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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 07, 2002
Filed:
May. 09, 2001
Koji Tsuchikawa, Aichi-ken, JP;
Hoshizaki Denki Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyoake, JP;
Abstract
Disclosed is an ice dispenser in which an agitating device ( ) is operated only when necessary to thereby prevent ice cubes in an ice storage vessel ( ) from sticking together, allowing ice to be smoothly discharged from the ice storage vessel ( ). The ice dispenser includes an ice-making device ( ), the ice storage vessel ( ), an ice discharge port ( ), an agitating device ( ) for agitating the ice in the ice storage vessel ( ), and an operation control device ( ) which operates the agitating device ( ) at the time of ice discharge or ice-making operation and which causes, when no ice-making operation is being performed, the agitating device ( ) to operate after an interval of a predetermined first set time for a predetermined second set time by timer means (TM , TM ), wherein when the agitating device ( ) is stopped by stopping the ice discharge or ice-making operation, the operation control device ( ) resets the timer means (TM ) to start the first set time.
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