1. A machine for the production of ice, comprising a tubular pipe to form the ice, covered by a refrigerator evaporator, and having an auger inside to move the ice towards the delivery outlet, associated with a ring nut having a plurality of drawing holes arranged angularly spaced along a circumference, wherein said delivery outlet of said tubular pipe above said drawing holes is associated with a terminal inlet part of a conveyor of said ice, having a substantially upward axial extension and a terminal outlet part positioned at a level substantially higher than said top of said machine, wherein said conveyor comprises a first and a second longitudinal element having at least one terminal section coaxial with said tubular pipe, and a crushing element for said ice is present at an outlet end of said first longitudinal element.
2. A machine for the production of ice according to claim 1, wherein said delivery outlet of said tubular pipe opens at the top of said machine.
3. A machine for the production of ice according to claim 1, wherein at least said second longitudinal element is tubular.
4. A machine for the production of ice according to claim 1, wherein at least said first longitudinal element is tubular.
5. A machine for the production of ice according to claim 1, wherein said first longitudinal element is inside said second longitudinal tubular element with which it delimits an annular interspace facing said drawing holes.
6. A machine for the production of ice according to claim 5, wherein the radial extension of said annular interspace is not less than the diameter of the outlet cross-section of said drawing holes.
7. A machine for the production of ice according to claim 5, wherein the radial extension of said annular interspace is substantially equal to the diameter of the outlet cross-section of said drawing holes.
8. A machine for the production of ice according to claim 1, wherein said drawing holes taper progressively from their inlet cross-section to their outlet cross-section.
9. The machine for the production of ice according to claim 1, wherein said auger has a double screw.
10. The machine for the production of ice according to claim 1, wherein said first and second longitudinal elements are rectilinear.
11. The machine for the production of ice according to claim 1, wherein said first and second longitudinal elements are vertical.
12. The machine for the production of ice according to claim 1, wherein said first and second longitudinal elements present at least one angle.
13. The machine for the production of ice according to claim 12, wherein said angle is a right angle.
14. The machine for the production of ice according to claim 1, wherein said first and second longitudinal elements have a vertical section and a horizontal section.
15. The machine for the production of ice according to claim 1, wherein said crushing element has a deflecting surface which is tilted with respect to the axis of said first longitudinal element.
16. A machine for the production of ice, comprising a tubular pipe to form the ice, covered by a refrigerator evaporator, and having an auger inside to move the ice towards the delivery outlet, associated with a ring nut having a plurality of drawing holes arranged angularly spaced along a circumference, wherein said delivery outlet of said tubular pipe is associated with the terminal inlet part of a conveyor of said ice, having a substantially upward axial extension and a terminal outlet part positioned at a level substantially higher than said top of said machine, wherein said conveyor comprises a first and a second longitudinal element having at least one terminal section coaxial with said tubular pipe, and first and second connectors, respectively, between said ring nut and said respective first and second longitudinal elements.
17. The machine for the production of ice according to claim 16, wherein said first connector comprise an annular recess of the external side surface of said first longitudinal element, on which an extension is fitted of a central sleeve of said ring nut.
18. The machine for the production of ice according to claim 17, wherein said external side surface of said extension is substantially on the external side surface of said first longitudinal element.
19. The machine for the production of ice according to claim 18, wherein said extension has an internal thread for its coupling with an external counter-thread of said first internal tubular element.
20. The machine for the production of ice according to claim 16, wherein said second connector comprise an annular shoulder of said ring nut on which a second tubular element is supported.
21. The machine for the production of ice according to claim 20, wherein a side surface of said shoulder is substantially on the extension of the internal side surface of said second tubular element.
22. The machine for the production of ice according to claim 20, wherein the outlet end of said second tubular element bears a dispenser of said crushed ice, having a tilted bottom with respect to the axis of said second longitudinal element for sliding said crushed ice towards the exterior.
23. The machine for the production of ice according to claim 22, wherein said dispenser has one or more supply channels which are angularly spaced around the outlet end of said second tubular element.
24. The machine for the production of ice according to claim 20, wherein said second tubular element has an external insulation coating.
25. The machine for the production of ice according to claim 20, wherein said second tubular element is made of a transparent material, and that said insulation coating has at least one inspection window to view the interior of said second tubular element.
26. A machine for the production of ice comprising a tubular pipe to form the ice, covered by a refrigerator evaporator, and having an auger inside to move the ice towards the delivery outlet, associated with a ring nut having a plurality of drawing holes arranged angularly spaced along a circumference, wherein said delivery outlet of said tubular pipe is associated with the terminal inlet part of a conveyor of said ice, having a substantially upward axial extension and a terminal outlet part positioned at a level substantially higher than said top of said machine, and wherein a junction area between said ring nut and said conveyor is externally encircled by a collector of condensation water or water melted from said ice, drained from at least one drainage hole present on said external pipe.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
1. A method for correcting color characteristics of a flat panel display, comprising:
using a signal generating device to generate an input signal RGB and inputting said input signal RGB to a flat panel display after said flat panel display is assembled;
using a color measurement instrument to measure a color displayed by said flat panel display to obtain an output value XYZ of said flat panel display;
obtaining corrected color characteristic values necessary for said flat panel display to display a target output value Txyz through the computation of an inverse function RGB=f\u22121(XYZ) between said input signal RGB and said output value XYZ according to a set specification, and storing said corrected color characteristic values together with an identification code of said flat panel display into a storage medium;
downloading corresponding corrected color characteristic values to a hard disk of a computer from said storage medium according to said identification code of said flat panel display through the installation procedure of said driver after said flat panel display is connected to said computer; and
said computer using said driver of said flat panel display to start a color characteristic correction mechanism, such that said flat panel display can display a corrected color according to said corrected color characteristic values.
2. The method of claim 1, wherein said storage medium is a database of a network server, and said corresponding corrected color characteristic values are downloaded to said hard disk of said computer from said database through Internet according to said identification code of said flat panel display through the installation procedure of said driver after said flat panel display is connected to said computer.
3. The method of claim 1, wherein said storage medium is an optical disk, and said corresponding corrected color characteristic values are downloaded to said hard disk of said computer from said optical disk according to said identification code of said flat panel display through the installation procedure of said driver after said flat panel display is connected to said computer.
4. The method of claims 1, wherein said computation of said inverse function according to said set specification comprising the steps of:
creating the relation of a characteristic function XYZ=f(RGB) and said inverse function RGB=f\u22121(XYZ) between said input signal RGB and said output value XYZ;
using the relation of said inverse function RGB=f\u22121(XYZ) to derive a target input value Trgb=f\u22121(Txyz) corresponding to a target output value Txyz according to said set specification;
creating a correction function g( ), which is Trgb=g (RGB) between said input signal RGB and said target input value Trgb; and
obtaining corrected color characteristic values necessary for said flat panel display to display said target output value Txyz through the computation of said correction function g( ).
5. The method of claims 2, wherein said computation of said inverse function according to said set specification comprising the steps of:
creating the relation of a characteristic function XYZ=f(RGB) and said inverse function RGB=f\u22121(XYZ) between said input signal RGB and said output value XYZ;
using the relation of said inverse function RGB=f\u22121(XYZ) to derive a target input value Trgb=f\u22121(Txyz) corresponding to a target output value Txyz according to said set specification;
creating a correction function g( ), which is Trgb=g (RGB) between said input signal RGB and said target input value Trgb; and
obtaining corrected color characteristic values necessary for said flat panel display to display said target output value Txyz through the computation of said correction function g( ).
6. The method of claims 3, wherein said computation of said inverse function according to said set specification comprising the steps of:
creating the relation of a characteristic function XYZ=f(RGB) and said inverse function RGB=f\u22121(XYZ) between said input signal RGB and said output value XYZ;
using the relation of said inverse function RGB=f\u22121(XYZ) to derive a target input value Trgb=f\u22121(Txyz) corresponding to a target output value Txyz according to said set specification;
creating a correction function g( ), which is Trgb=g (RGB) between said input signal RGB and said target input value Trgb; and
obtaining corrected color characteristic values necessary for said flat panel display to display said target output value Txyz through the computation of said correction function g( ).
7. A method for correcting color characteristics of a flat panel display, comprising:
a computer downloading corresponding corrected color characteristic values, necessary for said flat panel display to display a target output value Txyz, to a hard disk of said computer from a storage medium according to an identification code through the installation procedure of a driver of said flat panel display, after said flat panel display is connected to said computer; and
said computer using said driver of said flat panel display to start a color characteristic correction mechanism, so that said flat panel display shows a corrected color according to said corrected color characteristic values.
8. The method of claim 7, wherein said corrected color characteristic values are computed by a procedure comprising the steps of:
creating the relation of a characteristic function XYZ=f(RGB) and its inverse function RGB=f\u22121(XYZ) between an input signal RGB and an output value XYZ of said flat panel display;
using the relation of said inverse function RGB=f\u22121(XYZ) to derive a target input value Trgb=f\u22121(Txyz) corresponding to a target output value Txyz according to a set specification;
creating a correction function g( ), which is equal to Trgb=g (RGB), between said input signal RGB and said target input value Trgb; and
obtaining corrected color characteristic values necessary for said flat panel display to display said target output value Txyz through the computation of said correction function g( ).
9. A flat panel display capable of automatically correcting color characteristics, comprising:
a flat panel display, having an identification code;
a set of corrected color characteristic values, obtained by inputting an input signal RGB to said flat panel display after said flat panel display is assembled, examining an output value XYZ of said flat panel display, and computing corrected color characteristic values necessary for said flat panel display to display a target output value Txyz, according to a set specification, through the relation of an inverse function of RGB=f\u22121(XYZ) between said input signal RGB and said output value XYZ; and
a driver, for downloading said set of corrected color characteristic values to a hard disk of a computer according to said identification code of said flat panel display through the installation procedure of said driver of said computer after said flat panel display is connected to said computer, and using said driver to start a color characteristic correction mechanism, such that said flat panel display can display the corrected color according to said corrected color characteristic values.