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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 17, 2014
Filed:
Sep. 20, 2007
Sipke Theo Douma, Hoogeveen, NL;
Sipke Theo Douma, Hoogeveen, NL;
Koninklijke Philips N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Abstract
An Espresso making device includes a brew chamber for enclosing a quantity of coffee grind, and a tube for supplying pressurized hot water to the brew chamber. Espresso is obtained by conducting the hot water through the coffee grind, where the water and the coffee grind are forced to interact. During an Espresso making process, a pressure of the water in the water supplying tube is monitored and compared to a predetermined pressure. In case the measured pressure appears to deviate from the predetermined pressure, a size of an internal volume of the brewing chamber is adjusted, so that an extent to which the coffee grind is compressed and a flow through resistance of the coffee grind are adjusted. Due to this, it is possible to adjust the pressure in such a way that the predetermined pressure is reached.