Beverage Extractor Temperature Control Chamber for Stable Extraction
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional beverage extractors lack mechanisms for actively controlling temperature within the extraction chamber during the extraction process, leading to unstable temperature conditions that affect the extraction of desired components such as taste, aroma, and nutrients, and incur significant invisible costs in maintaining temperature stability.
Innovation Solution
A beverage extractor with a temperature control chamber adjacent to the extraction chamber, containing a temperature adjusting medium that can maintain or adjust the temperature inside the extraction chamber multiple times during the extraction process, using materials like metal, glass, or resin, and incorporating features like a bowl-shaped weir and multiple temperature control chambers for precise temperature management.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If conventional extraction methods are used without temperature control mechanisms, then the device structure remains simple and成本低, but the temperature stability during extraction deteriorates, affecting the extraction quality
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a nested structure where the extraction chamber is placed inside a temperature control chamber. The temperature control chamber acts as an outer container that surrounds the extraction chamber, creating a nested configuration. This allows the temperature control system to envelop and thermally influence the extraction chamber without requiring separate external heating/cooling apparatus, thus improving temperature stability while maintaining relatively simple device structure.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a temperature control chamber as an intermediary element between the extraction chamber and the external environment. This intermediary chamber contains the temperature adjusting medium and acts as a thermal buffer, mediating the temperature conditions within the extraction chamber. The partition wall separating the two chambers allows thermal influence while maintaining structural separation, resolving the contradiction between temperature stability and device complexity.
2Reliability
If pre-heating methods are used to maintain temperature stability, then the extraction temperature can be maintained, but resource waste increases due to continuous heating requirements
Solution Approach 1:
The patent employs periodic action by allowing the temperature adjusting medium to be added or replenished at specific intervals during the extraction process rather than continuous heating. The system can maintain temperature stability by periodically adjusting the thermal conditions through the temperature control chamber, reducing continuous energy input and associated resource waste while still achieving reliable temperature maintenance.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent changes the thermal parameters of the system by introducing a temperature adjusting medium with controllable temperature properties into the temperature control chamber. By adjusting the temperature, volume, or composition of this medium, the system can dynamically control the thermal environment of the extraction chamber, maintaining extraction temperature while reducing energy consumption compared to continuous pre-heating methods.
3Use of energy by moving object
If the extraction chamber is made from materials with high thermal conductivity, then heat transfer efficiency improves, but temperature control stability deteriorates due to rapid heat loss to surroundings
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by differentiating the thermal properties of different parts of the device. The extraction chamber can be made from materials with appropriate thermal conductivity for the extraction process, while the temperature control chamber surrounding it provides thermal insulation or controlled thermal influence. This localized differentiation allows efficient heat transfer where needed (in the extraction chamber) while maintaining temperature stability (in the surrounding control chamber), resolving the contradiction between heat transfer efficiency and temperature control stability.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
Enables stable and precise temperature control within 1°C of the desired range, reducing costs and allowing reproducible extraction of ideal components, regardless of environmental conditions, and eliminating the need for pre-heating methods that waste resources.
Implementation Method 1
a temperature control chamber (3) for controlling the temperature inside the extraction chamber (2) by containing the temperature adjusting medium
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AI summary
The beverage extractor 1 includes an extraction chamber 2 through which liquid passes to extract material components, and a temperature control chamber 3. The temperature control chamber 3 is provided outside, using the inner wall 20 and inner bottom wall 23 defining the extraction chamber 2 as partition walls. A temperature-controlled adjusting medium is introduced into the temperature control chamber 3 through an inlet 7 to adjust the temperature during the extraction process in the extraction chamber 2, thereby maintaining or adjusting the extraction temperature of the liquid during extraction. A bowl-shaped weir 21 is provided in the temperature control chamber 3