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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 23, 2020
Filed:
Dec. 06, 2012
Food Equipment Technologies, Inc., Lake Zurich, IL (US);
Marek K. Kwiatkowski, Round Lake, IL (US);
Leszek M. Wroblewski, Lake Forest, IL (US);
Gregory Banasik, Arlington Heights, IL (US);
Zbigniew G. Lassota, Long Grove, IL (US);
FOOD EQUIPMENT TECHNOLOGIES COMPANY, INC., Lake Zurich, IL (US);
Abstract
An electric hot beverage brewer () with a duty cycle modulated DC voltage dispense pump () with an inlet () connected to a de-aerator () and beneath a lower limit and an outlet () located above an upper limit the surface a hot water tank () is finely controlled by a high frequency pulse-width, modulated, square power input voltage (FIG.) with a duty cycle controlled in accordance with predetermined profiles stored within a controller () to selectively change the flow rate out of the pump onto a distribution dome () during a dispense period of a brew cycle to achieve optimum brewing of different types of beverage ingredients and varieties of the different types and to selectively change the spray pattern of hot water onto the ingredient () within the basket assembly () between vertical and acute angles including acute angles that pass hot water into a bypass gap ().