Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Takao Kanba

Terumi Torigai

Satoshi Shimizu

Shigeru Yamaguchi

Haruo Ishikawa

Masashi Kanbara

Hisashi Wada

Kiyonori Itou

Koji Kawai

The present invention is intended to provide an aroma device that can eliminate the need for the replacement of the light source, can prevent the light source from becoming high in temperature and can allow light and aroma to be enjoyed comfortably with a sense of security for a long time. The aroma device uses, as a light source, LEDscovered with first and second coversand, and also uses a heaterto heat a materialto be heated which emits aroma; hence, the need for the replacement of the light source is eliminated, the light source is prevented from becoming high in temperature, and light and aroma can be enjoyed comfortably with a sense of security for a long time.

Aroma diffuser

In a coffee maker, a hot-water tank, including water purifying agents and a siphon mechanism, is provided between a coffee-extracting room and a hot-water outlet. This structure reduces an amount of water remaining in the purifying agents. A water tank, a heater which heats the water supplied from the water tank and produces hot water, and a hot-water outlet for pouring the hot water supplied from the heater into the coffee-extracting room are provided. The hot-water tank detachable from a main body of the coffee maker is situated between the outlet and the coffee-extracting room. This structure allows a siphon phenomenon to supply intermittently the hot water from the hot-water tank to the coffee-extracting room. After a coffee extraction, the hot-water tank can be detached from a main body of the coffee maker and washed with ease.

Coffee maker

A coffee maker is provided in which remaining water can be taken out easily, hot water is delivered intermittently to brew nice coffee. A hot water reservoir in the coffee maker has a tube provided on a bottom thereof for delivering the hot water to a coffee brewing chamber and a cap arranged with a space from the tube by a distance which is not greater than the maximum inner diameter of the tube.

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Kobe, Japan

Takao Kanba