IP Library Granted Patent US 11,805,946
Granted Patent B2
US 11,805,946 · App. 18/026,238 · Granted Nov 7, 2023

Coffee machine

Inventors: Toshio Saito (Tokyo, JP); Takayuki Wakabayashi (Tokyo, JP)
Assignee: DAITO GIKEN, INC.
A47J42/56A47J42/26A47J42/44A47J42/46
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Patent No.
US 11,805,946
App. No.
18/026,238
Granted
Nov 7, 2023
Kind
B2
Abstract

A coffee machine including a grinder configured to grind coffee beans, and a coffee machine made to return a grinder falling into an abnormal state to a normal state. The grinder configured to grind the coffee beans by a predetermined rotation operation in the normal state, and an operation portion are provided, when the grinder is in the abnormal state (bean clogging state) in which the predetermined rotation operation cannot be performed, if the operation portion is operated, the reverse rotation operation is executed in a direction opposite to that of the predetermined rotation operation, and in the normal state, the reverse rotation operation is not executed even if the operation portion is operated.

Claims (15)

1. A coffee machine, comprising:

a grinder configured to grind coffee beans by a predetermined rotation operation in a normal state; and

an operation portion, wherein

when the grinder is in an abnormal state in which the predetermined rotation operation cannot be performed, if the operation portion is operated, a reverse rotation operation is executed in a direction opposite to that of the predetermined rotation operation, and in the normal state, the reverse rotation operation is not executed even if the operation portion is operated.

2. The coffee machine according to claim 1 , further comprising:

a mode shift control unit configured to control mode shift of the machine, wherein

the mode shift control unit shifts to one mode of a plurality of types of modes, and

even when the abnormal state occurs in any one of the plurality of modes, the grinder executes the reverse rotation operation if the operation portion is operated.

3. The coffee machine according to claim 2 , wherein

the plurality of types of modes include a normal mode in which waste is allowed to be separated from ground beans ground by the grinder, and

a cupping mode in which the waste is not separated from the ground beans ground by the grinder.

4. The coffee machine according to claim 2 , wherein

when the grinder returns from the abnormal state to the normal state, the mode shift control unit maintains the mode before the grinder enters the abnormal state.

5. The coffee machine according to claim 1 , wherein

the grinder stops a rotation operation when the state does not return to the normal state even after repeating the reverse rotation operation a predetermined number of times in the abnormal state.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jun 2, 2025
From: DAITO GIKEN, INC.
To: DAITO ENTERTAINMENT, INC.
Reel/Frame 071286/0197 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 14, 2023
From: SAITO, TOSHIO; WAKABAYASHI, TAKAYUKI
To: DAITO GIKEN, INC.
Reel/Frame 062977/0383 →
Continuity (1)
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