Patents by Inventor Tohru Fujikawa

Tohru Fujikawa 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).

  • Cooking device
    Patent number: 8173944
    Abstract: In a cooking device for cooking an object to be heated, a first operation section is provided to a lower portion of a door, and a second operation section is provided to an upper portion on a front face of a cooking device body so as to be exposed in spite of the door being opened or closed. Numeric keys for accepting a selection from a plurality of recipes stored in advance and start keys for accepting a start of heating are provided to the first and second operation sections redundantly. Therefore, in a case of when the door closes, the first and second operation sections can be used in parallel, allowing arrangement of many keys to have good operability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2012
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Seiji Kanbara, Seiichi Hirano, Kenji Kimura, Tatsuhiko Nakamura, Tohru Fujikawa
  • COOKING DEVICE
    Publication number: 20090188912
    Abstract: In a cooking device for cooking an object to be heated, a first operation section is provided to a lower portion of a door, and a second operation section is provided to an upper portion on a front face of a cooking device body so as to be exposed in spite of the door being opened or closed. Numeric keys for accepting a selection from a plurality of recipes stored in advance and start keys for accepting a start of heating are provided to the first and second operation sections redundantly. Therefore, in a case of when the door closes, the first and second operation sections can be used in parallel, allowing arrangement of many keys to have good operability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2009
    Publication date: July 30, 2009
    Inventors: Seiji KANBARA, Seiichi HIRANO, Kenji KIMURA, Tatsuhiko NAKARUMA, Tohru Fujikawa