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Relying on chemical chromogenic solutions or culture methods, the traditional verification process is not only cumbersome and time-consuming, but also consumes reagents continuously, making it difficult to meet the dual requirements of modern industry for efficiency and environmental protection. The "Optical Cell" equipment emerges as the times require, aiming to directly identify bacteria, biofilms and various contaminants through non-contact optical detection technology, thus achieving rapid, eco-friendly and consumable-free hygiene inspection. The realization of this technological innovation hinges on whether its optical sensing system can stably and clearly capture the morphological and spectral characteristics of microscopic surfaces under extreme close working distances, complex curved structures and variable lighting conditions. SincereFull’s dedicated module for precision endoscopic inspection, with its ultra-close focusing capability, wide depth of field, extreme miniaturization and excellent environmental adaptability, precisely meets the stringent requirements of "Optical Cell" equipment, serving as the crucial visual core that ushers in a new era of reagent-free real-time hygiene verification.
The core mission of "Optical Cell" equipment is to detect micro-pollutants adhering to the inner walls of equipment pipelines, corners of production units or surfaces with complex textures. This requires its imaging system to not only achieve precise focusing at millimeter-scale ultra-close distances, but also have a sufficiently wide depth of field to adapt to the changes in focusing planes caused by uneven structures such as curved surfaces and gaps, ensuring clear imaging within the depth range and avoiding the loss of key biofilm details due to slight distance fluctuations.
This module offers an ultra-wide close-range focusing range of 5mm to 50mm, with a minimum focusing distance of only 5mm. This feature allows it to perform high-magnification imaging almost attached to the surface to be inspected, laying the foundation for direct observation of microbial community morphology. Meanwhile, its optical design is specially optimized for depth of field performance in close-range imaging, ensuring sharp images within an axial space of several millimeters, which is crucial for scanning pipeline inner walls or rough surfaces. Combined with its 1/18-inch sensor and customized lens, it can clearly magnify and present potential biological contamination risks at the micro-level without any physical contact, delivering high-quality and high-fidelity raw data for subsequent intelligent image analysis algorithms.
A large number of biofilms or specific contaminants have low visibility under conventional visible light, often requiring light sources of specific wavelengths (such as ultraviolet light) to excite their autofluorescence, or detection in low-light environments such as the interior of enclosed equipment. This poses dual challenges to the imaging module: it must have excellent low-light sensing capability itself, and at the same time, it must be able to efficiently coordinate with external excitation light source systems.
This module boasts high sensitivity of up to 1000 mV/Lux-sec and an excellent signal-to-noise ratio (＞36.8dB). This means that even under extremely weak light signal conditions, it can output clear images with low noise and high contrast, which is particularly critical for capturing the faint fluorescence signals emitted by excited biofilms. In addition, this module solution supports the integration of high-brightness white light LEDs and can be easily coupled with external special light sources (such as ultraviolet LED modules for exciting microbial fluorescence). The optional 665nm infrared cut filter at the front of the lens can effectively filter out ambient stray light interference, ensuring that the contrast of target features and image signal-to-noise ratio are optimized in the detection mode with active light source irradiation, making hidden contamination traces clearly visible.
Cleanliness verification often requires accessing "dead corners" with extremely limited space and complex structures, such as production line valves, inner walls of mixing tanks and pipeline elbows. Meanwhile, these industrial environments may undergo high-temperature steam cleaning, chemical reagent fumigation or drastic temperature and humidity changes, posing severe tests to the size and long-term reliability of detection probes.
The core imaging unit of this module, after being equipped with a robust steel shell, has an outer diameter of only 2.0mm and a length of 6.0mm, achieving extreme miniaturization. This compact size enables it to unimpededly penetrate small interfaces, precision gaps or embedded pipelines for inspection, completely breaking through the space limitations of traditional detection tools. Its stainless steel sleeve material endows the product with excellent mechanical strength and corrosion resistance. According to the datasheet, the module can operate stably within a wide temperature range of -20℃ to 70℃ and a humidity range of 30% to 40%, ensuring that it can easily cope with the humid and hot cleaning processes in food factories or the strict environmental control in pharmaceutical workshops, meeting the requirements for high-intensity and high-frequency reliable detection in industrial sites.
The "Optical Cell" equipment is designed to achieve rapid feedback and on-site instant decision-making, requiring test results to be visualized in real time so that operators can conduct on-site judgment and take corrective actions immediately. Meanwhile, as a handheld or portable device for on-site use, its overall power consumption control is directly related to battery life and user experience.
This module adopts standard NTSC/PAL analog format output, capable of providing smooth real-time video streams with 400x400 resolution at 30fps. This allows the detection screen to be displayed on the device screen or external monitor with almost zero latency, realizing an intuitive "what you see is what you get" inspection and greatly improving troubleshooting efficiency. In terms of power consumption, its core imaging part has excellent power control (a typical value of about 0.6W, excluding LED light source) and a wide operating voltage range (4.8V~5.2V), making it very suitable for integration into battery-powered portable "Optical Cell" detectors, helping to realize truly mobile and real-time hygiene audits and quality control.
In summary, SincereFull’s ultra-miniature endoscope camera module provides a crucial visual sensing cornerstone for cutting-edge hygiene testing equipment such as "Optical Cell" through its breakthrough close-range imaging and depth of field performance, excellent low-light signal capture capability, extreme miniaturized robust design and efficient real-time low-power output. Its in-depth empowerment makes rapid, accurate and chemical reagent-free surface cleanliness verification a reality, directly responding to the industry’s urgent needs for improving product safety and quality, safeguarding public health, reducing water and chemical consumption, and significantly shortening the verification cycle. It leads hygiene management to steadily move from the experience-dependent "chemical verification" stage to a new era of objective data-based "intelligent optical sensing".
