Liquid pumping device comprising a gear pump for beverage dispenser

1. A liquid pumping device for a beverage dispenser, the liquid pumping device comprising:

a housing with a liquid inlet and a liquid outlet;

a gear pump positioned in the housing with the liquid inlet communicating with the gear pump, wherein the gear pump comprises a driving shaft arranged to protrude from a first side of the housing; and

a flowmeter fluidly positioned in the housing, the flowmeter comprises a measuring member rotatable by the a liquid flow passing through the flowmeter, the flowmeter further comprises a sensor for sensing a rotation-related parameter of the measuring member, and the sensor is positioned on a second side of the housing opposed to the first side.

2. The liquid pumping device according to claim 1 , comprising an electrical rotary motor connected to the driving shaft.

3. The liquid pumping device according to claim 1 , wherein the gear pump is configured to communicate with the flowmeter in the housing by a non-deformable intermediate conduit.

4. The liquid pumping device according to claim 3 , wherein the non-deformable intermediate conduit extends in an axial direction perpendicular to a plane of extension the gear pump extends in.

5. The liquid pumping device according to claim 1 , wherein the measuring member has a rotation bearing arranged in the same axial direction as an axial direction of a driving shaft of the gear pump.

6. The liquid pumping device according to claim 1 , wherein the measuring device comprises at least one magnet, and the sensor is a Hall sensor.

7. The liquid pumping device according to claim 1 , wherein the sensor senses a rotation-related parameter by a characteristic selected from the group consisting of induction, capacitive effect, ultrasounds, and infra-red.