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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 22, 1995
Filed:
Sep. 13, 1993
Hideyuki Ikari, Kariya, JP;
Hoshizaki Denki Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyoake, JP;
Abstract
An ice detection device for detecting ice pieces supplied into and stored in an ice storage bin, which includes a removable lid formed with a cylindrical guide portion and coupled over an upper opening end of the storage bin, a hollow piston mounted for vertical movement within the guide portion of the lid, a float plate fixed to a lower end of the hollow piston to cover the ice pieces stored in the storage bin, a removable cap coupled over the lid, the cap being formed to close an upper opening of the guide portion of the lid and formed at its center with a cylindrical projection extending therefrom into an axial bore of the hollow piston, a permanent magnet mounted on an upper portion of the hollow piston, and a magnetically operated switch mounted within the cylindrical projection of the cap to cooperate with the permanent magnet.