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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 22, 2012
Filed:
Aug. 29, 2008
Mickaël Beule, Crouay, FR;
Gilles Lebuffe, Conde sur Vire, FR;
Mickaël Beule, Crouay, FR;
Gilles Lebuffe, Conde sur Vire, FR;
SEB S.A., Ecully, FR;
Abstract
A method for measuring a quantity of coffee Mor Mthat a grinding burr of a coffee mill driven in rotation by a motor dispenses in a predetermined number of revolutions Nof the grinding burr or in a predetermined time interval T. According to the method: the average speed Vof the grinding burr in a number of revolutions Nor respectively in a time interval Tis measured; and the quantity or mass Mof coffee dispensed in the number of revolutions Nor respectively the mass Mof coffee dispensed in the time interval Tis deduced as a function of the speed Vfrom an experimentally obtained stored correspondence table (V, M) or (V, M).