Smart energy-saving device for automatic blending drinks
AssigneeChien-Jung Chu
InventorsCHIEN-JUNG CHU, FEI-TENG KO, CHANG-HSI WU
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Abstract
A smart energy-saving device for automatic blending drinks, adopted to inject beverages into at least one beverage cup that comprises a bar code, comprises: beverage barrels; manifolds; at least one ice-storing device including at least one ice outlet, at least one servomotor, a stirring rod, and at least one thruster; beverage stations; collection mechanisms including ring structures, ice inlets, water inlets, and beverage tubes; and a control module including flowmeters, water valve switches, beverage-cup-weight sensors, beverage-barrel-weight sensors, at least one ice-beverage-barrel-weight sensor, pressure sensors, bar code readers, infrared scanners; and a controller.
Claims10
A smart energy-saving device for automatic blending drinks, adopted to inject beverages into at least one beverage cup that comprises a bar code, comprising:
- a plurality of beverage barrels, each having at least one outlet disposed at a plurality of bottoms of the beverage barrels;
- a plurality of manifolds, connected with the outlet, arranged to be parallel to each other, and an angle between a horizontal line and an extension direction of the manifolds;
- at least one ice-storing device, comprising:
- at least one ice outlet, disposed at a bottom of the ice-storing device;
- at least one servomotor;
- a stirring rod, one end thereof disposed at a top of the ice-storing device;
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- at least one thruster, horizontally disposed beyond the ice outlet and connected with the servomotor;
- a plurality of beverage stations, each being suitable for placing the beverage cup thereon and having a U-shape structure;
- a plurality of collection mechanisms, disposed beyond the beverage stations, comprising:
- a plurality of ring structures;
- a plurality of ice inlets, each being disposed at a top of the ring structure and connected with the ice outlet;
- a plurality of water inlets, each being disposed on a side of the ring structures;
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- a plurality of beverage tubes, both ends of each of the beverage tube being connected with the water inlet and the manifold respectively;
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- a control module, comprising:
- a plurality of flowmeters, each being disposed on the beverage tube and adopted to produce flow data;
- a plurality of water valve switches, each being disposed on the beverage tube and connected with the flowmeter in series;
- a plurality of beverage-cup-weight sensors, each being disposed on the beverage station and adopted to produce a beverage-cup-weight datum;
- a plurality of beverage-barrel-weight sensors, each being disposed at a bottom of the beverage barrel and adopted to produce a beverage-barrel-weight datum;
- at least one ice-beverage-barrel-weight sensor, disposed at the bottom of the ice-storing device and adopted to produce an ice-beverage-barrel-weight datum;
- a plurality of pressure sensors, each being disposed in the manifold and adopted to produce a beverage pressure datum;
- a plurality of bar code readers, each being disposed on the U-shape structure and adopted to recognize the bar code for acquiring beverage data;
- a plurality of infrared scanners, each being disposed on the U-shape structure and adopted to produce beverage-cup-position data;
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- a controller, connected with the water valve switches, the flowmeters, the beverage-cup-weight sensors, the beverage-barrel-weight sensors, the ice-beverage-barrel-weight sensor, the infrared scanners, the pressure sensors, and the bar code readers, and receiving the flow data, the beverage-cup-weight datum, the beverage-barrel-weight datum, the ice-beverage-barrel-weight datum, the beverage pressure datum, the beverage data, and the beverage-cup-position data, and simultaneously controlling the plurality of water valve switches and the servomotor based on the flow data, the beverage-cup-weight datum, the beverage-barrel-weight datum, the ice-beverage-barrel-weight datum, the beverage pressure datum, the beverage data, and the beverage-cup-position data;
- wherein each of the beverage barrels is connected with the plurality of collection mechanisms through the single manifold.
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