Drive device of automatic ice machine
AssigneeMatsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
InventorsMasatoshi Shoukyuu, Ichiro Onishi
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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.
Claims10
A drive device of an automatic ice machine of turning over an ice tray in which ice has been made to separate ice, comprising
- a motor;
- a first output shaft and a second output shaft having positional relation of mutually crossing;
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- a reduction gear of reducing rotation of the motor and transmitting respectively different driving forces to the first output shaft and the second output shaft,
- wherein the second output shaft crushes ice, and the first output shaft rotates the ice tray to separate ice.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.