Method of operating a sealed system for an indoor garden center
AssigneeHaier US Appliance Solutions, Inc.
InventorLouis A. Wantland
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Abstract
An indoor gardening appliance includes a liner defining a grow chamber, a grow module rotatably mounted within the grow chamber for receiving a plurality of plant pods, and a sealed system for regulating chamber temperature. A controller is configured for operating the sealed system to maintain the grow chamber at a grow temperature, obtaining a scheduled harvest time, determining a chill cycle including a predetermined chill time and a pre-harvest chill temperature based at least in part on the scheduled harvest time, and operating the sealed system to implement the chill cycle by regulating a chamber temperature to the pre-harvest chill temperature during the predetermined chill time.
Claims21
A gardening appliance, comprising:
- a liner positioned within a cabinet and defining a grow chamber;
- a grow module mounted within the liner and defining a plurality of apertures for receiving one or more plant pods;
- a sealed system in thermal communication with the grow chamber for regulating a temperature within the grow chamber;
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- a controller operably coupled to the sealed system, the controller being configured to:
- operate the sealed system to maintain the grow chamber at a grow temperature;
- obtain a scheduled harvest time;
- determine a chill cycle including a predetermined chill time and a pre-harvest chill temperature based at least in part on the scheduled harvest time, wherein the pre-harvest chill temperature is selected to generate frost within the grow chamber;
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- operate the sealed system to implement the chill cycle by regulating a chamber temperature to the pre-harvest chill temperature during the predetermined chill time.
A method of operating a sealed system of a gardening appliance, the gardening appliance comprising a grow chamber, a grow module rotatably mounted within the grow chamber, and a sealed system in thermal communication with the grow chamber for regulating a temperature within the grow chamber, the method comprising:
- operating the sealed system to maintain the grow chamber at a grow temperature;
- obtaining a scheduled harvest time;
- determining a chill cycle including a predetermined chill time and a pre-harvest chill temperature based at least in part on the scheduled harvest time, wherein the pre-harvest chill temperature is selected to generate frost within the grow chamber;
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- operating the sealed system to implement the chill cycle by regulating a chamber temperature to the pre-harvest chill temperature during the predetermined chill time.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.