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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional toilets for animal or human use allow urine odor to escape from the upper part of the main body, causing discomfort due to the absorption of urine by the water-absorbent sheet within the toilet.

Innovation Solution

A toilet design featuring a box-shaped main body with a side opening and an inclined bottom surface, where urine flows to the opening and is discharged externally, preventing odor from rising and escaping from the upper part.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If urine is absorbed by the water-absorbent sheet within the main body part, then urine can be contained, but urine odor escapes from the upper part of the main body part causing discomfort

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveurine containmentVSAvoidurine odor
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The patent extracts the urine discharge function from the traditional absorption-only system. By providing a discharge opening in the bottom surface and configuring the bottom surface to be inclined, urine is actively directed outward through the opening, separating the urine removal function from the absorption function. This extraction of the discharge mechanism resolves the contradiction by preventing urine accumulation and odor generation while maintaining containment through the absorbent sheet.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

Instead of relying solely on absorption to contain urine (traditional approach), the patent inverts the approach by actively discharging urine through a bottom opening. The bottom surface is configured to incline toward the discharge opening, reversing the conventional upward containment strategy. This inversion effectively prevents urine odor by removing urine before it can accumulate and generate odor, while the absorbent sheet still provides secondary containment.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #13The other way round (Inversion)

2Object-affected harmful factors

If the bottom surface is configured to discharge urine externally, then urine odor is prevented from escaping, but the structure becomes more complex

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveurine odor preventionVSAvoidtoilet structure
Core Design Contradiction:
Object-affected harmful factorsVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent merges the discharge opening configuration with the bottom surface structure itself. The bottom surface is designed to be inclined toward the discharge opening, integrating the flow-directed function into the structural form rather than adding separate mechanical components. This merging approach achieves effective urine discharge and odor prevention while minimizing structural complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The inclined bottom surface configuration enables self-service urine discharge without requiring external power sources, pumps, or complex control mechanisms. Gravity naturally directs urine toward the discharge opening due to the inclined surface, making the system self-regulating and simple in structure. This self-service approach resolves the contradiction by achieving odor prevention through passive gravitational flow rather than active mechanical systems.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Applied Scientific Principles

This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.

Function Achieved in This Case

Effectively prevents urine odor from escaping from the upper part of the toilet, maintaining a more comfortable environment by ensuring urine does not remain within the main body part.

Implementation Method 1

the first bottom surface part is inclined so that the urine excreted into the main body part flows to the first opening

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectGravity: Gravitation

Data Source

PatentUS10660488B2Toilet
Publication Date: 2020.05.26 DAIKI CO LTD
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AI summary

A toilet includes a box-shaped main body part into which urine is excreted. The main body part has a bottom surface part and a side surface part. An opening through which the urine passes is in the side surface part. The bottom surface part is inclined such that the urine excreted into the main body part flows to the opening.