Portable Beverage Vessel With Automatic Heat-and-Pump Brewing

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current portable single-serving beverage brewing devices for hot beverages lack an automatic heating mechanism and require users to handle loose infusible materials, making them inefficient and not designed for direct consumption.

Innovation Solution

A portable automatic beverage brewing vessel with a receptacle for infusible material that heats liquid to a predetermined temperature and automatically translates the material into the liquid, featuring channels for guiding the receptacle and a mechanism for transferring the liquid through the infusible material, allowing direct consumption from the vessel.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If a portable single-serving beverage brewing device is used, then convenience and portability are improved, but the device lacks automatic heating mechanism and requires manual handling of infusible materials

Engineering Contradiction:

ImproveconvenienceVSAvoidautomatic heating

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSExtent of automation

Solution Approach 1:

The patent combines multiple functions (heating, brewing, and drinking) into a single integrated portable device. The heating element, receptacle for infusible material, and drinking vessel are merged into one unit, enabling automatic operation while maintaining portability and convenience.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The device is designed to perform brewing operations automatically without requiring manual intervention for heating or material handling. The system self-regulates the brewing process, allowing the user to simply add materials and receive the prepared beverage.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

2Adaptability or versatility

If loose infusible materials are used in brewing devices, then brewing flexibility is improved, but user handling complexity and potential contamination increase

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvebrewing flexibilityVSAvoiduser handling

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The patent employs disposable pods or capsules containing pre-measured infusible materials. These single-use containers eliminate the need for users to handle loose materials, reducing complexity and contamination risk while maintaining brewing versatility through different pod options.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #27Cheap short-living objects (Disposable)

Solution Approach 2:

The infusible materials are pre-packaged in measured quantities within the disposable pods before use. This preliminary preparation eliminates the need for user measurement and handling during the brewing process, simplifying operation while preserving brewing flexibility.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

3Quantity of substance

If multi-cup beverage brewing devices are used, then beverage quantity is improved, but waste of materials and energy increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvebeverage quantityVSAvoidwaste

Core Design Contradiction:

Quantity of substanceVSLoss of substance

Solution Approach 1:

The patent divides the beverage brewing system into individual single-serving portions. Each pod is designed for one cup, allowing users to brew exactly what they need without preparing excess that would go wasted. This segmentation approach eliminates material and energy waste associated with multi-cup device usage.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

4Adaptability or versatility

If communal multi-beverage brewing devices are used, then beverage variety is improved, but bacterial or viral exposure risk increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvebeverage varietyVSAvoidbacterial exposure

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The brewing system is segmented into individual disposable pods for each beverage preparation. Each pod is sealed and single-use, preventing cross-contamination between users while still allowing variety through different pod types. This eliminates the shared surfaces and communal components that enable bacterial transmission in traditional multi-cup devices.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

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 efficient, automatic brewing of hot beverages with consistent quality by heating the liquid and integrating the brewing and consumption processes within a single, portable unit, reducing waste and bacterial exposure.

Implementation Method 1

heats the liquid to a predetermined temperature

Methodology Applied

Scientific EffectHeating: Heating

Implementation Method 2

a pump to transfer the liquid through the infusible material

Methodology Applied

Scientific EffectPumping: Pump

Data Source

PatentUS10441105B1Portable drinking vessel and automatic beverage brewing device

Publication Date: 2019.10.15 FOGG IV LESLIE WILLIAM

AI summary

A portable and automatic beverage brewing device configured in a unitary drinking vessel provides for an integral brewing device that is also a drinking vessel. The drinking vessel is configured with a pump and one or more heating elements to heat the liquid and pump it from a liquid container to a receptacle for receiving infusible material, such as coffee or tea, for example. A pump may be configured in the base of the unitary drinking vessel and a tube may extend up between the exterior of the liquid container and the exterior wall of the drinking vessel, to the receptacle. The tube may be spiraled around the liquid container and a heating element may be configured around on in contact with the tube within the inner wall space.