Patent Document ID: 20020000814
Application ID: 09262059
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. A system intended to provide an empirical, quantitative and qualitative, indicia of meat quality comprising: Means for passing alternating current of a known frequency and voltage through a test cells made of a dielectric material holding a meat tissue sample of know volume between two electrodes each spaced apart from each other a known distance, each electrode further being bonded to one of two ends of said test cell; Means for passing said alternating current between said two electrodes of said test cell through a circuit including a balanced bridge such that said test cell effectively comprises one leg of said balanced bridge and the impedance of the alternating current passing through said test cell disturbs the balancing of said balanced bridge; Means for passing said alternating current through a circuit connected to said balanced bridge which is capable of measuring the Impedance of the alternating current passing through said test cell as determined by the opposed impedance required in balancing said balanced bridge disturbed by the impedance of the alternating current passing through said test cell;