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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 14, 2012
Filed:
Jun. 13, 2007
Guenter Zeitler, Aachen, DE;
Matthias Bertram, Cologne, DE;
Christian Baeumer, Aachen, DE;
Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.A., Eindhoven, NL;
Abstract
A beverage dispensing device including a housing, a tapping device for dispensing a beverage, a beverage container connectable with the tapping device, a freshness indicator device, a data input unit for recording replacement of the beverage container, a temperature sensor for measuring the storage temperature of the beverage, a temperature controller for adjusting the cooling temperature of a chiller, a storage unit for storing the freshness criteria, and a processing unit. The temperature sensor transmits the current beverage storage temperature to the processing unit and the processing unit calculates, depending on a recorded storage temperature period and based on stored freshness criteria, the actual freshness of the beverage, the time left until expiry of the freshness of the beverage and/or the date of expiry of the freshness of the beverage. The processing unit transmits the calculated data to the display.