Patents by Inventor Hironori Rikiishi

Hironori Rikiishi 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: 6299025
    Abstract: A frozen dessert dispenser includes a freezing compartment accommodating a frozen dessert dispensing cylinder, a dispensing section provided on an outer wall of the freezing compartment, the dispensing section including a vertically extending dispensing passage and a valve element slidably provided in the dispensing passage, and a connecting pipe communicating with a side of the dispensing passage and projecting into the freezing compartment to be connected to a discharge side of the dispensing cylinder. A portion of the dispensing passage communicating with the connecting pipe is closed and opened by the valve element and the connecting pipe is detachably attached to the dispensing passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2001
    Assignee: Hoshizaki Denki Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mamoru Watanabe, Tsutomu Iwata, Yasuo Hara, Hironori Rikiishi