公开(公告)号：US12171198B2

公开(公告)日：2024-12-24

申请号：US18233580

申请日：2023-08-14

Applicant: KELTRONIX, INC.

Inventor： Kelton Temby ,  Jonathan Simpson

IPC: A01K47/06 ,  G06V20/52 ,  G06V10/46

Abstract: Aspects of this disclosure include a system for providing non-contact, computer-vision based monitoring of the health and pollination activity of a beehive. The system may include camera positioned proximate to a beehive. The camera may include an onboard processor that analyzes video of the beehive captured by the camera and calculates an activity value that estimates a number of bees moving about the beehive. The video calculated activity values may be uploaded to a server where they can be accessed via a user device. The user device may allow the user to display interactive plots of the activity values over a variety of time bases. The disclosed beehive monitoring system relies on relatively lost-cost hardware and requires neither modification to the hive nor special constraints on the placement of the camera.

公开(公告)号：US20240389557A1

公开(公告)日：2024-11-28

申请号：US18674392

申请日：2024-05-24

Applicant: Apiverte Inc.

Inventor： Sandra BORNN ,  Michael SMITH

IPC: A01K47/02 ,  A01K47/06

Abstract: There is provided a hive body or a kit for assembling a hive body for use in a beehive enclosure, comprising: panels defining an interior space and an aperture configured to allow movement of the bees into the interior space; a brood chamber emplaced within the interior space, the brood chamber defining an internal cavity adapted for housing comb frames, and being displaceable between a stored position within the interior space and an inspection position when said brood chamber is displaced outwards from within the interior space to permit a beekeeper access to internal cavity of the brood chamber; and a rear door moveable between a closed position to an open position which enables the brood chamber to be moved into the inspection position where the beekeeper can have access to internal cavity of the brood chamber to maintain the bees.

公开(公告)号：US12058980B2

公开(公告)日：2024-08-13

申请号：US17976536

申请日：2022-10-28

Applicant: Melovator LLC

Inventor： Dominic M. DeSano ,  Jeffrey E. Gunderson

IPC: A01K47/06

CPC classification number: A01K47/06

Abstract: A beehive assembly has a column of hive bodies which are releasably connected to a sheet metal spine of a sleeve which encircles a post mounted to the ground. The sleeve has a rack which engages a pinion mounted to the post with a handle which rotates the pinion and moves the sleeve and attached beehive vertically. A latching pawl is selectively released by a foot pedal mounted to the post. By turning the crank the column of hive bodies is caused to ascend into an operating position where the bee colony within the hive bodies is elevated above the ground, or is lowered to be accessible by a beekeeper.

公开(公告)号：US20240251760A1

公开(公告)日：2024-08-01

申请号：US18631465

申请日：2024-04-10

Applicant: David Munday

Inventor： David Munday

IPC: A01K47/02 ,  A01K47/04 ,  A01K47/06 ,  A01K53/00 ,  A01K67/033

CPC classification number: A01K47/02 ,  A01K47/04 ,  A01K47/06 ,  A01K53/00 ,  A01K67/033

Abstract: An artificially-created honey-yielding environment is established, including a hive and an associated flora cell, within which first and second plant populations cohabit. Within the cell, honey-producing insects from the hive are permitted to forage. One of the populations has been artificially introduced. The other may be indigenous to the cell. The first plant population serves as a primary source of nectar which yields bioactive honey and the second serves as a source of a nutrient, such as protein, which is not abundantly available from the first species at a nutritionally adequate level for sustaining the metabolism and energy of the foraging honey-producing insects for returning to the hive. The first flora population may be a Leptospermum species. An example of the second is Corymbia maculata.

公开(公告)号：US20240122170A1

公开(公告)日：2024-04-18

申请号：US18276367

申请日：2022-10-27

Applicant: Hyuk JEONG

Inventor： Hyuk Jeong

IPC: A01M1/10 ,  A01K47/06

CPC classification number: A01M1/106 ,  A01K47/06

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a wasp catcher, and more particularly, to a wasp catcher that can isolate only wasps using a trap structure on a front surface of a hive without using an attractant and can easily separate and remove only caught and isolated wasps or killed wasps. The present disclosure provides a wasp catcher detachably attached to a hive and not using an attractant. The wasp catcher can guide wasps to move to a second catching portion through a first catching portion using flight straightness and phototaxis of the wasps and can allow bees moved to the second catching portion to exit the second catching portion, thereby catching and isolating only the wasps in the second catching portion.

公开(公告)号：US11917985B2

公开(公告)日：2024-03-05

申请号：US17574308

申请日：2022-01-12

Applicant: BUCKCREEK TRUST

Inventor： Nicholas V. Palmby

IPC: A01K47/00 ,  A01K47/06

CPC classification number: A01K47/06

Abstract: An artificial beehive includes at least one artificial hive chamber for storing a bee colony and/or honey produced by a bee colony; with at least one removable frame stored in the hive chamber, the frame serving as a supporting base for the production of a honeycomb, and being removable from the hive chamber for extraction of honey from the honeycomb; and at least one cover that closes the hive chamber from an external environment. The hive chamber includes at least one interior surface having grooves extending therealong, the grooves having a depth of between about 1 mm and about 6 mm, and arranged in a predetermined and repeatable pattern.

公开(公告)号：US20240065235A1

公开(公告)日：2024-02-29

申请号：US18270554

申请日：2021-12-30

Applicant: YILDIRIM PLASTIK MAKINE VE KALIP IMALAT INSAAT TURIZM SANAYI VE TICARET LIMITED SIRKETI

Inventor： Muzaffer YILDIRIM

IPC: A01K47/06

CPC classification number: A01K47/06

Abstract: The invention relates to separators (1) that regulate bees' entrance to and exit from a hive according to various seasonal and usage requirements, that are provided with several bee entrance-exit holes (6) that allow a bee colony to enter to and exit from a hive, and that are provided with at least one primary cover (3) and a secondary cover (4) associated with the primary cover (3) in order to close at least a portion of said holes (6).

公开(公告)号：US20230389526A1

公开(公告)日：2023-12-07

申请号：US18033323

申请日：2021-11-22

Applicant: BEEODIVERSITY

Inventor： Michaël VAN CUTSEM ,  Bach Kim NGUYEN

IPC: A01K47/06

CPC classification number: A01K47/06

Abstract: Beehive for a bee species, the bee species comprise pollen collecting bees, the beehive comprising: a plurality of first openings (2) designed such that the pollen collecting bees of the beehive enter the beehive through these first openings (2) and that the pollen collecting bees lose their pollen, when they enter through the first openings (2); and a plurality of second openings designed such that the pollen collecting bees of the beehive can enter the beehive through these second openings (3) and that the pollen collecting bees keep their pollen, when they enter through the second openings (3), wherein the number of second openings is larger than 5% of the total number of openings (2, 3) constituted by the accumulative number of first openings (2) and second openings (3).

公开(公告)号：US20230309518A1

公开(公告)日：2023-10-05

申请号：US18192454

申请日：2023-03-29

Applicant: Andrew Levi

Inventor： Andrew Levi ,  Jadi Oliver

IPC: A01K47/06

CPC classification number: A01K47/06

Abstract: A preferred embodiment provides a reconfigurable and removable cover securely fixed to an exterior of a hive structure. The preferred material of the cover provides both temperature and humidity control through use of various layers which allow proper air flow. Temperature control is provided by a novel combination of heat absorptive and heat reflective layers and surfaces. A reduction of heat loss in the hive structure reduces the amount of energy required to keep the hive at the desired temperature thereby preserving food resources and preventing colony collapse. The heat reflective layers cool the hive in the summer by reflecting solar radiation.

公开(公告)号：US20230120669A1

公开(公告)日：2023-04-20

申请号：US18085212

申请日：2022-12-20

Applicant: FlowBee Australia Pty Ltd

Inventor： Cedar Joseph Anderson ,  Stuart Ralph Anderson

IPC: A01K47/04 ,  A01K59/00 ,  A01K47/02 ,  A01K47/06

Abstract: A splitable honeycomb comprising: a first comb portion and a second comb portion comprising a first series of cell portions and a corresponding second series of cell portions respectively, said first and second cell portions defining a series of honeycomb cells therebetween, the first comb portion and the second comb portion being moveable relative to each other from a closed cell position to an open cell position, wherein mutually opposed edges of said cells are non-contiguous in the closed cell position to thereby avoid catching a limb of a bee.