Patents by Inventor Shinji Notsu

Shinji Notsu has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 6435377
    Abstract: A frozen dessert dispenser includes a heat-insulating box, a cooling unit for cooling an atmosphere in the heat-insulating box, a dispensing cylinder including a piston ascended and descended by an operating fluid and a pack accommodating chamber in which a frozen dessert pack is accommodated, a pump supplying and discharging the operating fluid to and from a pressure chamber defined in the dispensing cylinder, and a usually closed operating fluid introducing port disposed in the cylinder. The operating fluid introducing port is opened so that the operating fluid is introduced into the pressure chamber, when the piston reaches a bottom dead point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2002
    Assignee: Hoshizaki Denki Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsutomu Iwata, Shinji Notsu, Michiharu Ishihara, Hironori Rikiishi
  • Patent number: 6155461
    Abstract: A frozen dessert dispenser for dispensing ice cream etc. includes a heat-insulating box having a side formed with an opening closed and opened by a heat-insulating door, a dispensing cylinder including a piston and a pack accommodating chamber defined between the piston and a lid closing an upper opening of the cylinder. A frozen dessert pack is accommodated into the pack accommodating chamber when the lid is opened. The dispensing cylinder is mounted on a bracket further mounted on a backside of the door. The bracket positions the dispensing cylinder in the heat-insulating box and is rotated relative to the door so that the dispensing cylinder is inclined from a standing position where the dispensing cylinder stands along the door to a inclined position where an upper end of the dispensing cylinder is spaced away from the door.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2000
    Assignee: Hoshizaki Denki Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Michiharu Ishihara, Tsutomu Iwata, Shinji Notsu, Takeshi Horie, Yoshinobu Ito, Hideki Matsudaira