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公开(公告)号：WO2020027916A1
公开(公告)日：2020-02-06
申请号：PCT/US2019/035951
申请日：2019-06-07
申请人： MJNN, LLC
发明人： KLEIN, Brice , MATERA, Matthew , DUBEL, Andy , JENKINS, Merritt , HASOON, Tamara , MALONE, Maria , OLSON, Anna , CUSON, Mark
IPC分类号： A01G31/06
摘要： A tower opening apparatus is provided that is configured to simplify the opening of a multi-piece, hinged, hydroponic tower. The hydroponic tower opening apparatus utilizes a collection of static and continuously moving components (e.g., motor driven drive rollers, alignment rollers, stationary wedges, longitudinal ramps, etc.) to open a hydroponic tower as it passes through the apparatus. In particular, as the tower is driven through the opening apparatus, the fastener(s) holding the face plate(s) to the tower body is released by a wedge(s). After the fastener(s) is released, the face plate(s) is partially rotated about the tower body, thereby partially opening the tower cavity(s). Next a longitudinal ramp(s) continues to rotate the face plate(s) relative to the tower body, moving the face plate(s) to a fully open position.
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公开(公告)号：WO2019168668A1
公开(公告)日：2019-09-06
申请号：PCT/US2019/017719
申请日：2019-02-12
申请人： MJNN, LLC
摘要： A multi-piece hydroponic tower is provided which utilizes separate tower body and face plate components that are hingeably coupled together, thereby simplifying tower construction as well as tower maintenance. In addition to the hinge, the tower face plate(s) is held in place with a latch, e.g., a snap-fit fastener. A V-shaped groove may be included on either side of the tower, the grooves increasing the efficiency of delivering water and nutrients to the plants via the narrowed rear cavity wall(s). The V-shaped grooves may also be used as an alignment aid when coupling planters, harvesters, or other equipment to the tower.
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公开(公告)号：WO2022099251A1
公开(公告)日：2022-05-12
申请号：PCT/US2021/072176
申请日：2021-11-02
申请人： MJNN LLC
发明人： STOREY, Nathaniel R.
摘要： Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for controlling a ratio of carbon dioxide to oxygen in a grow space by removing O2 from the grow space, and, in some cases, adding supplemental CO2 to the grow space to achieve a desired ratio of CO2 to O2. Various approaches include filtering out oxygen or reacting O2 with a reactant to produce O2-reduced air; and removing air from the grow space, removing nitrogen from the removed air, and (a) separating out CO2 and returning the nitrogen and the CO2 to the grow space, or (b) adding supplemental CO2 and the nitrogen to the grow space. Another approach removes air from the grow space, separates out gasses including N2 and CO2, and returns the N2 or the CO2 to the grow space.
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公开(公告)号：WO2021055257A1
公开(公告)日：2021-03-25
申请号：PCT/US2020/050593
申请日：2020-09-12
申请人： MJNN LLC
发明人： COFFIN, Gage Goodspeed , FLYNN, Michael Peter , KALAYJIAN, Nicholas , SCHOEN, Alan Colbrie , JAMES, Andrew Keith , SANKARAN, Arvind , LE ROUX, Alexandre , HENDEL, Nadav Sahar , OLSON, Anna , HAMILTON, Michael Bennett , ST. GEORGE, Theodore Howe , PILORIN, Loren Raymond
摘要： Facility layouts and configurations for an automated crop production system for controlled environment agriculture. In particular implementations, the core of the facility comprises a controlled growth environment and a central processing system. The controlled growth environment includes systems for exposing crops housed in modules, such as grow towers, to controlled environmental conditions. The central processing system may include various stations and functionality both for preparing crop-bearing modules to be inserted in the controlled growth environment, for harvesting crops from the crop-bearing modules after they have been extracted from the controlled growth environment, and for cleaning or washing crop-bearing modules for re-use. The controlled growth environment may include vertical farming structure having vertical grow towers and associated conveyance mechanisms for moving the vertical grow towers along one or more grow lines. The conveyance mechanisms may include a return transfer mechanism that creates a return or u-shaped path for each grow line.
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公开(公告)号：WO2021055001A1
公开(公告)日：2021-03-25
申请号：PCT/US2020/015921
申请日：2020-01-30
申请人： MJNN LLC
发明人： ASPERGER, Luke , JENKINS, Merritt Jonathan , FLYNN, Michael Peter , OLSON, Anna , MURRAY, Kellen , DUBEL, Andrew , MATERA, Matthew James , KARR, Charles Dylan , CUSON, Mark
摘要： A drive unit in a controlled agricultural environment increases a distance between an alignment element and a drive element in order to receive a plant support structure that is oriented non-vertically so that the plant support structure rests on the drive element or the alignment element. The drive unit decreases the distance between the alignment element and the drive element so that the alignment element or the drive element rests on the plant support structure. The drive element conveys the plant support structure along a direction of conveyance.
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公开(公告)号：WO2020076735A1
公开(公告)日：2020-04-16
申请号：PCT/US2019/055064
申请日：2019-10-07
申请人： MJNN LLC
发明人： THOMAS, Yara , PERO, Joshua John Mark , FITZGERALD, Meaghan , STOREY, Nathaniel R. , GRAUBERGER, Kevin Duane , SCHOEN, Alan Colbrie , FLYNN, Michael Peter
IPC分类号： A01G9/24
摘要： Systems, methods and computer-readable media are provided for controlling environmental conditions to control latent and sensible loads in a plant grow chamber. The density of plant receptacles in the grow chamber is such that, when plants are held in the plurality of plant receptacles, evapotranspiration contributes to the latent load so that the latent load exceeds a sensible load, resulting in evapotranspirative cooling. This shift in the energy balance allows for greater energy savings, as compared with conventional indoor farms that focus on removing heat from the growth environment. Environmental conditions may be controlled to achieved desired conditions, such as the optimum ratio of harvest weight yield to energy consumption under given constraints.
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7.发明申请
公开(公告)号：WO2021262732A1
公开(公告)日：2021-12-30
申请号：PCT/US2021/038504
申请日：2021-06-22
申请人： MJNN LLC
IPC分类号： A01G31/04 , A01G31/06 , A01G31/042
摘要： A crop production system (100) for a controlled plant growing environment is provided. A subassembly comprises a guide portion that includes passive guides (104, 504, 904, 1004) radiating outward from a central portion (102, 502, 520, 911). Each passive guide may be separated from two adjacent passive guides by respective angles. Each passive guide has a first end proximal to the central portion and a second end distal to the central portion. Each passive guide is configured to guide plant growth modules (210). The plant growth modules are movable between the first end and the second end of each passive guide. An active guide (406, 907, 1007) causes the plant growth modules to travel in a first direction along the passive guides as the active guide is moved.
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公开(公告)号：WO2021067430A2
公开(公告)日：2021-04-08
申请号：PCT/US2020/053536
申请日：2020-09-30
申请人： MJNN, LLC
IPC分类号： A01G9/02
摘要： The present disclosure relates to apparatus for growing plants. More specifically, apparatus described herein relate to an inverted controlled irrigation grow pot (100). In one embodiment, a plant pot includes a multi-walled tube which defines a plurality of volumes therein to facilitate inverted growth of a plant while accounting for the geotropic nature of root proliferation. Embodiments of the disclosure also provide for controlled irrigation of a plant grown in an inverted orientation. Further embodiments of the disclosure provide for plant propagation systems which include multiple plant pots. In certain embodiments, load cells (802,1002,1101,1102,1202) are incorporated in to the systems to enable detection and measurement of plant pot weights.
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公开(公告)号：WO2021055444A1
公开(公告)日：2021-03-25
申请号：PCT/US2020/051030
申请日：2020-09-16
申请人： MJNN LLC
发明人： DUBEL, Andrew , SCHOEN, Alan Colbrie , ANSEL, Aldo , MILITELLO-HOURIGAN, Ryan Edward , SCIOG, Robert Chester , MACLELLAN, Allison Marie
摘要： Systems, methods and computer-readable media are provided for entering a fail safe mode for a controlled agricultural environment (CAE). The CAE includes movable receptacle supports for holding plants. In response to determining a fault condition in the CAE or in environmental conditioning equipment for the CAE, operation of the CAE or the environmental conditioning equipment is controlled to effect a change from a standard operating mode to a fail safe mode. The standard operating mode corresponds to desired environmental conditions in the CAE and the fail safe mode corresponds to non-ideal environmental conditions.
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公开(公告)号：WO2019168669A1
公开(公告)日：2019-09-06
申请号：PCT/US2019/017720
申请日：2019-02-12
申请人： MJNN, LLC
发明人： KLEIN, Brice , IBRAHIM, Alex , MATERA, Matthew
摘要： A plant plug holder is provided which is designed to be inserted within a cut-out in a hydroponic tower. The plant plug holder includes (i) an edge member that encircles the holder's opening and which may be sealed to the front tower surface; (ii) a base member configured to support the plant plug and which extends rearward from the edge member and into the central cavity of the tower; (iii) a rear shroud top member that inhibits leakage as well as plug erosion; (iv) a pair of side members that maintain the position of the plant plug within the plug holder; and (v) a plurality of open regions configured to promote water drainage from the top surface of the base member.
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