US 12,329,121 B2
Analysing a cleaning fluid in a milking machine
Peter Peters, Hamm (DE); Christoph Zenz, Bochum (DE); Martin Wortmann, Recklinghausen (DE); and Henrik Böttner, Bochum (DE)
Assigned to GEA Farm Technologies GmbH, Bönen (DE)
Appl. No. 18/281,078
Filed by GEA Farm Technologies GmbH, Bönen (DE)
PCT Filed Mar. 2, 2022, PCT No. PCT/EP2022/055241
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Sep. 8, 2023,
PCT Pub. No. WO2022/189225, PCT Pub. Date Sep. 15, 2022.
Claims priority of application No. 102021105641.1 (DE), filed on Mar. 9, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2024/0138363 A1, May 2, 2024
Int. Cl. A01J 7/02 (2006.01); A01J 5/00 (2006.01)
CPC A01J 7/022 (2013.01) [A01J 5/00 (2013.01)] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
12. A milking machine, comprising:
a milking device;
a cleaning fluid source connected to the milking device;
an apparatus for analyzing a cleaning fluid originating from the cleaning source, the apparatus including:
a main line for the cleaning fluid;
a line portion wherein the line portion branches off from the main line and leads into the main line;
a light source unit, which emits light into the line portion;
a detection unit for the spectrally resolved capture of light emerging from the line portion;
and
an evaluation unit configured to analyze the cleaning fluid with regard to constituents on the basis of signals from the detection unit.