Patents by Inventor Noriyuki Kanagawa

Noriyuki Kanagawa 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: 4845327
    Abstract: Disclosed is a microwave heating apparatus which comprises a turntable for reducing the irregularity of heat with the rotation movement of a subject to be heated within a heat chamber, a bread casing used for automatically performing an entire process of kneading raw ingredients, fermentation, gas escape, baking and the like, a first driving shaft made of a metal pipe and provided to drive a kneading blade mounted within the bread casing, and a second driving shaft made of a microwave-permeable dielectric substance provided to drive the turntable, the second shaft being arranged to pierce a hollow portion of the first driving shaft. According to the aforementioned construction, the turntable and the kneading blade can be effectively driven by the respective optimum motors. A choke cavity and a disk shaped conductive plate prevent microwave energy from leaking out of the heat chamber along the respective driving shafts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 1988
    Date of Patent: July 4, 1989
    Assignee: Hitachi Heating Appliances Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Koji Iwabuchi, Masaharu Tawada, Noriyuki Kanagawa, Mituhiro Aoyama, Katsuhiro Yamazaki, Kazuo Kaneko