Quality control when filling a container with a filling product

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 11192768
APP PUB NO 20210070597A1
SERIAL NO

17012517

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A device for filling a container with a filling product (e.g., in a beverage filling system), includes: a product tank for providing the filling product, wherein a head space with a gas atmosphere is located above the filling product in the product tank; at least one filling member with a filling valve which is fluidically connected to the product tank for introducing the filling product from the product tank into the container to be filled and a gas channel for treating the container to be filled with a gas and/or for discharging gas from the container; a measuring apparatus for analyzing the gas atmosphere in the head space; and a control apparatus which is communicatively coupled to the measuring apparatus and which is designed to determine a process performance, (e.g., a quality of the filled filling product), from the analysis of the gas atmosphere in the head space.

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KRONES AGNEUTRAUBLING

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Herrmann, Florian Neutraubling, DE 29 29
Poeschl, Florian Neutraubling, DE 10 17

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