Fish Incubator Or Hatching Tray Patents (Class 119/218)
  • Patent number: 8899183
    Abstract: A chilled fog incubator using ultrasonic disruption of water to maintain metabolite transfer for developing salomonid eggs, the incubator includes an incubation space, an air chamber, a sonication chamber, a control box having a pump, a chiller, a reservoir partition, a control switch panel, wheels, and specimen trays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Inventors: Tod A. Jones, Roger Warren
  • Publication number: 20140331938
    Abstract: A chilled fog incubator using ultrasonic disruption of water to maintain metabolite transfer for developing salomonid eggs, the incubator includes an incubation space, an air chamber, a sonication chamber, a control box having a pump, a chiller, a reservoir partition, a control switch panel, wheels, and specimen trays.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2013
    Publication date: November 13, 2014
    Inventors: Tod A. Jones, Roger Warren
  • Patent number: 8430061
    Abstract: It is an object of the invention to provide a method and an apparatus for processing a very large number of fish eggs for gene injection and so on with a superior performance. An egg case has an egg-arranging plate and a cover plate. The fish eggs are dropped into concave portions of the egg-arranging plate, when the cover plate opens the concave portions. The cover plates closes the concave portions after fish eggs are accommodated in the concave portions. The egg case is fixed on a table of an egg-arranging apparatus. water is supplied on the egg-arranging plate in the egg plate. A scanning nozzle sprays water on upper surface of the egg-arranging plate. After closing the concave portions with the cover plate, the egg case is inclined for dropping fish eggs remaining on the cover plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2013
    Assignee: Hashimoto Electronic Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yutaka Tamaru, Hideo Miyake, Masatoshi Hashimoto, Masaru Obata
  • Patent number: 8327803
    Abstract: It is an object of the invention to provide a method for processing a very large number of fish eggs for gene injection and so on, which employs a simple system with high performance and a reasonable construction expense. It is another object to provide the method having an water tank apparatus capable of producing a large number of fish eggs continuously. A large number of water tank groups having an independent drainage passage each is lighted up in turn with a predetermined interval. An egg-collecting case with a net bottom is set in the drainage passage connecting to the water tank group to which the lighting is started. The water tank group consists of a plurality of tank unit accommodating fishes each. Each book-shaped tank unit has a rectangular-shaped upper portion and a cone-shaped lower portion. Rotating water stream is formed in each tank unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Hashimoto Electronic Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yutaka Tamaru, Hideo Miyake, Masatoshi Hashimoto, Masaru Obata, Ryuji Uchida
  • Publication number: 20120097111
    Abstract: It is an object of the invention to provide a method and an apparatus for processing a very large number of fish eggs for gene injection and so on with a superior performance. An egg case has an egg-arranging plate and a cover plate. The fish eggs are dropped into concave portions of the egg-arranging plate, when the cover plate opens the concave portions. The cover plates closes the concave portions after fish eggs are accommodated in the concave portions. The egg case is fixed on a table of an egg-arranging apparatus. water is supplied on the egg-arranging plate in the egg plate. A scanning nozzle sprays water on upper surface of the egg-arranging plate. After closing the concave portions with the cover plate, the egg case is inclined for dropping fish eggs remaining on the cover plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2010
    Publication date: April 26, 2012
    Inventors: Yutaka TAMARU, Hideo Miyake, Masatoshi Hashimoto, Masaru Obata
  • Publication number: 20110180009
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a device for incubating fish and other test specimens and a farming process for fish and other animals, both of which use an innovative concept for creating a microgravity environment on earth as a way to increase the efficiency of farming/development of fish and other animals in different stages of development.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2009
    Publication date: July 28, 2011
    Inventors: Dario Francisco Giumaraes de Azevedo, Thais Russomano
  • Publication number: 20110174230
    Abstract: A fertilized eggs collection apparatus for injecting genes, which is superior in safety and productivity. It is realized by simple structure. Fertilized eggs are collected from drainage with the fertilized egg in a water tank. The collection is synchronized for starting of illumination to the water tank. A probability that that feces included in the water is mixed in the collected fertilized eggs can hereby be reduced. Water including the fertilized eggs is accumulated on a fertilized-egg-holding-plate. The fertilized-egg-holding-plate has each concave portion holding one fertilized egg each. Water in the concave portions is drained from a through-hole. The fertilized-egg-holding-plate is accommodated in a case having a bottom plate portion. The case keeps water for the fertilized eggs. A shutter plate capable of sliding is disposed on the fertilized-egg-holding-plate. The shutter plate prevents that the fertilized eggs jump out from the concave portions of the fertilized-egg-holding-plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2009
    Publication date: July 21, 2011
    Applicant: HASHIMOTO ELECTRONIC INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yutaka Tamaru, Hideo Miyake, Shinichi Akiyama, Masaru Obata, Tsuneaki Ueta
  • Publication number: 20110132271
    Abstract: A method for the mass production of fish belonging to the order of Cypriniforms, notably to the family of Cobitidae, from spawners which are raised in closed circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2008
    Publication date: June 9, 2011
    Applicant: INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DEVELOPPEMENT (I.R.D
    Inventors: Jacques Slembrouck, Marc Legendre, Laurent Pouyaud, Darti Satyani, Ketut Sugama
  • Patent number: 7624703
    Abstract: A method for reducing ammonia concentration in an aqueous medium caused by the presence of fish gill/urine discharge, fish faeces and uneaten organic fish-feed particulate matter in recirculating aquaculture tanks. Fish in fish tank water are remotely located or partially isolated from the fish tank water utilized by the sono-molecular-conversion apparatus. Transient cavitation-created, collapsing microsized bubbles generated in the fishless portion of the fish tank water completes ammonia nitrification, mineralization and denitrification therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2009
    Inventor: Robert Edward Vago
  • Publication number: 20080216757
    Abstract: A breeding tank comprising at least two dish-like breeding tubs each having a breeding space and each having a tub bottom and an opening surrounded by a periphery of a top of each of the dish-like breeding tubs, the tub bottoms of all the dish-like breeding tubs are arranged in a mutually vertically stacking mode, and the opening of each lower dish-like breeding tub is larger than that of its-upper dish-like breeding tub, all the dish-like breeding tubs are made of transparent material except the lowermost dish-like breeding tub. The present invention thus can make multiple vertically stacking breeding spaces in a limited space for breeding aquatic animals such as fishes, shrimps and crustacea etc.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2007
    Publication date: September 11, 2008
    Inventor: Kuo-Tang Tseng
  • Patent number: 5894936
    Abstract: A drum separator for separating brine shrimp eggs from a slurry containing an agglomeration of adult brine shrimp, brine shrimp eggs and debris includes a fluid source to maintain a slurry. The fluid source may be an internal spray jet disposed to spray against the slurry inside the drum for breaking up the agglomeration of adult brine shrimp, brine shrimp eggs and debris so that the brine shrimp eggs may pass through openings formed in the drum. An external spray jet is disposed to spray against the exterior surface of the drum for cleaning the adult brine shrimp and debris out of the openings in the drum. The internal spray jet is preferably an elongated pipe having a plurality of openings and is disposed inside the rotating drum. The external spray jet is preferably an elongated pipe with a plurality of openings and is disposed along the exterior of the rotating drum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 1997
    Date of Patent: April 20, 1999
    Assignee: Sanders Brine Shrimp Company, Inc,
    Inventors: Larry Sanders, David Kuehn
  • Patent number: 5791290
    Abstract: An incubator (10) comprising a cylindrical tank (11) with a bottom wall (12) and a side wall (13). The tank is provided with a clean or regenerated water supply system (17), a waste water discharge system (18), a device (19) for altering the gas level to avoid supersaturation of gas in the water, a larva feed dispenser (20) and a device (21) for skimming the water surface. The tank further includes a member (22) arranged at the bottom of the tank for generating water currents therein, and a strainer (23) for preventing the larvae from entering the discharge system (18). The current generating member (22) comprises blades located beneath the supply system (17).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 1995
    Date of Patent: August 11, 1998
    Assignee: Percitech S.A.
    Inventor: Olivier Mueller
  • Patent number: 5713303
    Abstract: A fish-cage incubator has a light source for attracting zooplankton therein a mesh barrier that admits zooplankton and excludes predators of fish larvae.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 1995
    Date of Patent: February 3, 1998
    Inventors: Michael D. Willinsky, John E. Huguenin
  • Patent number: 5293838
    Abstract: A method for incubating eggs or larvae of fish, crustaceans, or related organisms. The eggs or larvae are located in depressions in the surface of a plate formed of an aqueous polymeric gel, and the surface is sealingly covered with a porous membrane capable of gas transport therethrough. The plate sealed with the membrane is placed in at least intermittent contact with water during the incubation period, and the eggs or larvae are separated from the plate and membrane after incubation is complete.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 1991
    Date of Patent: March 15, 1994
    Inventors: Leif Jorgensen, Hans Grasdalen