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OwnerPhilippe Christian VITELinventor
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Batches (9a and 9b) pass in succession into a (pre) refrigeration machine. An actuator (17) in the chamber (1) of the machine is controlled by a logic controller (16) to insert a temperature sensor (18) into a product selected in the batch. Above batch (9a) in front of entrance door (6) of chamber (1), a preparatory module (27) explores the top surface of the area at the top of the batch located under sensor (18). An image analyzer selects a product into which sensor (18) will be inserted, and a future insertion point in the selected product. This data is transmitted to a memory to which logic controller (16) will refer to control actuator (17) when the batch is in chamber (1). Preferably, the data refer to a repository linked to the batch, for example provided by a corner of the box (3) containing the selected product.
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A method for automatically controlling at least one parameter at the center of a control product (4a) that is part of a batch (9a, 9b) during a pre-refrigeration or refrigeration process of the batch in a chamber (1) wherein a sensor (18) is stuck into the control product, wherein, in order to stick the sensor, while the batch (9b) is already inside the chamber (1), an activator (17) which carries and moves the sensor (18) inside the chamber (1) is activated, and after the pre-refrigeration or refrigeration process, the activator takes the sensor out of the control product, and a product of the batch is selected as a control product (4a) in such a way that in the chamber (1) the control product is as close as possible to a standby position of the sensor (18).
A method for pre-refrigeration or refrigeration of a product by a cold-vacuum technique in a chamber (1), wherein the inside of the chamber (1) containing the product is subjected to the combined effects of a vacuum for which the water boils at substantially the desired refrigeration temperature for the product, and a cold temperature produced by a refrigerator (14) which cools the atmosphere inside the chamber, and turns into ice water vapor resulting from the boiling, wherein using a method according to claim 1 a parameter at the center of a control product (4a) being part of the product is automatically controlled, and according to the value of the parameter at the center of the control product, the pre-refrigeration or refrigeration process is automatically controlled.
An automatic device for controlling at least one parameter at the center of a control product (4a) that is part of a batch (9a, 9b) during a pre-refrigeration or refrigeration process of the batch in a chamber (1) comprising a sensor (18) to be stuck in the control product (4a) so that a sensitive end (19) of the sensor (18) is at the center of the product, further comprising a product identification unit of the of a product (4a) of the batch, selected as the control product intended to receive the sensor (18), and an activator (17) located in the chamber (1) controlled by an automaton and carrying the sensor in a moveable manner according to the identification firstly by an at least partially lateral centering movement (21) of the sensor (18) on a sticking point (23), and then by a sticking movement (24) of the sensor (18) in the control product (4a) at a beginning of a pre-refrigeration or refrigeration process and an extraction movement out of the control product at an end of the process.
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