A three-dimensional (3D) printer system is disclosed. The 3D-printer system comprises an extruder, a housing configured to house the extruder, a 3D-printer base including a print bed, the print bed configured to receive material extruded from the extruder, and a first sensor configured to detect a location of an object on the print bed. In some embodiments, the 3D-printer system further comprises a plurality of sensors coupled to the housing or to the extruder, the plurality of sensors including the first sensor, wherein the plurality of sensors are configured to obtain data for detection of the location of the object. In yet some embodiments, the 3D-printer system of claim further comprises a processor and a non-transitory, computer-readable medium having stored thereon logic, the logic when executed performs operations including receiving data from the first sensor and detecting the location of the object on the print bed based on the data.

The present invention discloses a beverage displaying a printed design image upon a foamed portion of the beverage. The invention further discloses a device and method for same. In the invention, an automated printer is used, comprising a movable printing head, loaded with an edible liquid ink, to print a design of interest upon the beverage foam. In some embodiments, the beverage is coffee and the liquid ink is a second coffee essence. The invention additionally discloses business methods comprising printing an advertisement upon a foamed portion of a beverage, or selling a beverage displaying a printed image upon a foamed portion of the beverage.

Methods of preparing a delivery system are described. Each method uses a first and second printing materials. The second printing material contains an active material such as a fragrance, flavor, malodor counteracting agent, and mixture thereof.

In order to apply decorative effects to a multilayered coffee surface, particulary a crema, a focused air jet for drawing or writing is contactlessly guided across the surface, wherein the air jet pressure at the action point is selected to overcome the surface tension of the multilayered surface and to produce swirls between the individual layers. To carry out this method, a wand is used as a writing implement, the wand containing a compressed air source and a switching element, and a small airflow tube (9, 15, 21) protruding from the housing (1, 10, 16) of the wand as a drawing- or writing nib. The compressed air source can also be a replaceable capsule (12) filled with a compressed air. It is particularly effective if a blower (19) driven by a battery-powered electric motor (18) is accommodated in the housing (16) of the wand as a compressed air source.

In a food taste reproduction system, a taste recognition device obtains the taste data obtained by quantifying the food taste. A first terminal converts the taste data into taste reproduction data on a component ratio of taste components for reproducing the food taste by combining a plurality of the taste components, the taste component containing a material providing at least one basic taste. The first terminal transmits the taste reproduction data to the server for storing. A second terminal receives the taste reproduction data via an Internet and outputs the taste reproduction data to a taste reproduction device. The taste reproduction device selects at least two taste components among a plurality of the taste components based on the taste reproduction data, and combines the selected taste components in accordance with the component ratio so as to obtain the taste reproduced material.

A user equipment is provided. The user equipment includes a user interface, a transceiver and a processor. The user interface may receive an input of a food model including at least one of a shape, an ingredient, or a color of a food in accordance with a touch input of a user. The transceiver may transmit information of the food model to a cooking apparatus capable of shaping and heating the food. The processor may transmit the information of the food model to the cooking apparatus via the transceiver to allow the cooking apparatus to shape the food according to the food model. Further, the user interface may display an automatic cooking button, a draw button, a cooking method button, and an output button.

The disclosure discloses a three-dimensional printer coupled with microwave and printing method applied for food design, and belongs to the technical field of food. A microwave heating probe embedded in the inner wall of a barrel releases microwaves at the front end, and in combination with the setting of a vertical distance between the front end of the microwave heating probe and an extrusion nozzle, that is, the setting of the size of a non-absorbing material, the effect of instant curing of an extruded material is realized; through the design of a bell mouth and a choke groove of an anti-leakage unit, and in combination with the design of an absorbing material of a printing platform, the heating efficiency of a product is effectively improved, and microwave leakage and diffusion are prevented; a cooling device is disposed so as to ensure that a material to be printed in the barrel is not cured by microwave heating before the material to be printed enters the extrusion nozzle; a microwave solid-state oscillator generates microwaves, and a transmission line transmits the microwaves, so that the microwave output is stable, the power and frequency can be adjusted according to printing needs, and the microwave solid-state oscillator is small in volume and convenient to integrate; and a mode of printing while heating and curing is adopted, so that a printed product structure has high mechanical strength, the manufacture of a hollow unsupported three-dimensional structure can be realized, and the shape of the product is not easy to collapse.

A method of additive manufacturing biological matter is provided. The method includes preparing an aqueous solution, combining the aqueous solution with a thickening gent, forming the combination into a plurality of two-dimensional individual volume elements in parallel, assembling the plurality of individual volume elements in a three-dimensional array and solidifying the three-dimensional array. Methods of additive manufacturing a food product and a three-dimensional structure with aqueous solution or organic matter are also provided. A system for additively depositing elements including an aqueous solution or organic matter is also provided.

The invention relates to a 3D printing machine for printing cooked foods, which contains at least one printing module comprising at least three main movable bodies: a printing block that includes heating elements able to cook the food simultaneously to the printing thereof; a printing base; and an oven,
wherein the main movable bodies being able to slide vertically, independently of one another, along a vertical displacement device.

The machine is specially designed for the 3D printing and simultaneous cooking of food products by means of complex elaborations including several ingredients. The invention also relates to a method for obtaining cooked foods using the machine.

The present invention refers to a food processing system (100) comprising: one or a plurality of food containers (111) each comprising a raw food product; one or a plurality of dispensing and reconstituting chambers (112) each linked to at least one of the food containers (111), the dispensing and reconstituting chambers (112) receiving the raw food product from the food containers (111), processing it by hydration and/or texturization, and selectively depositing it in one or a plurality of shapes and/or layers (11); cooking means configured to selectively heat or not parts of the deposited shapes and/or layers (11).

The invention further refers to a food container (111) for being used in a food processing system (100) as the one previously described, and also to a method for processing food in a food processing system (100) as described.