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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 13, 2013
Filed:
May. 02, 2012
Torbjorn Petterson, Gnesta, SE;
Eva Pia Sandstedt, Gnesta, SE;
Ola Sandberg, Gnesta, SE;
Torbjorn Petterson, Gnesta, SE;
DeLaval Holding AB, Tumba, SE;
Abstract
A method for controlling the milking by a milking machine includes, during an initial phase of the milking, increasing a milking vacuum and/or a maximum pulsation vacuum for the milking gradually from a first selected vacuum level (L) towards a second selected vacuum level (L) to thereby improve teat stimulation and decreasing the risk of a second milk letdown. When a second milk letdown (ML) is detected, the maximum pulsation vacuum is preferably immediately lowered to a third selected vacuum level (L), and is kept at that third selected vacuum level until a certain milk flow has been established, whereupon the pulsation vacuum level is then again increased gradually until the second selected vacuum level is reached.