Appliance for foaming beverage or foodstuff
AssigneeSociete des Produits Nestle S.A.
InventorsXuan Mai Tu, Luan Vu Tran, Alexa Perrin
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Abstract
An appliance to foam a liquid for consumption, the appliance comprising: a container mounting portion to mount thereto a container to contain said liquid; an agitation system configured to foam said liquid, said system comprising a stator arranged external a mounted container, said stator configured to generate a rotating magnetic field for transmission of torque to rotate a rotary agitator arranged in a mounted container, wherein said stator comprises at a circuit board with electrically conductive portions formed thereon.
Claims5
A method of foaming a liquid for consumption using an appliance comprising a container mounting portion to mount thereto a container to contain the liquid;
- an agitation system configured to foam the liquid, the system comprising a stator arranged external a mounted container, the stator configured to generate a rotating magnetic field for transmission of torque to rotate a rotary agitator arranged in the mounted container;
- and the stator comprising at a circuit board with electrically conductive portions formed thereon, wherein the electrically conductive portions are connected with at least a two phase configuration, each phase being arranged such that a face of the circuit board comprising a phase comprises a single phase only, the method comprising:
- generating the rotating magnetic field by applying electrical energy to the electrically conductive portions of the stator formed on the circuit board;
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- rotating the rotary agitator arranged in the container for containing the liquid by applying the torque from said field to the rotary agitator.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.