Electricity: measuring and testing – Impedance – admittance or other quantities representative of... – Lumped type parameters
Reexamination Certificate
2005-12-17
2010-02-09
Dole, Timothy J (Department: 2831)
Electricity: measuring and testing
Impedance, admittance or other quantities representative of...
Lumped type parameters
C324S665000, C356S238100, C356S238300
Reexamination Certificate
active
07659730
ABSTRACT:
The invention concerns a measuring apparatus for the detection of foreign bodies in a product, in particular in tobacco, cotton or some other fibrous product, having a measuring device, a device for generating an alternating electromagnetic field in the measuring device, which is influenced by a product which is arranged in a measuring volume of the measuring apparatus, a circuit device which includes the measuring device and which is designed to determine at least one suitable measurable variable of the alternating field influenced by the product, and an evaluating device which is designed for detection of the foreign body by suitable evaluation of the measurable variable determined with the circuit device, and is distinguished in that the measuring device is a measuring capacitor and the frequency of the alternating field is in the high-frequency range below the microwave range. The application further concerns a corresponding measuring method.
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Baldridge Benjamin M
Dole Timothy J
Hauni Maschinenbau Ag
Kinberg Robert
Schwarz Steven J.
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