公开(公告)号：US11994329B2

公开(公告)日：2024-05-28

申请号：US17436586

申请日：2020-02-19

申请人： NIDEC SANKYO CORPORATION

发明人： Shunji Saito ,  Satoshi Tanimura

IPC分类号： F25C1/04 ,  F25C1/22

CPC分类号： F25C1/04 ,  F25C1/22 ,  F25C2400/10 ,  F25C2600/04 ,  F25C2700/12

摘要： Provided is an ice-making device that can autonomously perform a series of ice-making operations that include control of a fan motor, without relying on a higher-level device. An ice-making device that is characterized by comprising an ice-making tray, a fan motor that blows air onto the ice-making tray, an ice removal mechanism that removes ice from the ice-making tray, a control part, and a frame that holds the ice-making tray, the fan motor, the ice removal mechanism, and the control part. The ice-making device is also characterized in that the control part controls the operations of the fan motor, the ice removal mechanism, and a water supply mechanism that opens/closes a water supply path that supplies water to the ice-making tray.

公开(公告)号：US20230258381A1

公开(公告)日：2023-08-17

申请号：US18108401

申请日：2023-02-10

申请人： emz-Hanauer GmbH & Co. KGaA

发明人： Josef Bauriedl

IPC分类号： F25C1/04 ,  F25D17/06 ,  F25C1/22

CPC分类号： F25C1/04 ,  F25D17/065 ,  F25C1/22 ,  F25D2317/061

摘要： An ice maker for a domestic refrigeration device includes an ice-making tray having a plurality of freezing cavities which are divided between multiple cavity rows arranged one behind the other in a first tray extension direction. Freezing cavities arranged adjacent to one another in pairs in the first tray extension direction are separated on a tray underside of the ice-making tray by an indentation. The ice maker also includes a wall element for delimiting, in a freezing operating position of the wall element relative to the ice-making tray, a cold air channel between the underside of the ice-making tray and the wall element, which cold air channel extends substantially over the entire length of the ice-making tray in the first tray extension direction. The wall element is designed with at least one air-deflecting formation which projects locally into the cold air channel.

公开(公告)号：US11619435B1

公开(公告)日：2023-04-04

申请号：US17746091

申请日：2022-05-17

申请人： DABCO, LLC

发明人： John David Cecil

IPC分类号： F25C1/18 ,  F25C1/22

摘要： A method and apparatus for making clear ice utilizes an insulated cooler tray, a container, and degassed water arranged in the container. The container includes a chamber in an upper portion and at least and preferably a plurality of receptacles in a lower portion, with the chamber and receptacles being filled with degassed water. The container is arranged in the cooler tray which includes a greater amount of insulating material in the bottom of the tray than in the top. When the container and cooler tray are arranged in a freezer, the tray causes directional freezing of the degassed water which forces any residual gas or air in the water to the bottom of the container into the receptacles. When directional freezing is complete, the bottom portion of the container may be broken away and the clear ice product removed from the container chamber for use.

公开(公告)号：US20220412630A1

公开(公告)日：2022-12-29

申请号：US17357066

申请日：2021-06-24

申请人： Haier US Appliance Solutions, Inc.

发明人： Alan Joseph Mitchell ,  Brent Alden Junge

IPC分类号： F25C5/182 ,  F25C1/22

摘要： An icemaker appliance includes a cabinet forming an ice storage compartment, an ice maker provided in the ice storage compartment, a first reservoir storing liquid, a filter nested within the first reservoir, and a circulation system to deliver the liquid from the first reservoir to the ice maker. The liquid not frozen on the ice maker is filtered through the filter and resupplied to the circulation system.

公开(公告)号：US20220228788A1

公开(公告)日：2022-07-21

申请号：US17579448

申请日：2022-01-19

申请人： CRYORTH CO., LTD.

发明人： Yu-Chi CHENG ,  Shu-Mei HSU ,  Po-Kuei WU ,  Kuang-Yu CHAO

IPC分类号： F25D3/10 ,  F25C1/22 ,  F25C1/04

摘要： The disclosure provides a freezing device for freezing a liquid mixture and a method using the same. The freezing device includes a container and a tray removably disposed in the container. The tray has a tray plate disposed above a container bottom wall and has a plurality of spaced-apart receptacles for receiving the liquid mixture. When liquid nitrogen is introduced into a region between the tray plate and a container bottom wall, the liquid mixture received in the receptacles is solidified by the liquid nitrogen and is formed into shaped solid coolant pieces.

公开(公告)号：US20220221211A1

公开(公告)日：2022-07-14

申请号：US17147965

申请日：2021-01-13

申请人： True Manufacturing Co., Inc.

发明人： Kevin Knatt

IPC分类号： F25C1/22

摘要： A commercial ice maker purges water from a sump via a passive drain valve instead of an active drain pump. The ice maker uses a large freeze plate, but still can accommodate the passive drain valve within a standard enclosure footprint. A bottom wall of the ice maker has a drain passaging groove formed in an upper surface. The drain valve is supported above the bottom wall and drain tube is at least partially received in the drain passaging groove. The drain valve can include a valve body that has a valve seat and a movable valve member that opens and closes a valve passage through the valve seat. The valve member radially overlaps the valve seat along a longitudinal axis when the valve member is closed.

公开(公告)号：US11236936B1

公开(公告)日：2022-02-01

申请号：US17407089

申请日：2021-08-19

申请人： National Institute of Meteorological Sciences

发明人： Hyoung Gu Nam ,  Mi Eun Park ,  Baek Jo Kim

IPC分类号： F25C1/22

摘要： A black ice generating device for generating black ice on a specimen, with dimensions of length X, width Y, and height Z, to be used for experiments on black ice, comprising: a housing; a specimen loading part, for accommodating at least a height h of a water layer, wherein the specimen loading part is formed in the housing and configured as a depression with dimensions of at least length X, at least width Y, and at least height Z+h; and one or more strap loading parts formed with recesses of a depth D1 and a depth D2 respectively from a first side surface of the depression and a second side surface thereof, wherein the recesses are to accommodate one or more straps, and wherein the depth D1 and the depth D2 are larger than a size of a cross-section of the straps.

公开(公告)号：US10902982B2

公开(公告)日：2021-01-26

申请号：US16454570

申请日：2019-06-27

申请人： LMS Consulting Group, LLC

发明人： Shuyong Xiao ,  Lee M. Sisler ,  Richard C. Abbott

IPC分类号： H01C7/02 ,  C09D11/037 ,  C09D11/10 ,  C09D11/104 ,  C09D11/106 ,  C09D11/107 ,  C09D11/108 ,  C09D11/52 ,  H01L49/02 ,  H01C7/04 ,  H05B3/12 ,  H05B3/14 ,  F25C1/22 ,  A41D13/005 ,  E04C2/52 ,  F25C5/08

摘要： A double-switching heater includes a double-switching PTC ink deposited on a substrate to form one or more resistors. The double-switching PTC ink has a first resin that provides a first PTC effect at a first temperature range and a second resin that provides a second PTC effect at a second temperature range, where the second temperature range is higher than the first temperature range. The substrate may be a flexible substrate or a rigid substrate, and may bedeformable to generate a three-dimensional structure. The substrate may be: polyester, polyimide, polyamide, polypropylene, thermoplastic polyurethane, fiberglass, cement board, carbon composite materials, polyethylene terephthalate, polyethylene, aluminum, steel, glass composite, molded plastic, high-density polyethylene or styrene ethylene butylene styrene.

公开(公告)号：US10648720B2

公开(公告)日：2020-05-12

申请号：US15569061

申请日：2017-06-29

申请人： Kabushiki Kaisha Yoshikawakuni Kogyosho

发明人： Toshiyuki Yoshikawa

IPC分类号： F25C1/22 ,  F25C5/06 ,  F25C5/04 ,  F25C1/24

摘要： An ice-making container including a container body having an opening formed in its upper part and being flexible so as to be deformable by being grasped and an inner container configured to be insertable into and removable from the container body through the opening, in which an ice-making area for making ice is formed between an inner peripheral surface of the container body and an outer peripheral surface of the inner container, in the state where the inner container is placed in the container body, and the ice-making area is formed as an area where the ice made in the ice-making area is crushed in response to deformation of the container body being grasped.

公开(公告)号：US10605512B2

公开(公告)日：2020-03-31

申请号：US15280376

申请日：2016-09-29

申请人： WHIRLPOOL CORPORATION

发明人： Brian K. Culley ,  Lindsey Ann Wohlgamuth

IPC分类号： F25C1/00 ,  F25C5/00 ,  B29C35/00 ,  B29C31/00 ,  F25C3/00 ,  B29C33/00 ,  F25C1/22 ,  F25C1/18 ,  F25C5/10 ,  F25C1/04 ,  F25C5/08 ,  B29C35/04 ,  F25C5/14 ,  B29C31/04 ,  F25C1/08 ,  B29C33/04 ,  F25C1/25

摘要： A method of releasing ice from a mold apparatus is disclosed which includes the steps of: providing a mold apparatus having a first mold portion including a concave depression and a liquid circulating manifold and a second mold portion having a concave depression; pivotally coupling to the first mold portion to the second mold portion such that the mold apparatus is operable between an ice forming position and an ice harvesting position; assembling the mold apparatus to the ice forming position such that the concave depressions abut to from a mold cavity; injecting water into the mold cavity; cooling the mold apparatus; forming at least one ice structure within the mold cavity; circulating a warm liquid medium in the liquid circulating manifold to warm the mold apparatus; disassembling the mold apparatus to the ice harvesting position; and releasing the at least one ice structure from the mold apparatus.