Networked chemical dispersion system

• US 9,357,759 B2
• Filed: 08/20/2010
• Issued: 06/07/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 08/20/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Deere & Company
• Original Assignee: Deere & Company
• Inventors: Anderson, Noel Wayne
• Primary Examiner(s): Alexander, Lyle
• Application Number:
  US12/860,036
• Publication Number:
  US 20120046790A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,118 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A01M 1/2022 Poisoning or narcotising insects by vaporising an insecticide
• CPC Class Codes: A61L 2209/11 Apparatus for controlling air treatment
• CPC Class Codes: A61L 2209/111 Sensor means, e.g. motion, brightness, scent, contaminant sensors
• CPC Class Codes: A61L 2209/13 Dispensing or storing means for active compounds

Abstract

The illustrative embodiments provide a chemical dispersion system comprising a number of chemical dispersion nodes, a chemical dispersion manager, and a processor unit. The processor unit executes the chemical dispersion manager to identify a pest problem and generate a chemical dispersion plan for execution by the number of chemical dispersion nodes.

Claims

1. A chemical dispersion system, the system comprising:

a number of chemical dispersion nodes; and

a processor unit configured with a chemical dispersion manager, wherein the processor unit executes the chemical dispersion manager responsive to a pest problem to generate a chemical dispersion plan for execution by the number of chemical dispersion nodes, wherein the number of chemical dispersion nodes further comprise;

a processor unit;

a number of sensors; and

a cartridge.

2. The system of claim 1 further comprising:

a power source having an energy harvester and energy storage.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the cartridge further comprises:

a disperser; and

a reservoir having a chemical for dispersion by the disperser.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein the disperser is selected from at least one of a hose, nozzle, pump, sprayer, tubing, wiper, cloth, roller, laser, electromagnetic wave generator, light emitter, sound generator, electrical pulse generator, mister, fogger, duster, atomizer, gas stream, mechanical finger, and heating element.

6. The chemical dispersion system of claim 1, wherein the processor unit of each respective node of the number of chemical dispersion nodes is configured to execute the chemical dispersion plan generated by the processor unit of the chemical dispersion system when executing the chemical dispersion manager.

5. An apparatus for chemical dispersion, the apparatus comprising:

a processor unit configured to receive chemical dispersion plans;

a number of sensors;

a power source configured to provide power to the processor unit and the number of sensors; and

a cartridge configured to execute the chemical dispersion plans responsive to a trigger from the processor unit, wherein the power source further comprises;

an energy harvester; and

an energy storage device.