Patents Assigned to The Kanden Kogyo, Inc.
  • Method and apparatus for manufacturing single crystal method for controlling crystal orientation of single crystal ice
    Patent number: 6158228
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing single crystal ice by creating a temperature environment in which a top section of the refrigerating temperature distribution of a hermetically sealed refrigerating space is held to high temperature and a bottom section to low temperature, guiding water to the high-temperature section, and dripping droplets of the water to the low-temperature section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2000
    Assignees: The Kanden Kogyo, Inc., The Kansai Electric Power Co., Inc., Katsutoshi Tsushima
    Inventors: Ikuo Nakamura, Hiroshi Morimoto, Tetsuya Kokubo, Minoru Iwasaki, Toshihiro Kiuchi, Zenji Imamura, Syoji Okamoto, Katsutoshi Tsushima