WO2012104789A1 - Pot de culture de plantes et cartouches pour celui-ci - Google Patents

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WO2012104789A1
WO2012104789A1 PCT/IB2012/050457 IB2012050457W WO2012104789A1 WO 2012104789 A1 WO2012104789 A1 WO 2012104789A1 IB 2012050457 W IB2012050457 W IB 2012050457W WO 2012104789 A1 WO2012104789 A1 WO 2012104789A1
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Mattias LEPP
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A01—AGRICULTURE; FORESTRY; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; HUNTING; TRAPPING; FISHING
    • A01G—HORTICULTURE; CULTIVATION OF VEGETABLES, FLOWERS, RICE, FRUIT, VINES, HOPS OR SEAWEED; FORESTRY; WATERING
    • A01G9/00—Cultivation in receptacles, forcing-frames or greenhouses; Edging for beds, lawn or the like
    • A01G9/02—Receptacles, e.g. flower-pots or boxes; Glasses for cultivating flowers
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A01—AGRICULTURE; FORESTRY; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; HUNTING; TRAPPING; FISHING
    • A01G—HORTICULTURE; CULTIVATION OF VEGETABLES, FLOWERS, RICE, FRUIT, VINES, HOPS OR SEAWEED; FORESTRY; WATERING
    • A01G27/00—Self-acting watering devices, e.g. for flower-pots
    • A01G27/008—Component parts, e.g. dispensing fittings, level indicators
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A01—AGRICULTURE; FORESTRY; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; HUNTING; TRAPPING; FISHING
    • A01G—HORTICULTURE; CULTIVATION OF VEGETABLES, FLOWERS, RICE, FRUIT, VINES, HOPS OR SEAWEED; FORESTRY; WATERING
    • A01G7/00—Botany in general

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  • the invention belongs among automatic plant growing devices and systems, in particular among plant growing pots suitable for home use (suitable for living spaces) where the growing conditions appropriate for the plant are adjusted automatically according to the plant in the plant growing pot.
  • a probe is known from US patent No 7400975, comprising a controller having a processor adapted to process the environmental data received from several sensors, and a communication module set up to send the environment data to a computer.
  • a probe enables finding plants suitable for growing, or possibilities for improving soil properties from a database, or recommendations for growing a particular plant are found from the database based on the soil properties.
  • a hydroponic or aeroponic horticultural device is known from US published patent application No US2008/0276534, comprising a vessel having a closed lower section for holding liquid, and a growing surface covering the vessel, whereas the growing surface has been adjusted to support at least one seed cartridge containing a seed or plant; a light source placed above the plant, and adjusted to light the seed cartridge; a measuring device located either in the vessel or near the vessel and adjusted to measure the water level; a controller connected to the measuring device, and a timer, whereas the controller has been adjusted to calculate the liquid consumption rate in the vessel, and perform at least one of the following functions: controlling the timing of the illumination cycle, adding nutrition in the liquid, and switching the nutritional adding indicator light.
  • a device and method for determining the state and condition of the potted plant, and notifying the owner is described in published patent application No WO2010/097689. The device does not include growing programs for maintaining of a particular plant.
  • the purpose of the invention is to provide a simple and universal plant growing pot suitable for home use (for using in a living space), comprising an exchangeable plant growing cartridge, and enabling different plants to be grown in the conditions most suitable for these particular plants, either completely or virtually without the user's intervention.
  • a plant growing pot comprising a nutritional liquid vessel, and a compartment for a plant growing cartridge, containing a removable plant growing cartridge.
  • the plant growing pot is equipped with an automatic control block, comprising an electronic control block, and having at least one sensor and at least one actuator for providing conditions necessary for growing a plant connected to it, e.g. sensors and actuators for determining and controlling water and nutritional content, and for specifying and controlling the light and temperature conditions.
  • the plant growing cartridge is equipped with a coding corresponding to the plant contained in it, for example with an identification code (ID code) stored on the plant growing cartridge, and read by the automatic control block of the plant growing device, or a plant growing instruction code.
  • ID code identification code
  • the plant growing pot and plant growing cartridge are depicted in Fig. 1 to Fig. 10, whereas the plant growing pot is depicted in Fig. 1 to Fig. 4, and the plant growing cartridge is depicted in Fig. 5 to Fig. 10.
  • Fig. 1 to Fig. 4 depict the plant growing pot.
  • the plant growing pot is equipped with a cover 5 that according to the embodiment depicted in Fig. 1 has been made of two parts.
  • the plant growing pot is equipped with a power supply compartment 6, pump 7, water pipe 8, with an automatic control block, comprising a control circuit on a printed circuit board 9, with sensors 10, and supporting ribs 11 and 12 for supporting the plant growing cartridge.
  • the sensor 10 is integrated with the printed circuit board 9, and is projecting into the interior of the plant growing cartridge 3 through the openings in the supporting rib 12.
  • the sensor 10 could be a resistance sensor determining the characteristics, and humidity in particular, of the growing environment present in the plant growing cartridge based on the resistance dependence.
  • the sensor could also be a dielectric sensor, determining the characteristics of the environment, e.g. humidity, based on the change of the dielectric characteristics of the environment.
  • the embodiment of the plant growing cartridge is depicted in Fig. 5 to Fig. 10.
  • the plant growing cartridge 4 comprises a body 13 holding a suitable growing substance (soil, soil substituent).
  • the growing substance may contain the seed (seeds), cutting, mycelium or spawn of a plant.
  • the plant growing cartridge is equipped with a cover 14 with openings 15 for the plants contained in it.
  • the cover of the plant growing cartridge helps to control and reduce evaporation of liquid from the plant growing cartridge.
  • a higher section 16 located above the supporting ribs 11 projects from the bottom of the plant growing cartridge.
  • the higher section includes air inlet openings 17.
  • Another higher section 18 with openings 19 for a sensor is also located at the bottom of the plant growing cartridge.
  • a depression for a chip 20 Under the bottom of the plant growing cartridge at the centre of it is located a depression for a chip 20.
  • a collar 21 with an opening 22 for water piping is located in the upper part of the body. The collar is also designed for fixing the position of the plant growing cartridge in the compartment for the plant growing cartridge.
  • the plant growing pot and plant growing cartridge depicted in Fig. 1 to Fig. 10 are used as follows.
  • the cover 5 is removed from the device.
  • the plant growing cartridge 4 is placed into the compartment 3 for the plant growing cartridge, and fixed in the correct position defined by the positions of the sensor and sensor openings, and the water pipe and water pipe opening.
  • the nutritional liquid vessel 2 is filled with water, a power supply is installed in the device, and the cover 5 is mounted.
  • the plant growing pot could also have any other shape besides the shape of a cuboid with rounded corners, e.g. the shape of a conventional flowerpot. Therefore, the plant growing cartridge itself preferably has the shape of a cylinder or another solid of revolution, to also enable installation in a flowerpot of conventional shape.
  • the power source is either an accumulator or a battery but a solar cell, mains power supply unit or another source could also be used as the power source.
  • the cartridge could be equipped with a power source, preferably an accumulator or a battery but also any other previously mentioned power source - in that case the plant growing pot does not require a separate power source compartment.
  • the plant growing pot could also comprise a nutritional adding system that could comprise a nutritional vessel connected to the water pipe 8 via a controlled valve and mixing valve, or directly to the plant growing cartridge through a separate pipe.
  • the nutrition is included in the plant growing cartridge.
  • the plant growing cartridge includes either soil or soil substitute (various soil substitutes are known from the state of the art).
  • the plant growing cartridge could be customised for a hydroponic or aeroponic growing system.
  • the plant growing pot is equipped with a sensor for determining the humidity and water level.
  • the plant growing pot could also be equipped with additional sensors, e.g. a pH sensor, temperature sensor, light sensor, etc.
  • the plant growing cartridge also comprises a valve 31 controlling the outflow of nutrition and water.
  • the plant growing pot could be equipped with a light source for providing illumination suitable for growing the plant.
  • the plant growing cartridge is equipped with an identification device corresponding to the seeds contained in it, that could be either mechanically, electronically or optically read by the plant growing pot.
  • the plant growing pot is equipped with a reading device appropriate for the type of the identification device.
  • the mechanically readable identification device could be a pair of a mechanically encoded matrix of the plant growing cartridge, and a switch matrix of the plant growing pot, whereas different matrices correspond to different seeds, and a code corresponding to the position of switches is entered in the automatic control block by pressing the matrix against the switch matrix of the plant growing pot.
  • a bar code could be used as the optically readable identification device.
  • the identification device is used to determine a growing program suitable for growing the plant.
  • the growing program could be stored in the electronic control block, or enable insertion in the electronic control block, e.g. via a computer network or data medium.
  • the growing program could be included in the identification device that could be a radio frequency identification chip (RFID chip).
  • RFID chip radio frequency identification chip
  • the memory capacity of a standard RFID chip is sufficient for storing a plant growing program (using an appropriate coding or encipherment method, if required). If the growing program is stored or can be stored in the electronic control block then the electronic control block has to comprise an appropriate storage device, and therefore the design of the plant growing vessel becomes more complicated and expensive. If, however, the plant growing program is stored on the identification device of the plant growing cartridge then the electronic control block could be implemented as a simple compact controller reading and fulfilling standard instructions stored on the identification device of the plant growing cartridge. In that case the plant growing vessel itself is cheap, whereas the cost and complicacy do not increase significantly.
  • the plant growing cartridge has the shape of an open-top cylinder having a bottom.
  • the plant growing cartridge could be made of plastics or waterproof cardboard or paper. Suitable materials are known in case of disposable drinking vessels.
  • Such a plant growing cartridge is produced using a sufficiently thin material penetrable by the electric field, enabling its usage along with the dielectric sensor installed on the walls of the compartment for the plant growing cartridge.
  • Optically, electrically, electromagnetically or magnetically readable coding is printed, painted or glued or attached using other suitable methods on such a plant growing cartridge.
  • a suitable growing environment e.g. soil, soil substituent or another material suitable for growing the plant is present in the plant growing cartridge. The nutrition required for growing the plant could be included in the plant growing cartridge.
  • the plant growing cartridge is a sack of suitable material, e.g. textile, containing the growing environment and seeds.
  • the coding is again either attached to this sack (e.g. a RFID chip attached to it) or printed on it.
  • the plant growing program ensures the conditions required for growing the plant by measuring the required parameters (humidity content, pH level, illumination level, temperature, etc.), and the water and nutritional supply, temperature and illumination intensity are controlled according to the measured parameters (or the user is notified using, e.g. a pilot light of insufficient or extensive illumination or temperature).
  • the device is fully automated according to the preferred version, ensuring conditions suitable for growing the plant without any intervention from the user
  • the device is implemented to instruct the user to perform actions appropriate for ensuring growing conditions for the plant (e.g. add water, add nutrition, change the temperature or illumination).
  • the device is equipped with appropriate indicator lights, information display or a device outputting sound signals (alarm signal, voice commands).
  • Such a device is first of all suitable for teaching children how to take care of and grow plants.
  • the device could also be equipped with communications devices for transferring the information related to plant growing over a communications network (e.g. WiFi network, Bluetooth or another communications channel) to the information processing device of the user, e.g. smart phone, computer, telephone or another device.
  • a communications network e.g. WiFi network, Bluetooth or another communications channel

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Abstract

L'invention porte sur un pot de culture de plantes qui comporte un récipient de liquide, comportant une fente pour une cartouche de culture de plantes, contenant de manière amovible une cartouche de culture de plantes. Le pot de culture de plantes est équipé d'un bloc de commande automatique, comportant un bloc de commande électronique, ainsi que des capteurs et des actionneurs pour fournir des conditions nécessaires à la culture d'une plante particulière. Pour chaque plante, la cartouche présente un codage correspondant à la plante particulière, par exemple un code d'identification (ID) identifiant la plante particulière, ou un code pour commander le fonctionnement du bloc de commande automatique.
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