Patents Issued in December 22, 2022
  • Publication number: 20220400593
    Abstract: The invention relates to a plough module (1) for interchangeable mounting on a base frame of a plough device for ploughing a ground, wherein the plough module (1) comprises: a rotatable first cutting element (102) which is designed as a coulter disc and has a revolving first cutting edge (103), wherein the first cutting element (102) is designed in such a manner that a lateral region of a soil ridge in the ground can be cut by moving the plough module (1) on the ground along a ploughing direction, a second, flat cutting element (105) having a second cutting edge (106), wherein the second cutting element (105) is designed in such a manner that a ground region of a soil ridge in the ground can be cut by moving the plough module (1) on the ground along a ploughing direction, characterized in that the plough module (1) is designed as a ready-mounted unit, in which the second cutting element (105) follows, and comprising a first support structure (4), on which the first cutting element (102) is arranged, a second
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2020
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Inventor: Franz-Ferdinand Huber
  • Publication number: 20220400594
    Abstract: Provided is a piercing tool which can be used by optionally replacing a distal end portion, which is to be first brought into abutment against an object to be pierced such as the ground, and can rigidly mount the distal end portion. A piercing tool (1) includes: a distal end portion (2), which has a cylindrical shape, and is to be first brought into abutment against an object; and a main body portion (3), which has a cylindrical shape at at least a part of the main body portion (3), and has one end portion to which the distal end portion (2) is mounted. The distal end portion (2) is configured so as to be removably mounted to the one end portion (32) of the main body portion (3).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Applicant: SAKAMOTO SEIKI CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Koichi SAKAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20220400595
    Abstract: An agricultural implement has (i) an elongated open channel member; and (ii) a connecting assembly comprising a first vertical connector plate positioned against a first vertical side of the open member and a second vertical connector plate positioned against a second vertical side of the open member. When the open member twists about a longitudinal axis, its upper and lower flanges will move within upper and lower channels about upper and lower raised surface areas. A clamping assembly includes: a first clamping member extending horizontally between the first vertical plate and the second vertical plate positioned over and proximate an upper surface of the upper flange; a second clamping member extending over and proximate a lower surface of the lower flange; and a third clamping member extending (i) over and proximate a lower surface of the lower flange or (ii) over and proximate an upper surface of the upper flange.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2021
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Inventors: Glenn Raymond HONEY, Lee Glenn HARPER, Tom Antony STUBBS
  • Publication number: 20220400596
    Abstract: A method includes obtaining, by the treatment system configured to implement a machine learning (ML) algorithm, one or more images of a region of an agricultural environment near the treatment system, wherein the one or more images are captured from the region of a real-world where agricultural target objects are expected to be present, determining one or more parameters for use with the ML algorithm, wherein at least one of the one or more parameters is based on one or more ML models related to identification of an agricultural object, determining a real-world target in the one or more images using the ML algorithm, wherein the ML algorithm is at least partly implemented using the one or more processors of the treatment system, and applying a treatment to the target by selectively activating the treatment mechanism based on a result of the determining the target.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2022
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Inventors: Gabriel Thurston Sibley, Lorenzo Ibarria, Curtis Dale Garner, Patrick Christopher Leger, Dustin James Webb
  • Publication number: 20220400597
    Abstract: An agricultural support system includes a first communication device located in or on a tractor to transmit information, and a second communication device located in or on a transport vehicle to acquire the information transmitted from the first communication device. The transport vehicle is capable of transporting the tractor. The agricultural support system further includes a position sensor in or on the working machine to detect a position of the working machine. The first communication device is operable to transmit the position detected by the position sensor to the second communication device as the information. The second communication device is operable to receive the position transmitted from the first communication device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2022
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Inventors: Kenji TAMATANI, Yuji OKUYAMA, Kazuo SAKAGUCHI, Yusuke TAKAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20220400598
    Abstract: An agricultural machine includes a traveling vehicle body, a detector to detect objects in an area surrounding the traveling vehicle body, a detection adjuster to adjust a detection direction of the detector, a position sensor to detect a position of the traveling vehicle body, and an information acquirer to acquire information relating to an entrance/exit of an agricultural field. The detection adjuster is operable to perform a first adjustment of orienting the detection direction toward an end point of the entrance/exit when the traveling vehicle body is traveling toward the entrance/exit and a distance from the position of the traveling vehicle body to the entrance/exit included in the information is a predetermined value or less, and a second adjustment of orienting the detection direction toward the end point of the entrance/exit or a space forward of the end point in a traveling direction when the traveling vehicle body is traveling on the entrance/exit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2022
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Inventors: Kenji TAMATANI, Yuji OKUYAMA, Kazuo SAKAGUCHI, Yusuke TAKAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20220400599
    Abstract: A work management system includes an estimation unit that estimates a performed work amount based on a position of a portion of a work object to which a fluid is estimated to be blown while the work is performed. In addition, the work management system includes a first correction unit that compares a target passing position through which a fluid blowing device passes while the work is performed with a position of the fluid blowing device to determine whether the fluid blowing device has passed through the target passing position while the work is performed, and executes a first correction process of reducing the work amount estimated by the estimation unit when it is determined that the fluid blowing device has not passed through the target passing position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2022
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Inventor: Katsunori SUETSUGU
  • Publication number: 20220400600
    Abstract: The present invention relates to mobile machinery such as an agricultural tractor comprising a three-point hitch for the connection and use of working implements cultivating or excavating the earth and other duties involved in the industry of farming or grading excavation. The disclosed invention modifies and improves the conventional three-point hitch in use today. The disclosed invention modifies the three-point hitch by adding extending and retracting implement-actuators attachable to the existing bottom-lift-arms, therefore supplanting, but still using the existing bottom-lift-arms on the three-point hitch. The implement-actuators assist the implement in correcting the implements centerline when the tractor centerline is off a predetermined centerline path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2020
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Inventor: Peter Joseph Mollick
  • Publication number: 20220400601
    Abstract: A liquid treating conveyor system that can apply a metered liquid treatment to a metered stream of seed within the conveyor, with either the rate of the seed or treatment fluid regulated. The conveyor has a curved structure. A belt conformed to the curved structure carries a bed of seed through the conveyor. A liquid dispenser distributes a treatment across the seed bed. The liquid may enter the liquid dispenser at low pressure for low shear applications. Liquid dispensers may be spaced apart along a portion of the conveyor. Gas outlet ports and mixing baffles may be disposed within the conveyor. A liquid channel may be disposed within a mixing baffle to direct flow of treatment from the liquid port to an outlet port in contact with the seed bed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2021
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Applicant: KSi Conveyor, Inc.
    Inventors: Dominic E. Meyer, Jason P. Kaeb, Matthew J. Edelman, Paul A. Kaeb
  • Publication number: 20220400602
    Abstract: The invention relates to a soil cultivation arrangement (100), in particular a soil preparation arrangement, for the agricultural cultivation of a soil (500), in particular a field and/or arable land, with a carrier device for attaching to an agricultural tractor and with one or more soil cultivation units (200, 201, 202, 203) for preparing and/or generating a seed furrow (530), which soil cultivation units (200, 201, 202, 203) as modular components of the soil cultivation arrangement (100) can be connected to the carrier device as required and can be arranged along the carrier device in the desired sequence. At least one soil cultivation unit (200) has a runner-like sliding device (400), the underside of which, as sliding surface (410) facing the soil (500), is designed to slide on a soil surface (510).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2020
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Inventor: Marian Ivanov Dichevski
  • Publication number: 20220400603
    Abstract: A sowing machine and a method for separating and spreading granular material, such as seed or the like, are described, where the material is supplied by way of conveying airflows from a central container to metering devices via conveying ducts respectively associated with them. Furthermore, the material supplied in the conveying ducts is separated from the respective conveying airflow and the resulting discharge airflows are supplied via discharge air ducts to the respectively associated metering devices which are thus pressurized. Furthermore, the metering chambers are pressurized by way of supply airflows via supply ducts respectively associated with the former. The material is separated in the metering chambers by way of separating disks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2020
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Inventors: Jan FLUCKE, Jan-Eike LUEBBEN, Thomas WIEN
  • Publication number: 20220400604
    Abstract: A spacing adjustment mechanism of a depth gauge wheel assembly of a planting row unit of an agricultural implement includes a rod fixed on one side to a pivot assembly of the planting row unit, and on which a spindle with a threaded external face is mounted, the threaded external face interacts with a threaded inner face of a bearing of a support arm of a gauge wheel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2022
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Inventors: Eduardo Copetti, Regis Carlos Pereira da Silva
  • Publication number: 20220400605
    Abstract: A garden tool comprises a fork body with a base portion having upper and lower surfaces. The tool includes a plurality of elongated tines each having a first end connected to the base portion, and an opposed free end. A span element attaches to the base at an intermediate portion along the length of each tine, which are preferably parallel to each other. The span element includes one or more acute cutting edges, which may reside between adjacent tines, or may be connected to some or all of them, preferably being adjacent to the lower surface. According to one variant, the tines each include a plurality of span attachment facilities at different positions along their lengths. The span may have an elongated portion above the upper surface of the fork body. The tines may have opposed parallel sidewalls, and the tool may comprise three, four, five, or more tines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2021
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Inventor: Yoshio Yanez
  • Publication number: 20220400606
    Abstract: The present disclose provides a combination of a piece of landscaping equipment moveable over a terrain, a laser, and a mounting assembly. The mounting assembly is configured to engage the laser to the piece of landscaping equipment. The laser is selectively operably to emit a laser beam across a portion of terrain that is located in front of the piece of landscaping equipment as the piece of landscaping equipment moves over the terrain. The mounting assembly is operable to adjust a position of the laser relative to the piece of landscaping equipment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2021
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Applicant: Green Industry Innovators, L.L.C.
    Inventors: Steffon Hoppel, Todd Pugh
  • Publication number: 20220400607
    Abstract: A cutting system includes knives attached to a continuously moving belt-type carrier. The carrier motion moves the knives past stationary counterknife fingers which are attached to or uniform with a cutterbar, as the cutting system is driven through a field of crop stalks, which are cut by the interaction between the knives and counterknives. One or more sensing devices produce signals or images related to the condition of the knives when the knives are moving past the sensing devices. A processing unit processes the signals or images and derives therefrom one or more parameters representative of the condition of the knives, and compares the parameters to a reference, to thereby monitor the condition. An agricultural implement such as a combine harvester, can be equipped with the cutting system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2022
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Applicant: CNH Industrial America LLC
    Inventors: Bart M.A. Missotten, Jasper Vanlerberghe, Sam Reubens, Lucas Deruyter, Frederik Tallir, Dré W.J. Jongmans, Sahand Hajshekoleslami, Pieter Van Overschelde
  • Publication number: 20220400608
    Abstract: The cutting system includes knives attached to a continuously moving belt-type carrier. The carrier motion moves the knives past stationary counterknife fingers. Each knife is pivotably connected to the platform portion of a support bracket having also a wall portion that is fixed to the belt-type carrier. The knife is furthermore coupled to the bracket by a reversible force coupling that maintains the knife in a forwardly oriented operational position when the knife is subjected to lateral forces which exert a torque on the knife that remains below a predefined limit, encountered when the knife is cutting stalks or meeting small obstructions. When the knife is subjected to lateral forces resulting in a torque above the predefined limit, the force coupling is configured to be disengaged in a reversible manner, enabling the knife to pivot about a rotation axis towards a non-operational position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2022
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Applicant: CNH Industrial America LLC
    Inventors: Bart M.A. Missotten, Jasper Vanlerberghe, Sam Reubens, Lucas Deruyter, Frederik Tallir, Dré W.J. Jongmans, Sahand Hajshekoleslami, Pieter Van Overschelde
  • Publication number: 20220400609
    Abstract: A grass trimmer includes a trimming head, a driving device for driving the trimming head to rotate so as to cut vegetation and an operating device for a user to operate so as to control the driving device. The trimming head includes a spool and a line holding element, the spool is used to wind a trimming line, and the line holding element is formed with a line holding structure. The driving device includes a motor. The grass trimmer has an auto-winding mode. In the auto-winding mode, the motor drives at least one of the spool and the line holding element to make the spool and the line holding element rotate relatively so that the trimming line is wound on the spool automatically.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2022
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Inventors: Jianpeng Guo, Maohui Li, Fangjie Nie, Toshinari Yamaoka
  • Publication number: 20220400610
    Abstract: A debris dispersal system for use with a vehicle comprises a blower assembly, a nozzle assembly, and first and second discharge conduits. The blower assembly is supported on a frame having at least one rolling support and includes an engine drivingly connected to a blower having a radial housing. The nozzle assembly includes at least one elongate nozzle, wherein each nozzle has at least one discharge opening configured to direct air downwards from the nozzle. The first and second discharge conduits each have a proximal end connected to the blower and a distal end connected to the nozzle assembly in spaced relation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2022
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Applicant: Harper Industries, Inc.
    Inventor: Jim L. Seipel
  • Publication number: 20220400611
    Abstract: A cutting apparatus for a header of an agricultural harvester includes a first wheel and a second wheel. A drive source is configured to selectively drive the first wheel in a clockwise direction or an anticlockwise direction. A knife carrier, including a loop having a running side and a knife-carrying side, is tensioned around the first and second wheels for transmitting torque from the drive source to rotate the wheels and the knife carrier. A plurality of knives cut crop mounted to the knife-carrying surface of the knife carrier. A sensor monitors operation of the knives.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2022
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Applicant: CNH Industrial America LLC
    Inventors: Bart M.A. Missotten, Pieter Van Overschelde, Frederik Tallir, Dré W.J. Jongmans, Glenn Aesaert
  • Publication number: 20220400612
    Abstract: A method and a system for determining an indicator of processing quality of an agricultural harvested material using a mobile device is disclosed. A computing unit analyzes image data of a prepared sample of harvested material containing grain components and non-grain components in an analytical routine to determine the indicator of the processing quality of the agricultural harvested material. Further, the computing unit uses a trained machine learning model in the analytical routine to perform at least one step of determining the indicator of the processing quality of the agricultural harvested material and that the computing unit adjusts at least one machine parameter of the forage harvester based on the indicator of processing quality.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2022
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Applicant: CLAAS Selbstfahrende Erntemaschinen GmbH
    Inventors: Sven Carsten Belau, Frédéric Fischer, Christoph Heitmann, Ingo Bönig
  • Publication number: 20220400613
    Abstract: An adjusting device 1 of a cutting device has a mounting element 3 which is provided with a first through bore 7 through which a first shaft 9 projects. This first shaft 9 is provided at one end 9a with a rotary adjusting knob 13 and is provided with a second bore 15 which extends over the entire length of the first shaft 9 and is provided with internal screw thread over its entire length. The adjusting device 1 furthermore has an elongate coupling element 19 which can be connected to a device part to be adjusted. This coupling element 19 is provided with a second shaft 21 with an external screw thread, which is turned into the first shaft 9. When the adjusting knob 13 is turned, the second shaft 21 is displaced in the longitudinal direction. The second shaft can be rotated into the second bore 15 at both ends of the first shaft and can protrude from the first shaft at both ends.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2022
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Inventor: Patrick Michael Antonius van ESCH
  • Publication number: 20220400614
    Abstract: The feeder device located at the centre section of a front of a harvester. The feeder device comprises one or more flights configured for improving operation of the feeder device. The feeder device comprises a shaft including a plurality of flights. They extend substantially along the entire length of the shaft and are arranged in a spaced apart relationship with respect to each other. In this manner, a threaded-like formation defined by the spaced apart arrangement of flights extends substantially along the entire length of the shaft of the feeder device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Inventor: Michael Fels
  • Publication number: 20220400615
    Abstract: An agricultural header comprises a first side draper belt, a second side draper belt, a first center draper belt, a second center draper belt, and a crop divider. The first and second center draper belts are positioned laterally between the first and second side draper belts which extend laterally outwardly in opposite directions away from the first and second center draper belts. Each of the first and second side draper belts are arranged to feed crop material laterally inwardly, and each of the first and second center draper belts are arranged to feed crop material rearwardly for processing by the agricultural harvester. The crop divider is positioned laterally between the first and second center draper belts to separate crop material fed laterally inwardly from the first and second side draper belts respectively to the first and second center draper belts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2021
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Inventors: Derek J. Franke, Matthew R. White, Kelli L. Martin, Nicholas J. Keener
  • Publication number: 20220400616
    Abstract: A round baler includes a first roller and a second roller that define a gap therebetween and are arranged to position forming belts immediately adjacent to a baling chamber. A third roller is arranged to position the forming belts radially outward of the baling chamber. The forming belts move along a belt path in sequence from the first roller, to the third roller, and then to the second roller, such that the baling chamber is not bounded by the forming belts in the gap between the first roller and the second roller. A net guide is radially supported by both the first roller and the second roller and laterally positioned between an adjacent pair of the forming belts. The net guide extends across the gap to guide a net material across the gap and prevent the net material from following the forming belts away from the baling chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2021
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Inventor: DANIEL E. DERSCHEID
  • Publication number: 20220400617
    Abstract: A method and system for monitoring a bale shape. The method includes receiving a series of bale images from a camera, identifying the bale in the bale images, determining at least one bale shape parameter of the identified bale, and providing an electronic signal representative of the bale shape parameter. The bale images include a view of at least an outlet of a bale chamber of an agricultural baler, of a bale being ejected from the outlet, and of a field travelled by the agricultural baler during the ejection of the bale. The at least one bale shape parameter of the identified bale is then determined based on at least one of the bale images. The identifying of the bale may, at least partly, be performed using trained neural networks and other artificial intelligence algorithms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2022
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Inventors: Thomas Debbaut, Kenny Nona, Bruno Depraetere, Roeland . De Geest
  • Publication number: 20220400618
    Abstract: The reciprocating cutting blade apparatus includes: a pair of reciprocating cutting blades disposed to overlap one another in a thickness direction; a support member configured to reciprocably support the reciprocating cutting blades in a longitudinal direction; and an adjustment mechanism configured to adjust a gap between the reciprocating cutting blades on a lower surface side of the support member. The adjustment mechanism includes: a screw hole provided in the support member; an adjustment screw including an external thread configured to threadedly engage with the screw hole through long holes provided in the reciprocating cutting blades; and a nut configured to threadedly engage with the external thread protruding from an upper surface of the support member to fix the external thread to the support member. The external thread protruding from the upper surface of the support member includes an operated portion configured to be operated to turn the adjustment screw.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2021
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Inventor: Kunio SHIMIZU
  • Publication number: 20220400619
    Abstract: A mobile light exposure device or improving the yield and quality of biological material has a first module for emitting one or more light pulses, which includes a light treatment panel whose surface area is between 0.01 m2 and 10 m2, a second module or adjusting the optical power density of the treatment panel and optionally adjusting the temperature of the panel, and a means of locomotion for moving the device at a speed of between 1 and 10 km/h. The optical power density of the panel is between 100 W/m2 and 10,000 W/m2, preferably between 300 W/m2 and 3,000 W/m2, and the light pulses delivered to the biological material are of identical or different wavelengths and of durations less than or equal to two seconds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2020
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Applicants: UV BOOSTING SAS, Avignon Université
    Inventors: Laurent URBAN, Jawad AARROUF, Yves MATTON, Loïc LEDERMANN, Hugo GONCALVES
  • Publication number: 20220400620
    Abstract: The invention relates to a controlled environment agriculture for plant cultivation using artificial lights. The artificial lights comprise an array of light emitting diodes fabricated using gallium nitride, each gallium nitride operable over a wavelength of 380 nm to 900 nm. The array of light emitting diodes include at least one integrated drive controller and at least sensor. The controlled environment agriculture includes at least an imaging device and a control module. The control module comprises a machine learning module and an aggregator module configured connected to at least one sensor and at least one imaging device to aggregate various parameters including environmental data, and plant phenotyping data associated with the plants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2022
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Applicant: Crocus Labs GmbH
    Inventor: Prashanth MAKARAM
  • Publication number: 20220400621
    Abstract: A lighting system, such as for an indoor growing facility, comprises a frame, an end electrical connector, a light emitting unit comprising at least one LED and a unit electrical connector, wherein the light emitting unit is positionable within a first mounting region of the frame with the unit electrical connector electrically connected to a light emitting unit electrical connector of the frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2022
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Inventor: Wayne Ernest Conrad
  • Publication number: 20220400622
    Abstract: Plants are optimally grown under artificial narrowband Photosynthetically Active Radiation (“PAR”) of multiple colors, and color palettes, applied in but partially time-overlapping cycles. As well as a long, growing season, cycle, the colored lights are cyclically applied on a short, diurnal, cycle that often roughly simulates a peak-season sunny day at the earth latitude native to the plant. Bluer lights are applied commencing before redder lights, and are likewise terminated before the redder lights. Infrared light in particular, is preferably first applied at a time corresponding to early afternoon, and is temporally extended past a time corresponding to sunset. The colored lights and light palettes preferably rise to, and fall from, different peak intensities over periods from 10 minutes to 2 hours, and relative peak intensities of even such different colors as are used at all vary up to times two (×2) in response to differing PAR requirements of different plants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2022
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Inventor: Matthew MCCORD
  • Publication number: 20220400623
    Abstract: A lighting system for a vertical farm can include a plurality of modules configured to be stacked and removably coupled physically and electrically to one another by at least one overhead robot. Each of the plurality of modules can include at least one physical and electrical connector. At least some of the modules can include one or more lighting elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2022
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Applicant: ONEPOINTONE, INC.
    Inventors: PAUL MAHACEK, Adam NEWELL, Matthew LEETTOLA, John BERTRAM, Ron MITCHELL
  • Publication number: 20220400624
    Abstract: A planting bag formed from biodegradable material and sized for receipt of a planting. The planting bag having a water delivery system comprising at least two distribution lines secured to the bag and a splitter for coupling to a conventional water hose. A fertilizer admixture and water absorbing polymer are impregnated into the side wall of the bag allowing close proximity to the root ball of the planting to minimize the loss of fertilizer and provide a means for directing water around the planting root ball.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2022
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Inventor: Peter Cordani
  • Publication number: 20220400625
    Abstract: A multi-source ground-to-air heat transfer system is configured to store thermal energy during a cooling/dehumidifcation mode of operation for future use during a heating mode of operation. The multi-source ground-to-air heat transfer system utilizes a ground loop that is configured under an enclosure, such as a greenhouse, and is in thermal communication with a thermal reservoir medium to conduct and store heat. A thermal exchange fluid is pumped through the ground loop and ground heat exchanger and may receive heat from a condenser during a cooling/dehumidification mode of operation and may liberate heat to the evaporator during a heating mode. The enclosure air may receive heat from the heat pump during a heating mode and may liberate heat to the evaporator during a cooling/dehumidification mode. The heat exchange system may employ a heat pump having a reversing valve to change the mode of operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2021
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Inventors: Richard A. Gordon, Swapnil Kumar, Marc Adolf Ernst Plinke, Christian Lee Houpe
  • Publication number: 20220400626
    Abstract: A plant cultivation apparatus is proposed. The plant cultivation apparatus of the present disclosure has a lighting module that is provided above a bed in a cabinet, and the lighting module includes a light source part including a plurality of light sources, a lighting case in which the light source part is provided, and a lighting cover coupled to the lighting case and covering the light source part. The lighting module is removably mounted to the cabinet in a removable manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Inventors: Yong Ki JUNG, Tae Yang LEE
  • Publication number: 20220400627
    Abstract: The present invention provides an intelligent cultivating system, which is used for monitoring and identifying a current cultivating status of a cultivating creature, and includes a processing center, a remote monitoring system and a harvesting system. The processing center is used for providing a cultivating regulation and controlling process for monitoring and identifying a current cultivating status. The remote monitoring system is used for regulating and controlling an automatic cultivating parameter of the cultivating regulation and controlling process. The harvesting system is used for preparing a dispatching process to the cultivating creatures, and used for collecting the automatic cultivating parameter of the cultivating regulation and controlling process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2021
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Inventors: Wan-Zhou YU, Ting-Yu CHEN, Hsuan-Chung HUANG, Shun-Qing ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20220400628
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an advancement in a system primarily designed to he used for the cultivation of saprophytic mushrooms. It provides the basic necessities of mushroom growth, including fresh air exchange, humidity, light, and warmth. It also monitors environmental variables, including at least humidity and temperature, and other variables related to the system, such as water reservoir level. It transmits this information wirelessly via either Bluetooth or WIFI antennas, to an external system for recording and/or monitoring. The information from the sensors may also he used to form a closed feedback loop to control output of the systems controlling the environmental conditions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2021
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Inventor: Nicholas Scott Reimnitz
  • Publication number: 20220400629
    Abstract: A timber-working device has a frame, and a saw apparatus mounted to the frame. At least one pair of arms are pivotally attached to the frame and configured to be controlled to grasp at least one tree stem. A feed mechanism is configured to feed the at least one stem relative to the frame. The feed mechanism has opposing feed arms, each feed arm pivotally connected to the frame. Each feed arm has a pivot pin arrangement with a first pivot pin and a second pivot pin, where the first pivot pin and the second pivot pin are aligned along a common longitudinal axis. An air gap is provided between the between the first pivot pin and the second pivot pin along the common longitudinal axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2022
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Inventor: Douglas Craig SWINYARD
  • Publication number: 20220400630
    Abstract: Methods, platform and receptacles, such as a composting and retail platform facilitating multipurpose use of receptacles, characterized in that the platform manages cat litter sales, uses multipurpose receptacles for shipping of cat litter, for composting, and for an additional use when filled and readied for composting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2022
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Inventors: Lukas Coleman, Brian R. Coleman
  • Publication number: 20220400631
    Abstract: An irrigation management system is disclosed and positionable in-line with an irrigation pipe for monitoring and controlling a flow of fluid therethrough. In at least one embodiment, the system provides an inlet pipe and an opposing outlet pipe in serial fluid communication with the irrigation pipe. At least one fluid control valve is in serial fluid communication between the inlet pipe and outlet pipe for selectively controlling the flow of fluid therebetween. The fluid control valve provides a main valve and a hydraulic actuator for selectively moving the main valve between open and closed positions. The hydraulic actuator is also in serial fluid communication between a pair of actuator valves for moving the hydraulic actuator between open and closed positions. The system also provides at least one sample collection tank configured for temporarily storing a volume of fluid diverted from the irrigation pipe in order to be tested.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2022
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Applicant: M8 Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Max Safai, Herbert Lawson Fisher
  • Publication number: 20220400632
    Abstract: The present invention provides a system and method for calculating the water flow rates applied by corner arm sprinklers. According to a first embodiment, the present invention provides a system and method for controlling and balancing the flow rates of corner arm sprinklers to provide targeted discrete, controlled uniform and non-uniform water distribution rates across a given field.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2022
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Applicant: Valmont Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark A. Moeller, Tracy A. Thatcher
  • Publication number: 20220400633
    Abstract: An irrigation management system is disclosed and positionable in-line with an irrigation pipe for monitoring and controlling a flow of fluid therethrough. In at least one embodiment, the system provides an inlet pipe and an opposing outlet pipe in serial fluid communication with the irrigation pipe. At least one fluid control valve is in serial fluid communication between the inlet pipe and outlet pipe for selectively controlling the flow of fluid therebetween. The fluid control valve provides a main valve and a hydraulic actuator for selectively moving the main valve between open and closed positions. The hydraulic actuator is also in serial fluid communication between a pair of actuator valves for moving the hydraulic actuator between open and closed positions. The system also provides at least one sample collection tank configured for temporarily storing a volume of fluid diverted from the irrigation pipe in order to be tested.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2022
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Applicant: M8 Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Max Safai, Herbert Lawson Fisher
  • Publication number: 20220400634
    Abstract: A system for autonomous monitoring and/or optimization of plant (140) growth is provided. The system may include actuation devices configured to interact with an agricultural area (120), image sensors (130) configured to capture images (170) of a plant (140) in the agricultural area (120), and a processor (150) in communication with the image sensors (130) and the actuation devices. The processor (150) may be configured to store, via a memory (160), a first image (170) of the agricultural area (120) captured prior to a first actuation of the actuation devices; and trigger, synchronously with the first actuation, the image sensors (130) to capture a second image (180) of the agricultural area (120).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2020
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Inventors: Mathan Kumar GOPAL SAMY, Peter DEIXLER, Tharakesavulu VANGALAPAT, Jaehan KOH
  • Publication number: 20220400635
    Abstract: This invention discloses a modular aeroponics assembly. The assembly comprises base section and a planter section atop the base section. The planter section comprises modular drawers which hold planter pods. The base section comprises a reservoir configured to hold water and nutrients. A plurality of full complete modular drawer assemblies are stacked one top the other to form a single rack assembly. A plurality of such single rack assemblies are stacked side by side to form a multi-rack assembly. Planter pods, which hold plants, are aligned along an axis which is angularly displaced, operatively outwards, about a vertical axis. Noise dampeners are provided just adjacent to each corresponding planter pod. Use of incline geometry, in conjunction with noise dampeners, substantially eliminates noise, wastage, and inefficiencies caused due to water falling upon water and/or water hitting solid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2022
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Inventor: Mathew Robert Howe
  • Publication number: 20220400636
    Abstract: The present invention includes an apparatus configured for aquaculture, and more specifically for kelp growth and kelp farming. The apparatus includes a vertical central mast connected to horizontal buoyancy bars that are also connected to six vertical vertex struts surrounding the central mast. Buoyancy bars further connect adjacent vertex struts, such that the top profile of the apparatus is a hexagon. The apparatus is able to be connected to and share elements of other similar apparatuses, allowing for ease of aggregation of the apparatuses for scalable farming. The central mast is optionally configured to integrate a wind turbine, which is optionally able to power water pumps in the six vertex struts, which serve to transport water upward around the apparatus for more efficient carbon sequestration by the apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2022
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Applicant: Taerra Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Michael Halvorson
  • Publication number: 20220400637
    Abstract: The invention provides novel systems and methods for liquid-mediated delivery of pollen to a female reproductive part of a recipient plant. The systems provided herein include a container configured to receive a liquid pollen suspension solution, and an applicator attached to the container configured to spray the liquid pollen suspension solution onto the recipient plant. The methods provided herein include spraying a liquid pollen suspension solution onto at least a first female reproductive part of a recipient plant using the system provided herein, thereby pollinating the recipient plant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2022
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Inventors: Eric L. Borrowman, David A. Morgenstern
  • Publication number: 20220400638
    Abstract: Corn plants exhibiting broad-spectrum resistance to Exserohilum turcicum are provided, together with methods of producing, identifying, or selecting plants or germplasm with a Exserohilum turcicum resistance phenotype. Such plants include sweet corn plants as well as agronomically elite dent corn plants comprising introgressed genomic regions conferring disease resistance. Compositions, including novel polymorphic markers and methods for producing, breeding, identifying, and selecting plants or germplasm with a disease resistance phenotype are further provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2022
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Inventors: Jonathan Tyler Eckard, David Elon Fisher, Tim J. Gustafson
  • Publication number: 20220400639
    Abstract: New lettuce variety designated ‘E01G.11092’ is described. ‘E01G.11092’ is a lettuce variety exhibiting stability and uniformity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2022
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Applicant: Enza Zaden Beheer B.V.
    Inventor: Johannes Simon Petrus NANNES
  • Publication number: 20220400640
    Abstract: A soybean cultivar designated 4826006 is disclosed. Embodiments include the seeds of soybean 4826006, the plants of soybean 4826006, to plant parts of soybean 4826006, and methods for producing a soybean plant produced by crossing soybean 4826006 with itself or with another soybean variety. Embodiments include methods for producing a soybean plant containing in its genetic material one or more genes or transgenes and the transgenic soybean plants and plant parts produced by those methods. Embodiments also relate to soybean cultivars, breeding cultivars, plant parts, and cells derived from soybean 4826006, methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines or plant parts derived from soybean 4826006, and the soybean plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. Embodiments further include hybrid soybean seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing 4826006 with another soybean cultivar.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2022
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Applicant: Benson Hill Seeds, Inc.
    Inventor: Pedro Gonzalez-Portilla
  • Publication number: 20220400641
    Abstract: A soybean cultivar designated 4826007 is disclosed. Embodiments include the seeds of soybean 4826007, the plants of soybean 4826007, to plant parts of soybean 4826007, and methods for producing a soybean plant produced by crossing soybean 4826007 with itself or with another soybean variety. Embodiments include methods for producing a soybean plant containing in its genetic material one or more genes or transgenes and the transgenic soybean plants and plant parts produced by those methods. Embodiments also relate to soybean cultivars, breeding cultivars, plant parts, and cells derived from soybean 4826007, methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines or plant parts derived from soybean 4826007, and the soybean plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. Embodiments further include hybrid soybean seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing 4826007 with another soybean cultivar.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2022
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Applicant: Benson Hill Seeds, Inc.
    Inventor: Pedro Gonzalez-Portilla
  • Publication number: 20220400642
    Abstract: A novel hybrid tomato plant, designated HM 12595 is disclosed. The disclosure relates to the seeds of hybrid tomato designated HM 12595, to the plants and plant parts of hybrid tomato designated HM 12595, and to methods for producing a tomato plant by crossing the hybrid tomato HM 12595 with itself or another tomato plant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2021
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Inventor: Marcio PAIS de ARRUDA