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US 2020/0260672 A1Published application
Hydroponics device and hydroponics method
AssigneeToppan Printing Co., Ltd.
InventorToru SUTO
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Abstract
There is provided a hydroponics device including a cover forming an upper part of a cultivation planter and a cover support supporting the cover from beneath the cover and detachably connected to a pan. The cover supports plants, which are a predetermined number of different strains of the same species, so that tips (portions respectively including rootcaps and apical meristems) of taproots of the plants are immersed in a nutrient solution in the pan.
Claims10
A hydroponics device, comprising:
- a nutrient solution storage in which a nutrient solution is stored;
- a nutrient solution reservoir container into which the nutrient solution is supplied from the nutrient solution storage;
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- a cover that supports a plurality of plants to be cultivated, the cover being fixed spaced from a liquid surface of the nutrient solution in the nutrient solution reservoir container, with a predetermined distance being ensured between the cover and the liquid surface,
- wherein the plants supported by the cover respectively have taproots which are longer than the lengths of shoots of the plants, the taproots having respective tips only immersed in the nutrient solution in the nutrient solution reservoir container;
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- wherein the device includes an air layer that is formed between the cover and the nutrient solution reservoir container so as to surround the taproots except for the tips of the taproots.
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A hydroponics method, comprising the steps of:
- cultivating plants in a first nutrient solution reservoir container, the plants having taproots which are longer than the lengths of respective shoots of the plants;
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- growing the plants, cultivated in the first nutrient solution reservoir container, in a second nutrient solution reservoir container in which an air layer is formed around portions of the taproots of the respective plants except for tips of the taproots, wherein
- only the tips of the taproots of the respective plants are immersed in the nutrient solution in the first nutrient solution reservoir container and the second nutrient solution reservoir container.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.