water generator generates sterilizing water supplied to the private part washing nozzle and the nozzle storage part. The illuminator irradiates sterilizing light into the nozzle storage part. The sterilizing light has a sterilizing action. The illuminator irradiates the sterilizing light toward a residual water occurrence portion at which the sterilizing water supplied into the nozzle storage part remains.

Sanitary washing device

A sanitary washing device includes a nozzle, a casing, an illuminator, and a controller. The nozzle discharges water toward a private part of a user in a state of the nozzle is advanced into a toilet. The casing includes a nozzle storage part configured to store an entirety of the nozzle in a state of the nozzle is retracted. The illuminator irradiates sterilizing light into the nozzle storage part. The sterilizing light has a sterilizing action. The controller controls the illuminator. The controller includes a first irradiation mode of causing sterilizing light irradiated from the illuminator to be irradiated toward an outer circumferential surface of the nozzle. The controller includes a second irradiation mode of causing sterilizing light irradiated from the same illuminator as the first irradiation mode to be irradiated toward an inner wall of the nozzle storage part.

A sanitary washing device includes a nozzle, a drive device, a casing, a nozzle lid, and an illuminator. The casing includes a nozzle container. The nozzle lid is provided to be openable and closable with respect to an opening provided at a front end of the nozzle container. The nozzle lid is in a closed state in which the opening is closed when the entirety of the nozzle is stored in the nozzle container. The illuminator irradiates sterilizing light into an interior of the nozzle container. The sterilizing light has a sterilizing effect. At least one of the nozzle lid or a vicinity of the nozzle lid is luminous in a state of being visible to the user when the nozzle lid is in the closed state and the sterilizing light from the illuminator is irradiated into the interior of the nozzle container.

The toilet device includes a toiletand a sanitary washing devicemounted on the toilet. The sanitary washing deviceincludes a nozzle, a casing, a toilet seat, a toilet lid, and an illuminator. When the user operates an operation partbuilt into the interior of the casing, the nozzleis advanced into the bowlof the toilet. The casingincludes a nozzle containerthat can store the entire nozzle. The illuminatorirradiates sterilizing light which is light having a sterilizing action. The illuminatorirradiates the sterilizing light L directly on the front surfaceof the nozzleand/or the partof the bottom surface partpositioned below the front surface

A toilet seat device includes a main part, a toilet seat, a load sensor, a controller, and a memory. The toilet seat includes a seating part where a user is seated, and a support leg part supporting a load applied to the seating part. The load sensor is provided in the support leg part and detects the load applied to the support leg part. The controller performs at least a body weight measurement of the user based on a detection result of the load sensor. The controller includes a register mode and a normal-use mode in the body weight measurement. The register mode includes determining an estimated value for estimating the total body weight of the user from the seated load. The normal-use mode includes estimating a load value relating to the total body weight of the user based on the estimated value.

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Kitakyushu, Japan

Keisuke Tashiro