公开(公告)号：US12082538B2

公开(公告)日：2024-09-10

申请号：US17287420

申请日：2019-10-25

申请人： Springworks Farm Maine Inc.

发明人： Trevor Kenkel

IPC分类号： A01G25/02 ,  A01G7/02 ,  A01G13/02

CPC分类号： A01G25/023 ,  A01G7/02 ,  A01G13/0268

摘要： A system and method to facilitate the growth of a plant in a building. The system includes a substrate that is substantially solid, an inflatable raft, or that has an upper member and a lower member with a space therebetween to establish an interior of the substrate. Either form of substrate includes one or more plant retainers and a set of one or more gaseous fluid delivery ports located regularly or irregularly throughout the substrate, including localized in a vicinity of each of the one or more plant retainers. The system further includes a climate delivery subsystem including a gaseous fluid source, a gaseous fluid delivery apparatus, such as a pump and one or more conduits in the substrate, wherein each of the one or more conduits is in communication with each set of the one or more gaseous fluid delivery ports for delivery of the gaseous fluid to an underside of the plant, wherein the one or more conduits are coupled to the gaseous fluid delivery apparatus.

公开(公告)号：US11957089B2

公开(公告)日：2024-04-16

申请号：US17080734

申请日：2020-10-26

申请人： AUSCO, INC.

发明人： Werner Buhler ,  Kenneth Bram

IPC分类号： F16K31/383 ,  A01G7/02 ,  A01G13/06 ,  F16K3/26

CPC分类号： A01G7/02 ,  A01G13/06 ,  F16K3/267 ,  F16K31/383

摘要： A valve includes an inlet and an outlet; a body including a first seat and a second seat; a cavity in the body; a piston positioned in the cavity; and a pilot ball adjacent the piston and that is disposed in a pilot seat, and a rear surface of the piston butts against the pilot seat at a maximum open position of the piston. Each of the first seat and the second seat is a seat that is a mechanical stop that prevents the piston from extending further than the closed position. The piston includes a flat front face that contacts the first seat when in the closed position, and a nose extension that extends outward and away from a center portion of the front face, and the nose extension has an opening through a center of a front surface thereof.

公开(公告)号：US20240016100A1

公开(公告)日：2024-01-18

申请号：US18251440

申请日：2021-11-02

申请人： MJNN LLC

发明人： Nathaniel R. Storey

IPC分类号： A01G7/02 ,  A01G9/18

CPC分类号： A01G7/02 ,  A01G9/18

摘要： Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for controlling a ratio of carbon dioxide to oxygen in a grow space by removing O2 from the grow space, and, in some cases, adding supplemental CO2 to the grow space to achieve a desired ratio of CO2 to O2. Various approaches include filtering out oxygen or reacting O2 with a reactant to produce O2-reduced air; and removing air from the grow space, removing nitrogen from the removed air, and (a) separating out CO2 and returning the nitrogen and the CO2 to the grow space, or (b) adding supplemental CO2 and the nitrogen to the grow space. Another approach removes air from the grow space, separates out gasses including N2 and CO2, and returns the N2 or the CO2 to the grow space.

公开(公告)号：US20230384279A1

公开(公告)日：2023-11-30

申请号：US18318361

申请日：2023-05-16

申请人： PANASONIC FACTORY SOLUTIONS ASIA PACIFIC PTE.LTD.

发明人： Ishwariya VENKATESALU ,  Song Jin CHNG ,  Chin Huat Joel LIM ,  Cheng Yang Nicholas THAM ,  Mun Ji LOW

IPC分类号： G01N33/00 ,  A01G7/02

CPC分类号： G01N33/0098 ,  A01G7/02

摘要： An open micro-environment plant health sensing method includes placing a plurality of sensors in a configurable plant growing base for growing plants, collecting data representing one or more environmental parameters of the plants by the plurality of sensors continuously in real-time, communicating the collected data representing the one or more environmental parameters of the plants through a sensor network mediated by gateways, applying the data representing the one or more environmental parameters to a trained artificial intelligence (AI) engine for correlating micro-environment changes to the plants with one or more plant health parameters, and predicting the one or more plant health parameters for monitoring plant health by the trained AI engine.

公开(公告)号：US20230337610A1

公开(公告)日：2023-10-26

申请号：US18188094

申请日：2023-03-22

申请人： Australis Aquaculture, LLC

发明人： Joshua N. Goldman ,  Leonardo Mata

IPC分类号： A01G33/00 ,  A01G7/02 ,  A01G7/04

CPC分类号： A01G33/00 ,  A01G7/02 ,  A01G7/045

摘要： A bioreactor includes a first compartment designed to retain seaweed sporophytes, a second compartment in fluid communication with the first compartment that includes one or more settlement surfaces, and a first porous barrier between the first and second compartments that allows the seaweed spores to pass from the first compartment to the second compartment, and systems comprising the bioreactor. Also provided herein are methods of culturing seaweed, for example, using a bioreactor provided herein.

公开(公告)号：US20180332776A1

公开(公告)日：2018-11-22

申请号：US15922017

申请日：2018-03-15

申请人： Carbon Sink, Inc.

发明人： Frank O'Keefe

IPC分类号： A01G9/14 ,  A01G7/02 ,  C02F3/32 ,  A01G33/00 ,  C12M1/00

CPC分类号： A01G9/14 ,  A01G7/02 ,  A01G9/18 ,  A01G33/00 ,  B01D53/62 ,  B01D2253/102 ,  B01D2253/104 ,  B01D2253/108 ,  B01D2253/20 ,  B01D2257/106 ,  B01D2257/302 ,  B01D2257/304 ,  B01D2257/404 ,  B01D2257/504 ,  B01D2258/06 ,  C02F3/32 ,  C02F2103/26 ,  C02F2303/04 ,  C12M43/06 ,  Y02C10/04 ,  Y02P60/24 ,  Y02W10/37

摘要： Devices, systems and methods for using photosynthetic biomass to purify water, reduce indoor air pollution, remove greenhouse gases including CO2 from outdoor atmospheric air, and produce biofuel, food products, and fertilizer are provided herein. Also provided herein are systems and methods for enhancing growth of a photosynthetic biomass in a greenhouse.

公开(公告)号：US10080334B2

公开(公告)日：2018-09-25

申请号：US15244987

申请日：2016-08-23

申请人： Lrider Technology Co., Ltd.

发明人： Yongsheng Li

IPC分类号： A01G31/00 ,  A01G31/02 ,  A01G9/24 ,  A01G7/04 ,  A01G7/02 ,  A01G9/20 ,  A01G9/18 ,  F21V21/22 ,  F21Y115/10

CPC分类号： A01G31/02 ,  A01G7/02 ,  A01G7/045 ,  A01G9/18 ,  A01G9/20 ,  A01G9/246 ,  A01G9/247 ,  F21V21/22 ,  F21Y2115/10 ,  Y02A40/272 ,  Y02P60/146 ,  Y02P60/216

摘要： An ecological hydroponics control system includes an ecological hydroponics house, wherein: the ecological hydroponics house is provided with ecological control system, smart host system, sensing system and planting system, the smart host system is connected to the ecological control system, the sensing system and the planting system, the ecological control system includes: water supplying and draining system, lighting system, air conditioning system, ventilating system, humidifying system and gas supplying system. The present invention has characteristics of high productivity and high stability, also has ability of controlling various ecological environments including main environments of plant growing, providing ecological environment suitable for the plant growing best, the cultivation period can be shortened to ½-⅔ of the conventional cultivation period, it also has water saving function, where the water volume required will be about 1/50 of that required in the normal open-type plant culture, which obtaining the maximized productivity and resource utilization.

公开(公告)号：US10015931B2

公开(公告)日：2018-07-10

申请号：US13729089

申请日：2012-12-28

申请人： Elwha LLC

发明人： Paul G. Allen ,  Kenneth G. Caldeira ,  Bran Ferren ,  William Gates ,  W. Daniel Hillis ,  Roderick A. Hyde ,  Muriel Y. Ishikawa ,  Edward K. Y. Jung ,  Jordin T. Kare ,  John Latham ,  Nathan P. Myhrvold ,  Stephen H. Salter ,  Clarence T. Tegreene ,  David B. Tuckerman ,  Thomas A. Weaver ,  Charles Whitmer ,  Lowell L. Wood, Jr. ,  Victoria Y. H. Wood

IPC分类号： A01G7/02 ,  A01G7/06

CPC分类号： A01G7/02 ,  A01G7/06 ,  Y02P60/24

摘要： Methods and articles are provided for generating electricity from carbon-based photosynthate produced by a plant. The methods include providing the plant with a composition including CO2 and/or a composition that generates CO2, harvesting a carbon-based photosynthate from the plant, processing the carbon-based photosynthate to produce energy, and converting at least some of the energy into electricity. An apparatus for converting the carbon-based photosynthate into CO2 and heat, and an apparatus for converting the heat of combustion into electricity is also provided. An apparatus is also disclosed for providing the plant with a composition including CO2 and/or a composition that generates CO2.

公开(公告)号：US20180054985A1

公开(公告)日：2018-03-01

申请号：US15244987

申请日：2016-08-23

申请人： Lrider Technology Co., Ltd.

发明人： Yongsheng LI

IPC分类号： A01G31/02 ,  A01G9/24 ,  A01G7/04 ,  A01G7/02 ,  A01G9/20 ,  A01G9/18 ,  F21V21/22

CPC分类号： A01G31/02 ,  A01G7/02 ,  A01G7/045 ,  A01G9/18 ,  A01G9/20 ,  A01G9/246 ,  A01G9/247

摘要： An ecological hydroponics control system includes an ecological hydroponics house, wherein: the ecological hydroponics house is provided with ecological control system, smart host system, sensing system and planting system, the smart host system is connected to the ecological control system, the sensing system and the planting system, the ecological control system includes: water supplying and draining system, lighting system, air conditioning system, ventilating system, humidifying system and gas supplying system. The present invention has characteristics of high productivity and high stability, also has ability of controlling various ecological environments including main environments of plant growing, providing ecological environment suitable for the plant growing best, the cultivation period can be shortened to ½-⅔ of the conventional cultivation period, it also has water saving function, where the water volume required will be about 1/50 of that required in the normal open-type plant culture, which obtaining the maximized productivity and resource utilization.

公开(公告)号：US20180049374A1

公开(公告)日：2018-02-22

申请号：US15798112

申请日：2017-10-30

申请人： Local Urban Vegetables, LLLP

发明人： Morris Gasmer ,  Martin Boerema ,  Jonathan Iungerich ,  Steve Dohrman

IPC分类号： A01G9/02 ,  A01G9/10 ,  A01G9/06 ,  A01G7/02 ,  A01G7/04 ,  A01G9/24 ,  A01G25/16

CPC分类号： A01G9/025 ,  A01G7/02 ,  A01G7/045 ,  A01G9/0293 ,  A01G9/0297 ,  A01G9/06 ,  A01G9/083 ,  A01G9/088 ,  A01G9/246 ,  A01G13/0212 ,  A01G25/16 ,  A01G29/00 ,  A01G31/045 ,  E04H5/08 ,  Y02P60/216

摘要： A plant growing system comprising a growing panel and a porous air hose coupled to the growing panel. The growing panel includes a plurality of openings for receiving a plurality of plant receptacles. The plurality of openings are arranged in a plurality of parallel lines on the growing panel, and the porous air hose extends along the growing panel between at least two of the parallel lines.