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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 03, 2016
Filed:
Jun. 17, 2011
Yo Morotomi, Fukuoka-ken, JP;
Koichiro Matsushita, Fukuoka-ken, JP;
Satoru Matsumoto, Fukuoka-ken, JP;
Katsunori Ishii, Fukuoka-ken, JP;
Yukiko Yano, Fukuoka-ken, JP;
Yo Morotomi, Fukuoka-ken, JP;
Koichiro Matsushita, Fukuoka-ken, JP;
Satoru Matsumoto, Fukuoka-ken, JP;
Katsunori Ishii, Fukuoka-ken, JP;
Yukiko Yano, Fukuoka-ken, JP;
TOTO LTD, Fukuoka, JP;
Abstract
According to one embodiment, a sanitary washing apparatus includes: a nozzle including a jetting port and configured to squirt water from the jetting port to wash a user's body; a flow channel configured to guide water supplied from a water supply source to the jetting port; an electrolytic cell provided midway along the flow channel and being operable to produce sterilizing water; a heating device provided on the flow channel on upstream side of the electrolytic cell; a nozzle cleaning device configured to clean or sterilize the nozzle with the water heated by the heating device or the sterilizing water produced by the electrolytic cell; and a controller configured to perform control for stopping energization of the heating device or reducing an amount of energization of the heating device when energizing the electrolytic cell.