Sensor device for a packaging machine designed as a capsule filling and sealing machine or for a capsule control device

US9170213B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Robert Bosch GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Werner Runft · Winnenden, DE
• Iulian Maga · Ludwigsburg, DE
• Ralf Schmied · Freiberg, DE
• Guenter Liebhart · Backnang, DE
• Martin Vogt · Heilbronn, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 1, 2010
• Grant date: Oct 27, 2015
• Expiry date: Jan 16, 2032

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G01N2223/601
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

The invention relates to a sensor device (30; 30a; 30b; 30c) for a packaging machine (100) designed as a capsule filling and sealing machine or for a capsule control device (100a), said device having a positioning element (35; 35a) for positioning a container (c) having a longitudinal axis (15) and filled with a filling material in the region of the sensor device (30; 30a; 30b; 30c) and at least one radiation source (31; 31 a; 3 b) and at least one detector (40; 40a; 40b) for detecting the radiation after said radiation radiates through the container (c). According to the invention, the at least one radiation source (31; 31a; 31b) radiates through the container (c) perpendicular to the longitudinal axis (15) thereof and the positioning element is designed as a tubular or shaft-shaped conveying element (35; 35a) which can be penetrated by the radiation in a radiation cone (38) of the radiation source (31; 31a; 31b).