US 12,102,040 B2
Apparatus for automatically separating fine-sized seeds
Hyoujin Kim, Seoul (KR); and Ji Young Lee, Seoul (KR)
Assigned to SEOUL NATIONAL UNIVERSITY R&DB FOUNDATION, Seoul (KR)
Filed by SEOUL NATIONAL UNIVERSITY R&DB FOUNDATION, Seoul (KR)
Filed on May 15, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/317,359.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2022-0059010 (KR), filed on May 13, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2024/0074355 A1, Mar. 7, 2024
Int. Cl. A01F 12/44 (2006.01); A01F 7/02 (2006.01); A01F 11/00 (2006.01)
CPC A01F 12/446 (2013.01) [A01F 7/02 (2013.01); A01F 11/00 (2013.01)] 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus for automatically separating fine-sized seeds comprising:
a hopper where a plant object for seed separation is introduced;
a crushing separator disposed below the hopper, configured to crush the plant object being introduced from the hopper and physically separate the seeds from the plant object;
a cyclone part configured to receive the seeds and non-seed plant objects, which are crushed and separated in the crushing separator, such that by cyclone flow, the seeds sink and lighter-weighted non-seed plant objects float therein, thereby initiating separation of the seeds from the non-seed plant objects; and
a strainer filter part that is mounted to a lower end of the cyclone part and configured to pass the seeds through a strainer filter, thereby spatially separating the seeds from the non-seed plant objects,
wherein the strainer filter part is detachably mounted to the lower end of the cyclone part, such that a pore size of the strainer filter is adjustable.