US 12,310,342 B2
Climate system
Eric Holland Schmitt, Antwerp (BE); Jaco Jansen, Breda (NL); Kees Wilhelmus Petrus Aarts, Vught (NL); Maurits Petrus Maria Jansen, Bavel (NL); and Vincent De Gelder, Gorinchem (NL)
Assigned to Bühler Insect Technology Solutions AG, Uzwil (CH)
Appl. No. 17/596,068
Filed by Bühler Insect Technology Solutions AG, Uzwil (CH)
PCT Filed Jun. 3, 2020, PCT No. PCT/EP2020/065293
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Dec. 2, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/245158, PCT Pub. Date Dec. 10, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 19 17 7861 (EP), filed on Jun. 3, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0295737 A1, Sep. 22, 2022
Int. Cl. A01K 67/30 (2025.01)
CPC A01K 67/30 (2025.01) 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system that provides conditioned air to a room for rearing insect larvae, the system comprising:
a plurality of crates that store the insect larvae, wherein each of the plurality of crates are stacked in the room and atop one another to form a vertical column of stacked crates, each of the plurality of crates comprising a pair of lateral cutouts disposed on opposite sides thereof,
an air inlet duct that provides conditioned air to each of the plurality of crates that form the vertical column of stacked crates, wherein the air inlet duct comprises at least one nozzle for each crate in the vertical column, wherein the position of the at least one nozzle corresponds to a position of a first of the pair of lateral cutouts of each respective crate in the vertical column, and
wherein a plurality of vertical columns of stacked crates are positioned to form at least one row of stacked crates each of the stacked crates is provided with conditioned air via a respective at least one nozzle,
an air outlet duct, wherein the air outlet duct is formed by a void formed between two columns of stacked crates, the air outlet duct disposed on a side of the columns of stacked crates opposite to the air inlet duct,
wherein the air outlet duct is communicatively connected with a respective exhaust duct disposed at a position above the air outlet duct;
wherein a suction force is provided to suction exhaust air through the air outlet duct via the exhaust duct,
wherein an upper space disposed above a ceiling of the room is formed above the exhaust duct and the air outlet duct and below a ceiling of a storage compartment to provide the suction force to the exhaust duct and the air outlet duct, the storage compartment including the room and the upper space, and
wherein the air outlet duct and the exhaust duct are connected with at least one opening formed in the ceiling of the room and to an air conditioning unit that suctions the exhaust air from the room into the upper space, at least a portion of the exhaust air being exhausted and discharged from the upper space and to an outside environment.