Coffee maker with multiple brewing methods
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional coffee makers are limited to a single brewing technique, requiring multiple devices for different brewing methods, which is inconvenient for users who want to prepare various styles of brewed beverages.
Innovation Solution
A versatile coffee maker design featuring a base portion with a support surface, a carafe, an immersion chamber, and a water reservoir, along with a pump that allows for selective water distribution to either the filter basket or the immersion chamber, enabling multiple brewing techniques such as immersion and pour-over methods.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a coffee maker is designed for a single brewing technique, then the device structure is simple and easy to manufacture, but the user must purchase multiple devices to use different brewing techniques
Solution Approach 1:
The coffee maker is designed with multiple brewing chambers (first brewing chamber for pour-over, second brewing chamber for immersion) that can be selectively used, allowing a single device to perform multiple brewing functions. The water reservoir is positioned to supply both chambers, and the carafe can receive brewed coffee from either chamber,实现 one device serving multiple brewing purposes
Solution Approach 2:
The brewing device is divided into separate functional chambers - a first brewing chamber with filter basket for pour-over brewing and a second brewing chamber for immersion brewing. Each chamber can be independently configured and used, allowing the system to handle different brewing methods simultaneously or separately without interfering with each other
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple brewing chambers are integrated into one device, then brewing versatility is improved, but the device occupies more space and becomes more complex
Solution Approach 1:
The device utilizes vertical space by positioning the water reservoir above the brewing chambers and arranging chambers in a stacked configuration. This vertical arrangement allows multiple brewing chambers to be integrated without significantly increasing the horizontal footprint of the device
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 the production of various brewed beverages using different techniques with a single device, enhancing user convenience and flexibility without the need for multiple brewing devices.
Implementation Method 1
A pump is in fluid communication with the water reservoir and operable to selectively advance water to one of the outlet disposed over the filter basket and the immersion chamber from the water reservoir
Implementation Method 2
The method includes the steps of 1) introducing a volume of water to the water reservoir; 2) heating the volume of water in the water reservoir
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AI summary
A brewing device (10) includes a housing (12) having a base portion (14) with a support surface (14C). A carafe (22) is configured to be selectively supported on the support surface (14C). A filter basket (24) is removeably supported on an upper portion (90A) of the carafe (22). An immersion chamber (40) is fluidically coupled to an outlet (102) disposed over the filter basket (24). A water reservoir (30) is fluidically coupled to both the immersion chamber (40) and the outlet (102). A pump (118) is in fluid communication with the water reservoir (30) and operable to selectively advance water to one of the outlet (102) disposed over the filter basket (24) and the immersion chamber (40) from the water reservoir (30). The brewing device (10) is configured to brew a beverage using a pour-over brewing method, an immersion brewing method, or a filtered immersion brewing method.