INSECT PEST DISINFESTATION LIGHTING DEVICE

• US 20130301258A1
• Filed: 03/13/2013
• 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:
  US13/799,511
• Publication Number:
  US 20130301258A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 362/231
• CPC Class Codes: A01G 7/045 with electric lighting
• CPC Class Codes: A01M 1/04 Attracting insects by using illumination or colours A01M1/08 and A01M1/145 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A01M 1/226 by using waves, fields or rays, e.g. sound waves, microwaves, electric waves, magnetic fields, light rays
• CPC Class Codes: A61L 2/084 Visible light
• CPC Class Codes: A61L 2/10 Ultraviolet radiation
• CPC Class Codes: Y02P 60/14 Measures for saving energy, e.g. in green houses

Abstract

An insect pest disinfestation lighting device including a light source that illuminates a plant with first light having a wavelength of 260 to 305 nm and second light having a wavelength of 490 to 565 nm.

Claims

1. An insect pest disinfestation lighting device comprising a light source that illuminates a plant with first light having a wavelength of 260 to 305 nm and second light having a wavelength of 490 to 565 nm.

2. The insect pest disinfestation lighting device according to claim 1, wherein the light source illuminates a rear side of a leaf of the plant with the first light and the second light.

3. The insect pest disinfestation lighting device according to claim 1, wherein the light source illuminates the plant with the first light having the wavelength of 260 to 305 nm in a range of 3 to 50 μ

W/cm².

4. The insect pest disinfestation lighting device according to claim 1, wherein the light source illuminates the plant with the second light having the wavelength of 490 to 565 nm in a range of 6 to 700 lx.

5. The insect pest disinfestation lighting device according to claim 1, wherein the light source outputs the first light having the wavelength of 260 to 305 nm after outputting the second light having the wavelength of 490 to 565 nm.

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