CN112401666A

CN112401666A - Beverage brewing equipment

Info

Publication number: CN112401666A
Application number: CN201911292736.XA
Authority: CN
Inventors: 陈星宪
Original assignee: Cenz Automation Co ltd
Current assignee: Cenz Automation Co ltd
Priority date: 2019-08-20
Filing date: 2019-12-12
Publication date: 2021-02-26
Also published as: TW202108054A

Abstract

The invention provides a beverage brewing device which comprises a brewing unit, a raw material supply unit, an ice making unit and a bearing unit. The brewing unit is suitable for brewing a plurality of raw materials and at least one ice block into a beverage. The raw material supply unit is adapted to store and deliver these raw materials to the brewing unit. The ice-making unit is adapted to make and store ice pieces and deliver the ice pieces to the brewing unit. The bearing unit is arranged below the modulation unit. The carrying unit is adapted to carry a drinking cup and the drink is adapted to be moved from the brewing unit into the drinking cup.

Description

Beverage brewing equipment

Technical Field

The invention relates to a beverage brewing device, in particular to an automatic beverage brewing device.

Background

Modern people like drinking beverages, especially hand-mixed beverages. The hand-prepared beverage is prepared by adding different solid raw materials such as fruit granules into liquid raw materials such as water, fruit juice, tea, coffee, fresh milk and the like according to the requirements of customers, and manually mixing the raw materials in a preparation cup by different preparation methods such as shaking, stirring and the like through a modulator. Compared with the traditional canned beverage, the hand-prepared beverage has the advantages that customers can add different solid raw materials into different liquid raw materials and can prepare the raw materials by using various preparation methods, diversified and customized beverages are provided for the customers to select, and the hand-prepared beverage is naturally popular with the public. Especially in summer, people almost have a cup of hand-mixed beverage, and the popularity of the beverage is very popular.

However, compared to canned beverages that can be automatically mass-produced by an industrialized process and are first refrigerated for cooling in a vending place, the manually-brewed beverages require a great variety of manual manipulation skills, complicated procedures, and the addition of ice cubes to brew them to provide cold beverages in real time, and thus require a considerable manual manipulation skill, are not suitable for mass automatic brewing, and are not comparable to canned beverages in terms of time and cost. Therefore, how to design a device capable of automatically adding ice cubes and preparing the manually-adjusted beverage and properly cleaning the device so as to save the labor and time for preparing the manually-adjusted beverage is an important subject in the field of manually-adjusted beverages.

Disclosure of Invention

The invention provides a beverage brewing device which can automatically add ice cubes and brew beverages.

The beverage brewing equipment comprises a brewing unit, a raw material supply unit, an ice making unit and a bearing unit. The brewing unit is suitable for brewing a plurality of raw materials and at least one ice block into a beverage. The raw material supply unit is adapted to store and deliver these raw materials to the brewing unit. The ice-making unit is adapted to make and store ice pieces and deliver the ice pieces to the brewing unit. The bearing unit is arranged below the modulation unit. The carrying unit is adapted to carry a drinking cup and the drink is adapted to be moved from the brewing unit into the drinking cup.

In an embodiment of the invention, the beverage brewing apparatus includes a lifting unit, wherein when the carrying unit has a first distance from the brewing unit, the carrying unit is adapted to carry the beverage cup, and the first distance between the carrying unit and the brewing unit is adapted to be reduced to a second distance by driving of the lifting unit.

In an embodiment of the invention, the beverage brewing apparatus includes a cleaning unit, wherein when the carrying unit and the brewing unit have a second distance therebetween, the cleaning unit is adapted to clean the brewing unit with a cleaning solution, and the cleaning solution after cleaning is adapted to move from the brewing unit to the carrying unit.

In an embodiment of the invention, the brewing unit has a beverage outlet, the beverage is adapted to move from the brewing unit to the beverage cup through the beverage outlet, and the cleaning liquid is adapted to move from the brewing unit to the carrying unit through the beverage outlet.

In an embodiment of the invention, the above-mentioned carrying unit has a positioning ring, the bottom of the beverage cup is suitable to be positioned in the positioning ring when the carrying unit and the brewing unit have a first distance therebetween, and the positioning ring surrounds the beverage outlet when the carrying unit and the brewing unit have a second distance therebetween.

In an embodiment of the invention, the bearing unit has a flow path, and the cleaning liquid is adapted to flow along the flow path and be discharged from the bearing unit.

In an embodiment of the invention, the lifting unit is connected to the carrying unit and adapted to drive the carrying unit to lift.

In an embodiment of the invention, the lifting unit is connected to the modulation unit and adapted to drive the modulation unit to lift.

In an embodiment of the invention, the brewing unit includes a brewing cup and a brewing device, and the brewing cup is adapted to be driven by the brewing device to brew the raw materials.

In an embodiment of the present invention, the brewing cup has two valves, when one of the two valves is open and the other of the two valves is closed, the ingredients are adapted to enter the brewing cup through the open valve, when both valves are closed, the ingredients are adapted to be brewed in the brewing cup, when one of the two valves is closed and the other of the two valves is open, the beverage in the brewing cup is adapted to be removed from the brewing cup through the open valve.

In an embodiment of the invention, each of the valves includes an opening portion, a sealing member and an elastic member, the sealing member is connected to the elastic member and seals the opening portion by an elastic force of the elastic member, and the sealing member is adapted to be forced and moved away from the opening portion against the elastic force of the elastic member.

In an embodiment of the invention, each of the valves includes an opening portion, a sealing member and a solenoid valve, and the sealing member is connected to the solenoid valve and is driven by the solenoid valve to seal the opening portion or move away from the opening portion.

In an embodiment of the invention, the raw material supply unit includes at least one powdered material storage container and at least one swinging member, the at least one powdered material storage container is adapted to store at least one powdered material, and the at least one swinging member is movably disposed in the at least one powdered material storage container and is adapted to swing inside the at least one powdered material storage container to break at least one powdered material agglomerated therein.

In an embodiment of the invention, the raw material supply unit includes at least one discharging device, the at least one powdered raw material in the at least one powdered raw material storage container is adapted to be moved away from the at least one powdered raw material storage container by driving of the at least one discharging device, and the at least one swinging member is connected to the at least one discharging device and is linked with the at least one discharging device.

In an embodiment of the invention, the at least one powdery raw material is one of the raw materials suitable for being prepared by the preparation unit.

In an embodiment of the present invention, the raw materials include at least one solid raw material, the at least one solid raw material is a front material or a rear material, the raw material supply unit includes at least one solid raw material storage container, and the at least one solid raw material is suitable for being delivered to the drinking cup from the at least one powdered raw material storage container before or after the beverage is moved to the drinking cup.

In an embodiment of the invention, the raw materials include at least one liquid raw material, the raw material supply unit includes at least one liquid raw material storage container and at least one floating ball device, the at least one liquid raw material storage container is adapted to store the at least one liquid raw material, and the at least one floating ball device is disposed in the at least one liquid raw material storage container and adapted to be lifted and lowered along with a water level change of the at least one liquid raw material to generate the sensing signal.

Based on the above, the beverage brewing apparatus of the present invention can automatically brew beverages by the brewing unit thereof. In addition, the beverage brewing device is provided with the ice making unit, ice cubes can be automatically made and stored by the ice making unit, and the ice cubes are added into the brewing unit when needed, so that the ice cubes do not need to be manually added into the brewing unit, and the beverage brewing device can brew the ice cubes and raw materials into the beverage in a fully automatic mode.

In order to make the aforementioned and other features and advantages of the invention more comprehensible, embodiments accompanied with figures are described in detail below.

Drawings

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a beverage brewing apparatus according to one embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a partial perspective view of the beverage brewing apparatus of FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 illustrates a reduction in the distance between the carrier unit and the modulation unit of FIG. 2;

FIGS. 4A and 4B are flow charts illustrating the operation of the lifting unit of FIG. 2;

FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram of a portion of the components of the beverage brewing apparatus of FIG. 1;

FIG. 6 is an exploded view of the carrying unit of FIG. 1;

FIG. 7 is a perspective view of the modulation unit of FIG. 1;

FIG. 8 is a perspective view of the liquid feedstock storage vessel of FIG. 1;

fig. 9 is a perspective view of the powdery raw material storage container of fig. 1.

The reference numbers illustrate:

50: beverage cup

100: beverage brewing equipment

110: raw material supply unit

112: liquid material storage container

112 a: heating unit

114: storage container for powdery raw material

116: solid raw material storage container

117: discharging device

117 a: motor with a stator having a stator core

117 b: screw rod

117 c: gear set

118: floating ball device

118 a: floating ball

118 b: electrode for electrochemical cell

119: swinging member

120: modulation unit

120 a: beverage outlet

122: mixing cup

122a valve

122a 1: opening part

122a 2: sealing element

122a 3: elastic piece

124: modulation device

124 a: motor with a stator having a stator core

124 b: belt pulley

124 c: driving rod

130: bearing unit

130 a: locating ring

130 b: flow path

132: support plate

132 a: opening of the container

134: drainage tank

134 a: guide slope

134 b: water outlet

134 c: slotting

140: lifting unit

150: cleaning unit

160: storage unit

170: milk storage container

180: ice-making unit

182: ice outlet

Detailed Description

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a beverage brewing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention. Fig. 2 is a partial perspective view of the beverage brewing apparatus of fig. 1. Referring to fig. 1 and 2, the beverage brewing apparatus 100 of the present embodiment includes a raw material supply unit 110, an ice making unit 180, a brewing unit 120, and a carrying unit 130. The ingredient supply unit 110 is adapted to store a plurality of ingredients and deliver at least a portion of the ingredients to the brewing unit 120. The ice-making unit 180 is adapted to make and store ice pieces and deliver the ice pieces to the brewing unit 120. The brewing unit 120 is adapted to brew the ingredients from the ingredient supply unit 110 and the ice cubes from the ice making unit 180 into a beverage. It should be noted that fig. 1 and 2 show a portion of the housing of the brewing apparatus 100 as transparent in order to make the components within the beverage brewing apparatus 100 clearly visible, but in practice it may not be transparent to moderately obscure the components within the brewing apparatus 100.

In the present embodiment, the ice making unit 180 is disposed behind the brewing unit 120 and extends above the brewing unit 120 (i.e., the position indicated by the reference numeral 180), so that the ice outlet 182 of the ice making unit 180 provides ice to the brewing unit 120. For example, the ice making unit 180 may include a compressor located approximately behind the brewing unit 120 and an ice storage device located above the compressor and the brewing unit 120, with an ice outlet 182 located at a lower end of the ice storage device corresponding to the brewing unit 120. With this configuration, the ice making unit 180 can automatically add ice cubes to the brewing unit 120, so that there is no need to manually add ice cubes to the brewing unit 120, and the beverage brewing apparatus 100 can fully automatically brew ice cubes and raw materials into a beverage.

The carrier unit 130 is disposed below the modulation unit 120. When the carrying unit 130 and the brewing unit 120 have the first distance shown in fig. 1 and 2, the carrying unit 130 is adapted to carry the drinking cup 50 as shown in fig. 2, and the brewed beverage is adapted to move from the brewing unit 120 into the drinking cup 50 through the brewing unit 120. The drink cup 50 can be removed from between the carrier unit 130 and the brewing unit 120 for the user to drink the drink therein.

Fig. 3 shows a reduction of the distance between the carrier unit and the modulation unit of fig. 2. Fig. 4A and 4B are flowcharts illustrating the operation of the lifting unit of fig. 2. In this embodiment, the beverage brewing apparatus 100 further comprises a lifting unit 140, and the lifting unit 140 is connected to the carrying unit 130 and adapted to drive the carrying unit 130 to lift. After the drinking cup 50 is taken out from between the carrying unit 130 and the brewing unit 120, the first distance between the carrying unit 130 and the brewing unit 120 is adapted to be reduced to the second distance shown in fig. 3 by the driving of the carrying unit 130 by the lifting unit 140 as shown in fig. 4A to 4B. The power source of the lifting unit 140 may be a cylinder, a motor or other suitable actuating devices, which is not limited in the present invention.

Figure 5 is a schematic view of a portion of the components of the beverage brewing apparatus of figure 1. As shown in fig. 5, the beverage brewing apparatus 100 of the present embodiment further comprises a cleaning unit 150. The cleaning unit 150 is connected to the brewing unit 120. When the carrying unit 130 and the brewing unit 120 have a smaller second distance therebetween as shown in fig. 3, the cleaning unit 150 is adapted to clean the brewing unit 120 through the cleaning solution, and the cleaning solution after cleaning is adapted to move from the brewing unit 120 to the carrying unit 130. The cleaning liquid is, for example, water or a cleaning agent, and the invention is not limited thereto.

As described above, since the distance between the brewing unit 120 to be cleaned after use and the carrying unit 130 for carrying the beverage cup 50 can be reduced by the driving of the lifting unit 140, when the cleaning unit 150 cleans the brewing unit 120 with the cleaning liquid, the cleaning liquid flowing out from the brewing unit 120 can be received by the carrying unit 130 nearby without splashing outside the beverage brewing apparatus 100, so as to achieve the effect of cleaning the brewing unit properly.

In the present embodiment, the beverage brewing apparatus 100 further includes a storage unit 160 as shown in fig. 1, and the storage unit 160 can be used for storing various raw materials or tools required for brewing beverages according to the requirement. When the drink preparing apparatus 100 is installed in a place where a water line cannot be connected, the storage unit 160 may also be used to store clean water required for preparing a drink or cleaning the preparing unit 120 and cleaning liquid after cleaning the preparing unit 120, respectively, due to lack of supply of clean water and inability to discharge waste water after cleaning. If the storage unit 160 is used to store water for brewing beverages or cleaning the brewing unit 120, the cleaning unit 150 shown in fig. 5 is, for example, a pump or other driving device connected between the storage unit 160 and the brewing unit 120 through a pipeline, so as to drive the water in the storage unit 160 into the brewing unit 120 for cleaning. When the storage unit 160 is used to store the cleaning solution after cleaning the preparation unit 120, the storage unit 160 only needs to be connected to the flow path 130b for discharging the cleaning solution as shown in fig. 6. The specific configuration of the flow path 130b will be described in detail later. In other embodiments, the cleaning unit 150 may be other types of devices suitable for delivering any suitable source of cleaning fluid to the brewing unit 120, and the invention is not limited thereto.

Referring to fig. 2, the brewing unit 120 of the present embodiment has a beverage outlet 120a, and the beverage brewed by the brewing unit 120 is suitable for moving from the brewing unit 120 to the beverage cup 50 on the carrying unit 130 through the beverage outlet 120 a. In addition, the cleaning solution for cleaning the brewing unit 120 is also adapted to move from the brewing unit 120 to the carrying unit 130 through the beverage outlet 120 a. On the other hand, the carrying unit 130 of the present embodiment has a positioning ring 130 a. The bottom of the drinking cup 50 is adapted to be positioned by being placed in the positioning ring 130a when the carrier unit 130 is at a first distance from the brewing unit 120 as shown in fig. 2. When the carrying unit 130 and the brewing unit 120 have the second distance as shown in fig. 3, the positioning ring 130a is adjacent to the beverage outlet 120a of the brewing unit 120 as shown in fig. 3, and the positioning ring 130a can also be lifted to surround the beverage outlet 120a of the brewing unit 120, so as to ensure that the cleaning liquid discharged from the beverage outlet 120a is not splashed out.

Fig. 6 is a schematic cross-sectional view of the carrying unit of fig. 1. Referring to fig. 6, the supporting unit 130 of the present embodiment has a flow path 130b, and the cleaning solution is suitable for flowing along the flow path 130b and being discharged from the supporting unit 130. Specifically, the supporting unit 130 includes a supporting plate 132 and a draining groove 134, and the supporting plate 132 covers the draining groove 134 for supporting the beverage cup 50 (shown in fig. 2). At the center of the positioning ring 130a, the carrier 132 has an opening 132a for the cleaning liquid to fall down to the drain groove 134. The drain groove 134 has a guide slope 134a and a drain port 134b, and the guide slope 134a guides the cleaning solution to the drain port 134b and discharges the cleaning solution. The flow path 130b is composed of the opening 132a of the carrier plate 132, the guide slope 134a of the drain groove 134, and the drain 134b of the drain groove 134. In other embodiments, the supporting unit 130 may discharge the cleaning solution through other suitable flow paths, which is not limited in the present invention. In addition, the carrier plate 132 may further have a plurality of slots 134c (shown in fig. 4A and 4B) for allowing the beverage that fails to enter the beverage cup 50 to fall into the drainage slot 134 and be drained when the beverage cup 50 receives the beverage from the brewing unit 120.

The configuration and operation of the modulation unit 120 of the present embodiment are explained below. Fig. 7 is a perspective view of the modulation unit of fig. 1. Referring to fig. 7, the brewing unit 120 of the present embodiment includes a brewing cup 122, the brewing cup 122 has two valves 122a, the raw material is delivered from the raw material supply unit 110 to one of the two valves 122a of the brewing cup 122 (e.g., the valve 122a located above) through a suitable pipeline, and the ice outlet 182 of the ice making unit 180 corresponds to one of the two valves 122a (e.g., the valve 122a located above). When one of the two valves 122a (e.g., the valve 122a located above) is opened and the other of the two valves 122a (e.g., the valve 122a located below) is closed, the ingredients from the ingredient supply unit 110 and the ice cubes from the ice cube outlet 182 of the ice making unit 180 can enter the brewing cup 122 through the opened valve 122 a. When both valves 122a are closed, the ingredients and ice cubes are adapted to be brewed in the brew cup 122. When one of the two valves 122a (e.g., the upper valve 122a) is closed and the other of the two valves 122a (e.g., the lower valve 122a) is open, the beverage in the brewing cup 122 is adapted to move away from the brewing cup 122 through the open valve 122a and toward the beverage outlet 120a (shown in fig. 2). The brewing cup 122 of the present embodiment can conveniently and rapidly allow the raw materials and ice cubes to enter the brewing cup 122 and allow the beverage to be removed from the brewing cup 122 through the design of the double valve 122a, without driving the brewing cup 122 to turn over or dump, thereby simplifying the design of the driving mechanism and increasing the operation speed of automatically brewing the beverage.

Specifically, each valve 122a includes an opening portion 122a1, a seal 122a2, and an elastic member 122a 3. The sealing member 122a2 is, for example, a rubber member or a silicone member, and the elastic member 122a3 is, for example, a spring. The sealing member 122a2 is connected to the elastic member 122a3 and seals the opening portion 122a1 by the elastic force of the elastic member 122a 3. The sealing member 122a2 is adapted to be forced and moved away from the opening portion 122a1 against the elastic force of the elastic member 122a 3. In the present embodiment, for example, a pushing structure is disposed at the upper valve 122a for pushing the sealing member 122a2, so as to push the sealing member 122a2 at a proper time to open the opening portion 122a1, so that the raw material and the ice cubes can enter the brewing cup 122 through the opening portion 122a 1. Similarly, in the present embodiment, an abutting structure is disposed at the lower valve 122a for abutting against the sealing member 122a2, and the abutting structure is formed at the top of the beverage outlet 120a (shown in fig. 2) for abutting against the sealing member 122a2 at a proper time to open the opening portion 122a1, so that the beverage can be moved away from the brewing cup 122 through the opening portion 122a 1.

On the other hand, the modulation unit 120 includes a modulation device 124. The brewing cup 122 is adapted to brew such ingredients from the ingredient supply unit 110 (shown in fig. 1) by actuation of the brewing device 124. The brewing device 124 can include a motor 124a, a pulley 124b and a driving rod 124c, the pulley 124b is connected between the motor 124a and the driving rod 124c, the driving rod 124c is pivotally connected to the brewing cup 122, such that the motor 124a can drive the driving rod 124c to rotate via the pulley 124b, so as to drive the brewing cup 122 to shake to brew the raw material and the ice cubes therein. In other embodiments, the modulation device 124 can be other suitable driving modules, which is not limited in the present invention.

In the present embodiment, the raw materials may include a plurality of liquid raw materials, a plurality of powder raw materials, and a plurality of solid raw materials, and the raw material supply unit 110 includes containers for respectively storing the raw materials, as described in detail below. Referring to fig. 1, the material supply unit 110 of the present embodiment includes a plurality of liquid material storage containers 112, at least one powdery material storage container 114 (one shown), and a plurality of solid material storage containers 116. The liquid material storage containers 112 are used to store a plurality of liquid materials, such as various kinds of tea, such as green tea, black tea, scented tea, or various kinds of fruit juices, and can respectively convey the liquid materials to the brewing cup 120 through a plurality of appropriately configured pipelines. The powder material storage container 114 is used for storing powder material such as creamer to be prepared and can deliver the powder material to the preparation cup 120 through a suitably configured pipeline. The solid material storage containers 116 are used for storing a plurality of solid materials, such as pellets, respectively, and can respectively convey the solid materials to the brewing cup 120 through a plurality of pipes appropriately configured.

In other embodiments, the powdered ingredient storage container 114 may instead be configured to store powdered ingredients, such as coffee powder, powdered green tea, etc., as a pre-charge or post-charge, and the powdered ingredients are delivered directly from the powdered ingredient storage container 114 to the drinking cup 50 through appropriately configured piping before or after the beverage brewed by the brewing unit 120 is moved to the drinking cup 50. In the present embodiment, the front material and the rear material are transported to the upper side of the beverage outlet 120a, for example, through a pipeline, and fall down through the beverage outlet 120a to the beverage cup 50. However, the present invention is not limited thereto, and the pre-feeding material and the post-feeding material may be provided into the drink cup 50 in a suitable manner without passing through the drink outlet 120 a.

Similarly, a portion of the solid material storage container 116 may instead be used to store solid material, such as pearls, coconut, Mesona, etc., as a pre-charge or post-charge that is delivered directly from the solid material storage container 114 to the drinking cup 50 via appropriately configured piping. Similarly, the partial liquid material storage container 112 may instead be used to store a liquid material, such as condensed milk or the like, as a pre-charge or post-charge, which is delivered directly from the solid material storage container 114 to the drinking cup 50 via appropriately configured piping. The specific types of the pre-material, the post-material and the raw material to be prepared are only examples, and the invention is not limited to the types. In the present embodiment, the front material and the rear material are transported to the upper side of the beverage outlet 120a, for example, through a pipeline, and fall down through the beverage outlet 120a to the beverage cup 50. However, the present invention is not limited thereto, and the pre-feeding material and the post-feeding material may be provided into the drink cup 50 in a suitable manner without passing through the drink outlet 120 a.

Fig. 8 is a perspective view of the liquid material storage container of fig. 1. Referring to fig. 8, the material supply unit 110 (shown in fig. 1) of the present embodiment may further include at least one floating ball device 118. The float ball device 118 is disposed in the liquid material storage container 112 and adapted to be lifted and lowered according to a change in a water level of the liquid material in the liquid material storage container 112 to generate a sensing signal. The floating ball device 118 provides buoyancy through a floating ball 118a at the bottom thereof, and when the water level is high, the floating ball device 118 is electrically connected to an external sensing device through an electrode 118b at the top thereof, and when the water level is low, the floating ball device 118 is lowered, so that the electrode 118b is not electrically connected to the external sensing device, thereby sensing the water level. This eliminates the need to sense the level of the water level in a weighing manner, which increases the degree of error due to the need to measure along with the weight of the liquid material storage container 112, or in an optical manner, which makes it difficult to accurately perform optical sensing in the case where the light transmittance of the liquid material is large. In addition, the bottom of the liquid material storage container 112 of this embodiment may be further provided with a heating unit 112a to assist in maintaining the liquid material at a predetermined proper temperature. The heating unit 112a shown in fig. 8 is merely exemplary, and the present invention is not limited to the form of the heating unit 112a, and may be any suitable heating device capable of continuously heating the liquid material storage container 112.

Fig. 9 is a perspective view of the powdery raw material storage container of fig. 1. Referring to fig. 9, the raw material supply unit 110 (shown in fig. 1) of the present embodiment may further include at least one swinging member 119, and the swinging member 119 is movably disposed in the powdery-raw-material storage container 114 and adapted to swing inside the powdery-raw-material storage container 114 to break the agglomerated powdery raw material, so that the powdery raw material can be smoothly transported out from the powdery-raw-material storage container 114. Further, the raw material supply unit 110 (shown in fig. 1) includes at least one discharging device 117, and the discharging device 117 is disposed at the bottom of the powdered raw material storage container 114, i.e., at the collecting position of the powdered raw materials. The powdery raw material in the powdery raw material storage container 114 is adapted to be moved away from the powdery raw material storage container 114 by the driving of the discharger 117. The swinging member 119 may be connected to the discharging device 117 as shown in fig. 9 to be interlocked with the discharging device 117.

In detail, the discharging device 117 may include a motor 117a and a screw 117b, wherein the motor 117a is used for driving the screw 117b to rotate so as to move the powdery material away from the powdery material storage container 114. The discharging device 117 further includes a gear set 117c, and the gear set 117c is connected between the motor 117a and the swinging member 119, so that the motor 117a can drive the swinging member 119 to swing through the gear set 117 c. In other embodiments, the screw 117b and the oscillating member 119 can be driven simultaneously by other suitable driving modules, which is not limited in the present invention.

Referring to fig. 1, the beverage brewing apparatus 100 of the present embodiment may further include a milk storage container 170. The milk storage container 170 is used for storing milk or other milk drinks, and has a refrigeration function, for example, to store the milk drinks for a long time, and can deliver the milk drinks to the brewing unit 120 through a properly configured pipeline for brewing or directly to the drinking cup 50 as a post-product.

In the foregoing embodiment, the lifting unit 140 is in the form of scissors as shown in fig. 4A and 4B and is connected to the bottom of the carrying unit 130, so as to be suitable for driving the carrying unit 130 to lift and lower to change the distance between the brewing unit 120 and the carrying unit 130. However, the invention is not limited thereto, and in other embodiments, the lifting unit 140 may have other suitable structures, and the lifting unit 140 may be connected to the modulation unit 120 instead to be suitable for driving the modulation unit 120 to lift, so as to achieve the effect of changing the distance between the modulation unit 120 and the carrying unit 130.

In the foregoing embodiment, the valves 122a of the brewing cup 122 shown in fig. 7 achieve the effect of opening and closing the opening portion 122a1 by the elastic force of the elastic member 122a3 acting on the sealing member 122a2, but the invention is not limited thereto. In other embodiments, the resilient member 122a3 may be replaced with a solenoid valve, and the sealing member 122a2 may be actuated by the solenoid valve to seal the opening portion 122a1 or move away from the opening portion 122a 1.

Although the present invention has been described with reference to the above embodiments, it should be understood that various changes and modifications can be made therein by those skilled in the art without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention.

Claims

1. A beverage brewing apparatus comprising:

the brewing unit is suitable for brewing a plurality of raw materials and at least one ice block into a beverage;

a raw material supply unit adapted to store the plurality of raw materials and to deliver the plurality of raw materials to the brewing unit;

an ice making unit adapted to make and store the at least one ice piece and to deliver the at least one ice piece to the brewing unit; and

a carrying unit configured below the brewing unit, wherein the carrying unit is adapted to carry a drink cup, and the drink is adapted to move from the brewing unit into the drink cup.

2. The beverage brewing apparatus according to claim 1, comprising a lifting unit, wherein the carrying unit is adapted to carry the beverage cup when there is a first distance between the carrying unit and the brewing unit, the first distance between the carrying unit and the brewing unit being adapted to be reduced to a second distance by driving of the lifting unit.

3. The beverage brewing apparatus according to claim 2, comprising a cleaning unit, wherein the cleaning unit is adapted to clean the brewing unit with a cleaning liquid when the carrier unit and the brewing unit have the second distance therebetween, and the cleaning liquid after cleaning is adapted to move from the brewing unit to the carrier unit.

4. The beverage brewing apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the brewing unit has a beverage outlet through which the beverage is adapted to move from the brewing unit to the beverage cup, the cleaning liquid being adapted to move from the brewing unit to the carrier unit through the beverage outlet.

5. The beverage brewing apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the carrier unit has a positioning ring, the bottom of the beverage cup being adapted to be positioned within the positioning ring when the carrier unit and the brewing unit have the first distance therebetween, the positioning ring surrounding the beverage outlet when the carrier unit and the brewing unit have the second distance therebetween.

6. The beverage brewing apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the carrier unit has a flow path along which the cleaning liquid is adapted to flow to be drained from the carrier unit.

7. The beverage brewing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the lifting unit is connected to the carrying unit and adapted to drive the carrying unit to lift.

8. The beverage brewing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the lifting unit is connected to the brewing unit and adapted to drive the brewing unit to lift.

9. The beverage brewing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the brewing unit comprises a brewing cup and a brewing device, the brewing cup adapted to brew the plurality of ingredients by actuation of the brewing device.

10. The beverage brewing apparatus according to claim 9, wherein said brewing cup has two valves, said plurality of ingredients being adapted to enter said brewing cup through said open valves when one of said two valves is open and the other of said two valves is closed, said plurality of ingredients being adapted to be brewed in said brewing cup when both of said two valves are closed, said beverage in said brewing cup being adapted to be moved away from said brewing cup through said open valves when said one of said two valves is closed and said other of said two valves is open.

11. The beverage brewing apparatus according to claim 10, wherein each of the valves includes an opening portion, a sealing member connected to the elastic member and sealing the opening portion by an elastic force of the elastic member, and an elastic member, the sealing member being adapted to be forced and moved away from the opening portion against the elastic force of the elastic member.

12. The beverage brewing apparatus according to claim 10, wherein each of the valves includes an opening portion, a sealing member and a solenoid valve, the sealing member being connected to the solenoid valve and sealing the opening portion or moving away from the opening portion by the actuation of the solenoid valve.

13. The beverage brewing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the ingredient supply unit includes at least one powdered ingredient storage container adapted to store at least one powdered ingredient and at least one oscillating member movably disposed within the at least one powdered ingredient storage container and adapted to oscillate within the at least one powdered ingredient storage container to break agglomerated at least one powdered ingredient.

14. The beverage brewing apparatus according to claim 13, wherein the ingredient supply unit includes at least one discharging device, the at least one powdered ingredient in the at least one powdered ingredient storage container is adapted to be moved away from the at least one powdered ingredient storage container by the driving of the at least one discharging device, and the at least one swinging member is connected to the at least one discharging device and is interlocked with the at least one discharging device.

15. The beverage brewing apparatus according to claim 13, wherein the at least one powdered ingredient is one of the plurality of ingredients adapted to be brewed by the brewing unit.

16. The beverage brewing apparatus according to claim 13, wherein the plurality of ingredients includes at least one solid ingredient, the at least one solid ingredient being a pre-serve or a post-serve, the ingredient supply unit includes at least one solid ingredient storage container, and the at least one solid ingredient is adapted to be delivered from the at least one solid ingredient storage container to the drinking cup before or after the beverage is moved to the drinking cup.

17. The beverage brewing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the plurality of ingredients includes at least one liquid ingredient, the ingredient supply unit includes at least one liquid ingredient storage container adapted to store the at least one liquid ingredient, and at least one floating ball device disposed within the at least one liquid ingredient storage container and adapted to be raised and lowered as a water level of the at least one liquid ingredient changes to generate the sensing signal.