US 12,000,816 B2
System and method of sensing and processing multivariate printing process data
Stephen J. Metcalf, Hudson, WI (US); Jacob Schwertel, Minneapolis, MN (US); Riley Swanson, River Falls, WI (US); Pete Bremer, River Falls, WI (US); and Jared Wertz, River Falls, WI (US)
Assigned to Baldwin Technology Company, Inc., St. Louis, MO (US)
Filed by Baldwin Technology Company, Inc., St. Louis, MO (US)
Filed on Sep. 23, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/030,143.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/904,663, filed on Sep. 23, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0088490 A1, Mar. 25, 2021
Int. Cl. G01N 33/00 (2006.01); B41F 33/02 (2006.01); B41M 7/00 (2006.01); B41M 99/00 (2006.01)
CPC G01N 33/0047 (2013.01) [B41F 33/02 (2013.01); B41M 7/0081 (2013.01); B41M 99/00 (2013.01); G01N 33/0009 (2013.01)] 6 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A chemical sensor system configured to measure ink curing, comprising:
a cartridge body having:
an inlet port;
one or more air flow channels in fluid communication with the inlet port and having at least one turbulence generator channel to mix incoming air with volatile organic compounds (VOCs);
a chemical sensor provided in fluid communication with the at least one turbulence generator channel to measure VOCs levels;
an outlet port in fluid communication with the chemical sensor and the one or more air flow channels; and
a fan device configured to pull VOCs through the one or more air flow channels;
at least one communication line to facilitate operative communication of sensor data from the chemical sensor to one or more cloud-based servers; and
one or more computing devices in operative communication with one or more cloud-based servers, the one or more computing devices configured to:
receive aggregated sensor data from the one or more cloud-based server; and
display a visual dashboard on the one or more computing devices, the visual dashboard including at least a machine display region and a process radar region, with the machine display region having one or more selectable images and the process radar region having a plurality of data point plots based on the aggregated sensor data.