Pharmaceutical production facility comprising a measuring device
AssigneeSyntegon Technology GmbH
InventorsThomas Brinz, Philipp Stirm, Stephanie Schütz
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Abstract
The invention relates to a pharmaceutical production facility (10) comprising a measuring device (30, 32) for monitoring a seal of capsules (20). The capsules have a capsule shell which is made of a first shell part and a second shell part, said shell parts being provided with a sealing liquid in a sealing region, wherein the measuring device comprises an infrared camera (34) or a camera with an infrared filter, and the measuring device detects the temperature or a change in the temperature of the sealing region and/or capsule sections adjoining the sealing region.
Claims13
A pharmaceutical production facility (10) having a measuring device (30, 32) for monitoring sealing of capsules (20), wherein the capsules (20) have a capsule shell (42), which is formed by a first shell part (44) and a second shell part (46), wherein the shell parts (44, 46) are provided in a sealing area (24) with a sealing liquid (22), wherein the measuring device (10) comprises an infrared camera (34) or a camera having an infrared filter, wherein the measuring device (30, 32) detects a temperature or a temperature change of the sealing area (24) and/or of capsule sections adjacent to the sealing area (24).
A method for monitoring sealing of capsules (20), wherein the capsules (20) have a capsule shell (42), which is formed by a first shell part (44) and a second shell part (46), wherein the shell parts (44, 46) will be provided or are provided in a sealing area (24) with a sealing liquid (22), the method comprising:
- a) detecting a temperature or a temperature change of the sealing area (24) and/or of capsule sections adjacent to the sealing area (24), and
- b) evaluating the temperature or the temperature change.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.