Lixil Corporation

Intron Space Inc.

Shigeo Imai

Takashi Kondo

Manabu Tago

Toshihiro Nakamiya

Hiroaki Sugiura

Toshiaki Tamaoki

Tatsunori Murai

Mitsumasa Myochin

Urine container body

A collecting implement includes a cylindrical body portion having a stretchability; and a hollow portion formed in the body portion, wherein the hollow portion includes an inlet portion which is formed such that one end side of the body portion is open and through which a material is introduced; and a collecting portion which is formed continuously from the inlet portion and contains the material. In the collecting portion, a predetermined part is more stretchable than a part of the collecting portion other than the predetermined part so that the predetermined part can bulge toward an outer side of the body portion when the material introduced from the inlet portion is contained.

Collecting implement

Toilet bowl

Providing a toilet apparatus which can reduce an amount of water discharged into a waste collection tub. The toilet apparatus includes a toilet body () equipped with a toilet bowl () having a drain outlet (A) in its lower part, a discharge part () communicating between the drain outlet (A) and a waste collection tub () located below the toilet body (), a drainage channel () branched from the discharge part (), and a private parts cleaning device () assembled to the toilet body () and having a cleaning nozzle (). When the private parts cleaning device () is actuated and an amount of cleaning water ejected from the cleaning nozzle () equals or exceeds a set amount, the cleaning water flowing into the toilet bowl () is caused to flow into the drainage channel () without being discharged via the discharge part () into the waste collection tub ().

Toilet apparatus

Growing community of inventors

Tokyo, Japan

Shigeo Imai