Coffee maker
AssigneeLG Electronics Inc.
InventorsHyeunsik NAM, Jungkeun YANG, Seung-Yeon CHOI
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Abstract
A coffee maker is disclosed. The disclosed coffee maker can separate, by means of an inner partition wall, a first inner space of a case module through which water flows for extraction of coffee and a second inner space of the case module in which a circuit board is installed. In addition, a heating module may be disposed at the upper portion of the second inner space, a suction hole for introducing air may be formed at the lower portion of the case module, and a discharge hole for discharging air may be formed at the upper portion of the case module.
Claims20
A coffee maker, comprising:
- a dripper module that extracts coffee from coffee powder;
- a water tank module that stores water and heats the water;
- a water outlet module that supplies the stored water to the dripper module;
- a circuit board that controls an operation of at least one module of the dripper module, the water outlet module, and the water tank module;
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- a case module that includes an outer case and an inner case inserted into the outer case, and provides an installation space for the dripper module, the water outlet module, the water tank module, and the circuit board,
- wherein an internal space of the outer case includes a first internal space and a second internal space, the first internal space and the second internal space are separated by the inner case, and
- the stored water is delivered from the first internal space to the water outlet module, and the circuit board is disposed in the second internal space.
A coffee maker comprising:
- a dripper module that extracts coffee from coffee powder;
- a water outlet module that supplies water to the dripper module;
- a water tank module that stores the water and heats the water;
- a circuit board that controls an operation of at least one module of the dripper module, the water outlet module, and the water tank module;
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- a case module that provides an installation space for the dripper module, the water outlet module, the water tank module, and the circuit board,
- wherein, an internal space in which the circuit board is installed is formed at a rear side of the case module, the water tank module is disposed above the internal space,
- a suction hole is formed in a lower portion of a rear surface of the case module to introduce external air into the internal space, and a discharge hole is formed in an upper portion of the rear surface of the case module to discharge air in the internal space to an outside,
- according to a water heating operation of the water tank module, an upper temperature of the internal space is higher than a lower temperature of the internal space, and the introduced air moves upwardly from the internal space due to a difference between the upper and lower temperatures of the internal space.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.