US 12,121,014 B2
Electric-shock soil treatment apparatus and method thereof
Bryan Christopher Tomm, Carmi, IL (US)
Appl. No. 16/971,730
Filed by BODEN, LLC, Lafayette, IN (US); and Bryan Christopher Tomm, Carmi, IL (US)
PCT Filed Feb. 21, 2019, PCT No. PCT/US2019/018995
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Aug. 21, 2020,
PCT Pub. No. WO2019/165099, PCT Pub. Date Aug. 29, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/634,786, filed on Feb. 23, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2020/0390081 A1, Dec. 17, 2020
Int. Cl. A01M 17/00 (2006.01); A01B 49/02 (2006.01); A01B 49/06 (2006.01); A01C 21/00 (2006.01); A01M 19/00 (2006.01); A01M 21/04 (2006.01); H02K 7/18 (2006.01); H02K 11/00 (2016.01)
CPC A01M 17/00 (2013.01) [A01B 49/027 (2013.01); A01B 49/06 (2013.01); A01C 21/002 (2013.01); A01M 19/00 (2013.01); A01M 21/046 (2013.01); H02K 7/1807 (2013.01); H02K 11/0094 (2013.01)] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus for treating soil with an electrical voltage at a pulsating frequency, wherein the apparatus comprises:
an electric generator;
high voltage wiring;
control wiring;
a unit box comprising:
a line output transformer; and
a high frequency transformer driver configured to condition an electric current and modulate a frequency of the electric current from the electric generator to the line output transformer, wherein the high frequency transformer driver includes a MOSFET circuitry for bridge gates configured to switch the high frequency transformer driver from an ON position to an OFF position within a pre-determined frequency range between about 10,000 hertz to about 200,000 hertz;
one or more electrical injectors configured to deliver the electrical voltage to the soil, wherein the electrical injector comprises a coulter assembly comprising a knife, a first coulter disc and a second coulter disc, wherein said electric current is provided from the transformer to each of the first and second coulter discs, wherein the first coulter disc is provided positively charged electric current and the second coulter disc is provided negatively charged current;
supply voltage wiring configured to provide the electric current from the transformer to the one or more electrical injectors;
a power storage device; and
a fertilizing means comprising a composition storage tank and at least one supply line configured to provide a fertilizing composition to the soil after the soils has been contacted by the coulter assembly, wherein said knife further comprises a tube having a first end and a second end, wherein the second end terminates proximate to an edge of a knife blade, wherein the tube is configured to receive a composition from the storage tank from the supply line.