US 12,484,490 B2
Greenhouse and horticulture system
Ruben Arias, Busan (KR)
Assigned to SINETERRA INTERNATIONAL AG, Geneva (CH)
Appl. No. 18/729,689
Filed by SINETERRA INTERNATIONAL AG, Geneva (CH)
PCT Filed Jan. 19, 2023, PCT No. PCT/IB2023/050461
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jul. 17, 2024,
PCT Pub. No. WO2023/139513, PCT Pub. Date Jul. 27, 2023.
Claims priority of application No. 290012 (IL), filed on Jan. 20, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2025/0098599 A1, Mar. 27, 2025
Int. Cl. A01G 9/14 (2006.01); A01G 9/02 (2018.01)
CPC A01G 9/143 (2013.01) [A01G 9/023 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A horticulture crop growing module comprising:
a closed structure with a controlled environment treating system, and
one or more growing tray inlet/outlet ports;
the horticulture crop growing module further comprising:
a plurality of parallelly disposed single-rowed growing towers, each of said plurality of single-rowed growing towers configured to receive an array of vertically supported growing trays and to vertically move said growing trays along said single-rowed growing tower; and
a growing tray manipulation system comprising one or both of a top tray conveying system extending above the growing towers and a bottom tray conveying system extending below the growing towers, said growing tray manipulation system configured for receiving planted growing trays via the growing tray inlet/outlet port and loading them to allocated growing towers of said horticulture crop growing module, displacing the growing trays through treating stations within the horticulture crop growing module, and for displacing the growing trays out of said horticulture crop growing facility through the growing tray inlet/outlet port.