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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 21, 2019
Filed:
May. 15, 2017
Lixil Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Akiya Saeki, Tokyo, JP;
Hiroaki Watanabe, Tokyo, JP;
Yukihiro Inoue, Tokyo, JP;
Tooru Higashino, Tokyo, JP;
Masato Takeda, Tokyo, JP;
Akiya Oohira, Tokyo, JP;
Takeya Ichiyanagi, Tokyo, JP;
Yasuhiro Kondo, Tokyo, JP;
Hironao Inoue, Tokyo, JP;
Tetsuo Hata, Tokyo, JP;
LIXIL CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Afforded are: a toilet body including a toilet bowl part, a rim conduit, and a rim part; and a functional component mounted on an upper surface part of the toilet body, rearward of the toilet bowl part. The upper surface part includes a cut-out part formed such as to be recessed downward from the other part of the upper surface part. The functional component is disposed on the cut-out part such as to be partially positioned downward with respect to an upper surface of the rim part, and such as to be partially stuck out into the toilet bowl part from upon the cut-out part, and, on a bottom surface of the stuck-out part, the functional component is provided with a conduit forming surface serving as an upper surface of the rim conduit.