Device for monitoring a milk tank and an assembly of such a device with a milking robot and an automatic starting-up unit
AssigneeLely Enterprises AG
InventorsAalze Veenstra, Renatus Ignatius Joséphus Fransen
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Abstract
A device for monitoring a milk tank. The device is provided with a monitoring unit comprising a computer and a memory for at least temporarily storing data, a thermometer for measuring the temperature of a fluid present in the milk tank, and for supplying to the monitoring unit a temperature signal that is indicative of the measured temperature, and with a meter for measuring an electrical parameter, such as the conductivity, of the fluid present in the milk tank and for supplying to the monitoring unit a parameter signal that is indicative of the measured electrical parameter.
Claims38
A device for monitoring a cleaning process of a milk tank, the device comprising:
- a monitoring unit comprising an input device for inputting into the monitoring unit a selected number of stages for the cleaning process of the milk tank;
- a computer and a memory for at least temporarily storing data;
- a first meter for measuring a temperature of a fluid present in the milk tank and for supplying to the monitoring unit a temperature signal indicative of the measured temperature;
- a second meter for measuring an electrical parameter of the fluid present in the milk tank and for supplying to the monitoring unit a parameter signal that is indicative of the measured electrical parameter;
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- a cleaning system controlled by the computer and responsive to the temperature signal or the parameter signal to perform the selected stages.
A method of monitoring a cleaning process of a milk tank, using a monitoring unit comprising an input device, a computer and a memory for at least temporarily storing data, a first meter and a second meter, the method comprising:
- inputting into the monitoring unit a number of stages for the cleaning process of the milk tank;
- measuring, using a first meter, a temperature of a fluid present in the milk tank and supplying to the monitoring unit a temperature signal indicative of the measured temperature;
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- measuring, using a second meter, an electrical parameter of the fluid present in the milk tank and supplying to the monitoring unit a parameter signal that is indicative of the measured electrical parameter;
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- controlling the cleaning process to perform the selected stages responsive to the temperature signal or the parameter signal.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.