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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 01, 2021
Filed:
Dec. 04, 2017
Prominent Gmbh, Heidelberg, DE;
Jens Kaibel, Lampertheim-Hofheim, DE;
Holger Bonicke, Wiesloch, DE;
Klaus-Peter Bannas, Mannheim, DE;
ProMinent GmbH, Heidelberg, DE;
Abstract
A measuring device for determining the filling level of a filling material in a container is simple and inexpensive to produce and allows largely continuous determination of the filling level of an unknown filling material in a container. The measuring device has at least three measuring sensors in mutually spaced relationship in a heightwise direction. A read-out device having at least three measuring inputs for reading out the measuring sensor signals is provided. Each measuring sensor signal depends on material properties of a filling material arranged adjacent to the respective measuring sensor. A calibration device which effects calculation of the filling level detected by a measuring sensor positioned neither right at the top nor right at the bottom in the heightwise direction, on the basis of the measuring sensor signal of the further upwardly arranged measuring sensor and/or the further downwardly arranged measuring sensor.