Thomas C Hanson

US Patent:

20210267255, Sep 2, 2021

Filed:

Feb 22, 2021

Appl. No.:

17/181253

Inventors:

- San Francisco CA, US
Thomas HANSON - Napa CA, US
Michael BALSAMO - San Francisco CA, US
Taylor NICHOLSON - San Francisco CA, US
James BRINKMAN - South San Francisco CA, US
Oshin NAZARIAN - San Francisco CA, US

International Classification:

A23P 20/15
A23P 20/12

Abstract:

An automated food preparation system includes a sauce-dispensing system with sauce reservoirs, a scanning head, and tubes. Each of the sauce reservoirs is configured to contain a respective sauce. The scanning head includes openings each coupled with a respective sauce reservoir via a respective tube. A conveyance system transports a foodstuff between first and sauce positions. The scanning head is movable to dispense a selected sauce onto one or more regions of the foodstuff. A motor assembly is mounted to a mounting structure. The motor assembly is drivingly coupled to the scanning head and rotates the scanning head relative to the mounting structure. The scanning head includes a plate and a cylindrical shroud fixed relative to the plate. The openings extend through the plate. The plate is disposed within a cavity defined by the cylindrical shroud. The motor assembly rotates the plate and the cylindrical shroud about a longitudinal axis.

US Patent:

20190098925, Apr 4, 2019

Filed:

Dec 2, 2018

Appl. No.:

16/207169

Inventors:

- San Francisco CA, US
Thomas HANSON - Napa CA, US
Michael BALSAMO - San Francisco CA, US
Taylor NICHOLSON - San Francisco CA, US
James BRINKMAN - South San Francisco CA, US
Oshin NAZARIAN - San Francisco CA, US

International Classification:

A23P 20/15
A23P 20/12

Abstract:

An automated food preparation system includes a seasoning-dispensing system, a sauce-dispensing system, and a conveyance system. The seasoning-dispensing system includes a plurality of vessels, a dispersion nozzle, and a conduit coupled to the dispersion nozzle. Each vessel contains one of a plurality of seasonings. The vessels are in selective communication with the conduit. The sauce-dispensing system includes a plurality of sauce reservoirs, a scanning head, and a plurality of tubes. Each sauce reservoirs contains one of a plurality of sauces. The scanning head includes openings each coupled with one of the sauce reservoirs via one of the tubes. The conveyance system transports a foodstuff between a seasoning position in which the foodstuff is disposed below the dispersion nozzle and a sauce position in which the foodstuff is disposed below the openings. The scanning head is movable to dispense one or more sauces onto the foodstuff.