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Turbidity sensor and water-bearing domestic appliance equipped therewith

US11800964B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

emz-Hanauer GmbH & Co. KGaA · DE

Inventors

Andreas Bernet · Pegnitz, DE
Martin Brabec · Nabburg, DE
Manfredi Signorino · Nabburg, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Jan 18, 2021
Grant date	Oct 31, 2023
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jan 1, 2042

Classification

Technology area (CPC A)Human Necessities
CPC primaryA47L2401/10
WIPO fieldMeasurement
WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A turbidity sensor for a water-bearing domestic appliance includes a sensor housing having a housing main part and two housing projections protruding from the housing main part side by side and at a distance from one another, where the two housing projections delimit between them a measuring channel for a liquid to be measured. One of the housing projections emits a measuring light beam along a measuring path which runs transversely through the measuring channel to the other housing projection. The measuring path crosses the measuring channel in the channel longitudinal direction remote from a point of smallest channel width of the measuring channel or the measuring channel has a constriction at a longitudinal distance from its longitudinal midpoint, at which constriction the channel width is smaller than in a region of a longitudinal midpoint.

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