Beverage Dispenser Interface With Directional User Selectors
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing beverage preparation machines require burdensome reprogramming for different user preferences, leading to inconvenience when multiple users share the same machine.
Innovation Solution
A beverage preparation machine with a user-interface featuring two user-selectors, each with distinct adjustment and initiation directions, allowing users to easily select and store preferred beverage parameters such as volume or taste intensity without manual reprogramming, enabling multiple users to customize settings intuitively.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a beverage preparation machine uses a complex reprogramming system for different user preferences, then the machine can accommodate multiple users with customized settings, but the operation becomes burdensome and complicated for users
Solution Approach 1:
The machine is divided into multiple dispensing stations, each with its own独立的 controls and settings. Each station can be independently configured for different user preferences, allowing multiple users to have customized settings without interfering with each other. This segmentation resolves the contradiction by providing adaptability through multiple stations while maintaining ease of operation at each individual station.
Solution Approach 2:
The machine enables users to independently adjust and program their preferred settings at each dispensing station without requiring complex reprogramming procedures. The self-service capability allows users to customize beverage parameters such as temperature, flow rate, and volume directly at the station, eliminating burdensome operation while maintaining adaptability to individual preferences.
2Adaptability or versatility
If a beverage preparation machine allows multiple users to customize settings, then personalized beverage preparation is achieved, but the system complexity and reprogramming requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
By dividing the machine into multiple dispensing stations with independent controls, each station maintains simple local settings while the overall system provides personalized preparation. This segmentation reduces device complexity at each user interface while achieving adaptability through the multi-station configuration.
Solution Approach 2:
The machine allows users to pre-program their preferred settings at each dispensing station during idle periods. These preliminary actions store customized parameters locally at each station, enabling personalized beverage preparation without requiring complex real-time reprogramming when users need to operate the machine.
3Adaptability or versatility
If a beverage preparation machine requires manual reprogramming for different users, then customized beverage parameters can be set, but time is lost during frequent reprogramming operations
Solution Approach 1:
Multiple dispensing stations with independent settings allow different users to access their pre-configured customized parameters without requiring reprogramming. Each station maintains its own adapted settings, eliminating the time loss associated with frequent reprogramming while preserving adaptability to individual preferences.
Solution Approach 2:
Users can pre-program their preferred beverage parameters at each dispensing station in advance. This preliminary configuration stores customized settings locally, allowing users to simply select their pre-configured station rather than performing time-consuming reprogramming operations each time they use the machine.
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AI summary
A machine (1) for preparing a beverage has: a beverage preparation module for processing one or more beverage ingredients and for dispensing a beverage resulting therefrom; a unit for controlling such processing in accordance with a parameter set to a value stored in the unit; and a user-interface (20) connected to the control unit for acquiring the value from a user and storing the value in the control unit. The user-interface has a first user-selector (21) associated with a first value for the parameter and a second user-selector (22) associated with a second value for the parameter. The first and second user-selectors (21, 22) each comprises a user-actuation adjustment direction (211, 221) for shifting on user-actuation in the adjustment direction the value associated with the user-selector to a user-selected adjusted value selected from a range of values associated with the user-selector. Furthermore, each of the user-selectors comprises a user-actuation initiation direction (212, 222) for initiating on user-actuation in the initiation direction: the control unit to store the user-selected adjusted value as the stored value; and/or the processing in accordance with the parameter set to the user-selected adjusted value as said stored value.