KR102218231B1 - Insects breeding device - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention includes a main body having a grid-shaped frame unit as a breeding space for insects, an input/output part for inputting and outputting insect breeding control set values, a storage part for storing insect breeding environment information in the main body, and in the main body. A sensor unit that detects changes in the insect breeding environment, a moisture supply unit that supplies moisture to the main body, a food supply unit that supplies food to the insects, a heating unit that supplies heat to the main body, and harmful gases in the main body. When the user's control set value is provided from the gas discharge unit to discharge, the negative ion generator to supply negative ions to the main body and the input/output unit, the insect breeding environment information received from the data storage unit is used through the communication unit. Thus, it is possible to create an optimal environment for mass rearing insects by including a control unit for automatically controlling the breeding environment creation device.

Description

Insect breeding device {INSECTS BREEDING DEVICE}

The present invention relates to an insect breeding apparatus for creating an optimal breeding environment by automatically controlling a biological environment and a non-biological environment for breeding insects.

As is well known, mass-rearing of insects by workers aims to obtain optimal productivity by artificially imparting biological and non-biological environmental requirements for growing insects.

Biological environmental requirements can include breeding density, cognate predation (official) phenomenon, etc., and proper breeding density must be maintained and cognate predation phenomena must be prevented, and non-biological environmental requirements include adequate light, light conditions, temperature, humidity, ventilation, etc. The amount of food may be included, and there is one that optimizes and maintains these various conditions.

Recently, a pair of crickets (scientific name: Gryllus bimabulatus) were imported from Japan by domestic pet lovers in Korea, and farmhouses bred as pet food, and became popular as food for amphibians, reptiles, and fish. It is used as a material for industrial insects such as gooseberries.

In addition, as the interest in industrial insects increases, the paired glans, which can be used for food, medicinal purposes, and feed for livestock, is drawing attention. The reason is that twin crickets are capable of breeding in all seasons if the temperature is right without going through the wintering period, and their protein content is over 62% and has the advantages of group breeding in breeding barrels, so they are insects that can be actively used for industrialization in the future.

Accordingly, farmhouses, etc., have started breeding with facilities for mass breeding of pairwise crickets, but feed and moisture are supplied directly to the bowl, the amount of light is managed as a whole rather than in the breeding box, and the temperature is also managed as a whole. Existing methods, such as using an egg plate or the like as a partition wall, are difficult to meet the biological and non-biological environmental requirements.

For example, the optimum temperature for the growth of twin crickets is 35 degrees Celsius and the lethal temperature is 40 degrees Celsius or higher, but it is very difficult to overcome the lethality while maintaining a temperature difference of 5 degrees Celsius with the conventional method, and the operator is also 35 degrees Celsius. It is very difficult to work for a long time in a closed space of the province.

As described above, the conventional method requires a lot of knowledge and labor for breeding, and due to a poor working environment, there is a difficulty in mass breeding of pairwise crickets.

1. Korean Patent Registration No. 10-1677274-0000 (registered on November 21, 2016) 2. Korean Patent Publication No. 10-2015-0116001 (published on October 15, 2015)

An object of the present invention is to provide an insect breeding apparatus for creating an optimized environment for mass breeding of insects by satisfying the biological and non-biological environments in the insect breeding space.

In addition, the present invention is to provide an insect breeding apparatus capable of reducing the breeding density of insects to an appropriate value and overcoming the phenomenon of cognate predation by having a grid-shaped frame structure.

In addition, the present invention is provided with a moisture supply unit, food supply unit, heating unit, gas discharge unit, anion generation unit, thereby improving the working environment of the worker, saving energy, and insect breeding apparatus capable of providing an optimal non-biological environment for insects. Want to provide.

The objects of the embodiments of the present invention are not limited to the above-mentioned objects, and other objects not mentioned will be clearly understood by those of ordinary skill in the technical field to which the present invention belongs from the following description. .

According to an embodiment of the present invention, a main body having a grid-shaped frame unit as a breeding space for insects, an input/output part for inputting and outputting an insect breeding control setting value, and storing insect breeding environment information in the main body A storage unit, a sensor unit that detects a change in an insect breeding environment in the main body, a moisture supply unit that supplies moisture to the main body, a food supply unit that supplies food to the insects, and supplies heat to the main body. A heating unit, a gas discharge unit for discharging harmful gas in the main body, an anion generating unit for supplying negative ions to the main unit, and the communication unit when the user's control set value is provided from the input/output unit Through the use of the insect breeding environment information received from the data storage unit may provide an insect breeding device including a control unit for automatically controlling the breeding environment creation device.

In addition, according to an embodiment of the present invention, according to claim 1, wherein the frame unit in the form of a grid can provide an insect breeding apparatus in which a partition wall is coupled to an outer surface of the tubular support member around a tubular support member. .

In addition, according to an embodiment of the present invention, according to claim 2, the frame unit may provide an insect breeding apparatus in which a moving hole in which some surfaces of the partition wall and the cylindrical support member are perforated is formed.

In addition, according to an embodiment of the present invention, according to claim 2, wherein the frame unit may provide an insect breeding apparatus including a cloth, but using a hygroscopic material.

In addition, according to an embodiment of the present invention, according to claim 1, wherein the heating unit may provide an insect breeding apparatus including a carbon planar heating element using a heating element.

The present invention can provide an insect breeding apparatus capable of creating an optimal environment for mass breeding of insects.

In addition, the present invention provides a grid-shaped frame unit in the breeding space, thereby reducing the degree of concentration of insects and preventing predation caused by competition among insect cohorts, thereby reducing the mortality rate of insects, thereby increasing productivity of breeding work. have.

In addition, the present invention is provided with a water supply unit, a food supply unit, a heating unit, a gas discharge unit, an anion generating unit, thereby reducing the amount of manual work by the operator, automatically controlling the supply of moisture and food, and optimal for the operator's work. Since the temperature and the optimum temperature for breeding insects can be set respectively, the efficiency of the breeding operation can be increased.

1 is a block diagram illustrating an insect breeding apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.
2 is a diagram illustrating an insect breeding apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.
3 is a view for explaining a water supply unit and a food supply unit according to an embodiment of the present invention.
4 is a diagram for describing a frame unit according to an embodiment of the present invention.
5 is a view illustrating a comparison between an insect breeding device and a conventional device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Advantages and features of the embodiments of the present invention, and a method of achieving them will become apparent with reference to the embodiments described later in detail together with the accompanying drawings. However, the present invention is not limited to the embodiments disclosed below, but may be implemented in a variety of different forms, and only these embodiments make the disclosure of the present invention complete, and are common knowledge in the technical field to which the present invention pertains. It is provided to completely inform the scope of the invention to those who have, and the invention is only defined by the scope of the claims. The same reference numerals refer to the same components throughout the specification.

In describing the embodiments of the present invention, if it is determined that a detailed description of a known function or configuration may unnecessarily obscure the subject matter of the present invention, a detailed description thereof will be omitted. In addition, terms to be described later are terms defined in consideration of functions in an embodiment of the present invention, which may vary according to the intention or custom of users or operators. Therefore, the definition should be made based on the contents throughout this specification.

Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

1 is a block diagram illustrating an insect breeding apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a view illustrating an insect breeding apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 3 is It is a view for explaining the water supply unit and the food supply unit, Figure 4 is a view for explaining a frame unit according to an embodiment of the present invention, Figure 5 is a comparison of the insect breeding apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention and a conventional device It is a figure explaining below.

1 and 2, the insect breeding apparatus 1 according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a main body 10, an input/output unit 20, a control unit 30, a storage unit 40, and a sensor unit 50. ), a water supply unit 60, a food supply unit 70, a heating unit 80, a gas discharge unit 90, an anion generating unit 100, and the like.

The main body 10 may be provided with a grid-shaped frame unit 11 as a breeding space for insects, and the frame unit 11 has a structure in which a partition wall 11a and a cylindrical support member 11b are combined. The frame unit 11 may have a partition wall 11a attached in all directions to the outer surface of the cylindrical support member 11b around the cylindrical support member 11b, and as such, the frame unit 11 is a combined other frame It can be combined with the unit 11 continuously. In addition, the frame units 11 that are successively coupled may be stacked up and down and disposed.

In addition, since the moving hole 11c is formed on one surface of the partition wall 11a and the cylindrical support member 11b, insects can freely move through the moving hole 11c, and the partition wall 11a, the cylindrical support member 11b The surface of) may be formed as a rough rough surface, so that insects can freely move to the top or bottom through the surfaces of the partition wall 11a and the cylindrical support member 11b.

The reason why the frame unit 11 as described above is provided in the main body 10 is that insects have the property of gathering toward stimuli such as food, light or moisture, so even if insects are reared in an open space, food, Depending on the location and amount of light or moisture, the degree of variation in the degree of insects gathered per unit breeding space (i.e., breeding density) can be very large, and insects gathered in dense spaces have relationships such as competition or exclusion. This is because growth may be inhibited or death may occur.

As described above, when the frame unit 11 is provided in the main body 10, the insects are reared in the lattice space of each of the frame units 11, so that the insect breeding density can be lowered, thereby increasing the growth rate and survival rate of the breeding insects. I can.

The input/output unit 20 is responsible for input and output of insect breeding control set values including a touch screen, etc., and a set value for controlling temperature, humidity, illuminance, etc. in the main body 10, the amount of insects stored or shipped , Access management information, etc. can be input and output.

When the insect breeding control set value is provided from the input/output unit 20, the control unit 30 includes a water supply unit 60, a food supply unit 70, a heating unit 80, a gas discharge unit 90, an anion generating unit ( 100), etc. can be automatically controlled, and changes in humidity, amount of food, and temperature detected through the sensor unit 50 are compared with the insect breeding control set value to calculate a deviation and correct the deviation, and the moisture supply unit By controlling 60, the food supply unit 70, the heating unit 80, the gas discharge unit 90, the negative ion generating unit 100, etc., an optimal environment for breeding insects can be created.

The storage unit 40 stores insect breeding environment information (e.g., temperature of the main body 10, humidity of the main body 10, the amount of food supplied, the amount of writing insects, etc.) (For example, when the set temperature of the main body 10, the set humidity of the main body 10, the amount of food to be supplied, the amount of insects received) is input, the previously stored insect breeding environment information is provided to the control unit 30 can do.

The sensor unit 50 can detect an increase or decrease in the amount of supply and discharge of the moisture supply unit 60, the food supply unit 70, the heating unit 80, the gas discharge unit 90, and the negative ion generation unit 100. have. In particular, the sensor unit 50 for detecting the amount of moisture supplied may be attached to the upper end of the moisture supply unit 60 to detect the amount of moisture supplied or remaining in a manner that measures the resistance of moisture absorbed by the hygroscopic material. In addition, the sensor unit 50 for detecting the amount of food may be attached to the end of the food supply unit 70 to detect the amount of food by measuring the weight of the food.

The moisture supply unit 60 is positioned on the side of the frame unit 11 to continuously supply moisture to insects, and may include a hygroscopic material having good hygroscopicity such as cloth. Water is supplied to the upper end of the moisture supply unit 60 through a tube connected to the upper portion of the moisture supply unit 60, and the supplied water is absorbed by the hygroscopic material and then transferred to the lower end of the moisture supply unit 60 through a capillary phenomenon. The hygroscopic material that absorbs water can slowly emit moisture and supply moisture to insects. In addition, each moisture supply unit 60 is alternately disposed between each frame unit 11, so that moisture can be efficiently supplied to insects.

In general, when moisture is supplied by the conventional method of directly supplying moisture to a bowl, etc., the young medicinal insects are attached to the water droplets and cannot fall due to the tension of the water molecules acting on the water droplet interface of the supplied water and drown by suffocation. can do. On the other hand, when moisture is supplied by using a hygroscopic material with good hygroscopicity, moisture is not formed in the form of water droplets, etc., but is retained in the hygroscopic material and evaporates slowly and can emanate, so there is no risk of drowning from young worms to adult insects. It can be continuously hydrated.

In addition, since moisture can be checked and supplied at all times by using the sensor unit 50 for detecting moisture, the working time can be reduced to 1/6 compared to a conventional method in which an operator directly supplies moisture.

The food supply unit 70 is a device capable of automatically supplying food with one touch of a worker, and conventionally, the worker directly checks the amount of food and supplies the food by placing it in a bowl. The existing method is a work that requires the most labor in breeding insects, and space utilization is also limited because it must secure a path for workers to move.

However, the feed supply unit 70 is a method in which food is added while the tubular container moves through the rail, and since a certain amount can be automatically supplied at a predetermined time through the control unit 30, the labor force can be greatly reduced. In addition, since the food supply unit 70 is located between the moisture supply units 60, there is no need to secure a separate space, so space utilization can be improved.

In the case of automatically supplying food using the food supply unit 70, the working time can be reduced to 1/8 compared to the conventional method.

The heating unit 80 is a device that supplies heat to the workplace and maintains a constant temperature. In the past, heat is supplied using a heater, but the conventional method using a heater consumes a lot of unnecessary energy and maintains a constant temperature. It is difficult for the operator to manually check the temperature. In addition, since the temperature of the workplace and the temperature of the breeding box are kept the same, it is difficult for a worker to work for a long time in an environment of 30 degrees Celsius or higher.

On the other hand, when a carbon planar heating element is used as the heating element as in the present invention, heat can be uniformly supplied and the reaction waste is less than that of the conventional heating method, so it is not only environmentally friendly, but also excellent in reproducibility, and manufacturing cost is reduced. I can. Through a temperature sensor that may be provided in the carbon surface heating element, it is possible to maintain a temperature at which insects can be optimally reared, from 33 degrees Celsius to 37 degrees Celsius.

In addition, since the heating unit 80 is disposed in the body unit 10, not the entire workplace, heat is supplied only to the space where insects grow, thus reducing heat loss compared to the conventional method in which the workplace and the breeding box are not separated. And the work environment of the worker can be improved.

The gas discharge unit 90 may discharge harmful gases such as methane gas that may be generated during the vegetation process of insects, or ozone gas that may be generated while the negative ion generator 100 is driven. In addition, it may be formed of a wire mesh or the like having a fine size to prevent the discharge of insects through the gas discharge unit 90, and through the control unit 30 when harmful gas is detected by the sensor unit 50 The gas discharge unit 90 may be driven.

The negative ion generating unit 100 is a device that neutralizes or purifies the toxicity of contaminated cations in the air by supplying negative ions to the workplace, and can remove odors that may occur due to the excrement of insects in the workplace and reduce bacteria. . In the process of combining the generated negative ions with polluted particles in the air, ozone may inevitably be generated, and ozone generated continuously may adversely affect the vegetation of insects. Accordingly, the anion generating unit 100 is located at the upper end of the body unit 10, so that the anion combined with the cation and the ozone gas generated by the anion generating unit 100 are discharged to the outside by the gas discharge unit 90 Can be.

5, the insect breeding apparatus 1 according to the embodiment of the present invention can be described in comparison with the existing apparatus based on a certain condition (for example, in the case of harvesting 6 boxes per day based on 50 pyeong). have.

In the case of supplying food, the existing device may take about 4 hours as the worker puts it directly in the bowl, but the insect breeding device 1 is the work time required by automatically feeding the food to the feed supply unit 70 with one touch. Can be saved in about 30 minutes.

In the case of supplying moisture, the existing device may take about 6 hours by spraying a spray directly on the bowl, but the insect breeding device 1 automatically detects and supplies residual moisture from the sensor unit 50. Separately, the operator does not require time.

In the case of controlling light and temperature, the existing devices collectively control the entire workplace, so a large loss of light and heat may occur, but the insect breeding device 1 controls individual devices, thereby losing light and heat. Can be significantly reduced.

Regarding the bulkhead as a breeding space for insects, the existing device uses egg plates as a breeding space, so when separating insects from the breeding space, there is a hassle of separating insects by shaking each egg plate, etc. , When the frame unit 11 is used as a breeding space, when vibration is applied to the frame unit 11, the vibration is transmitted to the entire frame unit 11, so that insects can be easily separated from the breeding space, thus significantly reducing the working time. Can be reduced.

In the above description, various embodiments of the present invention have been presented and described, but the present invention is not necessarily limited thereto, and those of ordinary skill in the art to which the present invention pertains, within the scope of the technical spirit of the present invention. It will be easy to see that branch substitutions, modifications and changes are possible.

1: Insect breeding device
10: main body
11: frame unit
20: input/output unit
30: control unit
40: storage
50: sensor unit
60: moisture supply unit
70: feeding part
80: heating part
90: gas discharge unit
100: negative ion generator

Claims (5)

A body portion having a grid-shaped frame unit as a breeding space for insects,
An input/output unit for inputting and outputting the insect breeding control set value,
A storage unit for storing information about the environment for breeding insects in the body unit,
A sensor unit that detects a change in an insect breeding environment in the body unit,
A moisture supply unit for supplying moisture to the main body;
A food supply unit for supplying food to the insect,
A heating part supplying heat to the main body,
A gas discharge unit for discharging harmful gas in the body unit,
An anion generator for supplying anion to the main body;
When a control set value is provided from the input/output unit, a control unit for automatically controlling the breeding environment creation device using the insect breeding environment information received from the storage unit through a communication unit,
The grid-shaped frame unit,
Insect breeding apparatus in which the partition wall is coupled to the outer surface of the cylindrical support member with the center of the cylindrical support member.
delete The method of claim 1,
The frame unit,
Insect breeding apparatus in which a moving hole in which a part of the partition wall and the cylindrical support member is perforated is formed.
The method of claim 3,
The frame unit,
Insect breeding device using a hygroscopic material but including a cloth.
The method of claim 4,
The heating part,
Insect breeding device using a heating element, but including a carbon surface heating element.

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