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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 13, 2026
Filed:
May. 09, 2022
Asahi Group Holdings, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Asahi Breweries, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Tomohisa Miyatani, Moriya, JP;
Takashi Wada, Kobe, JP;
Kenji Kusunoki, Kobe, JP;
Takuya Komura, Kobe, JP;
ASAHI GROUP HOLDINGS, LTD., Tokyo, JP;
ASAHI BREWERIES, LTD., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Provided is a beer dispensing device not requiring cleaning by using a disposable flexible tube to form a beer passage, and also provided is a device capable of dispensing foam as well as beer, using a single flexible tube. A beverage dispensing deviceusing a combination of tubeshaving an elastically portion that is elastically deformable as a passage of a beveragecomprises a mechanismconfigured to set the bore of the flexible portion to a first state having a first cross-sectional area or a second state having a second cross-sectional area smaller than the first cross-sectional area, selectively, and when the bore of the flexible portion is set to the second state, foam is generated from the beverage flowing through the tube.