Apparatus and Method for Accelerating Horticultural Growth with LEDs

• US 20160278304A1
• Filed: 03/28/2016
• Published: 09/29/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 03/27/2015
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Neu-Tech, LLC
• Original Assignee: Neu-Tech, LLC
• Inventors: Elsegood, Christopher J
• Application Number:
  US15/082,911
• Publication Number:
  US 20160278304A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A01G 22/00 Cultivation of specific crops or plants not otherwise provided for
• 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: Y02P 60/14 Measures for saving energy, e.g. in green houses

Abstract

An LED lighting fixture has a plurality of LED units, each of the plurality of LED units has a color and a beam angled associated therewith. The LEDs with different colors are used at different times during a plant'"'"'s growth cycle to increase the growth of the plant with reduced energy consumption and heat generation. The LEDs may also be put on a strip and all illuminated at the same time.

Claims

12-1. The method according to claim 12, where in the first predetermined time period corresponds to a seedling stage of the plants and the light is blue.