System for characterizing a liquid
CA 2338016 A1 · Owner: Unilever Nv · Inventors: Olthuis, Wouter; Bergveld, Piet; Langereis, Gerardus Rudolph
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A system for characterizing a liquid comprises a sensor for providing an electrical output signal depending on a characteristic of the liquid and a , processing unit for processing the output signal of the sensor to obtain characterizing data of the liquid. The sensor is made as a single sensor/actuator device and can be connected in a plurality of manners to the processing unit. In at least some of these connecting manners the processing unit is adapted to actuate the sensor/actuator device and to process the output signal of the sensor/actuator device to obtain different characterizing data of the liquid.
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- Filed July 15, 1999. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended July 15, 2019.
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