Method for treating a food product by means of non-conventional resistive heating

US11528917B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Fritz Kortschack · DE

Inventors

• Fritz Kortschack · Berlin, DE
• Kevin Eberhardt · Sachsen bei Ansbach, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 20, 2018
• Grant date: Dec 20, 2022
• Expiry date: Dec 20, 2038

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B65G2201/0202
• WIPO field: Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

The invention relates to a method for treating a food product by non-conventional resistive heating using. contact with spaced-apart electrically conductive electrodes connected to a power source that regulates current to the electrodes by pausing heating of the food product to a predetermined temperature. The electrodes are configured into two groups at a first distance from one another. Each electrode group has individual electrodes, similar to a comb-like set of needles, wherein neighboring needles of each group are at a second distance from one another that is greater than or equal to the first distance. Each set of needles penetrates the food product such that points of the needles leave penetration points, wherein the food product is accommodated in a space between two conveyor belts and the individual electrodes extend from at least one of the conveyor belts in the direction of the opposite conveyor belt.