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Crop growing structure and method

US11432471B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Inventors

Philip Fok · Los Gatos, US
Steve Oster · San Jose, US
Ken Stutzman · Windsor, US

Key dates

Filing date	Apr 17, 2019
Grant date	Sep 6, 2022
Priority date	—
Expiry date	May 27, 2041

Classification

Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
CPC primaryY02P60/14
WIPO fieldOther special machines
WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

Plants are grown in grow trays. The grow trays are placed on a shelf that has rollers mounted on a top side of the shelf and a first stop at a first end of the first shelf. The first shelf is tilted so that grow trays placed on the first shelf will tend to roll towards the first stop at the first end of the first shelf. A plurality of light panels is mounted on the light support system at various locations over the shelf so that a first subsection of the grow trays will be illuminated by the light panels and a second subsection of the grow trays will not be illuminated by the light panels.

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