JP2009034044A - Hydroponic panel - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a hydroponic panel intended for solving such problems wherein with a conventional type of hydroponic panels having holes different in size and interval are required according to a plant to be cultivated, so variations are required for hydroponic panels and a large space becomes necessary for storing panels, thereby increasing cost. <P>SOLUTION: This hydroponic panel is such that many planting small holes and planting big holes with an internal diameter bigger than that of the small hole are piercedly opened on a panel to be covered on an upper opening part of a hydroponic bed, while the small holes are piercedly opened in a few lines, and the big holes are piercedly opened on desired places between the small holes. The internal diameter of the big hole is large enough to pierce a water absorbing material bigger than the internal diameter of the small hole and drop down on the bottom of the bed, and the big hole has one kind size or at least two different kinds of sizes. The small holes are opened in a few lines on a place positioned above cultivation liquid paths of at least two lines divided on the bottom of the bed when covering the panel on the bed. The big holes are opened between the small holes and on a place positioned above the cultivation liquid paths. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a hydroponics panel (also referred to as a “lid”) that covers an upper surface opening of a hydroponics bed.

  The hydroponics panel that covers the hydroponics bed has a large number of holes for planting into which water-absorbing materials (usually urethane) on which plants are growing are inserted. There are various sizes of holes. Normally, when urethane with a larger outer diameter than the hole is inserted, it is locked in the middle of the hole and the lower end of the urethane protrudes below the back of the panel. The liquid is absorbed into the urethane from the lower end and supplied to the plant. Usually, the holes of one hydroponics panel are all the same size, and are opened in several rows at equal intervals.

  Conventional hydroponics panels need to use panels with different hole sizes and intervals according to the plant to be cultivated. For this reason, it is necessary to prepare several types of hydroponics panels with different hole sizes and intervals, and to select and use hydroponics panels according to the type of plant to be cultivated. For this reason, the number of types of hydroponics panels increases, and the storage of the panels takes space, and the hydroponics panels become expensive.

  This invention is providing the panel for hydroponics which can grow two or more types of plants from which size differs with one panel.

  The hydroponics panel of the present application has a large number of small holes for planting and a large hole for planting with an inner diameter larger than the small hole inner diameter through the panel that covers the top opening of the hydroponics bed. The small holes are opened through in several rows, the large holes are opened at desired locations between the small holes, and the inner diameter of the small holes is larger than the inner diameter of the small holes and drops to the bottom of the bed. The size is one type or two or more types. When the small holes are put on the bed, the small holes are opened in several rows at positions located above the two or more rows of cultivation liquid passages divided on the bottom of the bed, and the large holes are between the small holes, An opening was made at an upper position.

The hydroponics panel of the present application has the following effects.
(1) A small hole for planting in one panel and a large hole with a size that allows the water absorbing material to penetrate and fall to the bottom of the bed are opened. Since it was made into two or more types, two or more types of plants can be grown with one panel for hydroponics, and it is not necessary to exchange a panel every time the kind of plant to grow is changed. For this reason, the number of types of panels can be reduced, a large storage space is not required, and the cost of the panels is reduced.
(2) When the small hole and the large hole are put on the upper opening of the bed, the small hole and the large hole are opened at locations located above the cultivation liquid passage partitioned into two or more rows on the bottom surface of the bed. Even when the amount of flowing cultivation liquid is small and flows only in each cultivation liquid passage, it passes through the water absorbing material inserted into the small hole or the root protruding below the water absorbing material, or passes through the large hole. By using the water-absorbing material dropped onto the bottom of the bed, the cultivation liquid in the cultivation liquid passage can be reliably absorbed and supplied to the plant.

(Embodiment 1)
An example of an embodiment of the hydroponics panel of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. This hydroponics panel (hereinafter simply referred to as “panel”) 1 is, as shown in FIG. 1, an upper opening of a hydroponics bed (hereinafter simply referred to as “bed”) 2 for circulating the cultivation liquid. It covers the top of the part.

  The bed 2 is a container having an upper surface opening made of polystyrene foam, and side walls 3 are formed on both sides in the width direction, and receiving portions 4 on which the panel 1 is placed are formed on the inner surface of the side walls 3. Semicircular arc-shaped dividing ridges 6 are provided in parallel with the side wall 3 at three locations in the width direction of the bottom surface 5 to divide the bottom surface 5 into four rows to form four cultivation liquid passages 7.

  The panel 1 of the present invention is made of styrene foam, has a width that can be set between the receiving portions 4 of the both side walls 3 of the bed 2 so as to cover the upper surface opening of the bed 2, and has a small hole 11 for planting. Are arranged in a large number of rows, and large holes 12 for planting having a larger inner diameter than the small holes 11 are opened at desired positions between the small holes 11.

As shown in FIG. 2, the small holes 11 are regularly arranged at regular intervals vertically and horizontally. The number of rows, hole spacing, and hole diameter are selected according to the plant to be cultivated. The row spacing is set so that the small holes 11 are positioned on the cultivation liquid passage 7 on the bed bottom surface 5. The illustrated small hole 11 and large hole 12 are both circular, but may be square or other shapes. As shown in FIG. 3, the hole diameter of the small hole 11 is slightly smaller than the outer shape of the water absorbing material 14 during planting, and the water absorbing material 14 inserted therein can be locked in the middle. The root 15 protruding below the water absorbing material 14 is soaked in a cultivation liquid (not shown) in the bed 2 so that the cultivation liquid can be absorbed.
Here, the lower part of the water-absorbing material 14 is immersed in the cultivation liquid when the plant 13 planted mainly in the water-absorbing material 14 is still growing and the root 15 is not overhanging. As shown in FIGS. 1 and 3, each small hole 11 is opened at a position located above the cultivation liquid passage 7 when the panel 1 is placed on the upper surface of the bed 2, and the water absorbing material inserted into the small hole 11. The roots 15 projecting below the lower part 14 or below the water-absorbing material 14 are positioned in the cultivation liquid passage 7.

  The hole diameter of the large hole 12 is larger than the hole diameter of the small hole 11 as shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, and larger than the water absorbing material 14 having a size to be locked in the middle of the small hole 11 as shown in FIG. Then, the water absorbing material 14 of that size falls to the bottom surface 5 of the bed 2 as shown in FIG. The large holes 12 are opened through between the small holes 11 as shown in FIGS. In the panel 1 shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, three large holes 12 are opened in a horizontal row, and three large holes 12 in each row are arranged in two columns (columns in the length direction of the panel) of the small holes 11. They are opened at equal intervals in every other row and in a staggered arrangement in the vertical direction. By opening in this way, each large hole 12 is placed above the bed culture fluid passage 7 when placed on the bed 2 as shown in FIGS. The water-absorbing material 14 dropped on the bottom surface 5 is immersed in the cultivation liquid in the cultivation liquid passage 7. The size of the large hole 12 can be one type or two or more types.

  In order to cover the bed 2 with the panel 1 of the present invention and perform hydroponics, the panel 1 is placed on the bed 2 connected in the longitudinal direction at least two, and as shown in FIG. 11, the water absorbing material 14 on which the plant 13 grows is inserted and locked in the middle, and the cultivation liquid flowing in the bed 2 is absorbed by the root 15 projecting below the water absorbing material 14 or below the water absorbing material 14. Cultivate thirteen. When cultivating a plant that grows greatly, as shown in FIG. 4, the water absorbing material 14 on which the plant 13 grows is passed through the large hole 12 and dropped onto the bottom surface 5 of the bed 2. The flowing cultivation liquid is absorbed by the water absorbing material 14 to grow the plant 13. The small holes 11 and the large holes 12 can be cultivated separately or simultaneously. Since both the small hole 11 and the large hole 12 are opened at a position located above the cultivation liquid passage 7 when the panel 1 is put on the bed 2, any cultivation method can be used only in the cultivation liquid passage 7. The cultivation liquid that does not flow can be reliably absorbed and supplied to plants. A material other than urethane can be used as the water absorbing material 14 as long as it has water absorption.

(Other embodiments)
The basic configuration aspect of the hydroponics panel of the present invention is the one described in the first embodiment, but the thickness, material, shape, size, size of small holes and large holes, numerical aperture, arrangement, The shape and the like are not limited to those described above, and can be arbitrary. Therefore, for example, the small holes and the large holes are not limited to the circular shape described above, but are opened in a polygonal shape such as a quadrangle or a triangle, or the numerical apertures of the small holes and the large holes are increased or decreased from those described above. It can also be changed.

  The hydroponics panel of the present invention is not limited to a panel that covers the top opening of the hydroponics bed, and can also be applied as a planter or pot panel for plant cultivation.

The perspective explanatory view showing an example of the embodiment of the panel for hydroponics of the present invention. The top view which shows the panel for hydroponics of FIG. AA cross-sectional explanatory drawing of the panel for hydroponics of FIG. BB sectional explanatory drawing of the panel for hydroponics of FIG.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Hydroponics panel 2 Hydroponics bed 3 Side wall 4 Receiving part 5 Bottom face 6 Division convexity 7 Growing liquid passage 11 Small hole 12 Large hole 13 Plant 14 Water absorbing material 15 Root

Claims (2)

  A large number of small holes for planting and a large hole for planting with an inner diameter larger than the small hole inner diameter are through-opened on the panel that covers the top opening of the hydroponics bed, and the small holes are through-opened in several rows, The large holes are opened at desired locations between the small holes, and the inner diameter of the large holes is such that a water-absorbing material having a size larger than the inner diameter of the small holes penetrates and falls to the bottom of the bed. The panel for hydroponics characterized by being.   The hydroponics panel according to claim 1, wherein the small holes are opened in several rows at positions located above the two or more rows of cultivation liquid passages defined on the bottom surface of the bed when the panel is put on the bed. A hydroponics panel characterized by being opened between the small holes and above the cultivation liquid passage.

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