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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 10, 2013
Filed:
Mar. 19, 2009
Nobuo Kondo, Toyoake, JP;
Kiyoshi Yamaoka, Toyoake, JP;
Hideyuki Tashiro, Toyoake, JP;
Takeshi Ueda, Toyoake, JP;
Takashi Hibino, Toyoake, JP;
Akira Harata, Toyoake, JP;
Nobuo Kondo, Toyoake, JP;
Kiyoshi Yamaoka, Toyoake, JP;
Hideyuki Tashiro, Toyoake, JP;
Takeshi Ueda, Toyoake, JP;
Takashi Hibino, Toyoake, JP;
Akira Harata, Toyoake, JP;
Hoshizaki Denki Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyoake-Shi, Aichi-Ken, JP;
Abstract
An ice-making machine has a box-shaped lower housing with an ice storage bin, a box-shaped upper housing mounted on a rear portion of the lower housing, an ice-making mechanism within the front portion of a machine compartment in the upper housing, and a freezing unit installed behind the ice-making mechanism for supplying refrigerant to the ice-making mechanism. An open-and-close ice-access lid is pivotally mounted between the lower end of the upper housing and the the lower housing. An air intake passage introduces outside cooling air from the front face of the lower housing into the machine compartment along inner surfaces of one side wall and a rear wall of the lower housing. An air discharge passage is provided for passing the air after cooling to flow outward along inner surfaces of the rear wall and the other side wall of the lower housing to an exterior discharge from the front face of the lower housing.