Automatic precise pneumatic plug tray seeder device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12501846-B2
Application number	US-202318132605-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 10, 2023
Priority date	Dec 21, 2022
Publication date	Dec 23, 2025
Grant date	Dec 23, 2025

Abstract

An automatic precise pneumatic plug tray seedling device comprises a body, a plug tray platform, a seed groove, an air pressure source, a control device, a conveyor device, a soil punching device, and a seed device. To become an automatic control of a closed loop of a pneumatic cylinder, it adjusts the input control signals through the track positioning control in the control device and the feedback signal conveyed by the conveyor device.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . An automatic precise pneumatic plug tray seedling device, comprising:
a body having an upper surface and a lower surface; a plug tray platform, arranged on the upper surface of the body, for placing a plug tray on the plug tray platform for movement, and the plug tray having multiple grid patterned grooves, each of which is filled with soil; a seed groove for placing multiple seeds; an air pressure source for providing high-pressure gas; a control device for providing a preset cylinder position value and calculating the corresponding control value based on the cylinder position value, and outputting a first control signal; a conveyor device for driving the movement of the plug tray platform and the plug tray, and receiving the high-pressure gas from the air pressure source and the first control signal from the control device, and adjusting the flow and direction of the high-pressure gas according to the first control signal, and then sending a feedback signal to the control device, allowing the control device to adjust the first control signal based on the feedback signal and a track positioning control; a soil punching device, the soil punching device is arranged above the plug tray and connected to a punching machine, and the soil punching device will receive high-pressure gas from the air pressure source to drive the movement of the punching machine; a seed device, which is arranged above the plug tray platform and connected to a seed needle, and receives seeds from the seed groove and uses high-pressure gas from the air pressure source to drive the movement of the seed needle and activate a suction of the seed needle; Wherein, when the plug tray moves below the soil punching device, the control device will output a second control signal through the trajectory positioning control to adjust the high-pressure gas entering the soil punching device to drive the soil punching machine to move to the soil in the grid patterned grooves in the plug tray, and then the punching machine punches the soil; when the plug tray moves to the bottom of the seed device, the control device then simultaneously outputs a third control signal and a fourth control signal through the trajectory positioning control, and uses the third control signal to adjust the high-pressure gas entering the seeding device to drive the seed needle on the seed device move into the seed groove, and then use the fourth control signal to control the seed needle to adsorb or place seeds; Wherein the trajectory positioning control is to use a trajectory tracking error to establish a fractional order sliding plane, and then combine with a state equation to obtain an input control equation.

2 . The automatic precise pneumatic plug tray seedling device according to claim 1 , wherein the equation for the trajectory tracking error is: (t)=y m (t)−y(t), where y(t) is the system output and y m (t) is the reference trajectory.

3 . The automatic precise pneumatic plug tray seedling device according to claim 1 , wherein the equation for the fractional order sliding plane is: s=a 1 e(t)+a 2 D μ e(t)+ë(t), wherein a 1 and a 2 are sliding plane parameters, μ is a real number, and D μ is a differential operator symbol.

4 . The automatic precise pneumatic plug tray seedling device according to claim 1 , wherein the state equation is derived based on a mathematical model equation of a first pneumatic valve of an air pressure system, a mass flow rate equation of a second pneumatic cylinder, a fluid continuity equation of the second pneumatic cylinder, and a motion equation of the second pneumatic cylinder.

5 . The automatic precise pneumatic plug tray seedling device according to claim 4 , wherein the state equation is:

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Assignees

• Univ Nat Chung Hsing

Inventors

• Lin Hao-Ting

Classifications

• A01C5/04 Primary

  Machines for making or covering holes for sowing or planting · CPC title

• A01C7/042 Primary

  using pneumatic means · CPC title