INSECT PEST DISINFESTATION LIGHTING SYSTEM

• US 20130298445A1
• Filed: 03/15/2013
• Published: 11/14/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 05/11/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd. (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: AOKI, Shinichi, YAMADA, Makoto, ISHIWATA, Masaki
• Application Number:
  US13/836,293
• Publication Number:
  US 20130298445A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 43/132.1
• CPC Class Codes: A01G 7/045 with electric lighting
• CPC Class Codes: A01G 9/249 Lighting means with special arrangements for promoting growth A01G7/045
• CPC Class Codes: A01M 1/04 Attracting insects by using illumination or colours A01M1/08 and A01M1/145 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A01M 1/20 Poisoning, narcotising, or burning insects fumigation apparatus A01M13/00
• CPC Class Codes: A01M 1/226 by using waves, fields or rays, e.g. sound waves, microwaves, electric waves, magnetic fields, light rays
• CPC Class Codes: Y02P 60/14 Measures for saving energy, e.g. in green houses

Abstract

An insect pest disinfestation lighting system including a light source that illuminates a rear side of a leaf of a plant with light having a wavelength from 260 to 305 nm in a range of 2 to 50 μW/cm².

Claims

1. An insect pest disinfestation lighting system comprising a light source that illuminates a rear side of a leaf of a plant with light having a wavelength from 260 to 305 nm in a range of 2 to 50 μ

W/cm².

2. The insect pest disinfestation lighting system according to claim 1, wherein the light source illuminates the rear side of the leaf of the plant with light emitted in a direction that is set in a range from a horizontal direction to a vertically upward direction.

3. The insect pest disinfestation lighting system according to claim 1, further comprising a reflector that reflects light from the light source, wherein the plant is illuminated with the light reflected by the reflector in addition to the light from the light source.

4. The insect pest disinfestation lighting system according to claim 1, further comprising a reflector that reflects light from the light source, wherein

the light source emits light in a direction that is set in a range from a horizontal direction to a vertically downward direction, and

the reflector reflects light from the light source to illuminate the rear side of the leaf of the plant with the reflected light.

5. The insect pest disinfestation lighting system according to claim 3, wherein the reflector is arranged between a distal portion of the leaf of the plant and a stem of the plant.

6. The insect pest disinfestation lighting system according to claim 5, wherein the reflector is supported to be movable.

7. The insect pest disinfestation lighting system according to claim 3, wherein the reflector includes a slit that passes light.

8. The insect pest disinfestation lighting system according to claim 3, wherein the reflector includes a through hole that passes light.

9. The insect pest disinfestation lighting system according to claim 3, wherein the reflector includes a reflection grain arranged on a culture medium of the plant.

10. The insect pest disinfestation lighting system according to claim 1, further comprising a moving unit that upwardly moves a distal portion of the leaf of the plant, wherein the light source illuminates the plant with light when the distal portion of the leaf of the plant is upwardly moved by the moving unit.

11. The insect pest disinfestation lighting system according to claim 1, wherein the light source illuminates the plant with light during a predetermined time period between sunset and sunrise.

12. The insect pest disinfestation lighting system according to claim 1, further comprising a predator releaser that releases a predator of an insect pest subject to disinfestation by the light from the light source.

13. The insect pest disinfestation lighting system according to claim 1, further comprising a pesticide sprayer that sprays a pesticide on the plant.