TW202310783A - Drink brewing module and drink brewing method thereof capable of avoiding mistake easily caused by human operation in order to make the quality of brewed drinks consistent and guaranteed - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention provides a drink brewing module and a drink brewing method thereof. The drink brewing module is used in conjunction with an intelligent drink brewing machine. The drink brewing module includes a drink brewing control module, which is installed with a sensing identification unit; a drink material packaging unit, including a packaging body and an identification part, wherein the packaging body contains brewing material, the identification part is arranged on the packaging body, the sensing identification unit is configured to sense and identify the identification part, and the identification part has information of the brewing material and brewing execution information for the brewing material. As such, the source of the required brewing material for making a certain brewed drink can be ensured, and the mistake easily caused by human operation can be avoided, so as to make the quality of brewed drinks consistent and guaranteed.

Description

Drinking module and drinking method thereof

The present invention relates to a brewing module, in particular to a drinking module with a sensing identification unit and an identification piece and a drinking method thereof.

Modern people are often keen on various beverages, such as tea, coffee and various brewed beverages. For convenience and speed, there are various automatic brewing machines, such as smart tea machines, smart coffee machines, etc. As far as smart tea making machines are concerned, small and medium-sized smart tea making machines for home and personal use, or large-scale commercial smart tea making machines for the hand-cranked beverage industry are quite popular in the market. Most of these intelligent tea making machines are provided with an operation panel for the user to press and operate to perform automatic and intelligent tea making operations.

Furthermore, due to the wide variety of existing tea leaves, and various factors such as the production place, production season, and tea production method of the tea leaves, it is difficult for the user of the smart tea maker to control, and the quality of the tea drink produced is likely to be unstable. Missing; another example is a large-scale commercial intelligent tea machine, due to operator errors or differences, the quality of the tea beverage produced will also cause instability. In summary, the current intelligent tea machine often has the following shortcomings:

(1) The sources of tea raw materials required for the manufacture of a certain tea drink product are inconsistent, resulting in inconsistent quality of the tea drink product.

(2) When a certain type of tea drink product is manufactured by manual pressing operation, the type and quantity of tea raw materials added to it may sometimes have errors or make mistakes during the busy schedule, resulting in inconsistent quality of the tea drink product.

(3) Manual pressing operation to manufacture a certain type of tea drink product, the operation procedure and the control of detailed conditions, sometimes have errors or make mistakes during the busy process, resulting in inconsistent product quality.

For this reason, the inventor of the present case considers the deficiency in the use of the existing intelligent brewing machine Due to the unsatisfactory fact of its composition and design, the inventor of this case started to develop its solution, hoping to develop a more convenient and stable quality brewing module and its brewing method, so as to benefit the public And to promote the development of this industry, the present invention has been produced after a long time of thinking.

The purpose of the present invention is to provide a brewing module and its brewing method, which can ensure the source of the brewing material required to manufacture a certain type of brewed drink, and make the quality of the brewed drink consistent.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a brewing module and its brewing method, which can accurately control and carry out the amount of brewing materials and related brewing operations of brewed drinks, and can avoid errors, negligence or human error. Inconsistency can ensure the brewing quality and consistency of tea drinks.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a brewing module and its brewing method, which can be uniquely identified by the identification parts on each pack of product raw material bags, even if each pack of product raw material bags has its own The only identity identification piece, and through the induction identification unit on the brewing machine, check the identification piece on the raw material bag of the product. After checking and confirming that the identification piece is correspondingly qualified, the brewing machine will start the brewing drink manufacturing process.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a brewing module and its brewing method, which can make each qualified identification part through induction (scanning) have a limit on the number of times to start the manufacturing process of the brewing machine (the number of times can be limited). preset), which can increase the controllability or flexibility range of its application.

The technical means adopted by the present invention to achieve the above purpose is to provide a brewing module for use in conjunction with an intelligent brewing machine. The brewing module includes: a brewing control module, the brewing control module There is an induction identification unit inside the module; a drink material packaging unit, including a packaging body and an identification part, the packaging body has brewing material, the identification part is set on the packaging body, and the induction identification unit is used for sensing and identifying The identification part is read, and the identification part contains the information of the brewing material and the brewing execution information for the brewing material.

In this embodiment, the identification pieces of each package have unique identification pieces, or the packages of the same brewing material all have the same dedicated identification pieces, so that The induction identification unit checks and controls the identification part to determine the source of the brewing material.

In this embodiment, the identification part has the verification control elements of the verification code and the name of the production company.

In this embodiment, the brewing execution information includes brewing control commands and brewing manufacturing conditions, brewing temperature, water volume, time, rotation speed, cooling, and operation process.

In this embodiment, the identification element is a QR code.

In this embodiment, the infusion control module is combined with the intelligent infusion machine to form an intelligent infusion device.

In this embodiment, the brewing material is the choice of tea, coffee, fruit juice, herbal tea, milk tea, fruit tea containing fruit pieces.

In this embodiment, the smart drinking machine includes a drinking machine control unit, and the drinking machine control unit is connected to the induction identification unit by telecommunication, and the telecommunication connection includes electrical connection or wired or wireless signal transmission connection. The beverage machine control unit is used for controlling the intelligent beverage brewing machine to carry out the brewing operation according to the brewing execution information.

In this embodiment, the intelligent brewing machine has a brewing part, and the brewing part has an opening for inserting the brewing material.

In this embodiment, the brewing and drinking control module is connected to a network device, and transmits the read information of the identification part to a database through the network device.

In this embodiment, the network device is wired or wireless network transmission, and the database is set on a server or a cloud server.

In this embodiment, the brewing control module checks the identification part on the package, and the smart brewing machine will activate the brewing execution information only after the identification part is confirmed to be a qualified identification part. For the brewing operation, each qualified identification part has a limit on the number of times the smart drinking machine can be activated for brewing operations.

The method adopted by the present invention to achieve the above purpose includes: taking a beverage packaging unit; sensing the beverage packaging unit with a brewing control module; Related bubble drink information; the bubble drink control module sends the bubble drink information to the wired Or wirelessly transmit to the brewing machine control unit of a smart drinking machine.

In the brewing method in this embodiment, the beverage material packaging unit includes a packaging body and an identification member, the packaging body is packed with brewing material, and after the brewing material is put into the smart drinking machine: the The brewing machine control unit starts the brewing operation of the smart drinking machine.

In the brewing method in this embodiment, it is followed by: the brewing control module transmits part or all of the brewing information to a database through a network device via wired or wireless.

In the brewing method in this embodiment, it is followed by: the database conducts a statistical operation of analyzing and summarizing the part or all of the brewing information, and obtains statistical information of brewing drinks.

In the brewing method in this embodiment, it is followed by: the statistical information of making drinks is incorporated into a large data operation and application.

1: Intelligent brewing machine device

10: Drinking control module

11: Induction identification unit

20: Beverage packaging unit

21: Package body

22: Identification piece

30: Smart drink machine

30A: Control unit of brewing machine

31: wall

32: Boil the soaking part

320: opening

321: Boiling container

322: opening

323: Spare brewing container

33: Injection tube

34: cover body

40:Network device

50: database

S61: Take a beverage packing unit

S62: Sensing the beverage packaging unit and the one-drink control module

S63: The brewing drink control module obtains the relevant brewing drink information in the beverage material packaging unit

S64: The brewing control module transmits the brewing information to the brewing machine control unit of a smart drinking machine via wired or wireless

S65: the brewing machine control unit starts the brewing operation of the smart drinking machine

S66: The brewing control module transmits part or all of the brewing information to a database through a network device by wire or wirelessly

S67: The database conducts a statistical operation of analyzing and summarizing the partial or all brewing information, and obtains a brewing statistical information

S68: The bubble drink statistical information is incorporated into a large data operation and application

Fig. 1 is an exploded schematic diagram of the present invention.

Fig. 2 is a schematic diagram of the induction operation of the present invention.

Fig. 3 is a schematic diagram of the brewing operation of the present invention.

Fig. 4 is a schematic diagram of the operation flow of the present invention.

The beverage brewing module disclosed by the present invention is shown in Figure 1. The beverage brewing module includes a beverage brewing control module 10 and a beverage material packaging unit 20, and an induction identification unit 11 is provided in the beverage brewing control module 10. , the induction recognition unit 11 is used for sensing and identifying and reading the relevant information of the beverage packaging unit 20, the beverage brewing control module 10 is used in combination with an intelligent beverage brewing machine 30 to form an intelligent beverage brewing machine device 1, the brewing beverage The combination of the beverage control module 10 and the intelligent beverage machine 30 includes different forms such as mechanical connection, electrical connection or signal connection, all of which can be selected for application.

The drink material packaging unit 20 includes a packaging body 21 and an identification member 22. The shape of the packaging body 21 is not limited, such as a bag body, a box body or a capsule body, etc. The packaging body 21 is packed with brewing materials. Such as tea, coffee or other brewing drinking materials (such as various fruit juices, herbal tea, milk tea, fruit tea containing various fruit purees, etc.); the identification part 22 is located on the packaging body 21. example, The identification part is an identification code, such as a QR code (Quick Response Code) or other objects that can be used for identification. The identification part 22 contains information related to the brewing material and brewing execution information for the brewing material, The brewing execution information includes brewing control commands and brewing manufacturing conditions, such as related brewing temperature, water volume, time, rotation speed, cooling, and operating procedures. When the induction identification unit 11 (infusion control module 10) reads the identification piece 22, it can clearly understand the information content of the identification piece 22, and carry out subsequent execution procedures. And each brewing material uses its special identification part 22, by which the identification part 22 controls the brewing manufacturing procedure and brewing manufacturing conditions of the intelligent brewing machine 30, so that the same brewing material can be brewed The quality of beverages (such as tea beverages) is consistent.

The smart drinking machine 30 includes a drinking machine control unit 30A, the drinking machine control unit 30A is used to control the related brewing operations of the smart drinking machine 30, and the drinking machine control unit 30A is connected to the induction identification unit by telecommunication 11 (infusion control module 10), such as electrical connection or wired or wireless signal transmission connection, so that the intelligent infusion machine 30 can correlate with the information of the induction identification unit 11 received by the infusion machine control unit 30A The brewing operation of the brewing execution information; the smart brewing machine 30 has at least one wall 31, so that the brewing control module 10 can be set or embedded on the wall 31 (smart brewing machine 30); in other words , the brewing control module 10 can be combined with the smart brewing machine 30 (wall body 31) to form an electrical or signal connection, or the brewing control module 10 can be separated from the smart brewing machine 30 , but there is no electrical or signal connection between them.

The intelligent brewing machine 30 has a brewing part 32, the brewing part 32 provides a brewing space, the brewing part 32 has an opening 320, and a brewing container 321 is arranged in the opening 320, the brewing container 321 can be a barrel body, bottle body or cup body, etc., which are used to brew the brewing material placed in the packaging body 21, and facilitate the removal of the brewing container 321 for cleaning and maintenance; the smart brewing The machine 30 is provided with an injection pipe 33 and a cover body 34. The injection pipe 33 is used to add a controllable amount of water. The cover body 34 can cover the opening 320 for brewing operation. Of course, in an appropriate embodiment, the brewing part 32 can also be connected with other utensils. As shown in the figure, the brewing part 32 also has an opening 322, and a spare brewing container 323 is arranged in the opening 322 , the spare brewing container 323 can be a barrel, bottle or cup, etc., so that the brewed drink in the brewing container 321 can be poured into or imported The spare brewing container 323 is cooled or is not used, and the spare brewing container 323 can also be taken out for cleaning and maintenance.

In the above-mentioned embodiment, the intelligent tea making machine 30 is described as a large-scale commercial intelligent tea making machine in the beverage industry with a hand-cranked cup. The effect of the automatic brewing operation that should read the information.

The drinking control module 10 can be connected to a network device 40, and the information of the identification part 22 read through the network device 40 is transmitted to a database 50, and the network device 40 can be a wired or wireless network. Road transmission, the database 50 is located in a server or cloud server.

When using the brewing module of the present invention, the identification part 22 (such as a QR code) on the packaging body 21 is sensed against the brewing control module 10 on the smart drinking machine 30, and the beverage packaging can be read. The brewing material in the unit 20 carries out information such as brewing related procedures and condition control, and the brewing material in the packaging body 21 is put into the brewing container 321 of the brewing part 32 through the opening 320 for Carry out the brewing operation.

In this case, the brewing control module 10 will check the identification part 22 (such as a QR code) on the packaging body 21. After checking and confirming that the identification part 22 is a qualified identification code, the smart drinking machine 30 in this case will start the Manufacturing process for brewing beverages. If the identification part 22 cannot be read or is unqualified (such as a QR code), it means that the brewing material does not belong to the product raw material controlled by the intelligent drinking machine 30 of this case, so the manufacturing process of the brewing drink will not be started.

The present invention controls the source of raw materials. The identification part 22 (such as a QR code) on the packaging body 21 contains information on the source of the brewing material. The identification unit 11 compares the brewing material source information of the identification part 22, and if it is a qualified brewing material source according to the setting, the identification part 22 is regarded as a qualified identification part 22. After checking and comparing the identifying element 22 as a qualified identifying element 22, the smart beverage machine 30 of this case will start the manufacturing process of the brewed beverage.

When the identification 22 (such as QR code) on the package 21 is checked each time, the relevant data at that time will be sent to the server, and the supply can be provided by counting the use-related data of the packages 21 Suggestion and sales classification statistics to improve management efficiency.

Please also refer to Fig. 4, the present invention is based on the brewing method of the foregoing composition, and includes the following method steps in qualified and normal operation:

(1) Take a drinking material packaging unit S61; that is, take the package of drinking material packaging unit 20.

(2) Sensing S62 between the drink material packaging unit and a brewing drink control module;

(3) The infusion control module obtains the relevant infusion information in the beverage packaging unit S63;

(4) The brewing control module transmits the brewing information to the brewing machine control unit S64 of an intelligent brewing machine via wired or wireless; Execution information) is transmitted to the brewing machine control unit 30A of a smart brewing machine 30 by wire or wirelessly.

During the procedures of the aforementioned steps (1) to (4), the brewing material in the packaging body 21 is put into the brewing container 321 in good time for the brewing operation. (5) The brewing machine control unit starts the brewing operation of the smart drinking machine S65: that is, the drinking machine control unit 30A starts the brewing operation of the smart drinking machine 30, and makes the smart drinking machine 30 execute The brewing operation program received by the brewing machine control unit 30A.

In addition, step (4) is followed by:

(6) The brewing control module transmits part or all of the brewing information to a database S66 via a network device via wired or wireless; that is, the brewing control module 10 transmits part or all of the brewing information Wired or wireless transmission to a database 50 through a network device 40 .

(7) The database 50 conducts a statistical operation of analyzing and summarizing some or all of the brewing information, and obtains the statistical information S67 of brewing drinks; that is, the database 50 performs a statistical operation of analyzing and summarizing some or all of the brewing drinks information, And get a drink statistics.

(8) The brewing statistical information is incorporated into a large data operation and application S68; that is, the brewing statistical information is incorporated into a large data operation and application, that is, the big data is used to generate consumer trends and suggest information such as the next season's order quantity.

When using the brewing module and its brewing method of the present invention, for example: making tea beverages, The following functional characteristics can be obtained through the brewing module technology:

(1) The source of tea leaves required for the manufacture of a certain tea beverage can be given specific guarantees, so that the quality of tea beverages can be consistent and guaranteed

(2) The amount of tea leaves in tea drinks and related brewing operations can avoid human error, negligence or inconsistency, so as to ensure the brewing quality and consistency of tea drinks.

(3) The identification piece (QR code) on each package of product raw material bag has a unique identification code, that is, each package of product raw material bag has its own unique identification code. If there is no qualified identification part 22, it means that the beverage material packaging unit 20 is not a product raw material controlled by the present invention. If the present invention controls the source of raw materials, in the identification part 22 of the beverage material packaging unit 20, the source of the raw material is contained. Information, the present invention pre-sets qualified raw material sources, and only if there is qualified raw material source information in the identification part 22 of the beverage material packaging unit 20, is the qualified identification part 22. In terms of management and control, it may be possible to check the induction verification elements such as the code name and the name of the production company, etc., and the induction verification elements are not limited.

(4) The induction identification unit (drinking control module) of this case will check the identification part on the packaging body 21. After checking and confirming that the identification part 22 is qualified, the smart drinking machine of this case will start the tea drink manufacturing process.

(5) Each identification part 22 that has passed the inspection has a limit on the number of times to start the manufacturing process of the drinking machine (the number of times can be set in advance), so that the flexible range of its application can be increased, and it is possible to avoid the need for an identification part. 22 products are manufactured using raw materials that are not exclusive to the product, resulting in inconsistent product quality.

The present invention has been described in more detail through the above-mentioned preferred specific embodiments, but the present invention is not limited to the above-mentioned examples, and within the scope of the technical ideas disclosed in the present invention, various changes and modifications to these structures are still possible. Belong to the scope of the present invention.

1: Intelligent brewing machine device

10: Drinking control module

11: Induction identification unit

20: Beverage packaging unit

21: Package body

22: Identification piece

30: Smart drink machine

30A: Control unit of brewing machine

31: wall

32: Boil the soaking part

320: opening

33: Injection tube

34: cover body

40:Network device

50: database

Claims (13)

A beverage brewing module used in combination with an intelligent beverage brewing machine, the beverage brewing module includes: A brewing control module, which is equipped with an induction identification unit; A packaging unit for beverage materials, including a packaging body and an identification piece, the packaging body has brewing material, the identification piece is arranged on the packaging body, the induction identification unit is used to sense and identify the identification piece, the identification piece It contains the information of the brewing material and the brewing execution information for the brewing material. The brewing and drinking module as described in claim 1, wherein the identification pieces of each package have unique identification pieces, or the packages of the same brewing material have the same special identification pieces, so that the The induction identification unit checks and controls the identification piece to determine the source of the brewing material. The beverage brewing module as described in Claim 1, wherein the brewing execution information includes brewing control commands and brewing manufacturing conditions, brewing temperature, water volume, time, rotation speed, cooling, and operation process. The brewing and drinking module as described in Claim 2, wherein the identification part is a QR code. The beverage brewing module as described in claim 2, wherein the beverage brewing control module is combined with the smart beverage brewing machine to form a smart beverage brewing device. The brewing module as described in claim 5, wherein the smart brewing machine includes a brewing machine control unit, and the drinking machine control unit is connected to the induction identification unit by telecommunication. The telecommunication connection includes electrical connection or wired or wireless signal The transmission connection, the control unit of the brewing machine is used to control the intelligent brewing machine to perform the brewing operation of the brewing execution information. The brewing and drinking module as described in Claim 2, wherein the brewing and drinking control module is connected to a network device, and transmits the read information of the identification piece to a database through the network device. The beverage brewing module as described in claim item 7, wherein the beverage brewing control module checks the identification piece on the package, and the smart beverage brewing machine will Start the brewing operation of the brewing execution information, and each qualified identification part has a start The number of times the smart brewing machine can be activated for brewing operations is limited. A brewing method of a brewing module, which includes: Take a drinking material packaging unit; Sensing the drink material packaging unit and a brewing drink control module; The brewing drink control module obtains the relevant brewing drink information in the beverage material packaging unit; The beverage brewing control module transmits the beverage brewing information to a beverage brewing machine control unit of an intelligent beverage brewing machine by wire or wirelessly. According to the brewing method of the brewing module described in claim 9, the beverage material packaging unit includes a packaging body and an identification member, the packaging body is packed with brewing materials, and the brewing materials are put into the smart drinking machine Then proceed: the control unit of the infusion machine starts the infusion operation of the intelligent infusion machine. The brewing method of the brewing module as described in claim 10, which is followed by: the brewing control module transmits part or all of the brewing information to a database through a network device by wire or wirelessly. The brewing method of the brewing module as described in Claim 11, which is followed by: the database performs a statistical operation of analyzing and summarizing the part or all of the brewing information, and obtains statistical information on brewing. As for the brewing method of the brewing module described in claim 12, the continuation includes: the statistical information of brewing drinks is incorporated into a large data operation and application.

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