Freshness indication
AssigneeKoninklijke Philips N.V.
InventorsYANLING GAO, DONGHAI YU, RUI KE, NING ZHOU
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Abstract
Embodiments of the present invention relate to freshness indication. In some embodiments, a freshness indicating device is provided. The freshness indicating device comprises a collector and an indicator. The collector is adapted to collect water from an object. The object includes at least one of fruits and vegetables. The indicator is adapted to indicate the freshness of the object based on the amount of the collected water. A corresponding method and a container comprising the freshness indicating device are disclosed as well.
Claims15
A freshness indicating device, comprising:
- a collector adapted to collect water from an object, the object being at least one of fruits, vegetables, flowers and mushrooms;
- and
- an indicator adapted to indicate the freshness of the object based on the amount of the collected water, wherein the indicator includes a water absorbing element adapted to absorb the collected water, a property of the water absorbing element being that ir presents different states with respect to different amounts of water,
- wherein the collector is arranged for collecting water resulting from water lost by the object while freshness is decreasing.
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A method of indicating freshness, the method comprising the steps of:
- collecting water from an object, the object being at least one of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and mushrooms;
- and
- indicating the freshness of the object based on the amount of the collected water,
- wherein the step of indicating the freshness of the object comprises the step of absorbing the collected water and presenting a different states of a property with respect to different amounts of the collected water, and wherein the collected water results from water lost by the object while freshness is decreasing.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.