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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 22, 2006
Filed:
Dec. 15, 2004
Masatoshi Shoukyuu, Kusatsu, JP;
Ichiro Onishi, Koka-gun, JP;
Masatoshi Shoukyuu, Kusatsu, JP;
Ichiro Onishi, Koka-gun, JP;
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A drive device of an automatic ice machine turns over an ice tray in which ice has been made. This is done to separate the ice. The drive device includes a motor, a first output shaft and a second output shaft having positional relation of mutually crossing, and a reduction gear for reducing rotation of the motor and transmitting respectively different driving forces to the first output shaft and the second output shaft. The second output shaft crushes ice, and the first output shaft separates ice from the ice tray. In this manner the ice is made rocky without roundness.
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