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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 25, 2026
Filed:
Aug. 20, 2021
Koninklijke Douwe Egberts B.v., Utrecht, NL;
Koninklijke Douwe Egberts B.V., Utrecht, NL;
Abstract
A beverage preparation machine has a cooling module () for cooling a liquid beverage ingredient. The module comprises a heat exchanger () having a liquid conduit () and a thermal energy accumulator () comprising a phase change material (PCM) () thermally coupled to the heat exchanger. A heat pump () is thermally coupled to the heat exchanger discretely from the thermal energy accumulator so as to extract thermal energy from a liquid flowing through the liquid conduit in preference over the PCM. More than one thermal energy accumulator () may be coupled to the heat exchanger. The beverage preparation machine may have a flow-through heater for heating a liquid beverage ingredient.
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