ERGONOMIC INTERFACE OF DISPENSING DEVICE Russian patent published in 2016 - IPC A47J31/44 

FIELD: food industry.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to a beverage preparation apparatus including a beverage preparation module for one or several ingredients treatment and for dispensing of the beverage produced from such ingredients, the control unit of the said treatment in accordance with a parameter having assumed the value saved in the control unit and an interface connected to the control unit for the said value input by the user and for such value saving in the control unit. The user interface contains the first switch related to the first value of the parameter and the second switch related to the second value of the parameter. Each of the first and the second switches has the user setup direction for the value corresponding to the switch to be changed in the said direction to a value to be set that is chosen by the user from the value range corresponding to the said switch. Additionally, each of the switches has the user initiation direction for the control unit actuating in such direction for saving the said value chosen by the user and to be set as the said saved value and/or the said treatment launching in accordance with the said parameter that assumes the saved value to be set as chosen by the user. The first range of values corresponds to the first switch; the second range of the values corresponds to the second one; the first range of values does not overlap the second range of values. The proposed apparatus design ensures the possibility of the beverage preparation activation by different users in accordance with their parameters to be set in a simple way without the necessity of manual control of the apparatus or labour-intensive reprogramming when the user changes.

EFFECT: design improvement.

14 cl, 2 dwg