Portable Blender Touchscreen Interface for Battery-Powered Operation

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional blenders lack portability and independence from external power sources, limiting their use in creating blended drinks and other concoctions outside of the home.

Innovation Solution

A portable blender with a rechargeable battery and touchscreen interface that allows users to control different blending modes through a user-friendly control interface, enabling operation without an external power source and facilitating easy preparation of multiple servings.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If conventional blenders are designed for home use with external power sources, then blending performance is reliable, but portability is lost and external power dependency increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveblending performanceVSAvoidportability

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The blender is divided into separable components: a portable blending unit with integrated battery and motor, and a separate container assembly. This segmentation allows the blending unit to be recharged via USB while maintaining reliable motor performance for actual blending operations.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

A rechargeable battery serves as an intermediary energy storage device between external power sources and the motor. The battery can be recharged through USB connections to external devices, enabling the blender to operate independently without direct external power during blending.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Adaptability or versatility

If a portable blender with rechargeable battery is designed, then portability and independence from external power sources improve, but device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

ImproveportabilityVSAvoiddevice complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The blending unit is designed to be universally compatible with multiple container sizes and types. The same motor and battery unit can blend different volumes and viscosities by simply changing containers, reducing the need for multiple specialized devices.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Solution Approach 2:

The blender offers multiple speed settings and pulse modes that allow adjustment of motor parameters to match different blending needs. This flexibility compensates for the simpler portable design while maintaining effective blending capability.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #35Parameter changes

3Ease of operation

If multiple blending modes are provided through touchscreen interface, then ease of operation improves, but device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveease of operationVSAvoiddevice complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

Traditional mechanical buttons and switches are replaced with a capacitive touchscreen interface. This allows multiple blending modes, speed settings, and functions to be controlled through software rather than numerous physical components, reducing mechanical complexity while improving user interaction.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

Solution Approach 2:

The touchscreen interface dynamically adapts its display and response based on user interaction patterns and blending state. Different gesture types (tap, swipe, hold) trigger different functions, allowing a single interface to provide multiple controls without requiring separate physical buttons for each function.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #15Dynamics

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 portable blender with touchscreen interface provides users with the ability to create blended drinks and other foodstuffs anywhere, ensuring multiple servings can be prepared quickly and efficiently without relying on external power, enhancing convenience and usability.

Implementation Method 1

The blender may be portable due to its size, and/or its rechargeability

Methodology Applied

Scientific EffectBattery (electricity): Battery (electricity)

Implementation Method 2

the control interface may include a (round) touchscreen that is configured to receive user input

Methodology Applied

Scientific EffectTouchscreen interface detection:

Implementation Method 3

A portable blender with a rechargeable battery and touchscreen interface that allows users to control different blending modes

Methodology Applied

Scientific EffectElectromagnetic conversion: Electromagnetic Induction

Data Source

PatentUS20220322881A1Blender with touchscreen interface

Publication Date: 2022.10.13 MAVORCO OPERATIONS LLC

AI summary

A blender with a round touchscreen interface is provided to control different blending modes of operation. Exemplary implementations may: receive, by the round touchscreen that is included in a control interface of the blender, a first type of user input; make detections regarding the user input received by the control interface of the blender; effectuate a transition from a ready-to-blend mode to a first blending mode, responsive to a first detection of a first type of detections; control an electrical motor during the ready-to-blend mode such that the blender is not blending; and control an electrical motor during the first blending mode such that the blender is blending.