Innovative Capsule Design for Consistent Beverage Mixing
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Summary
Problems
Existing beverage-making capsules fail to consistently achieve a homogeneous mixture of fluid and food product due to variations in pressure and flow rates, leading to inconsistent beverage concentrations.
Innovation solutions
A capsule design featuring a frusto-conical support with pre-sealed orifices that open simultaneously under pressure, a micro-membrane that breaks to allow fluid outflow, and labyrinthine partitions to slow down fluid flow, ensuring uniform mixing and concentration.
TRIZ Analysis
Specific contradictions:
General conflict description:
Principle concept:
If the capsule uses direct fluid injection onto the food product, then the mixing process is simple, but the mixture concentration varies and homogeneity is poor
Why choose this principle:
The capsule is divided into three distinct chambers: a first chamber for fluid injection, a second chamber for food product containment, and a third chamber for mixture collection. This segmentation allows independent control of fluid injection and product mixing, ensuring consistent concentration while simplifying the overall mixing mechanism.
Principle concept:
If the capsule uses direct fluid injection onto the food product, then the mixing process is simple, but the mixture concentration varies and homogeneity is poor
Why choose this principle:
A perforated plate is introduced as an intermediary element between the first and second chambers. The plate with multiple perforations distributes the injected fluid uniformly across the food product, achieving homogeneous mixing without complex mechanisms. The plate acts as a mediator that transforms direct injection into distributed flow.
Application Domain
Data Source
AI summary:
A capsule design featuring a frusto-conical support with pre-sealed orifices that open simultaneously under pressure, a micro-membrane that breaks to allow fluid outflow, and labyrinthine partitions to slow down fluid flow, ensuring uniform mixing and concentration.
Abstract
Capsule for beverage-making machines , comprising one container (1) in which a fluid is injected under pressure to a first chamber (18) with orifices (14) for the passage of the fluid to a second chamber (20) containing a product, and the fluid mixes with the food product. The second chamber (20) comprises perforations (17) for the passage of the fluid to a third chamber (21), which ends in an outlet (8) for the fluid mixed with the food product. A frusto-conical support (11) defines the bottom and the shape of the first chamber (18) and comprises the orifices (14), covered by a ring body (15). A plate (16a, 16b) constitutes the bottom of the second chamber (20), equipped with the perforations (17), and, along with the bottom (6), forms the third chamber (21).