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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8086418 | Imperfect combustion detecting device An imperfect combustion detecting device includes a destructive current supplying means which supplies, under a condition that it is determined by a useful life determining means that a deterioration status corresponding value matches a use limit value, destructive ... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8074636 | Warm air furnace A warm air furnace capable of reliably carrying out a fuel consumption conserving operation regardless of a heating load is equipped with an ecology operation setting unit for setting a saving operation function and a moderate operation function. The saving operatio... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8065097 | Energy usage display unit An energy usage display unit for displaying energy usage of gas used for a water heater, water used for the water heater or electricity used in housing where the water heater is set. The energy usage display unit includes a clock section; a counting section for coun... | 11/22/2011 |
| 7955072 | Forced air supply combustion apparatus A combustion apparatus with an air supply chamber in a lower part partitioned by a partition plate from an arrangement section of a burner unit and a primary air chamber in a front part stands from a front end of the air supply chamber are provided in a combustion h... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7931468 | All primary combustion burner In an all primary combustion burner, a partition plate that demarcates a mixing chamber between the partition plate and a bottom wall section of a burner main body and a distributing plate that sections a space between the partition plate and the combustion plate in... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7902959 | Radio communication system of water heater A radio communication system of a water heater comprising a slave set which remotely operates a water heater main body by radio communication, and a master set which continuously communicates with the water heater main body by wired communication and which intermitt... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7874288 | Gas combustion apparatus An outer case 10 accommodating a gas combustion apparatus main body comprises a case main body 2 opening forward, and a front cover 3 closing a front end opening of the case main body 2. A waterproof packing material 17 is sandwich... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7824177 | Combustion apparatus Provided is a combustion apparatus that can positively prevent a combustible gas present in the vicinity from catching fire in performing prepurge, which involves exhausting air from a combustion chamber provided with a burner, before igniting the burner. The combus... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7806345 | In-wall heater In an in-wall heater, in which control equipment 11, 12 is disposed in a side space 10 on one lateral side of a combustion housing 2 within an outer case 1 and an exhaust duct 15 is disposed in a side space 13 on the other l... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7671759 | Remote control unit There is provided a remote control unit capable of setting time by a simple operation at a time when a battery is attached. In the remote control unit which is operated by the battery to remote-control operation start and stop of an apparatus main body and in which ... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7628607 | Gas cooking appliance A microcomputer 51 of an electronic circuit unit 50 actuates an electric motor (stepping motor) 20 driving a thermal power control valve of a burner during or just after extinguishment of the burner to displace the thermal power control valve to... | 12/08/2009 |
| 7628123 | Combined hot water supply system A water heater constituting a combined hot water supply system opens, in starting operation in response to an instruction from a connection controller in STEP 1, a water-supply servo valve to an operation start opening As corresponding to a water quantity sli... | 12/08/2009 |
| 7600696 | Hot water supply system A hot water supply system having a hot water supply system body. An operation box is inserted into a window opened in a front panel of the hot water supply system body, and a box cover having an opening to which an operation unit in a front center region of the oper... | 10/13/2009 |
| 7597066 | Circulation type hot water supply device There is provided a circulation type hot water supply device in which a downstream end of a hot water delivering channel 6 connected to a heat exchanger 4 of a water heater 1 is connected to a water supply channel 5 upstream of the heat e... | 10/06/2009 |
| 7591434 | Hot water supply system A hot water supply system includes: a casing 1 having an opening in a front face; a front panel 2 covering the front face of the casing; and a console box 7 attached to the casing. The front panel has a window into which the console box is to be... | 09/22/2009 |
| 7532982 | Freeze forecasting device for hot water heating apparatus and hot water heating apparatus A freeze forecasting device for a hot water heating apparatus, for forecasting a possibility of freeze of water in a water passage circuit due to reduction in outside air temperature at a forecast target time on a forecast target day. The device includes a clock por... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7529593 | Hot water supply system A hot water supply system which allows two hot water supply apparatuses to operate cooperatively and which can avoid degrading a hot water supply capability when one of the two hot water supply apparatuses cannot perform as a master or slave. The two hot water suppl... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7471186 | Radio remote control system It is an object of the invention to provide a radio remote controller system that, when power saving for a radio remote controller is realized by intermittently setting a data receivable period in the radio remote controller, can easily and flexibly change a length ... | 12/30/2008 |
| 7432845 | Hot-water supply system To provide an inexpensive hot-water supply system that allows a user to readily select a desired unit for a physical quantity indicated on a display section of a remote controller. A bathroom-installed remote controller 4 is provided with a indication unit sw... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7428901 | Cooking stove A cooking stove that prevents the execution of a process such as ignition of a burner when a touch switch changes from a non-sensing state to a sensing state. In STEP201, when a first touch switch, which is one of the touch switches provided in an operation, ... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7422010 | Cooking stove A cooking stove that prevents a burner from being ignited when a touch switch shifts from a non-sensing to a sensing state. An operation portion having a touch switch is provided on a glass top plate of a cooking stove main body which accommodates burners. The touch... | 09/09/2008 |