Continual aerial release from drones
AssigneeSenecio Ltd.
InventorsHanan Lepek, Rom Eisenberg, Yoram Fleischmann, Amir Ilan
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Abstract
A storage and release mechanism for aerial distribution and release of insects from an unmanned aerial vehicle, the release being aimed at controlling a wild insect population, the wild population having fluctuating local densities, the mechanism comprising a switch for switching between two or more different sustainable insect delivery rates for release of the insects. The method is particularly suitable for sterile male mosquitoes in programs to control wild mosquito populations.
Claims12
A storage and release mechanism for distribution and release of insects, the release being aimed at controlling a wild insect population, the wild population having fluctuating local densities, the storage and release mechanism comprising a plurality of segmented storage cartridges, a release mechanism and an expulsion mechanism, the expulsion mechanism being connectable and disconnectable to each cartridge and configured to work with said release mechanism and with each cartridge in order by connecting to each cartridge in order, and with each cartridge to open one segment at a time and expel insects out of the segment into the open air.
A storage and release method for distribution and release of insects, the release being aimed at controlling a wild insect population, the wild population having fluctuating local densities, the method comprising:
- storing said insects in a plurality of segmented cartridges;
- for each of said cartridges, opening each segment thereof in turn using a release mechanism;
- and
- connecting and disconnecting an expulsion mechanism to each of said cartridges in turn as respective segments thereof are opened;
- and
- expelling insects from each opened segment respectively into the open air.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.