Patents by Inventor Ataru Minamida

Ataru Minamida 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: 4544818
    Abstract: This is a cooking utensil suitable for electromagnetic induction heating cooking apparatus. The cooking utensil is made firmly integral between an aluminum container body and an iron flame-sprayed layer by flame-spraying an iron layer which is a magnetic layer at least on the outer surface of the bottom of the container of aluminum or aluminum alloy in a manner to make corresponding portions of such iron layer penetrate into plural inclined grooves which have been formed on the outer surface of the bottom in advance, thereby enabling to utilize otherwise unsuitable aluminum material for the cooking utensil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 1984
    Date of Patent: October 1, 1985
    Assignee: Asahi Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Ataru Minamida
  • Patent number: 4533807
    Abstract: A cooking utensil for induction cooking apparatus wherein a magnetic substance layer is provided with the purpose of improving the conventional aluminum-made utensil, at outer surface of the bottom of the aluminum utensil body to enable the use with cooking utensil or cooking device with electromagnetic induction heating system by which the effectiveness of both properties of aluminum material and magnetic substance can be obtained and more general use can be obtained than the use of the conventional cooking utensil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 1985
    Date of Patent: August 6, 1985
    Assignee: Asahi Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Ataru Minamida