Cartridge, Machine and System for Preparing Beverages
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Dec 11, 2008
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Dec 19, 2006
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Dec 21, 2005
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The present invention provides a cartridge (16) for preparing beverages, comprising a container (18) for containing at least one beverage ingredient, wherein the cartridge (16) is adapted to be inserted into a beverage preparation machine (10) in an insertion direction (36) and provided with a shape-encoded recognition code (32) comprising at least two encoding positions (34). The encoding positions (34) are arranged along an encoding line (38), wherein the insertion direction (36) and the encoding line (38) are nonparallel. Moreover the present invention provides a beverage preparation machine (10) comprising decoder means (24) for decoding a shape-encoded recognition code (32) off a cartridge (16) for supplying ingredients for preparing beverages, wherein the recognition code (32) comprises at least two encoding positions, wherein the decoder means (24) are adapted to decode the at least two encoding positions (34) in parallel. Further the present invention provides a beverage preparation system comprising such a cartridge (16) and such a beverage preparation machine (10). Due to the interaction of the cartridge (16) and the beverage preparation machine (10) a parallel encoding of the code provided at the cartridge (16) can be conducted, which enables a simple encoding.
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