JP2012147730A - Plant cultivation device for domestic use - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a plant cultivation device for domestic use of such an appropriate size as not to worry about the setting place in a general house.SOLUTION: Power distribution to a Peltier element 29 is controlled so that the temperature of air within a heat exchange chamber 11 is a prescribed temperature. By driving an air intake fan device 33, air within the heat exchange chamber 11 is sucked, and the sucked air, passing through an air feed pipe 31, is fed into spaces 23, 22 and 21 from a hole 31a. With this structure, the temperature within a cultivation chamber 12 is retained at a value suitable for the growth of herbs. The herbs P are photosynthesized with the light emitted from a light source 27, and grow. The herbs P are held by rock wool 37 as a plant holder, and as the rock wool 37 is soaked in a nutrient solution, the device cam be simplified as compared to genuine hydroponic culture, and therefore, the size of the device can be appropriate so as not to worry about the setting place in a general house.

Description

  The present invention relates to a household plant cultivation apparatus, and more particularly to a household plant cultivation apparatus of a size that can be provided in a general house.

In recent years, various plants such as vegetables have been cultivated actively at home, but there are cases where it is not possible to have a home garden due to housing circumstances, and depending on the type of plant, temperature management is required, and the veranda There are many things that are difficult to grow outdoors.
Therefore, there is a household plant cultivation apparatus described in Patent Document 1. This household plant cultivation device is a device for circulating a nutrient solution for hydroponics, a cooling unit, an artificial light source that can move up and down according to the growth of cultivated plants, a cooling unit, and hydroponics For example, it has a rectangular parallelepiped shape. And the size of this household plant cultivation apparatus is about width 940 mm x depth 500 mm x height 2100 mm.

JP 2010-154791 A

However, the above-mentioned conventional plant cultivation apparatus for household use is considerably large, and there is a problem that it is difficult to secure a place for a general house.
In addition, since only the cooling unit is equipped, it is not possible to cope with the case where the plant is to be heated, and in order to cope with this, it is necessary to provide a further heating unit. It will end up.
The present invention has been made paying attention to the above-mentioned conventional problems, and an object of the present invention is to provide a plant cultivation apparatus for households of an appropriate size that does not suffer from the place of installation even in ordinary houses.

  The present invention has been made to solve the above-mentioned problems, and the invention of claim 1 includes a box-shaped main body and a cultivation room comprising a plurality of divided spaces provided inside the main body and divided into multiple stages. , An opening formed in the front surface of the main body, an open / close door provided in the main body and operating in a state of closing and opening the opening, and a plurality of spaces in the cultivation room inside the main body. A container, a plant holder that can be planted in the container and can be impregnated with a nutrient solution, an artificial light source provided in the cultivation room, and a temperature adjusting means for adjusting the temperature of the cultivation room It is a plant cultivation apparatus for household use characterized by comprising.

  The invention according to claim 2 is the household plant cultivation apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the temperature adjusting means cools the air in the heat exchange chamber and a heat exchange chamber provided in the main body separately from the cultivation room or A plant cultivation apparatus for home use comprising cooling / heating means for heating and air reflux means for refluxing air between the heat exchange chamber and the cultivation room.

  According to a third aspect of the present invention, in the plant cultivation apparatus for home use according to the second aspect, the air recirculation means is configured to communicate the heat exchange chamber and each of the plurality of divided spaces, and the air in the heat exchange chamber. A plant cultivation apparatus for home use comprising a fan device for sending to a trachea, and an air return path for communicating the plurality of divided spaces and the heat exchange chamber.

  A fourth aspect of the present invention is the household plant cultivation apparatus according to the second or third aspect, wherein the cooling / heating means is constituted by a Peltier element provided in the heat exchange chamber. Plant cultivation equipment.

  A fifth aspect of the present invention is the household plant cultivation apparatus according to any one of the first to fourth aspects, wherein the plant holder is artificial soil or rock wool. .

  The plant cultivation apparatus for home use of the present invention can be set to an appropriate size that does not cause trouble in a general house.

It is a perspective view of the domestic plant cultivation apparatus concerning an embodiment of the invention. It is AA sectional drawing of FIG. It is BB sectional drawing of FIG. It is a perspective view for demonstrating the internal structure of the household plant cultivation apparatus of FIG. It is CC sectional drawing of FIG.

A household plant cultivation apparatus 1 according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.
Reference numeral 3 denotes a box-shaped main body. The main body 3 includes a bottom plate 4, a top plate 5, left and right side plates 7, 8 and a back plate 9, and a partition plate 10 is provided therein. The size of the main body 3 is about 700 mm wide × 450 mm deep × 1100 mm high.
A rectangular hole 10a is formed at substantially the center of the left end of the partition plate 10, and a triangular hole 10b is formed at the right back.

A heat exchange chamber 11 is provided between the partition plate 10 and the top plate 5, and a cultivation room 12 is provided between the bottom plate 4 and the partition plate 10. The heat exchange chamber 11 is closed by a front plate 16.
Support portions 13 and 14 are fixed to the left side wall (the inner surface of the left side plate 7) of the cultivation room 12, and the support portion 13 and the support portion 14 are provided with a space in the front-rear direction. Moreover, the support part 15 is being fixed to the right side wall (inner surface of the right side board 8) of the cultivation room 12, and it arrange | positions so that the support parts 13 and 14 and the support part 15 may mutually oppose and may become the same height position. Has been. Two sets of support parts 13, 14, and 15 are provided, and are arranged at intervals in the vertical direction.

  Reference numerals 17 and 19 denote mounting plates. The mounting plates 17 and 19 are substantially rectangular, and are set to have a width dimension and a depth dimension slightly smaller than the width dimension and the depth dimension of the cultivation room 12. A cutout 20 is formed in the center of the left end of the mounting plates 17 and 19, and the corner on the right back is removed (see FIG. 4).

  The mounting plates 17 and 19 are installed on the two sets of support portions 13, 14 and 15, respectively, and are provided in the cultivation room 12. As shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, the inside of the cultivation room 12 is 3 It is divided into two spaces 21, 22, and 23. That is, a space 21 between the upper surface of the bottom plate 4 of the main body 3 and the lower surface of the mounting plate 17 is formed, and a space 22 is formed between the upper surface of the mounting plate 17 and the lower surface of the mounting plate 19. A space 23 is formed between the upper surface of the mounting plate 19 and the lower surface of the partition plate 10 of the main body 3. Thus, the cultivation room 12 is provided in the inside of the main body 3, and is composed of spaces 21, 22, and 23 divided into multiple stages.

A notch 20 is formed at the center of the left end of the mounting plates 17, 19 with the mounting plates 17, 19 installed on the support portions 13, 14, 15. It faces the support part 14. Therefore, as shown in FIG. 4, a hole constituted by the notch 20 is formed between the left side wall (the inner surface of the left side plate 7) of the cultivation room 12 and the placement plates 17 and 19. Moreover, since it becomes the shape from which the corner | angular part of the back right of the mounting plates 17 and 19 was removed, the rear walls (inner surface of the backplate 9 side) of the mounting plates 17 and 19 and the cultivation room 12, the right side wall ( A triangular hole 25 is formed between the right side plate 8) and the right side plate 8).
The notch 20 faces the rectangular hole 10 a of the partition plate 10, and the triangular hole 25 faces the triangular hole 10 b of the partition plate 10.
An air return path is constituted by the notches 20 of the mounting plates 17 and 19 and the rectangular hole 10 a of the partition plate 10.

Reference numeral 27 denotes a light source body. The light source body 27 is disposed in each of the spaces 21, 22, and 23 and is attached to the rear wall (the inner surface on the back plate 9 side).
The heat exchange chamber 11 is provided with a Peltier element 29 as cooling / heating means. Further, the cultivation room 12 is provided with a temperature sensor 30, and this temperature sensor 30 is connected to a controller (not shown) that controls energization to the Peltier element 29.

Reference numeral 31 denotes an air supply pipe. The air supply pipe 31 has a triangular cylindrical shape, is inserted into the hole 10b of the partition plate 10 and the holes 25 of the mounting plates 17 and 19, protrudes into the heat exchange chamber 11, and the lower end portion is a space 21. I'm stuck in.
A large number of holes 31a are formed in the peripheral surface of the air supply pipe 31, and the air supply pipe 31 communicates with the spaces 21, 22, and 23 through the holes 31a. An intake fan device 33 is attached to the upper end portion of the air supply pipe 31, and the intake fan device 33 is provided in the heat exchange chamber 11.

The notch 20, the rectangular hole 10a, the air supply pipe 31, and the intake fan device 33 as the air return path constitute an air recirculation means.
The air recirculation means, the heat exchange chamber 11 and the Peltier element 29 as cooling / heating means constitute a temperature adjusting means.
An opening 34 is formed on the front surface of the main body 3, and the opening 34 faces the cultivation room 12. Further, the main body 3 is provided with a double door opening / closing door 35, and the opening / closing door 35 operates in a state where the opening 34 is closed and a state where the opening 34 is opened.

The code | symbol 36 shows the cultivation box as a container, and this cultivation box 36 is provided in the spaces 21, 22, and 23, respectively. The cultivation box 36 provided in the space 21 is placed on the bottom plate 4, and the cultivation box 36 provided in the spaces 22 and 23 is placed on the placement plates 17 and 19, respectively.
The cultivation box 36 contains rock wool 37 as a plant holder (see FIG. 5).

Next, the usage method of this household plant cultivation apparatus 1 is demonstrated.
For example, seeds of herbs are seeded on the rock wool 37 accommodated in the cultivation box 36, a nutrient solution is injected into the rock wool 37, the opening / closing door 35 is opened, and the cultivation box 36 is provided in the cultivation room 12 from the opening 34.
The three cultivation boxes 36 are placed on the bottom plate 4 and the placement plates 17 and 19, respectively.

The temperature sensor 30 detects the temperature in the cultivation room 12, and the detection result is transmitted to the controller, the energization to the Peltier element 29 is controlled, and the air in the heat exchange room 11 becomes a predetermined temperature. When the intake fan device 33 is driven, the air in the heat exchange chamber 11 is sucked, and the air passes through the air supply pipe 31 and is sent from the hole 31a to the spaces 23, 22, and 21. The air sent to each space 23, 22, 21 returns to the heat exchange chamber 11 through the notch 20 and the rectangular hole 10 a, reaches a predetermined temperature again, and then, as described above, the space 23, 22 and 21 are sent again. That is, air is circulated between the heat exchange chamber 11 and the cultivation room 12. Thereby, the temperature in the cultivation room 12 is maintained so that it may become a suitable value for growth of an herb.
Moreover, the herb P grows by photosynthesis by the light irradiated from the light source body 27.

  Thus, since the plant cultivation apparatus 1 for households hold | maintains the herb P with the rock wool 37 as a plant holding body, and the rock wool 37 is impregnated with the nutrient solution, compared with pure hydroponics. The apparatus can be simplified. Further, by using the Peltier element 29, it is possible to switch between cooling and heating, and cooling and heating can be performed with one apparatus. Therefore, the plant cultivation apparatus 1 for home use can be reduced in size, and a plant cultivation apparatus for household use having an appropriate size (width 700 mm × depth 450 mm × height 1100 mm) that does not cause trouble in a general house is provided. It becomes possible.

The embodiment of the present invention has been described in detail above. However, the specific configuration is not limited to this embodiment, and the present invention can be changed even if there is a design change without departing from the gist of the present invention. included.
For example, instead of rock wool, for example, artificial soil obtained by coating montmorillonite (bentonite) on peat moss may be used as the plant support.
Moreover, you may provide the nutrient solution supply apparatus which supplies a nutrient solution to the cultivation box 36 automatically.
In addition, the plant cultivated by the household plant cultivation apparatus of the present invention is not limited to the herbs described above, and may be other plants such as lettuce and wasabi.

  The household plant cultivation apparatus of the present invention can be used in the manufacturing industry of household plant cultivation apparatuses.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Home plant cultivation apparatus 3 ... Main body 4 ... Bottom plate 5 ... Top plate 7 ... Left side plate 8 ... Right side plate 9 ... Back plate 10 ... Partition plate 10a ... Rectangular hole 10b ... Triangular hole 11 ... Heat exchange chamber 12 ... cultivation room 13, 14, 15 ... support part 16 ... front plate 17, 19 ... mounting plate 20 ... notches 21, 22, 23 ... space 25 ... triangular hole 27 ... light source 29 ... Peltier element 31 ... air pipe 31a ... Air pipe hole 33 ... Intake fan device 34 ... Opening 35 ... Open / close door 36 ... Cultivation box 37 ... Rock wool Herb ... P

Claims (5)

  A box-shaped main body, a cultivation room composed of a plurality of divided spaces provided in the main body and divided into multiple stages, an opening formed in the front surface of the main body, and a state provided in the main body and closing the opening A door that operates in an open state, a container provided in each of a plurality of spaces in the cultivation room inside the main body, a plant that can be planted in the container and that can be impregnated with a nutrient solution A household plant cultivation apparatus comprising: a holding body; an artificial light source provided in the cultivation room; and temperature adjusting means for adjusting a temperature of the cultivation room.   2. The plant cultivation apparatus for home use according to claim 1, wherein the temperature adjusting means includes a heat exchange chamber provided inside the main body separately from the cultivation room, and cooling / heating for cooling or heating the air in the heat exchange room. A plant cultivation apparatus for home use, characterized by comprising means and air reflux means for refluxing air between the heat exchange chamber and the cultivation room.   In the plant cultivation apparatus for home use according to claim 2, the air recirculation means includes an air pipe that communicates the heat exchange chamber and each of the plurality of partitioned spaces, a fan device that sends air in the heat exchange chamber to the air pipe, A plant cultivation apparatus for home use comprising an air return path for communicating the plurality of partitioned spaces with the heat exchange chamber.   4. The household plant cultivation apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the cooling / heating means is constituted by a Peltier element provided in the heat exchange chamber.   5. The domestic plant cultivation apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the plant holder is artificial soil or rock wool.

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