US 12,290,016 B2
System and method for automating propagation material sampling and propagation material sampling equipment
Thiago Dal Bello, Joinville (BR); Thiago Da Silva, Joinville (BR); Thiago Felipe De Macedo, Joinville (BR); Cleber Lucoli, Joinville (BR); and Jonathan Diego Klein, Joinville (BR)
Assigned to Accenture Global Solutions Limited, Dublin (IE)
Appl. No. 17/771,959
Filed by Accenture Global Solutions Limited, Dublin (IE)
PCT Filed Nov. 3, 2020, PCT No. PCT/BR2020/050450
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Apr. 26, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/081614, PCT Pub. Date May 6, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 102019023017-7 (BR), filed on Nov. 1, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0369536 A1, Nov. 24, 2022
Int. Cl. G01N 1/04 (2006.01); A01C 1/02 (2006.01)
CPC A01C 1/02 (2013.01) [G01N 1/04 (2013.01)] 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An automatic propagation material sampling system, comprising:
at least one anti-contaminant sample captation machine comprising at least one sample extraction device and at least one sample collection device configured to:
extract at least one sample from a propagation material, wherein the at least one sample is extracted by maintaining a propagation capacity of a sampled propagation material, and wherein the at least one sample extraction device, comprises:
an inlet cavity with an orifice, wherein the propagation material is positioned in the inlet cavity, and wherein a predetermined volume of the propagation material passes through the orifice,
an extraction tool configured to extract the at least one sample from the propagation material, wherein the extraction tool is configured to extract the predetermined volume of the propagation material to maintain the propagation capacity of the sampled propagation material,
a cavity, wherein the at least one sample passes through the cavity after extraction,
at least one fluid projection tube configured to project fluid over the sample extraction tool to remove fragments of the sampled propagation material after the at least one sample is extracted, and at least one exhaust channel configured to exhaust the projected fluid and the fragments; and
project the at least one sample in a free fall to transfer the at least one sample by means of gravitational attraction, wherein the gravitational attraction causes the at least one sample to be transferred to a sample storage microplate in the sample collection device that is configured to collect the at least one sample when projected in the free fall, passing through the cavity of the at least one sample extraction device towards the sample collection device.