Apparatus for controlling growth of organisms

• US 20120260574A1
• Filed: 04/14/2011
• Published: 10/18/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 04/14/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Beam Gene Corporation, Ltd., Thermo-Link Technology Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Beam Gene Corporation, Ltd., Thermo-Link Technology Incorporated
• Inventors: LIN, Jung-Hsin, LEE, Den-Hua, CHEN, Te-Cheng
• Granted Patent: US 8,689,483 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 47/66.6
• CPC Class Codes: A01G 7/00 Botany in general
• CPC Class Codes: A01K 1/02 Pigsties; Dog-kennels; Rabbit-hutches or the like
• CPC Class Codes: A01K 29/00 Other apparatus for animal husbandry

Abstract

An apparatus for controlling the growth of an organism includes a parameter control system, a remote control center, a control box, at least one environment-regulating device and at least one sensor. The parameter control system is stored with a plurality of operation modes, and environmental parameters that correspond to the respective operation modes and govern a variety of growth conditions for different species of organisms. The apparatus can automatically change the environmental conditions from one state to another, so as to meet the user'"'"'s requirements and enhance the productivity without being limited by the ambient conditions.

Claims

1. An apparatus for controlling the growth of an organism comprising:

a parameter control system stored with a plurality of operation modes and environmental parameters that correspond to the respective operation modes and govern different growth conditions for different species of organisms;

a remote control center connected to the parameter control system;

a control box connected to the remote control center and adapted to generate a control signal;

at least one environment-regulating device mounted at a predetermined position with respect to an organism incubating zone, the at least one environment-regulating device being connected to the control box, so that it is activated upon receipt of the control signal; and

at least one sensor mounted at a predetermined position with respect to the organism incubating zone and electrically connected to the control box.

2. The apparatus for controlling the growth of an organism according to claim 1, wherein the control box is provided with a microprocessor, at least one storage unit, an operation interface, a power supply module, a signal input/output interface and a signaling module for generating an energy source, a message or a signal, and wherein the power supply module is connected to the microprocessor, the at least one storage unit, the operation interface and the signal input/output interface, and wherein the microprocessor is connected to the storage unit, the operation interface and the signal input/output interface.

3. The apparatus for controlling the growth of an organism according to claim 1, wherein the environment-regulating device is selected from a light-emitting diode (LED) lamp unit, a sound-generating module, a temperature-regulating module, a gas-regulating module, nutrient module and a humidity-controlling module.

4. The apparatus for controlling the growth of an organism according to claim 3, wherein the LED lamp unit is activated, upon receipt of the control signal from the control box, to adjust light emission therefrom in terms of one or more parameters selected from the group consisting of frequency, amplitude, duration, duty ratio and phase shift.

5. The apparatus for controlling the growth of an organism according to claim 1, wherein the control box is connected to the remote control center via a network.

6. The apparatus for controlling the growth of an organism according to claim 1, wherein the at least one sensor is configured to detect one or more conditions selected from the group consisting of temperature, carbon dioxide concentration, oxygen concentration, nutrients, water content and humidity.