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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 07, 2024
Filed:
Nov. 16, 2020
Toto Ltd., Kitakyushu, JP;
Toshinari Yaoka, Kitakyushu, JP;
Kazuma Baba, Kitakyushu, JP;
Satoru Matsumoto, Kitakyushu, JP;
Keisuke Tashiro, Kitakyushu, JP;
TOTO LTD., Fukuoka, JP;
Abstract
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.