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Container-less custom beverage vending invention

  • US 10,000,370 B2
  • Filed: 08/31/2016
  • Issued: 06/19/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/05/2010
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A beverage dispensing system comprising:

  • a plurality of reservoirs holding a respective plurality of separate ingredients to be used in beverage recipes;

    a user interface for selection of a user-defined custom beverage to be dispensed, based on user input indicating user preferences associated with one or more ingredients among the plurality of separate ingredients to be combined;

    one or more ingredient pumps respectively connected to the plurality of reservoirs;

    a controller for separately controlling each of the one or more ingredient pumps to select any combination of the plurality of separate ingredients to form one or more selected ingredients, the controller being adapted to create the custom beverage by controlling selection of certain combinations and amounts among the plurality of separate ingredients based on the user preferences received in the user input, such that, for each selected ingredient, the controller determines a predefined dosing amount to be dispensed by repeatedly measuring varying amounts of the respective ingredient amount being dispensed by using a differential pressure sensor or a pulse counter sensor until the predefined dosing amount is reached; and

    a nozzle dispenser in communication with the one or more ingredient pumps for independently receiving the one more selected ingredients and mixing the one or more selected ingredients to form the custom beverage and to dispense the custom beverage.

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