Solar gardening system

• US 8,590,207 B1
• Filed: 09/04/2012
• Issued: 11/26/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 05/08/2012
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Hsiao-Ling Shih
• Original Assignee: Hsiao-Ling Shih
• Inventors: Shih, Hsiao-Ling
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Son T
• Application Number:
  US13/603,157
• Publication Number:
  US 20130298461A1
• Time in Patent Office: 448 Days
• Field of Search: 47/59.R, 47/60, 47/62.R, 47/62.N, 47/17, 47/18, 47/191, 47/666
• US Class Current: 47/66.6
• CPC Class Codes: A01G 7/045 with electric lighting
• CPC Class Codes: A01G 9/243 Collecting solar energy in general F24S
• CPC Class Codes: Y02A 40/25 Greenhouse technology, e.g. cooling systems therefor
• CPC Class Codes: Y02P 60/12 using renewable energies, e.g. solar water pumping
• CPC Class Codes: Y02P 60/14 Measures for saving energy, e.g. in green houses

Abstract

A solar gardening system includes a cultivation box; an LED lamp assembly for illuminating the cultivation box; and a power source including a photovoltaic system including a plurality of solar modules electrically connected together, a controller electrically connected to the solar modules, and a rechargeable battery electrically connected to the controller wherein the controller is configured to cause the rechargeable battery to supply electricity to the LED lamp assembly. The LED lamp as light source for plant growth can save energy and prolong lifecycle. Further, the LED lamp can emit monochrome with narrow wavelength. Moreover, the number of LED lamps can be increased or decreased depending on growth seasons so as to provide sufficient illumination to plants being grown. Thus, plants can be well grown.

Claims

1. A gardening system comprising:

a cultivation box;

an LED lamp assembly for illuminating the cultivation box, wherein the LED lamp assembly includes a plurality of red, orange LEDs and a plurality of blue, violet LEDs to emit red, orange light having a wavelength of 610-720 nm with a peak of 660 nm and blue, violet light having a wavelength 400-510 nm with a peak of 450 nm, respectively, and light intensity of the red, orange light is eight times of that of the blue, violet light, and wherein solar energy of the red, orange light absorbed is about 55% of a total radiation, solar energy of the blue, violet light absorbed is about 8% of the total radiation, and a combination of the red, orange LEDs and the blue, violet LEDs creates a spectrum absorption peak value for facilitating photosynthesis with about 80-90% of solar energy to be absorbed by the solar gardening system so that an energy saving effect is significant;

a power source comprising a photovoltaic system including a plurality of solar modules electrically connected together, a controller electrically connected to the solar modules, a rechargeable battery electrically connected to the controller wherein the controller is configured to cause the rechargeable battery to supply electricity to the LED lamp assembly, and an inverter electrically interconnecting the controller and the LED lamp assembly; and

an ultrasonic fogging system electrically connected to the inverter, wherein the ultrasonic fogging system comprises a water source, a magnetizer disposed downstream of the water source, an nutrition liquid pool disposed downstream of the magnetizer, an ultraviolet (UV) sterilizer disposed downstream of the magnetizer and the nutrition liquid pool for disinfecting water, a screening program disposed between the UV sterilizer and the magnetizer for water purification, and an ultrasonic atomizer disposed downstream of the nutrition liquid pool, wherein the ultrasonic atomizer comprises a fan in fluid communication with the ultrasonic atomizer, and a plurality of aerosol nozzles disposed adjacent to roots of a plurality of plants in the cultivation box, the aerosol nozzles being in fluid communication with the ultrasonic atomizer, and wherein the cultivation box comprises a back to the outlet for flowing water from the cultivation box to the nutrition liquid pool via the UV sterilizer, a check valve is disposed between the UV sterilizer and the back to the outlet a first timer interconnecting the inverter and the LED lamp assembly, and a second timer interconnecting the inverter and the ultrasonic fogging system;

thereby, by employing solar gardening system water undergoes a magnetization process with chemical components of the water being unchanged but physical structure of mineral components of the water changes, chained large molecules are broken into small molecules and water molecule dipole torque is deflected after the magnetization, scale molecules including positive and negative ions of solved salt in the water are surrounded by mono-molecules, thus needle structures of scales including calcium and magnesium molecules in the water are transformed into grainy crystalline structures, attraction between positive and negative ions of salt is increased due to increase of the water dipole torques, both physical and chemical properties of magnetized water are changed with conductivity increasing 2%, pH increasing 0.4-1.0, and surface expansion dropping 1-2% for the water.

2. The gardening system of claim 1, wherein each LED lamp emit a predetermined light of one color with different wavelength.

3. The gardening system of claim 1, wherein each of the red, orange LEDs emits the red, orange light of wavelength 630.4 nm, and each of the red, orange LEDs emits the blue, violet light of wavelength 457.6 nm.

4. The gardening system of claim 1, wherein the red, orange LEDs and the blue, violet LEDs are of equal power, and the number of the red, orange LEDs is eight times of that of the blue, violet LEDs.