Patent ID: 6493071
Filing Date: 2002-12-10
Classification: A01J

Abstract:
An apparatus for diagnosing pathological conditions in animals that produce milk by analyzing abnormalities in such milk, the apparatus comprising: a light source that irradiates milk produced by said animal with light consisting of light selected from a red color or a green color or a blue color or any combination thereof; a light sensor disposed to measure the intensity of light consisting of light selected from light that is reflected from said milk or is diffused through milk or is transmitted by said milk or is background light produced by said milk or is any combination thereof; a computer for processing measurement data from said light sensor, said computer programmed to select at least one diagnosis for pathological conditions which may exist in said animal that produces said milk from a plurality of diagnostic possibilities stored in said computer on the basis of comparing values derived from the light intensities measured by said light sensor with reference values of said plurality of diagnostic possibilities.