5154 results about "Lawn" patented technology

The subject invention relates in part to stacking Cry1Be toxins along with Cry1Fa toxins to prevent insects from developing resistance towards either toxin by itself. As discussed in more detail herein, the subject pair of proteins is a particularly advantageous combination, as no other pair of proteins is known to provide high levels of control and non-cross-resistant activity against both Spodoptera frugiperda (FAW) and Ostrinia nubilalis (ECB) insects. This dual, non-cross-resistant activity is also advantageous because it can reduce the number of proteins / genes needed to target these insects with multiple, non-cross-resistant proteins. This can reduce or eliminate the need for refuge acreage. Accordingly, the subject invention also relates generally to using four genes to provide three proteins for non-cross-resistant control of a first insect, and three proteins for non-cross-resistant control of a second insect. In preferred embodiments, the targeted insects are FAW and ECB.

A fuel cell system is described for providing primary and / or auxiliary / backup power to one or more loads selected from the group comprising: lawn & garden equipment; radios; telephone; targeting equipment; battery rechargers; laptops; communications devices; sensors; night vision equipment; camping equipment; stoves; lanterns; lights; vehicles; cars; recreational vehicles; trucks; boats; ferries; motorcycles; motorized scooters; forklifts; golf carts; lawnmowers; industrial carts; passenger carts (airport); luggage handling equipment (airports); airplanes; lighter than air crafts; blimps; dirigibles; hovercrafts; trains; locomotives; submarines (manned and unmanned); torpedoes; security systems; electrical energy storage devices for solar-based, tidal-based, hydro-based, wind-based, and other renewable energy source; equipment for which a primary and / or backup power source is necessary or desirable to enable the equipment to function for its intended purpose, military-usable variants of above, and suitable combinations of any two or more thereof. The system provides power to the one or more loads upon the occurrence of a power outage condition, which includes a disruption or discontinuation in the delivery of primary power (i.e., power from a system-external primary source, namely, a source other than the fuel cell system) to, or power demand condition by, the one or more loads. A controller senses outage of primary power to, or demand for primary power by, the one or more loads, and, responsive thereto, operatively engages one or more fuel cells to provide power to the one or more loads.

An apparatus is described for assessing plant status using biophysical and biochemical properties of the plant remotely sensed by the invention thereby allowing selective monitoring, elimination or treatment of individual plants. In a preferred embodiment, a single polychromatic emitter provides coincident light beams; one beam substantially in the visible portion of the spectrum (400 nm to 700 nm) and the other in the near infrared (NIR) portion of the spectrum (700 nm to 1100 nm). This light beam illuminates a small surface area on the ground, which may be bare ground, desired plants or undesired weeds. The beam of light may be focused, collimated or non-focused. A detector array, usually composed of a visible detector and a NIR detector, detects portions of this polychromatic light beam reflected by the surface area and provides a signal indicative of whether the detected light was reflected by a plant or by some non-plant object such as soil. A controller analyzes this signal and, assuming a plant is detected, responds by activating a device to take some action with respect to the plant or stores the analyzed signal with corresponding DGPS position in the controller's memory for later analysis. A number of actions may be taken by the controller. For instance, if the plant is a weed, the desired action might be to spray herbicide on the weed. Or, if the plant is a crop that is determined to be lacking in nutrient, the desired action may be to apply fertilizer. Additionally, if the plant under test is a turf landscape, such as found on golf courses and sporting fields, plant biomass may be mapped and geo-located using GPS for later, comparative analysis.

The invention relates to a fertilizer water dispersible granule and a method for preparing the same. The fertilizer water dispersible granule comprises one or more of plant nutrient substances and at least one surfactant which are processed to prepare the regular or irregular granular water dispersible granule. The fertilizer water dispersible granule consists of the following raw materials in portion by weight: 5 to 95 portions of the plant nutrient substance, 1 to 40 portions of the surfactant and 0 to 94 portions of an assistant. The invention has a preferential proposal: the plant nutrient substance comprises monopotassium phosphate, boric acid or borax, humic acid and salt thereof. The fertilizer water dispersible granule also comprises one or more of growth regulators. In addition, the fertilizer water dispersible granule can also comprise a disintegrating agent, an adhesive, a filler, a colorant and other assistants. The preparation method comprises: the metering, pulverization, even mixing, pelletization and drying of formula materials to obtain the fertilizer water dispersible granule. The fertilizer water dispersible granule has rapid disintegrating and dissolving (dispersing) speed in water, is fully dissolved, does not block a nozzle and a drop irrigation pipeline, is uneasy to absorb moisture, has high content of effective compositions, low packaging, storage, transportation, metering and use cost and high utilization rate of the effective compositions, reduces waste and environmental pollution, is widely applied to economic crop, gardening, lawn and urban greening and has extremely wide market application prospect.

The invention relates to a lawn lamp with commercial power output and radio functions. The lawn lamp comprises a lamp pole body, a light source window, a fixed base, a radio module, a loudspeaker, a standard socket and a switch, wherein the light source window is arranged around the lamp pole body, highly-transparent tempered glass is mounted on the light source window, the fixed base is arranged at the bottom of the lamp pole body, the radio module is mounted at the top of the lamp pole body, the loudspeaker is mounted on one side surface of the lamp pole body in an embedded manner, the standard socket is mounted on the side surface of the lamp pole body in an embedded manner, and the switch is mounted on the side surface of the lamp pole body in an embedded manner. The product provided by the invention has not only a lighting function but also the radio listening and commercial power output functions, so as to achieve multiple purposes.

A method and apparatus for communicating between electrical appliances (e.g. smoke detectors, thermostats, refrigerators, TV program recorders, lawn / garden sprinkler systems, irrigation control systems, etc.) and cloud-based applications (e.g. Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, email, SMS, etc.) includes a server that translates communications between the communication protocols used by the appliances and applications. The electrical appliances include a minimum complexity necessary to perform their primary functions and to communicate with the server. Additional complexity necessary for the electrical appliances to communicate with the cloud-based applications is enabled by the server remote from the electrical appliances.

An outdoor lighting system is disclosed. The individual lights are self-powered by one or more batteries carried in the lighting structure itself. In one embodiment, one or more rechargeable batteries are located within a relatively elongated base structure of the lighting component. In one particular embodiment, this elongated base structure also serves as a stake that is utilized to fix the lighting fixture in a particular outdoor location, such as a lawn, pathway, driveway, or patio.

The invention relates to a plant growth regulator composition containing maleic hydrazide and the purposes thereof. The composition contains maleic hydrazide (A) and a combination of known plant growth regulators, such as paclobutrazol, uniconazole, cycocel, mepiquat chloride, triapenthenol, daminozide, ethephon, taterpex and thidiazuron, wherein the weight ratio of the (A) to the (B) is 1: 300 to 500:1 and preferable 1:100 to 300:1, the (A) and the (B) can be proportioned with known aids and an excipient to prepare any agriculturally acceptable preparation; and the agriculturally acceptable preparation can be diluted with water or soil into a needed concentration of 1-8000 mg / kg, preferable 50-5000 mg / kg and used for regulating the growth of cultured plants, such as hedge plants, lawns, landscape plants, fruit trees, vegetables, economic crops, food oil crops and forage grass through the treatments of irrigation, flood irrigation, fertilization with water, jetting, spraying, scattering, smearing, injecting, transfusing, dressing seeds, spreading fertilizer, dispersing, and the like. The composition has the advantages of wide range of applications, low cost, good effect and synergy.

The invention relates to an intelligent mower system and an intelligent mowing method thereof. The intelligent mower system comprises a mower, a camera device arranged on the mower, sensors arranged on the mower, a boundary electronic fence and a charging station. In a mowing area defined by the boundary electronic fence, the intelligent mower finishes recognition of mowing conditions in a current local range, achieves intelligent mowing of a lawn in the area, and conducts shielding, boundary control and automatic return charging by using the camera device arranged on the mower and a mowing motor current detecting device and by integrating monocular vision technology and data of all the sensors. The method enables the intelligent mower to conduct different mowing actions according to conditions of lawn density and distribution and the like in the area, and therefore mowing efficiency is improved, service life of the intelligent mower is prolonged, energy consumption is saved, and independency of the mower is improved.

The invention discloses a sodium alginate oligosaccharide coated slow-release fertilizer. Coated materials of the slow-release fertilizer contain sodium alginate oligosaccharide and an auxiliary coated material, wherein sodium alginate oligosaccharide is composed of two structural units, namely a-L-mannuronic acid and b-D-guluronic acid. The two structural units are linked in three ways by 1,4-glucosidic bond, so as to form a unbranched linear segmented copolymer. The coated slow-release fertilizer is mainly applied in commercial crops, fruit and vegetable crops, grain crops, economic forest, flowers and plants, traditional Chinese medicinal materials, lawn and the like. By introducing organism-derived sodium alginate oligosaccharide into the coated materials of the slow-release fertilizer, nutritive elements required by plant growth and development can be supplemented by a slow-release approach, and the plant growth promoting effect of sodium alginate oligosaccharide also can be performed so as to finally achieve the yield-increasing effect. In addition, a medicament prepared by using sodium alginate oligosaccharide as the main coated material composition is safe and nontoxic and has advantages of low cost, small application amount and the like.

The present invention relates to a building block of ecological slope protection vegetation, a fabrication method and a construction technique. The building block is composed of a growing bed body, a lath crib, planting troughs, a vegetation layer and a plant, the lath crib wraps the circumference of the growing bed body, the upper plane of the growing bed body is lower than the upper plane of the lath crib and concave, the vegetation layer is formed on the growing bed body, which matches the inner walls of the sectional area of the lath crib to form an integral building block, and more than one planting troughs are arranged on and run through the growing bed body. The design of the present invention is scientific, the structure is reasonable, the restoration of water ecology can reduce the operating cost, environment is improved, ecology is reinstated, harmonious natural beauty is enhanced, and the present invention is suitable for the nidification of small living creatures and the habitation and the survival of aquatic fishes, so that the cutting-off continuity of water and land regions is restored. The present invention is widely applied to channel slope protection, levee slopes, roadsides, airports, parks, public lands, household lawns, sports grounds, etc. The present invention is suitable for cold regions, damp regions, warm and damp intermediate zone, etc.

A disclosed method of weather forecasting with respect to a set of irrigation criteria includes enabling an irrigation system controller operating on a user defined schedule to wirelessly receive soil condition information from an environmental sensor, evaluate the soil condition information for satisfaction of an irrigation criterion, and activate an irrigation valve associated with the environmental sensor when the irrigation criterion is satisfied. The soil condition information may indicate a chemical composition or moisture content of the soil. The irrigation system controller is further enabled to generate a warning message based on the soil condition. The irrigation system controller is further enabled to send the warning message to a lawn care service. The irrigation system controller is further enabled to generate a report of the soil condition. The irrigation system controller is further enabled to generate a report indicative of water consumption per irrigation valve.

The invention relates to an effervescent composition of a water-soluble fertilizer and a preparation method thereof. The effervescent composition contains one or a plurality of plant nutrient substances and one or a plurality of compounds which are contacted with water to generate gas. The effervescent composition comprises an optimized proposal that the plant nutrient substance is monopotassium phosphate. The effervescent composition can be also added with acid, a plant growth conditioner, a surfactant, a filler, a disintegrating agent, an adhesive, dye, a lube and the like. The preparation method comprises the following steps: ingredients are weighed, mixed, pulverized, pelletized and dried to obtain the effervescence composition. The effervescent composition can be manufactured through a routine production process, has rapid disintegrating and dissolving (diffusing) speed in the water, does not block a spray head or drip a pipeline, is uneasy to absorb dampness, has high content of effective compositions, low packaging, storage, metering and using cost and high utilization rate of the effective compositions, reduces waste and pollution to environment, is widely applied to economic crops, gardening, lawns and urban landscaping and has wide market application prospect.

An apparatus and method are provided for monitoring subsurface soil conditions in real time and communicating data about the subsurface soil conditions to a monitor that analyzes the data to provide warnings to the system operator and to automatically initiate one or more soil treatment processes. The apparatus includes nodes with soil condition sensors and radio transceivers. The nodes are communicatively connected by a network that includes at least one transceiver. The nodes optionally include means for controlling turf treatment devices in response to commands from the computer.

A family protective shelter which can be erected quickly inside in a home living room, family room, patio, or on an outside lawn area. This dome tent enclosure is designed of clear plastic sheet material which is impervious to gases used to conduct chemical warfare (such as nerve gas, mustard gas, serin, cyanide, and the like) dispersed biohazard aerosol compounds (such as anthrax, smallpox, polio, bacteria, viruses, or fungi), or other atmospheric toxins, such as those from a nuclear fallout. This protective “pop-up”, external frame enclosure will be sized to house at least two adults comfortably (6×9×7 high inside, up to about 10×18′×7′ high), will incorporate a zip-lock entrance / egress isolation portal chamber, and will communicate to the outside world through combat gas mask filters, plus phone, computer and electrical outlet feed-through, and perhaps a water trap coupling. The invention can keep a family of 1 to 10 (with a larger size) relatively isolated and safe from the harmful effects of a chemical biohazard, or nuclear fallout enemy attack for a matter of hours up to several days. The portal chamber can also connect together additional modules.

The present invention is directed to apparatuses, programs, methods, devices, and / or systems for administering water to an area in need of irrigation. For example, an irrigation unit uses a microprocessor to control its fluid dynamics to affectivity save water and enhance uniform water distribution to and area of grass. The microprocessor controls a pivot motor or solenoid, and an electronic throttle that waters lawns in any configuration or pattern; the sprinkler still retains the ability to pop out of the ground and rotate N×360 degrees.

The invention discloses a leaf fertilizer composition comprising sodium alginate oligosaccharide, which is characterized in that the composition comprises sodium alginate oligosaccharide, amino acid and microelements that can promote plant growth significantly, wherein sodium alginate oligosaccharide is also known as sodium alginate, sea-tangle glue and algin, is natural polysaccharide carbohydrate extracted from sea tangle, and is a copolymer comprising a-L-mannuronic acid (M), b-D-guluronic acid (G) connected with a-L-mannuronic acid (M) by 1,4-glycosidic bond, and different GGGMMM fragments; a molecular formula is (C6H7O6Na)n; the degree of polymerization is 2-10; the uronic acid constitution M / G is equal to 7:3; the uronic acid content is greater than 90%, and is 2-3% of the total content; the content of a microelement leaf fertilizer is 2-20%; and the microelement leaf fertilizer comprises at least two of sulfur, boron, ferrum, manganese, copper, zinc and molybdenum. The composition is mainly applicable to industrial crops, fruit and vegetable crops, grain crops, economic trees, flowers, lawns and the like.

A deck assembly for a self-propelled, walk-behind rotary lawn rotary mower is provided. The deck assembly is configurable for either front or rear wheel drive and includes a deck defining a cutting chamber which may house a cutting member. The cutting chamber is bound at least in part by a rear enclosure member. The deck assembly also includes a side discharge port having a side discharge port door. A rear discharge port located on a rear portion of the deck is also provided. Preferably, a duct of substantially rectangular cross section extends through the rear enclosure member between the cutting chamber and the rear discharge port. In one embodiment, the duct has a first, uppermost surface and a second, lowermost surface, wherein the first, uppermost surface and the second, lowermost surface both form substantially horizontal planes.

A liftable support structure for a turf system, the support structure comprising a skeletal framework having an open based structure with upstanding sides and at least two parallel spaced cross beams, the framework defining open subsections, each subsection having a base defining a ledge structure, each subsection supporting a latticework panel that sits on the ledge structure, the framework having a plurality of spaced lifting points and the cross beams defining access to forklift tines. A pallet for natural or artificial turf comprising a structure moulded in foamed plastics to have a closed planar top surface supported by a lattice work of mutually perpendicular walls defining a flexible open base, the structure defining a pair of elongate spaced parallel channels extending across each side to facilitate forklift tine entry.

Provided is an all-electric riding greens mower. The mower includes a frame which is supported for movement upon a plurality of ground engaging wheels and upon which are supported a modularly interchangeable power source and a plurality of reel lawn mowers. An electric motor provides driving torque to enable movement of the mower between and over golf course greens or other surfaces to be mowed, electric motors provide driving torque for each of the reel lawn mowers. The interchangeable power source provides electrical energy for driving the electric motors, including the primary mover and the electrical motors for the reel type lawn mowers. The modularly interchangeable power sources may comprise a bank of batteries, a motor / generator set, a fuel cell, or a combination of these. The power source may be easily exchanged in the field for another, freshly charged power source. Exchange occurs using either a fixed change stand or a mobile change stand. The change stands are configured to facilitate exchange by reducing friction caused by the generally weighty power source. The power source is delivered to the fixed stand on towable trailers.

The invention discloses a degraded natural organic bundle slow release fertilizer, which comprises the following steps: comprising easy soluble nitrogen particle fertilizer; coating natural organic bundle slow release with the main element as lignin; coating vegetable fat film layer out of nature organic film layer as sealer; bruising the nature organic matter with the main element below 60 order as coating material; adopting normal disc pelleting method; sticking the coating material to the surface of easy soluble nitrogen fertilizer particle; drying; spraying vegetable fat as sealer; getting the product. This fertilizer is very cheap, which can be used to cotton, corn, wheat, flower and lawn.

A filled artificial turf includes a plurality of filled artificial turf sections which can be disconnected, rolled up and stored and then later unrolled and reconnected, thereby to enable a facility to accommodate a wide variety of sporting and non-sporting events, with no adverse effects on the playability of the turf. Each of the sections includes a backing, fibers secured to the backing, and a particulate fill with the fibers being of sufficient density and texture so as to substantially hold the particulate fill to the backing during rolling and unrolling. The sections also include hook and loop fasteners along the edges thereof, to facilitate simple and cost-effective connection and disconnection of the sections.

The invention discloses a method for improving seriously saline-alkali land of an oasis area and planting a high-quality lawn, which relates to a soil improving method and the technical field of lawn planting. The method for improving seriously saline-alkali land of the oasis area and planting a high-quality lawn comprises 1 to 18 steps. The method disclosed by the invention has the advantages offast desalination, no salt accumulation in the surface soil, soil fertility improvement, water conservation, high salt absorbing efficiency of plants, and the like.

The invention relates to the method of a kind of using synergizing lawn plant to restore the heavy metal compound pollution in city life waste compost. In the period from seeding to mowing of grasses on lawn, fertilize EDTA into the waste compost base substance as per 5 - 30 mmol / kg; through fertilize EDTA, increase the extracting effect of lawn grasses to heavy metal in city life waste compost base substance, to make the effect of lawn glasses corresponding to the effect of heavy metal super-enriching plant. The application of the invention can not only rebuild waste compost industry, and realize the effective resource use of waste compost, but also provide scientific basis for complexing restoration of lawn grasses to heavy metal pollution area.

A biological soil nutrient system that combines beneficial soil fungi and bacteria in a growth promoting nutrient medium, embedded in an inorganic porous ceramic particle for direct delivery during soil aerification to the rhizosphere of adventitious plants, including sports turf, landscape and agricultural applications.

A lawn and garden sprayer designed for homeowners, landscapers, and lawn-care professionals for the application of liquid organic fertilizers and soil amendments on small to medium sized yards and business landscapes. The lawn and garden sprayer is a lawn mower-like system that holds up to 8 gallons of water soluble fertilizers and soil nutrients which can be dispensed evenly, economically and easily through either two spray nozzles located in front of the front tires which provide a 24 inch overlapping spray directly to the turf, or by a wand sprayer attached to a pump by a 20 foot hose used to spray directly on trees, shrubs, plants, and beds.

A lawn-mower (1) comprises: a motor unit (2) for the directional displacement of the lawn-mower; a cutting device (3) means for detecting a perimeter (L) of a cut area (A); means for detecting a condition of alignment of lawn-mower (1) with said perimeter (L); a control unit (20) operatively associated with the alignment-condition detecting means for receiving a signal therefrom representative of the condition of alignment with the perimeter, and operatively connected to the motor unit to cause a displacement of the lawn-mower along the same perimeter in response to the alignment signal.

The invention relates to a drug fertilizer composition for preventing and treating green turf diseases. The drug fertilizer composition comprises the following components by mass percent: 0.05-5% of antimicrobial actives, 0.05-1.5% of plant growth regulator, 45-60% of macronutrient compound, 1-15% of trace nutrient element compound, 5-25% of active organic nutrient substance, and 0.5-15% of booster. By adopting the drug fertilizer composition, the plant growth regulator is reasonably compounded with a protective fungicide or a fungicide with treatment and eradication functions. An experiment proves that the drug fertilizer composition has an obvious synergic effect, and is further compounded and fused with the plant nutrient substance, so as to achieve dual effects of the drug and the fertilizer. The green turf diseases can be prevented and treated, sufficient balanced nutrient elements can be provided for maintaining the lawn, synchronous use of the drug and the fertilizer is achieved, and the drug fertilizer composition can be widely applied to growth of the golf green lawn and / or prevention and treatment of diseases.

In an apparatus for controlling an unmanned autonomous operating vehicle having an electric motor supplied with power from a battery for operating lawn mower blades, and magnetic sensors for detecting intensity of a magnetic field of an area wire such that the vehicle is controlled to run about in an operating area defined by the area wire to mow lawn using the blades and to return to a charging device installed on the area wire so as to charge the battery, a distance from the area wire is detected based on the detected intensity of the magnetic field detected by the magnetic sensors, and a different one of returning trajectories defined along the area wire in advance with respect to distances from the area wire is selected, whenever the vehicle is to be returned.

Fungal / bacterial antagonist combinations, a seed coated with one of the combinations and a plant protected from plant pathogens by one of the combinations. The invention is also a fungal / bacterial antagonist combination comprising a Trichoderma virens fungal antagonist and a Bacillus subtilis var. amyloliquefaciens (Bacillus amyloliquefaciens) bacterial antagonist and its use for controlling plant pathogens as a biocontrol agent, bio-pesticide or bio-fungicide. The invention also finds utility as a fungal / bacterial antagonist combination applied to the seed, stalk or leaf that results in an increase in plant yield. Control of early and late season stalk and root rot caused by fungi such as Fusarium, Phythium, Phytophthora and Penicillium in tomatoes, peppers, turf grass, soybeans, sunflower, wheat and corn is achieved.