Patent ID: 7621139

Claim:
A method for controlling a supercooling apparatus having a storage compartment to store a beverage and a refrigerating unit to refrigerate the storage compartment, comprising: confirming a kind of beverage stored in the storage compartment; determining a proper supercooling temperature for the beverage, based on the confirmed kind of the beverage; and controlling the refrigerating unit such that the storage compartment has a temperature reaching the determined proper supercooling temperature, wherein each of the beverages in the storage compartment is confirmed as a kind of beverage input by a user or by reading a barcode or a RFID tag attached to a container of the beverage, the proper supercooling temperatures is determined from data of proper supercooling temperature previously stored in a memory, and the data of proper supercooling temperature comprises a standard slush level, and a success ratio of each beverage corresponding to a temperature of the storage compartment.