Hiroki Irikura

Title: Hiroki Irikura and His Temperature Adjustment Device

Introduction

Hiroki Irikura is an inventor associated with Kanagawa, Japan, and Kelk Ltd. His patent work includes a temperature adjustment device designed to combine channel plates, heat-transfer plates, seals, spacers, and fastening components.

Latest Patents

The available information identifies one patent for Irikura: “Temperature adjustment device.” The invention uses a pair of channel plates with grooves on their front surfaces, each facing a heat-transfer plate. A seal member closes the boundary between each channel plate and its corresponding heat-transfer plate. A spacer sits behind the channel plates, at least partly beneath the seal, and has greater compressive strength than the channel plates. A fastening member holds the plates together in an overlapped arrangement. This configuration focuses on supporting the sealed assembly under compression.

Career Highlights

Irikura’s listed patent reflects work on temperature-control hardware and the structural design of plate-based devices. The available details associate him with Kelk Ltd. and identify 1 patent.

Collaborations

Koji Maeda is identified as Irikura’s coworker. The provided information does not specify whether Maeda collaborated on the temperature adjustment device or any related patent.

Conclusion

Hiroki Irikura’s recorded invention is a temperature adjustment device that combines sealed channel plates with a stronger supporting spacer, highlighting a practical approach to the design of temperature-control equipment.