Noritz Corporation

Takashi Wakatake

Takashi Akiyama

Takeshi Wakada

Yoshinori Kanda

Toshio Watanabe

A combustion apparatusincludes a plurality of burners, a plurality of fuel supply channels, a blower, an air supply passage, and a pressure regulator. The burnersare divided into a plurality of burner groups. The pressure regulatoris branched at a portion located immediately after a gas outletat downstream of the regulatorand connected to the respective fuel supply channels, so as to regulate gas supplied at a primary pressure to gas at a secondary pressure in response to a predetermined signal pressure sensed from one selected from a part of the air supply passageand the blowerand to discharge the regulated gas through the pressure regulator. The fuel supply channelseach are configured to perform fuel supply to the respective burner groupsand are provided with a switching valvefor either shutting off or reducing the fuel supply to at least a part of the burner groups

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Akashi, Japan

Takashi Wakatake