Patent ID: 7858036
Filing Date: 2010-12-28
Classification: G01N,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A taste recognition apparatus comprising: a sensor device including: a CPU board which controls the sensor device; and a touch panel having a display screen, wherein the CPU board controls the display screen to display operation items required for the measurement for taste recognition on the sensor device, wherein the operation items are indicated by buttons with respective functions and sequentially displayed on the display screen, and wherein when a user clicks a predetermined button, the corresponding one of the operation items can be input while at the same time permitting the user to perform all the operations on the sensor device based on the display on the display screen; wherein the CPU board is configured to: (i) carry out the sensor check mode to confirm whether or not the taste measurement is properly conducted by the sensor unit, (ii) control the sensor unit to carry out the normal measurement mode upon confirmation that the taste measurement is properly carried out by the sensor unit in execution of the sensor check mode, (iii) control the sensor unit to carry out the maintenance measurement mode upon confirmation of “NG”, indicating that the taste measurement cannot be properly carried out by the sensor unit in the execution of the sensor check mode, and (iv) carry out the maintenance measurement mode in which a basic measurement and a basic measurement analysis for analyzing a result of the basic measurement are carried out on the reference taste solution, and based on a result of the basic measurement analysis, the sensor probe of the sensor unit is cleaned to thereby carry out the sensor check mode again.