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Title:
HEATED TOILET SEAT DEVICE
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP2012205668
Kind Code:
A
Abstract:

To provide a heated toilet seat device capable of quickly heating up the temperature of a toilet seat, immediately after it starts its operation, so high that a user does not feel the coldness of the toilet seat.

The heated toilet seat device includes: a toilet seat; a toilet cover for covering the top of the toilet seat in a closed state; a casing for supporting the toilet seat and toilet cover to be opened and closed; a high-frequency power source device for generating high-frequency current; an induction heating coil that is provided on the toilet seat to generate magnetic field when high-frequency current passes therethrough; an electric conductor that is provided on the toilet seat to generate eddy current by the magnetic field generated by the induction heating coil and cause induction heating; a toilet cover open/close sensing means for sensing whether the toilet cover is opened or closed; and a control unit for controlling the supply of the high-frequency current to the induction heating coil on one condition of the open/close state of the toilet seat, wherein the control unit implements a first heat-up control that supplies the high-frequency current within a first hour from the start of the supply of the high-frequency to the induction heating coil on a condition that the toilet cover open/close sensing means senses that the toilet cover is closed.


Inventors:
HASHIZUME KENJI
MURASE YOICHI
HASEGAWA YOSHIYUKI
NOGUCHI SATOKO
OGURO TOSHIO
SATO KAZUKO
Application Number:
JP2011072276A
Publication Date:
October 25, 2012
Filing Date:
March 29, 2011
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Assignee:
TOTO LTD
International Classes:
A47K13/30; A47K13/10
Domestic Patent References:
JP2008018114A2008-01-31
JP2010227361A2010-10-14
JP2002345688A2002-12-03
JP2006087939A2006-04-06
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Masahiko Hinataji
Junichi Kozaki
Hiroshi Ichikawa
Soichi Homma
Yukinobu Hibino
Tatsutetsu Shirai



 
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