发明名称 CLEANING CYCLE INDICATOR AND CLEANING PROCESS FOR BEVERAGE MAKER
摘要 Various embodiments are directed to a beverage maker. The beverage maker may include a brew system, an indicator to indicate at least one of a cleaning and a maintenance need of the beverage maker, and a control circuit. The brew system may include a reservoir to receive a liquid, a heater to heat the liquid, an expendable filter structured to filter impurities from the liquid for at least a predetermined number of brew cycles, and a container for receiving a beverage brewed from the filtered liquid. The control circuit may include a processor configured to receive a signal from at least one sensor indicative of an end of a brew cycle, increment a brew cycle counter by one count at the end of each brew cycle, and activate the indicator when a value of the brew cycle counter is equal to the predetermined number of brew cycles.
申请公布号 CA2727383(A1) 申请公布日期 2010.09.16
申请号 CA20102727383 申请日期 2010.03.12
申请人 WAL-MART STORES, INC. 发明人 GARCIA, JORGE B.;GROSS, CHARLES BRIAN
分类号 A47J31/60;G06M3/02 主分类号 A47J31/60
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