Automobile coffee maker
OwnerNghia Ngo Vuinventor
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Abstract
The 12 Volts DC powered cooker to be installed by the vehicle's manufacturers or the vehicle's owner. The unit will heat liquid temperature to 100° C. and will switch off at temperature greater than 100° C. The switching and temperature monitoring is controlled by an electronic unit. The electronic controlled unit that switches on the heating glow plug to heat liquid to 100° C. and switches off when the liquid is above 100 C. A safety switch also turn the heating glow plug off when the temperature exceeds 200 C. or when the unit is not in an upright position.
Claims17
An apparatus for heating a human-consumable item, comprising:
- a receptacle configured to hold a cup of a consumable;
- and
- a cooker unit for receiving the receptacle, wherein the cooker unit has a square bottom and a cylindrical wall, the cooker unit including
- at least one ceramic sheathed glow plug, designed for use in a diesel engine, adjacent the receptacle configured to heat the cup, wherein the glow plug has a pellet with a power heating element, and wherein the glow plug is designed to reach a temperature of 800° C. in eight seconds and a temperature of 1200° C. after sixty seconds.
A method for heating a human-consumable item, comprising:
- providing an apparatus having
- a receptacle configured to hold a cup of a consumable, and
- a cooker unit for receiving the receptacle, wherein the cooker unit has a square bottom and a cylindrical wall, the cooker unit including
- at least one ceramic sheathed glow plug, designed for use in a diesel engine, adjacent the receptacle configured to heat the cup;
- and
- activating the at least one glow plug,
- wherein the glow plug has a pellet with a power heating element, and wherein the glow plug is designed to reach a temperature of 800° C. in eight seconds and a temperature of 1200° C. after sixty seconds.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.