KR20140073045A - Vegetables growing apparatus of home electronic appliance type based on digital for growing vegetables - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a home electronic appliance type digital-based apparatus for cultivating plants, comprising: a plant culture chamber; a port holder fixed and stalled in the plant culture chamber and having a plurality of port insertion holes; a plant cultivation port held on the port holder, wherein the plant cultivation port is a container accommodating cultivation soil therein and having a plurality of drain holes formed in an external surface thereof; a drain induction box fixed and installed below the port holder and having a bottom surface slopingly formed; a culture liquid supply tank provided in the plant culture chamber and supplying water and a nutrient liquid; a drain water storage tank provided below the drain induction box in the plant culture chamber; a spry nozzle for receiving the water and the nutrient liquid from the culture liquid supply tank to spray the water and the nutrient liquid toward the plant cultivation port; an illumination lamp for applying light toward the plant cultivation port; an air circulation fan used for air circulation and temperature control in the plant cultivation chamber; and an application loaded control operator loading an application program which can confirm user setting and state for controlling operations of the illumination lamp and the air circulation fan, including the supply of the nutrient liquid through the spray nozzle, search plants to be cultivated, and check schedules of currently cultivated plants.

Description

TECHNICAL FIELD [0001] The present invention relates to a digital-based home-grown plant cultivation apparatus,

The present invention relates to a home appliance type planting apparatus having a digital base, and more particularly, to a planting apparatus capable of implementing a plant growing apparatus in a small-sized home appliance type that can be installed indoors, The present invention relates to a digital-based home-grown plant cultivation apparatus that enables the plant cultivation of a garden field concept, rather than a hydroponic plant cultivation method, to be able to pursue the usefulness of control and maintenance.

In recent years, there has been a growing interest in measures to secure food stability due to severe climate change, and thus the need for the introduction of plant cultivation equipment capable of artificially cultivating plants regardless of climate change has been raised and increased .

These plant cultivation apparatuses were introduced for the stable mass production of flowers and some special crops in the mid and late 1990s, mainly in the Netherlands and Japan, and since they represent the aspects such as the enlargement and the commercialization of the artificial cultivation methods, As shown in FIG. 1, it has been transformed into a building type or a building-integrated type.

However, in view of the recent consumer trend toward well-being, there is no expectation of absolute trust in the quality of plants produced and distributed in large-scale and industrialized plant factories, such as buildings or integrated buildings In fact.

In the meantime, as the age of well-being increases, the concern about the harmfulness of the pesticides remaining in the vegetables that we usually eat increases, and the desire to grow and consume the vegetables necessary for the dietary life in general households is increasing. It is very difficult to cultivate it directly.

In some households, hydroponic cultivation does not use pesticides harmful to the human body. In such a case, vegetables are directly grown in uncontaminated state. However, since only the culture medium is supplied to hydroponic plants, it is difficult to control and supply light or temperature required for plant growth. There was a limit in promoting the growth of plants, and there was a problem that it was difficult to efficiently grow hydroponics in a place where sunlight was insufficient.

In order to overcome this, in Korean Patent No. 10-1034513, there is disclosed a case in which a case, a water storage tank provided on an inner bottom surface of the case and storing a culture liquid, and a water storage tank disposed inside the case above the water storage tank, A plurality of cultivating plates formed on the upper portion of the plurality of shelving members and having a plurality of planting holes for hydroponic plants, and a plurality of cultivating plates arranged on the upper side of each of the plurality of cultivating plates, A plurality of illumination members provided in the respective cultivating plates and independently irradiating light to the hydroponic plants planted in each cultivating plate; an illumination control unit for controlling the intensity of light of each of the plurality of illumination members according to the characteristics of the hydroponic plants planted; A supply line is connected between the reservoir and the channel of the uppermost shelf member and the channel of each of the plurality of shelf members is connected to the connection pipe And a circulation pump connected between a water channel of the lowermost shelf member and the reservoir to circulate the culture liquid in the reservoir according to the driving of the circulation pump and a pump controller for controlling the driving of the circulation pump The present invention proposes a hydroponic cultivation apparatus capable of promoting the growth of hydroponic plants by providing an optimum environment suitable for the characteristics of hydroponic plants, and in particular, capable of efficiently cultivating various hydroponic plants.

On the other hand, Korean Patent Registration No. 20-0455827 proposes a household type plant grower which can be installed in an indoor living room or a kitchen in a separate household appliance form, and also uses an LED light source and a hydroponic cultivation technique, A plurality of culture trays slidably coupled to the frame and a guide rail of the frame, and a culture solution feeder, an LED light source, a pipe for supplying the culture solution pump and the culture solution, and a pipe connector and a casing for accommodating them .

The domestic hydroponic cultivation apparatus of the Korean Patent No. 10-1034513 and the domestic registered utility model 20-0455827 of the above-mentioned Korean Patent No. 10-1034513 have been applied to an analog-based technology in which an illumination including an LED is additionally provided in a general hydroponic culture system , It is possible to control the structure and environmental factors that can be installed in the home. However, the integrated management control of environmental factors such as temperature, moisture, light amount, carbon dioxide concentration, wind, And thus it is difficult to provide an optimized growth environment suited to the characteristics of the cultivated plant. Therefore, the production efficiency such as quality deterioration due to plant cultivation may be lowered, There may be difficulties due to the maintenance of The.

Disclosure of Invention Technical Problem [8] Accordingly, the present invention has been made to solve the above-mentioned problems of the prior art, and it is an object of the present invention to provide a plant cultivation apparatus capable of being installed in a small- It is an object of the present invention to provide a digital-based home-grown plant cultivation apparatus capable of cultivating a plant of a garden field rather than a hydroponic plant cultivation method by providing an integrated control management function so as to implement and customize an optimized growth environment.

The present invention provides a digital garden that can be installed in a small or medium sized home appliance type, enabling anyone to easily grow the plant in the indoor space in the home, and to seek user convenience, The present invention relates to a plant cultivation apparatus.

The present invention relates to a method for cultivating vegetables such as leafy vegetables mainly in a certain culture space in a plant culture chamber having a petri dish type body, And to provide a digital-based home-grown plant cultivation device capable of continuous cultivation of plants regardless of season or place, and capable of pursuing the usefulness of maintenance by plant cultivation It has its purpose.

According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a digital-based household type plant cultivation apparatus comprising: a plant culture chamber; A pot cradle fixedly installed in the plant culture chamber in a horizontal state and having a plurality of port insertion holes; And a plurality of drain holes are formed on an outer surface of the container to accommodate the cultivated soil therein. The plurality of drain holes are formed in the plant pot port ; A drain guide fixedly installed below the port rest and having a bottom surface inclined to facilitate drainage; A culture liquid supply tank provided in the plant culture chamber for supplying a culture liquid of water and nutrient solution; A drainage storage tank provided below the drainage inducing chamber in the plant culture chamber; A spray nozzle for spraying (spraying) the culture liquid of water and nutrient solution from the culture liquid supply tank to the plant growing port side in the form of water mist; An illumination lamp for illuminating the plant growing port side with light; An air circulation fan installed on the plant culture chamber and used for air circulation and temperature control in the plant culture chamber; It is installed on the plant culture chamber and enables user setting and status check for the operation control of the lighting lamp and air circulation fan including the supply of the culture liquid through the spray nozzle and the plant search for the cultivation and the schedule check An application loading control operation unit on which an application program is installed so that the application program can be loaded; And a control unit.

In this case, the application program installed in the application-mounted control operation unit is executed by an operating system which is one of an Android OS, an Apple iOS, and a Windows OS.

In addition, the plant culture chamber is characterized by a body structure in the form of a small-sized household appliance.

According to the present invention, since it can be installed in a home such as a home or a restaurant by being implemented as a small-sized home appliance type and can be operated in a digital garden based on a digital base, information about a plant cultivated through a user interface is acquired And can be customized and customized with optimized growth environment based on the information. Also, integrated control and management according to cultivation of plants can be performed more easily, and anyone can easily grow plants. Of course, can be achieved.

The present invention relates to a digital type household appliance type, and it is possible to pursue easiness of plant cultivation in an indoor space and it is possible to control and manage the environmental factor requirements such as temperature, moisture, light amount, carbon dioxide concentration, Regardless of the season or place, plants can be continuously grown indoors, and the usefulness of maintenance by plant cultivation can be sought.

The present invention provides a method of cultivating the concept of a garden field rather than a hydroponic cultivation method, and can promote the growth of the cultivated plant and improve the quality thereof, and it is possible to provide the usefulness that the user can directly search for and cultivate the plant as needed can do.

1 is a photograph showing a plant cultivation type in the form of a plant plant for mass production in the prior art.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION Field of the Invention [0001] The present invention relates to a plant-
3 is a front sectional view showing a digital-based household type plant cultivation apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.
4 is a side cross-sectional view of a digitally-based household type plant cultivation apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.
Fig. 5 is an exemplary view showing a plant cultivation port and a port rest in the present invention. Fig.
6A to 6E are diagrams for explaining an application loading control unit in a digital-based household type plant cultivation apparatus according to the present invention.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Hereinafter, preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings. The present invention will become more apparent from the following detailed description when taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings.

As shown in FIGS. 2 to 5, the digital-based household type plant cultivation apparatus 1 according to the embodiment of the present invention has a body in the form of a small-sized household electrical appliance, and a culture space for plant cultivation is provided inside A plant culture chamber (10); A port cradle 20 of a flat plate type fixedly installed in the plant culture chamber 10 in a horizontally arranged state and having a plurality of port insertion holes 21 formed therein; A plurality of drainage holes 31 are formed on the outer surface of the container, the plurality of drainage holes 31 being formed on the outer surface of the container, A plurality of arranged plant growing ports 30; A drain guiding box 40 fixedly installed below the port rest 20 and having a bottom surface inclined to facilitate drainage; A culture liquid supply tank 52 provided in the plant culture chamber 10 for supplying a culture liquid of water and / or nutrient solution; A drainage storage tank 54 provided below the drainage guiding box 40 in the plant culture chamber 10; A spray nozzle 62 for receiving a culture liquid of water and / or nutrient solution from the culture liquid supply tank 52 and spraying the liquid to the plant growing port 30 side; An illumination lamp (64) for irradiating light to the plant growing port (30) side; An air circulation fan (66) installed on the plant culture chamber (10) and used for air circulation and temperature control in the plant culture chamber (10); The user can set and check the status of the operation of the illumination lamp 64 and the air circulation fan 66, including the supply of the culture liquid through the spray nozzle 62, installed on the plant culture chamber 10, An application-mounted control operation unit 70 on which an application program is loaded so that the plant search and schedule check can be performed, such as information retrieval of plant environmental factor requirements and the like; .

The plant culture chamber 10 is provided with an opening and closing door 11 and can be provided with a transparent window 12 for visually checking the culture space and the cultivation state of the plant. May be provided.

The plant culture chamber 10 is preferably provided with a shape such as a refrigerator or a Kimchi refrigerator which is a small and medium sized household appliance that is in circulation in order to easily provide a beach and a design element in a room of a home or a restaurant, I can do it.

The plant growing pot 30 may be formed in various shapes including a cylindrical shape or a polygonal structure such as a square or hexagonal shape. This is because the cultivation soil for growing the plant is accommodated and the cultivated plant is roots and grows It is a habitat.

A drainage pipe (not shown) is formed at one side of the bottom surface of the drainage guiding box 40 and a filter net (not shown) is disposed on the drainage port of the drainage guiding box 40 to remove soil or debris from the water So that it can be filtered out.

The culture liquid stored in the culture liquid supply tank 52 is supplied to supply the culture liquid to the spray nozzle 62 side through the supply pump P1 and the connection hose (not shown), and is stored in the drainage storage tank 54 The drainage may be provided to the inflow treatment or immediate drainage to the culture solution supply tank 52 side through the drainage pump P2 and connection hose (not shown).

The culture solution stored in the culture solution supply tank 52 may be configured to be manually and / or automatically supplied.

At this time, although not shown, the water that can be stored in the culture-liquid supply tank 52 can be configured to be supplied by providing a branch pipe to a water pipe or a water purifier connecting pipe provided in the home.

It is preferable that a liquid level sensor (not shown) is provided in each of the culture liquid supply tank 52 and the drainage storage tank 54 so that automatic control of the supply of the culture liquid and the drainage treatment is performed.

The spray nozzle 62 is used to supply water and nutrients required for the growth of plants to grow in the plant growing pot 30 and to induce spray in the form of water mist. In addition, the spray nozzle 62 is mainly used for controlling the humidity In particular, since the vegetables such as leafy vegetables are grown mainly through spraying in the form of water mist, the plant's leaves are protected, and the photosynthesis action and respiration of the plants are more smoothly performed, So that it can be prevented.

At least one or more of the spray nozzles 62 may be provided, and the spray nozzles 62 may be configured to perform rotation control and direction control so as to perform uniform spraying on the entire area. By connecting an actuator such as a motor, 62 of the first embodiment.

The illumination lamp 64 may be an LED lamp, a fluorescent lamp, or the like, and is intended to induce the use and growth promotion of controlling the cultivation environment of the plant through light quantity control.

The air circulation fan 66 is provided for inducing air circulation in the plant culture chamber 10 so as to reduce the oxygen supply and the concentration of carbon dioxide and is used for controlling the temperature inside the plant culture chamber 10.

The application placement control operation unit 70 requires a program operation system for executing an application program for information display such as plant search and schedule check. An operating system, which is one of an Android OS, an Apple iOS, and a Windows OS, .

Here, the application for plant search and the like is referred to as plant-related-plant-related data for displaying information on various growth factors such as a suitable temperature, appropriate humidity and light quantity of the plant among various plant species, seasonal plants, .

As shown in FIGS. 6A to 6E, the application-mounted control operation unit 70 has a display screen of an LCD. The application-mounted control operation unit 70 controls and manages all the functions of the cultivated plant, displays the status, A user can perform a schedule check of a plant, etc., and it is a component for providing a digital garden and a user's convenience.

6A is a view showing one type of the main screen of the application installed in the control operation unit 70, FIG. 6B is a type showing the management status of the plant currently being cultivated, FIG. Parameter requirements, and the like, and it is possible to provide an advantage that a user can set and manage the optimal environmental factor requirements regarding the plant to be cultivated through the search information through the user interface, FIG. 6d shows a type of water cycle setting (spray nozzle operation setting) for a cultivated plant, in which the operation setting of the lighting lamp and the air circulation fan can also be performed, thereby making the integrated control and management more useful FIG. 6E shows a type of a schedule for a cultivated plant, and FIG. It is possible to pursue usefulness and convenience according to maintenance such as cultivation period check.

Therefore, the digital-based home-based plant cultivation apparatus 1 according to the embodiment of the present invention can be installed in a room such as a home or a restaurant by implementing it as a medium-sized home appliance type, It is possible to acquire information about the plant to be cultivated through the user interface because it can be operated as a digital garden based on the information, and it is also possible to customize and customize it with optimized growth environment based on the information. And it is possible for anyone to easily grow the plant and pursue the user's convenience, and implement the plant cultivation method of the garden field concept instead of the conventional plant cultivation method of the hydroponic cultivation method.

It will be apparent to those skilled in the art that various modifications and variations can be made in the present invention without departing from the spirit or scope of the invention as defined by the appended claims. Substitution can be made, which will be within the technical scope of the present invention.

1: Digital-based household type plant cultivation device
10: plant culture chamber 20: port cradle
21: Port insertion hole 30: Plant cultivation port
31: drain hole 40: induce drainage
52: culture liquid supply tank 54: drainage storage tank
62: spray nozzle 64: illumination lamp
66: air circulation fan 70: application-mounted control unit
P1: Culture medium supply pump P2: Drain pump

Claims (3)

Plant culture chamber;
A pot cradle fixedly installed in the plant culture chamber in a horizontal state and having a plurality of port insertion holes;
And a plurality of drain holes are formed on an outer surface of the container to accommodate the cultivated soil therein. The plurality of drain holes are formed in the plant pot port ;
A drain guide fixedly installed below the port rest and having a bottom surface inclined to facilitate drainage;
A culture liquid supply tank provided in the plant culture chamber for supplying a culture liquid of water and nutrient solution;
A drainage storage tank provided below the drainage inducing chamber in the plant culture chamber;
A spray nozzle for spraying (spraying) the culture liquid of water and nutrient solution from the culture liquid supply tank to the plant growing port side in the form of water mist;
An illumination lamp for illuminating the plant growing port side with light;
An air circulation fan installed on the plant culture chamber and used for air circulation and temperature control in the plant culture chamber;
It is installed on the plant culture chamber and enables user setting and status check for the operation control of the lighting lamp and air circulation fan including the supply of the culture liquid through the spray nozzle and the plant search for the cultivation and the schedule check An application loading control operation unit on which an application program is installed so that the application program can be loaded; And a control unit for controlling the plant-based plant cultivation apparatus. The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the application program installed in the application-mounted control operation unit is executed by an operating system that is one of an Android OS, an Apple iOS, and a Windows OS. The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the plant culture chamber comprises a body structure in the form of a small-sized household appliance.

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