SENSOR DEVICE COMPRISING AN OPTICAL SENSOR, A CONTAINER AND A COMPARTMENTALIZATION MEANS

• Main Authors: LÜDERS, Julia, GRELLER, Gerhard, RIECHERS, Daniel, WEISSHAAR, Stefan, BAUMFALK, Reinhard, POLLOSEK, Peter
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 19.10.2022
• Subjects: APPARATUS FOR ENZYMOLOGY OR MICROBIOLOGY; BEER; BIOCHEMISTRY; CHEMICAL ASPECTS OF BANDAGES, DRESSINGS, ABSORBENT PADS, ORSURGICAL ARTICLES; CHEMISTRY; DISINFECTION, STERILISATION, OR DEODORISATION OF AIR; ENZYMOLOGY; FOODS OR FOODSTUFFS; FOODS, FOODSTUFFS, OR NON-ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES, NOT COVERED BYSUBCLASSES A23B - A23J; HUMAN NECESSITIES; HYGIENE; INVESTIGATING OR ANALYSING MATERIALS BY DETERMINING THEIRCHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; MATERIALS FOR BANDAGES, DRESSINGS, ABSORBENT PADS, OR SURGICALARTICLES; MEASURING; MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; METALLURGY; METHODS OR APPARATUS FOR STERILISING MATERIALS OR OBJECTS INGENERAL; MICROBIOLOGY; MUTATION OR GENETIC ENGINEERING; PHYSICS; PRESERVATION OF FOODS OR FOODSTUFFS, IN GENERAL; SPIRITS; TESTING; THEIR PREPARATION OR TREATMENT, e.g. COOKING, MODIFICATION OFNUTRITIVE QUALITIES, PHYSICAL TREATMENT; THEIR TREATMENT, NOT COVERED BY OTHER CLASSES; VINEGAR; WINE

A sensor device has an optical sensor (1), a container (2) and a compartmentalizer (3) that temporarily divides the container into a main space (4) and an adjacent space (5), in which the optical sensor (1) is located. The gas volume in the direct vicinity of the optical sensor (1) is reduced, as ar...