Patents Assigned to Director General of the Touhoku National Agriculture Experiment Station
  • Patent number: 5044518
    Abstract: A seed container has a plurality of partition plates for dividing the conner into a plurality of spaces and a brush provided in each space in parallel with the partition plate. A cell plate having a plurality of cells is provided in a bottom of the seed container, and a receiving plate having a plurality of apertures corresponding to the cells is provided under the cell plate. The cell plate is reciprocated so as to reciprocate each row of the cells over the corresponding brush. When each cell coincides with a corresponding aperture, a seed in the cell drops for seeding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 1990
    Date of Patent: September 3, 1991
    Assignee: Director General of the Touhoku National Agriculture Experiment Station
    Inventors: Osamu Sakaue, Tsuyoshi Sekimura, Seiichi Shimoda