Portable Beverage Container With RFID Additive Dosing Control
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional portable refillable bottles and hydration containers lack the ability to dynamically adjust the concentration of consumable additives within the liquid, requiring users to manually manage multiple compartments and additives, which is impractical and inconvenient.
Innovation Solution
A portable beverage apparatus with a dispensing assembly that includes a controller, sensors, and RFID-tagged additive vessels, allowing for precise and variable dispensing of additives into the consumable liquid based on tracked liquid levels and additive quantities, enabling maintenance of targeted concentrations.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If conventional portable refillable bottles are used with constant consumable contents, then the device structure remains simple, but the beverage composition cannot be dynamically adjusted
Solution Approach 1:
The beverage container is divided into multiple compartments, with the first compartment holding consumable liquid and the second compartment holding additive. This segmentation allows independent storage and controlled mixing of different substances, enabling dynamic beverage composition adjustment while maintaining a relatively simple overall structure.
Solution Approach 2:
The system transitions from a static single-compartment design to a dynamic multi-compartment design with controlled substance mixing. The additive can be dispensed into the consumable liquid on demand, allowing the beverage composition to change dynamically based on user needs while keeping the device structure manageable.
2Adaptability or versatility
If manual management of multiple compartments and additives is required, then the device structure can accommodate multiple substances, but user operation becomes impractical and inconvenient
Solution Approach 1:
The system incorporates sensors that automatically detect liquid levels and additive quantities, eliminating the need for manual monitoring. The controller automatically manages the dispensing process based on sensor data, allowing the device to serve itself and greatly improving user convenience while maintaining versatile beverage composition adjustment capabilities.
Solution Approach 2:
Sensors provide real-time feedback on liquid level and additive quantity to the controller, which automatically adjusts dispensing operations. This closed-loop feedback system ensures precise control of beverage composition without requiring user intervention, resolving the contradiction between adaptability and ease of operation.
3Manufacturing precision
If additive dispensing is not precisely controlled, then the device structure remains simple, but consistent consumption of desired nutritional levels cannot be ensured
Solution Approach 1:
The system replaces manual mechanical dispensing with an automated electronic control system. Sensors detect liquid level and additive quantity, and the controller electronically manages the dispensing process to achieve precise concentration control. This substitution of mechanical manual operation with electronic automation enables high manufacturing precision while keeping the overall device complexity manageable through integration.
Solution Approach 2:
The automated control system independently manages additive dispensing based on sensor feedback, eliminating the need for manual measurement and pouring. This self-service mechanism ensures consistent nutritional levels are achieved through precise, repeatable dispensing operations without requiring complex user involvement.
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
The solution provides a convenient and practical means to dynamically adjust additive concentrations within the beverage, eliminating the need for manual management of multiple compartments and ensuring consistent consumption of desired nutritional levels throughout the day.
Implementation Method 1
one or more sensors, devices, or assemblies that can be used to detect a volume of liquid in the chamber or a liquid level in the chamber
Implementation Method 2
The ACP can communicate with the electronic tag of the vessel so as to input data from and output data to the electronic tag
Data Source
AI summary
A beverage apparatus, the beverage apparatus being hand-holdable by a user of the beverage apparatus to be portable, can include a beverage chamber housing that includes a chamber for storing a consumable liquid. The beverage apparatus can include a dispensing assembly that includes a receptacle. The receptacle can retain a vessel. The vessel can include an electronic tag and can contain an additive. The dispensing assembly can be operatively controllable by a controller to output the additive from the vessel into the consumable liquid. The beverage apparatus can include one or more sensors, devices, or assemblies that can be used to detect a volume of liquid in the chamber or a liquid level in the chamber. The beverage apparatus can include an apparatus processing portion (ACP) and an apparatus database portion. The beverage apparatus of the disclosure can include various additional features.