Patents by Inventor Shinya Ueda

Shinya Ueda 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: 8863654
    Abstract: A cooking device has a casing 1, a heating chamber 8 provided in the casing 1, an exhaust tube 18 for guiding exhaust from inside of the heating chamber 8 through an electric component chamber 9 in the casing 1 to front face side, and a dew receiving container 4 that is provided on front face side of the casing 1 and that receives and diffuses the exhaust from the exhaust tube 18 to outside of the casing 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shinji Asami, Takashi Utsumi, Shinya Ueda, Hiroyuki Kato
  • Patent number: 8850968
    Abstract: A steam generation device is placed at a lower portion of a side wall of a heating chamber. A steam jet-out part is placed upper than the steam generation device of the side wall of the heating chamber with a distance from the steam generation device. Thus, even if bumping has occurred within a water storage part of the steam generation device, causing boiling water to rush out from a steam supply port into a steam supply pipe, the boiling water is prevented from intruding into a steam jet-out part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Youhei Seguchi, Shinya Ueda, Takashi Utsumi
  • Patent number: 8648281
    Abstract: A steam generating device (1) is provided with a metal housing (2), a water supply opening (3) for supplying water into the housing (2), a steam generating heater (4) embedded in the lower part of the housing (2) and evaporating the water supplied from the water supply opening (3), a steam temperature raising heater (5) provided above the steam generating heater (4) with a predetermined distance from an inner wall of the housing (2) and raising the temperature of the steam generated by the steam generating heater (4), and a discharge opening (8) for discharging the superheated steam generated by the steam temperature raising heater (5).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takashi Utsumi, Hideo Shimoda, Shinya Ueda, Yasuhiro Sakoda
  • Publication number: 20120199015
    Abstract: A steam generation device is placed at a lower portion of a side wall of a heating chamber. A steam jet-out part is placed upper than the steam generation device of the side wall of the heating chamber with a distance from the steam generation device. Thus, even if bumping has occurred within a water storage part of the steam generation device, causing boiling water to rush out from a steam supply port into a steam supply pipe, the boiling water is prevented from intruding into a steam jet-out part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2010
    Publication date: August 9, 2012
    Inventors: Youhei Seguchi, Shinya Ueda, Takashi Utsumi
  • Publication number: 20120118279
    Abstract: A cooking device has a casing 1, a heating chamber 8 provided in the casing 1, an exhaust tube 18 for guiding exhaust from inside of the heating chamber 8 through an electric component chamber 9 in the casing 1 to front face side, and a dew receiving container 4 that is provided on front face side of the casing 1 and that receives and diffuses the exhaust from the exhaust tube 18 to outside of the casing 1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2010
    Publication date: May 17, 2012
    Inventors: Shinji Asami, Takashi Utsumi, Shinya Ueda, Hiroyuki Kato
  • Publication number: 20110265678
    Abstract: A gas generator includes an elongated cylindrical housing, a partition plate partitioning the space within the housing into a gas generating agent storing chamber and a filter chamber in the axial direction, and an igniter. A filter is made of a cylindrical member having a hollow portion extending in the axial direction of the housing. The partition plate includes an annular plate portion covering the end face of the filter closer to the gas generating agent storing chamber, a cylindrical portion continuously extending from the inner circumferential edge of the annular plate portion into the hollow portion of the filter to cover the inner circumferential surface of the filter closer to the end face, and a communication hole defined by the inner circumferential surface of the cylindrical portion and providing communication between the gas generating agent storing chamber and the filter chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 25, 2009
    Publication date: November 3, 2011
    Applicant: Nippon Kayaku Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Koichi Sasamoto, Shinya Ueda, Koichi Enami, Satoshi Aoyagi, Tatsuro Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20110259208
    Abstract: A steam generating device comprising: a housing (2) having a cavity therein; a water supply port (3) open in the housing (2); a water supply device (21) for supplying water into the housing (2) from the water supply port (3); a steam generating heater (4) embedded in the housing (2) and evaporating the water supplied from the water supply port (3); a discharge port (8) open in the housing (2) and discharging the steam generated by the steam generating heater (4); and a temperature sensor (5) for detecting the temperature of the housing (2). The water supply device (21) is driven when the temperature of the housing (2) becomes higher than a predetermined driving temperature (T1), and the water supply device (21) is stopped when the temperature of the housing (2) becomes lower than a predetermined stop temperature (T2) that is lower than the predetermined driving temperature (T1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2009
    Publication date: October 27, 2011
    Inventors: Shinya Ueda, Takashi Utsumi
  • Patent number: 8042458
    Abstract: A heating cooker has a side wall of a heating chamber (20) formed with an outlet (22) for discharging a heating fluid and an engagement portion (3a). A tray (4) has an edge portion (4a), a side wall portion (4b) having a thorough hole (4f), a flat surface portion (4c), an inner wall portion (4d), and a bottom portion (4e). When the tray is engaged with the engagement portion with its front surface side facing up, the through hole faces the outlet. A part of the discharged heating fluid is fed to the rear surface side of the tray through the through hole, and the remaining fluid is fed to the front surface side. When the tray is engaged with the engagement portion with its rear surface side facing up, an opening in a groove portion (4i) defined between the side wall portion and the inner wall portion faces upward.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2011
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shinya Ueda, Kiyoshi Yamaguchi, Kazuyuki Matsubayashi
  • Publication number: 20110147376
    Abstract: A cooking device comprises: a heating chamber (11) equipped with a placement section (11d), the placement section (11d) being adapted such that a tray (17) is placed thereon, the tray (17) having a placement net (17a) for placing thereon an object to be cooked; a vapor generating device (1) for generating vapor and supplying the vapor between the placement net (17a) and the tray (17); a circulation duct (12) having a circulation fan (16) and circulating gas in the heating chamber (11); a convection heater (15) provided in the circulation duct (12); a gas supply opening (38) provided below the tray (17); a gas discharge opening (41) provided below the tray (17); and a magnetron (33) for supplying a microwave to the heating chamber (11).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2009
    Publication date: June 23, 2011
    Inventors: Shinya Ueda, Hideo Shimoda, Takashi Utsumi
  • Publication number: 20110095013
    Abstract: A steam generating device (1) is provided with a metal housing (2), a water supply opening (3) for supplying water into the housing (2), a steam generating heater (4) embedded in the lower part of the housing (2) and evaporating the water supplied from the water supply opening (3), a steam temperature raising heater (5) provided above the steam generating heater (4) with a predetermined distance from an inner wall of the housing (2) and raising the temperature of the steam generated by the steam generating heater (4), and a discharge opening (8) for discharging the superheated steam generated by the steam temperature raising heater (5).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2009
    Publication date: April 28, 2011
    Inventors: Takashi Utsumi, Hideo Shimoda, Shinya Ueda, Yasuhiro Sakoda
  • Patent number: 7802564
    Abstract: In a ceiling part of a heating chamber, a sub-cavity is provided in which a steam-heating heater is housed. Steam generated by a steam generating device is heated by the steam-heating heater inside the sub-cavity to be brought into an overheated state, and is then jetted out through upper jet holes provided in the ceiling part of the heating chamber and through side jet holes provided in lower parts of the side walls of the heating chamber at both sides thereof. Food is supported on a rack to be in a state floating above the floor surface of the heating chamber, and, through the side jet holes, steam is jetted toward under the food.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2010
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yuji Ando, Kazuyuki Matsubayashi, Shinya Ueda
  • Patent number: 7795561
    Abstract: In a steam cooker, a tray-shaped case (51) of a steam temperature-raising device (50) has a recessed part (51a) into which steam from a steam generator flows through steam supply ports (95A-95C) provided in a first sidewall (91). First and second steam superheaters (52, 53) are placed in the recessed part (51a) of the tray-shaped case (51) so as to be axisymmetrical with respect to a center line (L). A plurality of steam outlets (101A-104A, 101B-104B) for supplying steam into a heating chamber sideways are provided in second and third sidewalls (92A, 92B) adjoining the sidewall (91) having the steam supply ports (95A-95C) of the recessed part (51a), and on the opposite side of the steam supply ports (95A-95C). The tray-shaped case (51) is placed on a ceiling panel of the heating chamber and at steam outlets with an opening of the recessed part (51a) directed downward.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2010
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yuzi Ando, Shinya Ueda, Kazuyuki Matsubayashi
  • Publication number: 20100126358
    Abstract: A heating cooker (1) wherein a side wall of a heating chamber (20) is formed with an outlet (22) for discharging a heating fluid and an engagement portion (3a). A tray(4) has an edge portion (4a), a side wall portion(4b), a flat surface portion (4c), an inner wall portion(4d), and a bottom portion (4e) in this order from the outer edge side to the inner side. When the tray (4) is engaged with the engagement portion (3a) with its front surface side facing the ceiling side of the heating chamber (20), a through hole (4f) in the side wall portion (4b) faces the outlet (22). A part of the heating fluid discharged from the outlet (22) is fed to the rear surface side of the tray (4) through the through hole (4f), and the remaining of the heating fluid is fed to the front surface side of the tray (4).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2006
    Publication date: May 27, 2010
    Inventors: Shinya Ueda, Kiyoshi Yamaguchi, Kazuyuki Matsubayashi
  • Patent number: 7709769
    Abstract: In a steam cooker, a tray-shaped case (51) of a steam temperature-raising device (50) has a recessed part (51a) into which steam from a steam generator flows through steam supply ports (95A, 95B, 95C) provided in a first sidewall (91). The recessed part (51a) has a planar shape roughly symmetrical with respect to a center line (L) of a steam flow entering through the steam supply ports (95A, 95B, and 95C). First and second steam superheaters (52, 53) are placed in the recessed part (51a) of the tray-shaped case (51) so as to be symmetrical with respect to the center line (L). A spiral heat radiation fin (56) having a fin pitch of 10 mm or less is wound around the first steam superheater (52). The tray-shaped case (51) is placed on a ceiling panel of a heating chamber and at steam outlets with an opening of the recessed part (51a) directed downward.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2010
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yuzi Ando, Shinya Ueda, Kazuyuki Matsubayashi
  • Patent number: 7705274
    Abstract: A cooker has an external circulation path outside a heating chamber in which foods are to be placed. A blower sucks in gas inside the heating chamber, and forms, in the external circulation path, a gas flow that makes the sucked gas return to the heating chamber. Downstream of the blower, the external circulation path is provided with an exhaust port, in which a damper is provided. The damper closes the exhaust port during cooking, and opens the exhaust port when a door of the heating chamber is opened. After the damper is changed to a position of opening the exhaust port, the blower continues to operate until a predetermined condition is satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2010
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yuhji Andoh, Toshiyuki Irie, Shinya Ueda, Masami Umemoto, Tadanobu Kimura, Fuminori Kaneko, Yoshikazu Yamamoto, Masahiro Nishijima
  • Patent number: 7487714
    Abstract: In a steam cooker, for heating of a food which is a mass of granular matters or linear matters such as rice or chow mein, a steam superheater is not turned on or is turned on with a very weak electric power so that steam supplied from steam supply pipes (94A to 94C) is substantially not superheated. Steam of 80° C. to 90° C. derived from the steam supply pipe (94B) is jetted out right downward from an opening (111a) of a steam jet pipe (111). Then, steam located around an end portion of the steam jet pipe (111) in a tray-shaped case (51) is pulled in by steam jetted out from the opening (111a), so that a large amount of steam is jetted against a bowl of rice or a dish of chow mein. As a result, surfaces of, for example, rice grains are prevented from immediately going beyond 100° C., so that condensation at the surfaces of the rice grains is efficiently achieved, and supply of condensed latent heat and penetration of condensed water (hot water) to the rice grains is efficiently achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2009
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yuji Andoh, Shinya Ueda, Kazuyuki Matsubayashi
  • Publication number: 20080223352
    Abstract: In a ceiling part of a heating chamber, a sub-cavity is provided in which a steam-heating heater is housed. Steam generated by a steam generating device is heated by the steam-heating heater inside the sub-cavity to be brought into an overheated state, and is then jetted out through upper jet holes provided in the ceiling part of the heating chamber and through side jet holes provided in lower parts of the side walls of the heating chamber at both sides thereof. Food is supported on a rack to be in a state floating above the floor surface of the heating chamber, and, through the side jet holes, steam is jetted toward under the food.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2004
    Publication date: September 18, 2008
    Inventors: Yuji Ando, Kazuyuki Matsubayashi, Shinya Ueda
  • Patent number: 7328695
    Abstract: A cooking oven, wherein an upper blowing port blowing hot air in vertical direction and a lateral blowing port for blowing hot air in horizontal direction are provided in a cooking chamber, the upper blowing port is provided in the ceiling wall of the cooking chamber, the lateral blowing port is provided in one of the right and left inside walls thereof, and a suction port is provided in the bottom inside wall thereof in the form of collected perforations, air in the cooking chamber sucked from the suction port is fed to an upper duct and a lateral duct, heated by an upper heater and a lateral heater, respectively, and blown from the upper blowing port and the lateral blowing port, and the distribution of the perforations of the upper blowing port is made such that the distribution of the perforations at a position where the air blows toward air current from the lateral blowing port to a cooked object is made coarser than that at the other positions so that the air current in horizontal direction cannot be ob
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2008
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Norikimi Tatsumu, Yuzi Andoh, Tetsuichi Arita, Masayuki Iwamoto, Shinya Ueda
  • Patent number: 7329847
    Abstract: A combination microwave and impingement heating cooking oven, wherein an upper blowing port blowing hot air in vertical direction and a lateral blowing port for blowing hot air in horizontal direction are provided in a cooking chamber, the upper blowing port is provided in the ceiling wall of the cooking chamber, the lateral blowing port is provided in one of the right and left inside walls thereof, and a suction port is provided in the bottom inside wall thereof in the form of collected perforations, air in the cooking chamber sucked from the suction port is fed to an upper duct and a lateral duct, heated by an upper heater and a lateral heater, respectively, and blown from the upper blowing port and the lateral blowing port, and the distribution of the perforations of the upper blowing port is made such that the distribution of the perforations at a position where the air blows toward air current from the lateral blowing port to a cooked object is made coarser than that at the other positions so that the ai
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2008
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Norikimi Tatsumu, Yuzi Andoh, Tetsuichi Arita, Masayuki Iwamoto, Shinya Ueda
  • Patent number: 7296510
    Abstract: A cooking device, wherein, when a roast chicken is selected from a menu displayed on an operating part (81), a centrifugal fan (51) is controlled so as to be rotated in forward direction at a high speed to blow out hot air with a speed of 65 km/h or faster from upper blowout ports (71) and hot air with a speed of 30 km/h or slower from side blowout ports (72) whereby a roast chicken in a heating chamber (3) can be cooked at the high speed and, when a sponge cake is selected from the menu, the centrifugal fan (51) is controlled so as to be rotated in reverse direction at a low speed to blow out hot air with a speed of 30 km/h or slower from the upper blowout ports (71) and hot air with a speed of 40 km/h or slower from the side blowout ports (72) whereby a sponge cake in the heating chamber (3) can be cooked light and fluffy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2007
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masaki Ohtsuka, Yukishige Shiraichi, Shinya Ueda, Yasuhiro Sakoda, Mitsuo Hirooka