US 2021/0229124 A1Published application

Irrigation control based on a user entered number of watering passes

AssigneeRain Bird Corporation

InventorsPatrick V. Loper, Stuart Hackwell, David E. Colombo

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Abstract

In some embodiments, a system for controlling irrigation comprises an irrigation control unit comprising: an input configured to receive a user entered number of watering passes for a rotary sprinkler configured to repetitively rotate about an arc and irrigate an area of an irrigation site, wherein each rotation about the arc comprises a watering pass; a memory to store the number of watering passes and arc rotation data for the rotary sprinkler corresponding to a time duration for the rotary sprinkler to make the watering pass about the arc; and a control circuit configured to: receive the number of watering passes; receive the arc rotation data; determine a run time that will result in irrigation by the rotary sprinkler about the arc for the user entered number of passes; and store the run time.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A system for controlling irrigation, comprising:

an irrigation control unit comprising:
an input configured to receive a user entered number of watering passes for a rotary sprinkler configured to repetitively rotate about an arc and irrigate an area of an irrigation site, wherein each rotation about the arc comprises a watering pass;
a memory coupled to the input and configured to store the user entered number of watering passes, the memory also configured to store arc rotation data for the rotary sprinkler corresponding to a time duration for the rotary sprinkler to make the watering pass about the arc;
and
a control circuit coupled to the input and the memory, the control circuit configured to:
receive the user entered number of watering passes;
receive the arc rotation data;
determine, using the user entered number of watering passes and the arc rotation data, a run time that will result in irrigation by the rotary sprinkler about the arc for the user entered number of watering passes;
and
store the run time.

7 more elements

A method for use in controlling irrigation, comprising:

by a control circuit of an irrigation control unit,
receiving a user entered number of watering passes for a rotary sprinkler configured to repetitively rotate about an arc and irrigate an area of an irrigation site, wherein each rotation about the arc comprises a watering pass;
receiving arc rotation data for the rotary sprinkler corresponding to a time duration for the rotary sprinkler to make the watering pass about the arc;
determining, using the user entered number of watering passes and the arc rotation data, a run time that will result in irrigation by the rotary sprinkler about the arc for the user entered number of watering passes;
and
storing, in a memory, the run time.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 17/147,313Filed 12 Jan 2021
Priority: 27 Jan 2020
Published: 29 Jul 2021
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification9 codes

B05B 12/002
Arrangements for controlling delivery; Arrangements for controlling the spray area: manually-actuated controlling means, e.g. push buttons, levers…
A01G 25/165
Control of watering: cyclic operations, timing systems, timing valves, impulse operations
B05B 12/02
Arrangements for controlling delivery; Arrangements for controlling the spray area: for controlling time, or sequence, of delivery
B05B 12/16
Arrangements for controlling delivery; Arrangements for controlling the spray area: for controlling the spray area