Patents by Inventor Terumichi HARA

Terumichi HARA 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: 10274239
    Abstract: [Task] To provide an automatic ice maker with improved corrosion resistance to prevent ice-making water and ice from being contaminated by a corrosion product such as rust, thereby enhancing the reliability of food sanitation. [Means for solution] The automatic ice maker produces ice having a required shape by supplying ice-making water in circulation to an ice compartment 10 that is cooled by a cooling pipe 48. The automatic ice maker has an electroless nickel-phosphorus plated coating 23 formed in a thickness of 15 ?m or more on an outermost layer of the ice compartment 10, which coating 23 contains a 10% to 15% phosphorus component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: Hoshizaki Corporation
    Inventors: Seiji Kobayashi, Terumichi Hara, Masumi Notsu, Shizuma Kadowaki, Minoru Nakao
  • Publication number: 20180023874
    Abstract: [Task] To provide an automatic ice maker with improved corrosion resistance to prevent ice-making water and ice from being contaminated by a corrosion product such as rust, thereby enhancing the reliability of food sanitation. [Means for solution] The automatic ice maker produces ice having a required shape by supplying ice-making water in circulation to an ice compartment 10 that is cooled by a cooling pipe 48. The automatic ice maker has an electroless nickel-phosphorus plated coating 23 formed in a thickness of 15 ?m or more on an outermost layer of the ice compartment 10, which coating 23 contains a 10% to 15% phosphorus component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2016
    Publication date: January 25, 2018
    Applicant: Hoshizaki Corporation
    Inventors: Seiji KOBAYASHI, Terumichi HARA, Masumi NOTSU, Shizuma KADOWAKI, Minoru NAKAO