Patents Issued in March 10, 2022
  • Publication number: 20220071075
    Abstract: A device for processing the soil comprises a frame which carries at least one processing tool and at least one resilient element which has a first end portion which is associated with the processing tool and a second end portion which is associated with the frame by means of connection devices. The connection devices comprise a first laminar element which is arranged in an upper position with respect to the second end portion of the resilient element and a second laminar element which is arranged in a lower position with respect to the second end portion. The connection devices further comprise a separator device which is arranged between the first laminar element and the second laminar element which is capable of forming a separation between the second end portion and the laminar elements which defines a cavity between the first laminar element and the second laminar element, inside which the resilient element can bend.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Applicant: MASCHIO GASPARDO S.P.A.
    Inventor: Andrea MASCHIO
  • Publication number: 20220071076
    Abstract: A system for connecting tines to a rotor of a tilling machine is disclosed. The system includes an adaptor for mounting to the rotor, a tine for coupling to the adaptor by insertion into the aperture, and a locking element movably coupled to one of the adaptor and the tine, the locking element movable into a locking position to engage the other of the adaptor and the tine when in the coupling position to resist removal of the tine from the coupling position. A corresponding method is also disclosed. A tine for connecting to a rotor of a tilling machine is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2021
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Inventors: JORDAN MICHAEL SOULIER, KELVIN JOHN STEVENSON
  • Publication number: 20220071077
    Abstract: A turf aerator includes a retracting tine assembly and an input mechanism. The tine assembly includes a plurality of tines, a pair of swing arms, and a linkage for selectively moving the pair of swing arms and the plurality of tines from the operating position to the retracted position. The pair of swing arms support the plurality of tines and are configured to rotate the plurality of tines between an operating position to a retracted position. The input is coupled to the linkage and the input is operable to active the linkage to move the pair of swing arms and the plurality of tines from the operating position to the retracted position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2021
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Applicant: Briggs & Stratton, LLC
    Inventors: Brandon King, William Coates
  • Publication number: 20220071078
    Abstract: A mobile agricultural machine includes a steering system configured to steer the mobile agricultural machine. At least one distance sensor is mounted on the mobile agricultural machine and is configured to provide a distance sensor signal indicative of a distance from the mobile agricultural machine to a surface of a remote object. A controller is operably coupled to the steering system and the at least one distance sensor. The controller is configured to receive an operator input enabling object detection and responsively monitor the distance sensor signal of the at least one distance sensor to detect a linear object surface and to responsively generate a steering output to the steering system to maintain a prescribed lateral distance from the detected linear object surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2021
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Inventors: Joseph P. Boyer, Carroll C. Kellum
  • Publication number: 20220071079
    Abstract: A harvester may include a feeder house, a header mount interface proximate the feeder house; a header removably mounted to the feeder house by the header mount interface, the header having a mount interface for securing the header to a trailer; a sensor to output steering angle signals indicative of a steering angle of the harvester during an approach of the harvester carrying the header towards the trailer, and a controller to output control signals causing the display to overlay a representation of the mount interface on a real-time view of the approach.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2021
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Inventors: Nicholas A. Ohrstrom, Nathan R. Vandike, Duane M. Bomleny, Colin D. Engel, Stephen R. Corban
  • Publication number: 20220071080
    Abstract: Harvesting device of an agricultural harvesting machine, comprising a housing (17), comprising at least one rotatably driven apparatus (15) which has a shaft (18) and is rotatably mounted by the shaft (18) relative to the housing (17) about the longitudinal axis (19) thereof, comprising a sealing disk (21) which acts on the housing (17) and which is fixed relative to the shaft (18) for sealing the housing (17) relative to the shaft (18) in the region of a feed-through of the shaft (18) through the housing (17), wherein the sealing disk (21) has a through-passage (22) for the feed-through of the shaft (18), wherein when viewed in the radial direction of the shaft (18) a slide bearing joint bush (25) is arranged between the shaft (18) and the sealing disk (21).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2021
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Inventor: Niklas Löffler
  • Publication number: 20220071081
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a technology for providing high-quality treatment recipes that are optimized to the cultivation environment and to the disease or pest problem that has occurred. A platform server and method for providing disease and pest treatment recipes according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: an information collector configured to receive the image of a crop and information on the cultivation environment; an image analyzer configured to identify the disease or pest problem based on the image of the crop; and a recipe recommender configured to search a multiple number of treatment recipes from a recipe database based on the identified disease or pest problem and the information on the cultivation environment and provide the searched treatment recipes together with suitability ratings to a user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2021
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Inventor: Choa Mun YUN
  • Publication number: 20220071082
    Abstract: A method for determining an amount of a nitrogen-stabilizing additive selected from nitrification inhibitors, urease inhibitors and denitrification inhibitors, to be applied jointly or separately with a nitrogen containing fertilizer, comprising determining values of at least two parameters influencing the efficacy of the nitrogen-stabilizing additive, determining an amount of nitrogen containing fertilizer that has been applied or is to be applied, determining the efficacy of the nitrogen-stabilizing additive on the basis of said values of said at least two parameters and calculating the necessary amount of nitrogen-stabilizing additive to be applied on the basis of said efficacy of the nitrogen-stabilizing additive and of said amount of nitrogen-containing fertilizer application. Furthermore, the method relates to an apparatus (1) for determining an amount of a nitrogen-stabilizing additive.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2020
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Inventors: Wolfram ZERULLA, Markus SCHMID, Gregor PASDA, Alexander WISSEMEIER
  • Publication number: 20220071083
    Abstract: A seed ball for use in reforestation and horticulture, the seed ball comprising a seed encapsulated within a seed encapsulant, comprising soil, clay and biochar. Apparatus for making the seed ball include a roller mill and a press mill.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2021
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Inventor: Talby McKay
  • Publication number: 20220071084
    Abstract: A novel seed metering device which accommodates a large diversity of seed types and sizes by utilizing a rotating two crevice helical pattern in which individual seeds are channeled around two opposing rotors and dispensed singularly or volumetrically based on desired outcome. The two opposing rotors, each with a half set of creviced helical patterns, are adjustable to open and close in order to accommodate seed size and type. When the rotors are adjusted all the way in, the primary crevice is closed and the secondary crevice remains open for the smaller seed sizes to pass through and evenly dispense. As the rotors are adjusted out away from each other, incremental increases can be achieved in order to find the ideal crevice width to accommodate the seed diameter for singular or even disbursement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2020
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Inventor: Matthew Hornung
  • Publication number: 20220071085
    Abstract: A walk-behind mower has a mower deck, a plurality of wheels, a head, and a plurality of light sources. The wheels are rotatably coupled to the mower deck. The wheels move the walk-behind mower over a support surface in a forward direction and a rearward direction. The head is coupled to the mower deck. The head can store at least one battery pack. The light sources are coupled to at least one of the mower deck and the head. The light sources project light through a continuous illumination angle about the walk-behind mower. The illumination angle extends along an arc from the forward direction toward the rearward direction and is at least 90 degrees.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2021
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Inventors: Tyler L. Graham, Anthony J. Buxton, Benjamin F. Shaske, Adam N. Carter, Shane McCue, John L. Whealon, Christopher Shawn Bullington, Zachary Self
  • Publication number: 20220071086
    Abstract: A lawnmower, and in particular a robotic lawnmower, can include a passive cleaning assembly for removing detritus from the lawnmower housing. The passive cleaning assembly can be moveably mounted on the housing. Movement of the lawnmower with respect to the ground can cause a cleaning portion of the passive cleaning assembly to move with respect to the housing, and thereby remove detritus from the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2021
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Inventors: Shalom Levin, Ran Zaslavsky, Eli Shraga, Naor Egozi
  • Publication number: 20220071087
    Abstract: A mower with one or more wing decks that includes one or more manual lifting mechanisms for the one or more wing decks. The manual lifting mechanism may shift between retracted and extended positions, where in the extended position a handle can be positioned further away from the wing deck. When the handle is in the extended position, a user can manually engage the handle and lift the wing deck from a lowered configuration to a raised configuration, using less force than would be required if the handle was in the retracted configuration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2020
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Inventors: Brian L. Nebel, Thomas J. Gaeddert, Philip Lowell Hochstetler
  • Publication number: 20220071088
    Abstract: A grain cleaning system for a combine harvester having a transmitter adapted to transmit a base signal at a known frequency and one or more spaced receivers for detecting signals of a different frequency as reflected from airborne grain and other materials within the duct of the grain cleaning system An Electronic Control Unit modulates the base signal and the reflected signals to obtain Doppler signals or frequencies from which an average particle velocity is determined. The particle velocity is used as an input parameter for the generation of control signals for the adjustment of various working units of the combine harvester including, by way of example, the fan and sieves.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2019
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Inventors: DAN HERMANN, Morten Leth Bilde
  • Publication number: 20220071089
    Abstract: A header assembly for an agricultural harvesting machine comprises a first frame assembly, a second frame assembly that supports a cutter, and is movable relative to the first frame assembly, a float cylinder coupled between the first frame assembly and the second frame assembly, an accumulator, a controllable reservoir, and fluidic circuitry. The fluidic circuitry comprises a first conduit forming a first fluid path that provides a flow of pressurized fluid under pressure to the float cylinder, so the float cylinder exerts a float force on the second frame assembly, a valve mechanism that is actuatable to inhibit fluid flow along the first fluid path between the accumulator and the float cylinder, a second conduit forming a second fluid path fluidically coupled to the controllable reservoir, the controllable reservoir being controllable to add fluid to the float cylinder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2021
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Inventors: Alex BRIMEYER, David E. Renner, Michael L. Vandeven, Joshua R. Pierson, Todd M. Verhoef
  • Publication number: 20220071090
    Abstract: A reel assembly of an agricultural header includes a first arm configured to support a reel of the reel assembly and a first pivot joint configured to pivotally couple the first arm to a frame of the agricultural header. The first pivot joint is configured to enable the first arm to pivot about a first local lateral axis of the agricultural header and about a longitudinal axis of the agricultural header relative to the frame. In addition, the reel assembly includes a second arm configured to support the reel and a second pivot joint configured to pivotally couple the second arm to the frame. The second pivot joint is configured to enable the second arm to pivot about a second local lateral axis of the agricultural header relative to the frame and to substantially block pivoting of the second arm about the longitudinal axis relative to the frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2020
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Inventors: Benjamin David Kemmerer, Blaine Robert Noll, Herbert M. Farley
  • Publication number: 20220071091
    Abstract: A forage harvester with at least one work assembly is disclosed. The forage harvester has a corn cracker to process grain components and a driver assistance system. The driver assistance system controls the corn cracker by adjusting the machine parameters of the corn cracker. In particular, the driver assistance system has an optimization model which includes a multidimensional characteristic map that represents a relationship between a processing quality of the grain components and at least three parameters that comprise an input parameter representing a current harvesting process state and at least one machine parameter of the corn cracker as an output parameter. Thus, the driver assistance system determines the output parameter in the control routine during the harvesting process based on the varying input parameter from the optimization model and adjusts it in the corn cracker to achieve a uniform given processing quality of the grain components during the harvesting process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2021
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Applicant: CLAAS Selbstfahrende Erntemaschinen GmbH
    Inventors: Christoph Heitmann, Sven Carsten Belau, Ingo Bönig, Jan Meyer zu Hörste
  • Publication number: 20220071092
    Abstract: Large seaweed farms rely heavily on manual laborers during the planting and harvesting processes. A prevalent cultivation method among large farms involves placing seaweed spores on long ropes suspended beneath the sea surface. When the seaweed has grown to the desired length, laborers manually remove strands from said ropes. The present invention provides a system to automate the harvesting of seaweed from said ropes. The present invention combines propulsion, guidance, and harvesting mechanisms into a single unit cable of autonomously removing seaweed from said ropes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2020
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Inventors: Christopher Goul, Ali Badr
  • Publication number: 20220071093
    Abstract: The disclosed apparatus, systems and methods relate to an electrically driven corn head and/or a corn head retrofitted with individual electric motor assemblies on each corn head. In various implementations, the corn head is configured for row-by-row control of harvesting operations. In certain implementations, the corn head and associated systems can count and estimate size of stalks and ears. Further the system is configured to measure yield.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2021
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Inventor: Nathan Risius
  • Publication number: 20220071094
    Abstract: A method and a harvesting machine for harvesting fruit from the ground, according to which fruit is harvested by means of a harvesting device, which is configured to form a harvested material flow consisting of fruit and foreign bodies, to move the harvested material along a cleaning path and to clean the harvested material by removing the foreign bodies from the fruit; the cleaning being carried out by sending an airflow coming from above the moving path towards the harvested material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2021
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Inventors: Massimo Monchiero, Giancarlo Rinero
  • Publication number: 20220071095
    Abstract: A harvesting machine for harvesting fruit from the ground has a cart having a frame, which is movable in a moving direction and carries, connected to it in an integral manner, a fruit harvesting device having a harvesting member and wheels rolling on the ground and designed for the height positioning the harvesting member; the cart having a pair of front wheels and a pair of rear wheels; at least the front wheels being coupled to the frame by means of respective height-adjustable suspensions, each having a respective actuator; an electric-hydraulic command and control assembly being provided in order to adjust the height of the frame relative to the front wheels depending on the pressure of a chamber of at least one of the actuators and in order to rotate the frame around an instantaneous rotation axis, which is transverse to the moving direction, so as to adjust the load acting upon the positioning wheels and upon the front wheels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2021
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Inventors: Massimo Monchiero, Giancarlo Rinero
  • Publication number: 20220071096
    Abstract: A walk-behind self-propelled machine includes: a body, wheels, a handle connected to the body, a motor, a driver coupled to the motor and driven by the motor, and a follower coupled to the wheels and enabled to drive the wheels to rotate, and a clutch. The clutch allows the driver to transmit power to the follower when the clutch is in a first position, the clutch cuts off a power transmission path between the motor and the wheels when the clutch is in a second position, the clutch is rotatably mounted to the driver, the clutch is in contact with the follower when the clutch rotates to the first position, and the clutch is disengaged from the follower when the clutch rotates to the second position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2021
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Inventors: Ronggen Zhu, Liang Chen
  • Publication number: 20220071097
    Abstract: A dynamically operated concave threshing bar system, method, and apparatus is disclosed wherein one or more threshing bars within a concave can dynamically move to various positions in real-time based on one or more conditions such as the type crop being harvested and on a determination by a combine harvester's computerized system, artificial intelligence (AI) system, or upon the operators input, among others. The concave can include a concave frame having a pair of arcuate side members, a threshing bar, and an actuator coupled to the threshing bar, wherein the actuator can be configured to move the threshing bar along the arcuate side members of the concave frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2021
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Inventor: Brian G. Robertson
  • Publication number: 20220071098
    Abstract: A cleaning mechanism of a combine harvester, for cleaning threshed and separated crop material, including a grain pan for receiving threshed and separated crop material and transporting the crop material rearwardly; a chaffer installed proximate the grain pan for receiving material from the grain pan where the chaffer includes a plurality of longitudinal channels with non-planar surfaces giving each channel a curved or trapezoidal cross section and at least two of the chaffer channels have an asymmetric non-planar surface with a greater part of the surface area facing the side portions of the chaffer; and a fan that causes an air flow through the chaffer to lift up discardable parts from the crop material and transport the discardable parts out of the combine harvester.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2021
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Inventors: Alastair Cameron Morrison, Morten Leth Bilde, Andrew White
  • Publication number: 20220071099
    Abstract: A bale binding mechanism is configured to secure a strand of binding material around a bale of severed crop material. The bale binding mechanism includes a chassis, a knotter head assembly, and a captive lock. The knotter head assembly is operable to form at least one knot in the strand of binding material. The knotter head assembly includes a knotter head frame swingably mounted relative to the chassis and rotatable into and out of an operating position where the knotter head assembly can form the at least one knot. The captive lock is shiftably supported by one of the chassis and the knotter head frame. The captive lock is removably engaged with the other one of the chassis and the knotter head frame to secure the knotter head assembly in the operating position, with the captive lock being releasable to permit rotation of the knotter head assembly out of the operating position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2019
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Applicant: AGCO Corporation
    Inventors: Jeffery A. Baldauf, David A. Becker, Patrick Kendrick
  • Publication number: 20220071100
    Abstract: A reusable apparatus for arranging a floral bouquet is provided. The apparatus includes a frame, having a substantially parabolic shape or hemispherical shape with apertures arranged thereon for the insertion of plant stems. The apparatus also includes an adjustable support apparatus with a first support shaft connected to the frame, joined to a second support shaft configured such that the first support shaft and second support function as a telescoping combined shaft assembly and wherein an adaptor block configured for use with a foam-based frame positionable on an upper end of the first support shaft. The second shaft is connected to a bracket, the bracket having a lower arm with a slotted portion that adjusts the location of the second support shaft, and an upper arm slotted portion that adjusts the location of a holding device, a clamp that attaches to a base; and frame that is removable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2021
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Inventors: CURTIS L SHAFFER, LYNDA SHAFFER
  • Publication number: 20220071101
    Abstract: The invention provides a plant cultivation system and a method of cultivating plants. The system includes plant sensors in the form of image sensors, arranged to capture digital plant images; processing hardware including a processor, a data storage facility in communication with the processor and input/output interfaces connectable to the plant sensors and in communication with the processor, the hardware being configured to implement a convolutional neural network (CNN) trained from a library of plant images to recognize predefined plant conditions from the digital plant images captured by the image sensors and to provide a matching score of a plant image when compared to the predefined plant conditions with which the CNN has been trained; and a reference library containing treatment regimes associated with predefined plant conditions, the output interface of the processing hardware arranged to present the predefined plant condition and associated treatment regime to a user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2019
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Inventor: Dennis Mark Germishuys
  • Publication number: 20220071102
    Abstract: A fastener device adapted for attaching at least one tag (or other identifier) to an object. The fastener device comprises a T-bar component, a paddle component, and a filament component flexibly attached to both the T-bar component on one end and the paddle component on the other end. In some embodiments, the fastener device is deployable via a fastener dispensing device comprising a needle designed to puncture a hole in at least one tag and the object while also inserting the T-bar component through the hole. Once inserted, the paddle component exerts a cantilever spring force against at least one tag holding the tag(s) securely against the object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2021
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Inventors: David L. SCHUTTLER, Charles J. BUROUT, III
  • Publication number: 20220071103
    Abstract: A method of increasing interspace among plant containers. The method comprises: providing a set of plant containers, the set comprising first and second plant containers; arranging the first plant containers in a first structured grid formation along a horizontal plane; and arranging the second plant containers in a second structured grid formation along said horizontal plane, whereby when viewed from above the first and second plant containers are alternatingly arranged in a joint structured grid formation in a first area. The method comprises, for increasing the interspace among the plant containers, mutually simultaneously moving the second plant containers in their second grid formation away from the first plant containers in a vertical direction and subsequently placing the second plant containers in a second area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2021
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Applicant: Shenandoah Growers Inc.
    Inventor: Antonius Henricus Jacobus VENDERBOSCH
  • Publication number: 20220071104
    Abstract: Disclosed are example embodiments of a sectional interlocking plant support system providing a stand for supporting growing plants in soil comprising a stake and a pole, coupled to the stake or other devices, the pole comprising a porous tubular body, the porous tubular body formed by a plurality of porous openings on the pole, the pole configured to be stackable on a second pole, the height being adjustable be selecting a number of poles to connect together. The porous openings on the pole comprising at least one hole shaped in at least one of a circle, a triangle, a square, a hexagon, a pentagon, a heptagon, an octagon, a nonagon, a polygon having more than nine sides, or a irregular shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2021
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Inventors: Ray M Cheng, Kenneth Scott Bower
  • Publication number: 20220071105
    Abstract: A greenhouse screen comprising strips of film material that are interconnected by a yarn system of transverse threads and longitudinal threads by means of knitting, warp-knitting or weaving process to form a continuous product. The film material comprises a highly transparent, biaxially oriented, UV and flame-stable polyester film which is provided on at least one side with a coating which reduces the reflection of visible light. The greenhouse screen is particularly suited for the cultivation of plants with high light requirements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2020
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Inventors: Sara WIDÉN, Daniel ASPLUND
  • Publication number: 20220071106
    Abstract: An elongate air delivery assembly having a housing extending between two end caps. The housing includes a plurality of exit vents from which airflow is provided in a consistent sheet at a uniform velocity, and the housing is rotatable about a central longitudinal axis to change a direction of the airflow. A method of improving plant cultivation includes positioning one or more elongate air delivery systems adjacent rows of plants such that the sheet of air generated by the elongate air delivery system is directed horizontally across the plants underneath their plant canopy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2021
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Inventors: James E. Megerson, Michael J. McQueeny, Jr., Suwan Cho
  • Publication number: 20220071107
    Abstract: An apparatus for cultivating plants may include a cabinet forming a space in which plants are cultivated; a door connected to the cabinet to open and close the space; at least one bed disposed in the space and configured to support at least one seed package accommodating a medium including seeds; and at least one light assembly that radiates light to the at least one seed package on the at least one bed. The light assembly may include at least one LED module including a plurality of LED groups; a light case that covers an upper portion of the at least one LED module; and a light cover coupled to the light cover and supporting a lower portion of the at least one LED module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2021
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Inventors: Kyounghoon LEE, Soobeom Lee
  • Publication number: 20220071108
    Abstract: A food and plant production system includes an environmentally controlled agriculture system integrated with an electrical energy microgrid, wherein the electrical energy microgrid includes an electrical powered energy generation system coupled with an electrical energy flow battery storage system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2021
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Inventors: Ryan REDFORD, Norman P. SOLOWAY
  • Publication number: 20220071109
    Abstract: An electric working machine may include a control device configured to control an electric unit, an operation member, a first switch configured to be operated by the operation member, and a second switch configured to be operated by the operation member. The operation member may pass a second position and a third position while the operation member moves to the first position. The first switch may be configured to transmit a first signal which changes as the operation member moves from the second position to the first position to the control device when the operation member moves between the second position and the first position. The second switch may be configured to transmit a second signal to the control device when the operation member passes the third position. The control device may be configured to control the electric unit based on the first signal and the second signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2021
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Applicant: Makita Corporation
    Inventors: Daisuke SUZUKI, Kouichi TAKEDA
  • Publication number: 20220071110
    Abstract: A system and method for irrigation, and managing irrigation of, a property or landscape. The system may include an irrigation management server (“IMS”) with the information for an irrigation system. The system may access the irrigation system that has been input into the IMS as well as access a third party map that may display the irrigation system over the map. The system may provide for a user's GPS location to be accessed through and identify the location of the user with respect to the map and irrigation overlay. The system display may provide information regarding the landscape to a user. The system may allow for manipulation of the irrigation system while overlaid on the map by the creation and manipulation of zones within the irrigation system as well as the creation and manipulation of other commands, including watering times and watering duration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2021
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Inventor: Rudy Lars Larsen
  • Publication number: 20220071111
    Abstract: A vertical farming apparatus comprises a frame for supporting plant troughs or pots, a base for supporting the frame, and an array of gutters supported by the frame. The array of gutters comprises an upper formation of gutters above a lower formation of gutters. Containers for housing plants are supported by and arranged to drain into a gutter in the array of gutters. An irrigation system is arranged to irrigate the containers. The lower formation of gutters is arranged in a tiered configuration such that each gutter in the lower formation is at least partially offset in a first horizontal direction from the other gutters in the lower formation and is at least partially offset in a first horizontal direction from the gutters in the upper formation. A supply system is arranged to supply gaseous carbon dioxide, air and mixtures of carbon dioxide and air to the containers interchangeably.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2021
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Inventor: David James Moore
  • Publication number: 20220071112
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the substrate-free rooting of a plurality of unrooted cuttings, comprising the steps: providing a carrier strip having a plurality of cavities which are open at the top for receiving in each case an unrooted cutting in each cavity, wherein each cavity is provided with openings at least in a region associated with a cutting base, inserting an unrooted cutting into each cavity, applying a water-persistant, water- and air-permeable climate membrane to the carrier strip provided with the cuttings in such a manner that at least the region of each cavity of the carrier strip that is associated with the cutting base is surrounded by the climate membrane, arranging the carrier strip provided with the climate membrane in a rooting station and leaving the cuttings to root for a predetermined period of time, with regular misting, and at the end of the predetermined rooting period, dispatching the carrier strip with the rooted cuttings for further processing, or separating the car
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2019
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Inventors: Stefan REINER, Dirk SCHIMMELPFENG, Per KLEMM
  • Publication number: 20220071113
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a water environment governance technology, and particularly discloses a method for regulating primary productivity in a eutrophic water body. Emerging plants are cultivated in a water area to be governed to improve anti-wind wave and anti-water flow capabilities of the water area to be governed and establish a relatively stable microenvironment; and a modified clay molecular sieve, phosphorus-accumulating bacteria, grass seeds of submerged plants and silty clay are used to prepare a modified clay molecular sieve ecological base, and the modified clay molecular sieve ecological base is uniformly added to the water body of the area to be governed to inhibit the emission of phosphorus in the deposit and reduce disturbance, so that the cyanobacteria in the deposit is fixed, thereby improving the oxygen-deficient microenvironment of a sediment-water interface and achieving the objective of inhibiting growth of cyanobacteria.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2021
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Inventors: Caole LI, Jiaqian Li, Xiaoguang Li, Wei Li, Guowen Li, Lieyu Zhang, Chen Zhao
  • Publication number: 20220071114
    Abstract: One embodiment relates to seed and plants of inbred beet line AZ10319. Another embodiment relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of inbred beet line AZ10319, and to methods for producing a beet plant produced by crossing such plants with themselves, with another beet plant, such as a plant of another genotype, or with vegetatively propagating said plant. Another embodiment further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. Further embodiments relate to parts of such plants, including the fruit and gametes of such plants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2020
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Applicant: Sakata Seed America, Inc.
    Inventor: Laura Ann Diehl
  • Publication number: 20220071115
    Abstract: According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the corn variety designated CV421301. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CV421301, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CV421301 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to corn seeds and plants produced by crossing plants of variety CV421301 with plants of another variety, such as another inbred line. The invention further relates to the inbred and hybrid genetic complements of plants of variety CV421301.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2020
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Inventor: Nathaniel J. Page
  • Publication number: 20220071116
    Abstract: According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the corn variety designated CV480092. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CV480092, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CV480092 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to corn seeds and plants produced by crossing plants of variety CV480092 with plants of another variety, such as another inbred line. The invention further relates to the inbred and hybrid genetic complements of plants of variety CV480092.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2020
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Inventor: Devin Michael Nichols
  • Publication number: 20220071117
    Abstract: According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the corn variety designated CV816831. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CV816831, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CV816831 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to corn seeds and plants produced by crossing plants of variety CV816831 with plants of another variety, such as another inbred line. The invention further relates to the inbred and hybrid genetic complements of plants of variety CV816831.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2020
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Inventor: Marvin L Boerboom
  • Publication number: 20220071118
    Abstract: According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the corn variety designated CV821576. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CV821576, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CV821576 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to corn seeds and plants produced by crossing plants of variety CV821576 with plants of another variety, such as another inbred line. The invention further relates to the inbred and hybrid genetic complements of plants of variety CV821576.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2020
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Inventors: Jose Jaime Elizarraras, Bradley Allen Sockness
  • Publication number: 20220071119
    Abstract: According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the corn variety designated CV403467. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CV403467, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CV403467 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to corn seeds and plants produced by crossing plants of variety CV403467 with plants of another variety, such as another inbred line. The invention further relates to the inbred and hybrid genetic complements of plants of variety CV403467.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2020
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Inventors: Jose Jaime Elizarraras, Bradley Allen Sockness
  • Publication number: 20220071120
    Abstract: According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH011084. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH011084, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH011084 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety CH011084.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2020
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Inventor: Nathaniel J. Page
  • Publication number: 20220071121
    Abstract: According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH011070. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH011070, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH011070 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety CH011070.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2020
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Inventors: Fufa H. Birru, Christian J Buffard, Richard G. Stelpflug
  • Publication number: 20220071122
    Abstract: According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH011079. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH011079, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH011079 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety CH011079.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2020
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Inventor: Marvin L. Boerboom
  • Publication number: 20220071123
    Abstract: According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH011025. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH011025, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH011025 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety CH011025.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2020
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Inventors: Christian J. Buffard, Jeffrey M. Sernett, Gary R. Stangland
  • Publication number: 20220071124
    Abstract: According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH011136. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH011136, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH011136 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety CH011136.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2020
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Inventors: Gregory J. Holland, Jeffrey M. Sernett, Gary R. Stangland