Patents by Inventor Bernhard Kreitmayr

Bernhard Kreitmayr has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Modular manufacturing of beverage production machines
    Patent number: 8973485
    Abstract: A modular method of manufacturing a set of beverage production machines with different beverage-related functions. The machines are designed for producing a beverage on the basis of pre-portioned ingredient packages. The method includes providing a plurality of identical core units having control circuitry and a beverage production module for housing an ingredient package and feeding a liquid to the interior of the ingredient package, providing a plurality of different base platforms that differ as to beverage production functions, and manufacturing a set of different beverage production machines by mounting respectively at least one of the core units on a top surface of one of the differing base platforms while also mounting water reservoirs on the base platforms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: Nestec S.A.
    Inventors: Frank Kräuchi, Matthieu Ozanne, Stefan Kaeser, Rudolf Schenk, Guido Piai, Bernhard Kreitmayr, Dimitar Georgiev
  • MODULAR MANUFACTURING OF BEVERAGE PRODUCTION MACHINES
    Publication number: 20100263543
    Abstract: A modular method of manufacturing a set of beverage production machines with different beverage-related functions. The machines are designed for producing a beverage on the basis of pre-portioned ingredient packages. The method includes providing a plurality of identical core units having control circuitry and a beverage production module for housing an ingredient package and feeding a liquid to the interior of the ingredient package, providing a plurality of different base platforms that differ as to beverage production functions, and manufacturing a set of different beverage production machines by mounting respectively at least one of the core units on a top surface of one of the differing base platforms while also mounting water reservoirs on the base platforms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2008
    Publication date: October 21, 2010
    Inventors: Frank Kräuchi, Matthieu Ozanne, Stefan Kaeser, Rudolf Schenk, Guido Piai, Bernhard Kreitmayr, Dimitar Georgiev