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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 14, 2025
Filed:
May. 24, 2022
Egg-chick Automated Technologies, Landivisiau, FR;
Laura Trubuil, Plouedern, FR;
Devan Lharidon, Plouedern, FR;
EGG-CHICK AUTOMATED TECHNOLOGIES, Landivisiau, FR;
Abstract
The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for inspecting, as they pass, eggs placed in containers. According to the invention, during the movement of these containers () along a conveyor line, the following steps are carried out: Furthermore, the data acquisition cycle of said container comprises performing, in a third position separate from said first and second positions, a step of candling the eggs placed in said container, in which step a light flux is emitted in the direction of at least one egg to be candled and the light flux passed through each corresponding egg is then analysed depending on the level of light flux absorbed by the egg, and