Automatic Grading System for Living Aquatic Organisms
AssigneeVaki Fiskeldiskerfi HF
InventorsSverrir Hakonarson, Gunnar Sigvaldi Hilmarsson, Albert Ingi Haraldsson, Hermann Kristjansson
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Abstract
The invention relates to a device, a system and a method for grading live aquatic organisms in fluid into batches by using a central control system (7) that controls the grading process in a continuous manner resulting in optimisation of the grading process, said control system (7) optimizing individual grading components, namely concentration control (3) of fish, pump (4) speed and grader (5) settings, based on a software and a database (8) containing pre-set counting data.
Claims32
A device for grading organisms, the device comprising
- a grading unit, said grading unit further comprising at least:
- a pump (4),
- a grader (5),
- a counter (6),
- two or more receptacles for receiving graded aquatic organisms (10), and a computer (7),
- characterized in that the counter (6) sends information to the computer (7) on the performance of the grading process, wherein the computer compares the information from the counter to data stored in a database (8) and sends feed-back signals to adjust the settings of each individual component of the grading unit (4, 5) to optimize the grading process.
A system for grading aquatic organisms, the system comprising
- a grading unit, said grading unit further comprising at least:
- a pump (4),
- a grader (5),
- a counter (6),
- two or more receptacles for receiving graded aquatic organisms (10), and a computer (7),
- characterized in that the counter (6) sends information to the computer (7) on the performance of the grading process, wherein the computer compares the information from the counter to data stored in a database (8) and sends feed-back signals to adjust the settings of each individual component of the grading unit (4, 5) during the process (on the fly) to optimize the grading process.
The system according to claim, wherein settings for one or more of the chamber for concentration control (3) are adjusted through a feed-back loop between the counter (6) and the chamber for concentration control (3), based on measurements from the counter (6), wherein a software calculates the optimal settings of the chamber for concentration control (3) based on data stored in the database and updated settings parameters are sent to the chamber for concentration control (3) during the grading process.
A method for grading aquatic organisms, the method comprising
- e) feeding a flow of living organism in a fluid to a grading unit
- f) grading the aquatic organisms using in the grading unit, said grading process further comprising at least:
- feeding the flow of living organism to a pump (4), pumping the flow of living organism towards a grader (5), and
- grading the of living organism in the flow by a grader (5),
- g) determining the number, the size and the flow using a counter (6),
- h) feeding the graded living organism into two or more receptacles (10),
- characterized in that the counter (6) sends information to the computer (7) on the performance of the grading process, wherein the computer compares the information from the counter to data stored in a database (8) and sends feed-back signals to adjust the settings of each individual component of the grading unit (4, 5) during the process (on the fly) to optimize the grading process.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.