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公开(公告)号:US20220053712A1
公开(公告)日:2022-02-24
申请号:US17517916
申请日:2021-11-03
发明人: Gary Bret Millar , Mark Gerald Stott , Todd Garrett Tueller , Michael Stephen Hurst , Alan Ray Bentley , Taylor John Woodbury
摘要: A controller for an air supplier of an assembly line grow pod is provided. The controller identifies a plant on one or more carts; determines an airflow rate based on an airflow recipe for the identified plant; controls an air supplier to output air through one or more outlet vents at the airflow rate; obtains an image of the plant; identifies a type of contaminants deposited directly on the plant based on the obtained image; and adjusts a power of the air output from the air supplier to remove the contaminants from the plant by the air based on the identified type of contaminants deposited directly on the plant.
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公开(公告)号:US20200154647A1
公开(公告)日:2020-05-21
申请号:US16774386
申请日:2020-01-28
发明人: Gary Bret Millar , Mark Gerald Stott , Todd Garrett Tueller , Michael Stephen Hurst , Alan Ray Bentley , Taylor John Woodbury
摘要: A control system includes a shell including an enclosed area, one or more carts moving on a track within the enclosed area, an air supplier within the enclosed area, one or more vents connected to the air supplier and configured to output air within the enclosed area, and a controller. The controller is configured to: identify a plant on the one or more carts; determine a humidity recipe for the identified plant; control the air output from the one or more vents based on the humidity recipe for the identified plant; receive an image of the plant the in one or more carts captured by the imaging sensor; and update the humidity recipe for the plant based on the captured image of the plant.
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公开(公告)号:US10421618B2
公开(公告)日:2019-09-24
申请号:US15926746
申请日:2018-03-20
发明人: Gary Bret Millar , Mark Gerald Stott , Todd Garrett Tueller , Michael Stephen Hurst , Alan Ray Bentley , Taylor John Woodbury
摘要: Embodiments disclosed herein generally relate to systems and methods for emptying and/or cleaning a tray within in an assembly line grow pod. In one embodiment, a sanitizer component for cleaning a tray coupled to a cart in an assembly line grow pod is disclosed. The sanitizer component is coupled to a track such that the cart and the tray are received in the sanitizer component via the track. The sanitizer component comprises a first actuator arm positioned underneath the track and extendable through an opening in the track and an aperture at a bottom end of the cart to contact the tray such that the tray rotates in a first direction. The sanitizer component further includes an actuator motor coupled to the first actuator arm for extending the first actuator arm and a controller. The controller is communicatively connected to the actuator motor in the sanitizer component.
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公开(公告)号:US20180359970A1
公开(公告)日:2018-12-20
申请号:US15986128
申请日:2018-05-22
发明人: Gary Bret Millar , Mark Gerald Stott , Todd Garrett Tueller , Michael Stephen Hurst , Alan Ray Bentley , Taylor John Woodbury
摘要: Disclosed herein are bed seed holders and assembly line grow pods incorporating bed seed holders for growing plants. According to some embodiments, a bed seed holder includes a body having an elevation envelope, at least one seed receptacle extending into the body, where the seed receptacle is adapted to maintain a fluid within the seed receptacle, and a spigot that is adapted to maintain a level of the fluid within the body below the elevation envelope.
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公开(公告)号:US20180359947A1
公开(公告)日:2018-12-20
申请号:US15970048
申请日:2018-05-03
发明人: Gary Bret Millar , Mark Gerald Stott , Todd Garrett Tueller , Michael Stephen Hurst , Alan Ray Bentley , Taylor John Woodbury
IPC分类号: A01G9/24
CPC分类号: A01G9/24 , A01G9/1423 , A01G9/143 , A01G9/246 , A01G31/042 , A01G31/06
摘要: A temperature control system includes a shell including an enclosed area, one or more carts moving on a track within the enclosed area, an air supplier within the enclosed area, one or more vents connected to the air supplier and configured to output air within the enclosed area, and a controller. The controller includes one or more processors, one or more memory modules, and machine readable instructions stored in the one or more memory modules that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the controller to: identify a plant on the one or more carts, determine a temperature recipe for the identified plant, and control a temperature of the air output from the one or more vents based on the temperature recipe for the identified plant.
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公开(公告)号:US20200170195A1
公开(公告)日:2020-06-04
申请号:US16782566
申请日:2020-02-05
发明人: Gary Bret Millar , Mark Gerald Stott , Todd Garrett Tueller , Michael Stephen Hurst , Alan Ray Bentley , Taylor John Woodbury , Shane York
IPC分类号: A01G9/14 , B61L23/34 , G05D1/00 , B60L5/04 , B61L15/00 , G05B19/418 , B61B13/02 , G05B19/042
摘要: A cart having a wheel and a cart-computing device communicatively coupled to the wheel, where the cart-computing device receives an electrical signal via the wheel. The electrical signal comprises a communication signal and electrical power. The communication signal corresponds to one or more instructions for controlling an operation of the cart and the electrical power of the electrical signal powers the cart-computing device.
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公开(公告)号:US10602676B2
公开(公告)日:2020-03-31
申请号:US15934436
申请日:2018-03-23
发明人: Gary Bret Millar , Mark Gerald Stott , Todd Garrett Tueller , Michael Stephen Hurst , Alan Ray Bentley , Taylor John Woodbury , Shane York
IPC分类号: A01G9/14 , B61L23/34 , G05D1/00 , B60L5/04 , B61L15/00 , G05B19/418 , B61B13/02 , G05B19/042 , B61B13/00 , A01G31/04
摘要: A cart having a wheel, a drive motor coupled to the wheel such that an output of the drive motor causes the wheel to rotate and propel the cart, a cart-computing device communicatively coupled to the drive motor; and one or more sensors communicatively coupled to the cart-computing device, the one or more sensors generating one or more signals in response to a detected event. The cart-computing device receives a communication signal and electrical power via the wheel. The communication signal corresponds to one or more instructions for controlling an operation of the cart. The cart-computing device receives the one or more signals from the one or more sensors. The cart-computing device generates and transmits a control signal to the drive motor to cause the drive motor to operate based on at least one of the one or more signals generated by the one or more sensors or the communication signal.
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公开(公告)号:US20200039755A1
公开(公告)日:2020-02-06
申请号:US16545606
申请日:2019-08-20
发明人: Gary Bret Millar , Mark Gerald Stott , Todd Garrett Tueller , Michael Stephen Hurst , Alan Ray Bentley , Taylor John Woodbury
摘要: Embodiments disclosed herein generally relate to systems and methods for emptying and/or cleaning a tray within in an assembly line grow pod. In one embodiment, a sanitizer component for cleaning a tray coupled to a cart in an assembly line grow pod is disclosed. The sanitizer component is coupled to a track such that the cart and the tray are received in the sanitizer component via the track. The sanitizer component comprises a first actuator arm positioned underneath the track and extendable through an opening in the track and an aperture at a bottom end of the cart to contact the tray such that the tray rotates in a first direction. The sanitizer component further includes an actuator motor coupled to the first actuator arm for extending the first actuator arm and a controller. The controller is communicatively connected to the actuator motor in the sanitizer component.
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公开(公告)号:US20180359976A1
公开(公告)日:2018-12-20
申请号:US15996100
申请日:2018-06-01
发明人: Gary Bret Millar , Mark Gerald Stott , Todd Garrett Tueller , Michael Stephen Hurst , Alan Ray Bentley , Taylor John Woodbury , Kevin Hurst
摘要: Systems and methods for providing an assembly line grow pod are provided. One embodiment of a grow pod includes an exterior enclosure that defines an environmentally enclosed volume, a track that that is shaped into a plurality of helical structures defining a path, and a cart that receives a plant and traverses the track. Some embodiments include a sensor for determining output of the plant, a plurality of environmental affecters that alter an environment of the environmentally enclosed volume to alter the output of the plant, and a pod computing device that stores a grow recipe that, when executed by a processor of the pod computing device, actuates at least one of the plurality of environmental affecters. In some embodiments, the grow recipe alters a planned actuation of the at least one of the plurality of environmental affecters in response to data from the sensor indicating a current output of the plant.
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公开(公告)号:US20180359939A1
公开(公告)日:2018-12-20
申请号:US15985119
申请日:2018-05-21
IPC分类号: A01G9/08 , A01G9/24 , G01G19/42 , G01G11/04 , G01G19/415
摘要: An assembly line grow pod includes a seeding region, a harvesting region, a track that extends between the seeding region and the harvesting region, a cart including a tray for holding plant matter, and a wheel coupled to the tray, where the wheel is engaged with the track, and a weight sensor positioned on the cart or the track, where the weight sensor is positioned to detect a weight of the plant matter positioned within the cart.
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