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Packaging machine having moisture sensor

US10843834B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

Multivac Sepp Haggenmüller Se & Co. KG · DE

Inventors

Elmar Ehrmann · Altusried, DE
Claus Botzenhardt · Kempten, DE
Thomas Holderied · Dietmannsried, DE
Florian Felch · Durach, DE
Tobias Enderle · Thal, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Aug 8, 2016
Grant date	Nov 24, 2020
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Dec 12, 2036

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG05B2219/45048
WIPO fieldOther special machines
WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A packaging machine, comprising a control unit, at least one measurement device and a plurality of work units for different processes. One of the work units is designed as a sealing station which comprises at least one moisture sensor designed as the measurement device which is functionally connected to the control unit and is designed to detect moisture within the sealing station as a time-dependent measured variable during a program sequence of the sealing station. The program sequence may comprise an evacuation process, wherein the control unit is designed to calculate a rate of change in the moisture during the evacuation process of the sealing station. The control unit may abort the evacuation process performed on the sealing station, based on the rate of change, before reaching a target vacuum pressure within the sealing station, immediately or after a specified delay time elapses.

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