Patent ID: 9541537
Date: 2017-01-10
CPC Classifications: G01B,G01H,G01N

Claim:
1. An apparatus for quantitative non-destructive texture attribute measurement of a food product, comprising; a housing; a laser generator attached to said housing; an acoustic capturing device proximally located to said housing; a data processing unit in communication with at least said acoustic capturing device; wherein a laser from said laser generator is directed to strike said food product, thereby producing an acoustic signal to be detected by said acoustic capturing device; wherein further said data processing unit is configured to quantitatively measure said texture attribute of said food product based on input from said acoustic capturing device and said texture attribute is selected from a group comprising: hardness, fracturability, tooth-pack, crispiness, denseness, roughness of mass, moistness of mass, residual greasiness, surface roughness, or surface oiliness.