Patents by Inventor Masaru Hirosawa

Masaru Hirosawa 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: 6082131
    Abstract: A refrigerator includes a support panel extending sideways from a bottom of a storage heat insulating box at one side of the box. An evaporator heat insulating box is provided for accommodating an evaporator and is formed at the one side of the storage heat insulating box with an equipment accommodating space being formed between itself and the base panel. A back panel extends from the rear wall of the storage heat insulating box so as to form rear walls of the evaporator heat insulating box and the equipment accommodating space, respectively. A side panel is continuous to the back panel so as to define an air circulation space together with a side of the evaporator heat insulating box. A front panel is continuous to the side panel so as to provide a front of the evaporator heat insulating box and the equipment accommodating space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2000
    Assignee: Hoshizaki Denki Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaru Hirosawa, Hiroyuki Ichouda, Yasuhide Koike, Tomio Suyama
  • Patent number: 6014868
    Abstract: A refrigerator includes a heat insulating body having a front with an opening, a left-hand side, a right-hand side and a ceiling, thereby defining a cold storage compartment, a partition member disposed on either side of the body and having a blowout hole through which cold air is supplied so as to flow along the ceiling, a refrigeration unit including an evaporator and supplying cold air produced by the evaporator through the blowout hole into the cold storage compartment, and a cold air guide member mounted on the ceiling of the body widthwise with respect to the cold storage compartment so as to hang down from the ceiling of the body and to be inclined so that the guide member inwardly retreats as it goes toward a lower end thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 1998
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2000
    Assignee: Hoshizaki Denki Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaru Hirosawa, Tomio Suyama, Takatosi Torihata
  • Patent number: 5081850
    Abstract: The refrigerator of this invention includes a thermal insulating box, an upper storing box and a lower storing box within the thermal insulating box, and a cooling unit arranged above the upper storing box. An interior space within the thermal insulating box is divided into a first passage communicating with a cold air blowing side of the cooling unit to cool the storing box while lowering the cold air and a second passage communicating with a cold air sucking side of the cooling unit to cool the storing box while raising the cold air descended down to the bottom part of the thermal insulating box and to return the cold air to the cooling unit. A space having the cooling unit stored therein is divided by a partition wall into a first chamber having the cooling unit arranged therein and a second chamber having an air blowing fan arranged therein. The partition wall is provided with through-holes at locations corresponding to the cold air passage within the first chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 1990
    Date of Patent: January 21, 1992
    Assignee: Hoshizaki Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yuji Wakatsuki, Shigekazu Kondo, Mitsuyuki Takaoka, Masaru Hirosawa, Nobuya Suzuki
  • Patent number: 5027615
    Abstract: A refrigerator comprising a thermal insulation box, a plurality of storing boxes, a cooler, a horizontal passage and a partition plate, wherein the cold air coming from any one of the upper and lower internal spacings is communicated within the horizontal passage along the partition plate, and further the internal spacing of the thermal insulation box is divided into a first passage and a second passage, the horizontal passage and a first passage are divided into an upper segment and a lower segment by a partition plate, and the upper passage and the lower passage defined in the horizontal passage are communicated at a side opposite to a side communicating with the first passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 1990
    Date of Patent: July 2, 1991
    Assignee: Hoshizaki Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yuji Wakatsuki, Shigekazu Kondo, Mitsuyuki Takaoka, Masaru Hirosawa, Nobuya Suzuki