The present disclosure relates to the field of spraying drone's spraying technologies, and more particularly, to a variable-rate spraying nozzle device and a spraying drone.
At present, the plant protection device and spraying technology are relatively backward. A utilization rate of agricultural chemicals is less than 30%, a loss of agricultural chemicals is up to 60%-70% or more, and an uneven distribution of agricultural chemicals is up to 46.6%. The utilization rate of agricultural chemicals is low, resulting in that a large amount of agricultural chemicals needs to be sprayed to achieve an anticipated spraying effect, which undoubtedly causes a large amount of waste of agricultural chemicals and environmental contamination. Therefore, an improvement of spraying technology is very important for improving the effective utilization of agricultural chemicals.
The spraying of agricultural chemicals with the same amount in an entire area is often performed by a conventional spraying drone. That is, the amount of the agricultural chemicals is constant during the spraying of the spraying drone, which therefore cannot be adapted to local conditions. This leads to problems such as low effective utilization of agricultural chemicals and environmental contamination, which seriously endangers a sustainable development of agriculture. In order to achieve an object of “precision agriculture”, each piece of arable land is invested with the most reasonable resource and positioned in the most precise operation to obtain the greatest economic and environmental benefits. According to this principle, it is necessary to propose a variable-rate nozzle device for spraying agricultural chemicals and a spraying drone.
With regard to the deficiencies existing in the prior art, the present disclosure aims to provide a variable-rate spraying nozzle device and a spraying drone. The device achieves variable-rate spraying of agricultural chemicals, saves the agricultural chemicals, and avoids environmental contamination.
The above technical object of the present disclosure is achieved by the following technical solution: a variable-rate spraying nozzle device includes a chemical supply assembly for supplying a chemical solution and an atomization spray assembly for atomizing and spraying the chemical solution. The atomization spray assembly includes a plurality of spray housings arranged in sequence from top to bottom, chemical solution channels for passing the chemical solution are provided between inner portions of adjacent two of the spray housings, and the plurality of spray housings are assembled together to form an inverted tapered exterior structure; spray holes are densely and circumferentially provided in each of the plurality of spray housings; the plurality of spray housings are connected with an atomization power mechanism comprising a plurality of atomization rotation shafts coaxially and fixedly arranged with the plurality of spray housings respectively and power mechanisms for driving the plurality of atomization rotation shafts to rotate, and the power mechanisms include motors and transmission mechanisms for connecting main spindles of the motors with the atomization rotation shafts; the plurality of atomization rotation shafts in the atomization power mechanism corresponding to the plurality of spray housings are coaxially disposed; the motors in the atomization power mechanism are connected with a speed control module.
The chemical supply assembly includes a water tank, a chemical tank, a chemical mixer, pumps and pipes, the water tank and the chemical tank are connected to the chemical mixer via the pipes and the pumps, and a chemical discharging end of the chemical mixer is connected to an uppermost one of the spray housings via the pipes.
In some embodiments, inner bottoms of the plurality of spray housings are of tapered structure, and each inner bottom is uniformly and circumferentially provided with guiding grooves extending downward from the plurality of spray holes along the inner bottom.
In some embodiments, one of the atomization rotation shafts, which is corresponding to a lowermost one of the spray housings, may be a hollow atomization rotation shaft; a liquid collecting recess may be provided at a center of the inner bottom of the lowermost one of the spray housings; the guiding grooves on the lowermost one of the spray housings may be in communication with the liquid collecting recess, an inner cavity of the hollow atomization rotation shaft may be in communication with the liquid collecting recess and may be provided with a drain pipe for discharging an excess chemical solution to outside.
In some embodiments, the chemical solution channels may be arranged in parts of the plurality of spray housings which may be connected to the plurality of atomization rotation shafts, and the chemical solution channels may be a plurality of arranged circumferentially chemical solution channels.
In some embodiments, the chemical solution channels are further arranged at areas of the plurality of spray housings at which the guiding grooves are located, and the chemical solution channels may penetrate through the plurality of spray housings from top to bottom.
In some embodiments, in the plurality of spray housings arranged from top to bottom, the plurality of atomization rotation shafts may be provided in sequence and decrease in diameter in sequence, such that one of the atomization rotation shafts, which is corresponding to a first one of the spray housings, may be coaxially arranged in one of the atomization rotation shafts corresponding to a second one of the spray housings, the first one may be positioned lower than the second one; and bearings may be provided between two adjacent atomization rotation shafts.
In some embodiments, the motors may be fixed on a motor fixing frame, and the transmission mechanisms may be gear transmission mechanisms; the gear transmission mechanisms corresponding to the plurality of spray housings may be arranged on a mounting bracket which is provided above the uppermost one of the spray housings, and the gear transmission mechanisms may be staggered in a height direction; driving gears of the gear transmission mechanisms may be connected respectively with the main spindles of the motors, and driven gears of the gear transmission mechanisms may be connected respectively with the plurality of atomization rotation shafts.
In some embodiments, the speed control module may be a motor speed control module employing a PWM control mode.
In some embodiments, the plurality of spray housings may include three spray housings that are a first spray housing, a second spray housing and a third spray housing arranged in sequence from top to bottom.
A spraying drone is further provided by the present disclosure, and the above variable-rate spraying nozzle device is arranged on the drone.
The present disclosure has the following beneficial effects compared with the prior art:
1. The present disclosure provides multi-spray housings, so the number of the working spray housings can be selected to adjust a spray amount in a macro aspect, and the spray housings each have different spraying ranges which can be selected for operation of the spray housings. The rotational speed of the motor can be controlled by the speed control module in a micro aspect to change the spray amount of each spray housing. In this way, by the combination of macro and micro adjustment methods, the precise control of the spray amount of the agricultural chemicals is achieved.
2. The variable-rate spraying nozzle device of the present disclosure is combined with high-efficiency operation advantages of the spraying drone, which can realize the variable and efficient spraying operation on field cash crops. The “air preparation” and “air spraying” of the chemicals are implemented in the present disclosure. The macro variable-rate spraying and the micro variable-rate spraying are mutually assisted each other for spraying as required, reducing the waste of agricultural chemicals, as well as contamination and destruction of the environment.
3. The variable-rate spraying operation on the field cash crops is achieved by the spraying drone of the present disclosure, so as to effectively improve the utilization rate of agricultural chemicals. The spray with two reductions (i.e., reductions of the waste of agricultural chemicals and the environmental contamination) on field crops can be readily carried out and can replace the existing variable-rate spraying mode. The anti-flight operations with variable-rate spraying are realized in a real sense from the source.
In order to more clearly illustrate the embodiments of the disclosure or the technical schemes in the prior art, the drawings required in the embodiments will be briefly described below. It is obvious that the drawings in the following description are only some embodiments of the disclosure, for those skilled in the art, other drawings can be obtained according to the drawings without creative work.
The technical schemes in the embodiments of the present disclosure will be clearly and completely described below combining with the accompanying drawings in the embodiments of the present disclosure. It is obvious that the embodiments described are only a part of the embodiments of the present disclosure, rather than all the embodiments. Based on the embodiments of the present disclosure, all other embodiments, which are obtained by a person skilled in the art based on the embodiments of the present disclosure without creative work, shall fall within the protection scope of the present disclosure.
The disclosure aims to provide a variable-rate spraying nozzle device, which is used for solving the problems existing in the prior art.
In order to make the above purposes, features and advantages of the present disclosure more comprehensible, the present disclosure is further and in detail described combining with the accompanying drawings and specific embodiments thereof.
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The atomization spray assembly A includes multiple spray housings arranged in sequence from top to bottom, and chemical solution channels 24 for passing the chemical solution is provided between inner portions of two adjacent spray housings, and the multiple spray housings are assembled together to form an inverted tapered exterior structure; spray holes 15 are densely and circumferentially provided in each of the multiple spray housings; each of the multiple spray housings is connected with an atomization power mechanism. The atomization power mechanism includes multiple atomization rotation shafts coaxially and fixedly arranged with the multiple spray housings respectively, and power mechanisms for driving the multiple atomization rotation shafts to rotate. And the power mechanisms include motors and transmission mechanisms for connecting main spindles of the motors with the atomization rotation shafts; the multiple atomization rotation shafts in the atomization power mechanism corresponding to the multiple spray housings are coaxially disposed. The motors in the atomization power mechanisms are connected with a speed control module.
The chemical supply assembly includes a water tank B, a chemical tank C, a chemical mixer D (being chemical mixing tube D in this embodiment), a water supply pump E, a chemical supply pump F and pipes. The water tank B and the chemical tank C are connected to the chemical mixer via the pipe and the pump, and a chemical discharging end of the chemical mixer is connected to an uppermost one of the spray housings via the pipes 19.
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In this embodiment, the speed control module is a motor speed control module employing a Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) control mode. The spray amount of each spray housing can be adjusted by a control mode of the PWN, thereby achieving micro adjustment of the spray amount. And by the combination of macro and micro adjustment methods, precise control of spray amount of agricultural chemicals is further achieved.
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In addition, the variable-rate spraying nozzle device of the present disclosure may be applied to a ground spraying operation device.
The working principle of the variable-rate spraying nozzle device of the present embodiment is as follows.
Water in the water tank and the chemicals in the chemical tank in the chemical supply assembly are transported to the chemical mixer by means of the pump in a setting proportion; after mixing, the chemical solution is formed and transported into the first spray housing 5, and the chemical solution in the first spray housing 5 flows downward through the chemical solution channels 24 into the second spray housing 6 and the third spray housing 7. One or more of the multiple power mechanisms can be selected to work according to requirements of the spray amount. For a single spray housing, during operation, a power of the motor is transmitted to a corresponding atomization rotation shaft via a transmission mechanism, thereby driving the spray housing to rotate. The chemical solution moves rapidly and atomizes under a rotation of the spray housing. The atomized chemical solution particles are sprayed from the spray holes 15 under the action of centrifugal force. For adjusting the spray amount, on the one hand, it can be macroscopically controlled by selecting the number of the working spraying housings. Since multiple spray housings are assembled together to form the inverted tapered structure, the spraying operation ranges of the spray housings do not interfere with each other, and the spraying radius of the upper spray housing is greater than the spraying radius of the lower spray housing, as shown in
The principle and the implementation mode of the present disclosure are explained by using specific examples in the present specification, and the above description of the embodiments is only used to help understand the method and the core idea of the present disclosure; meanwhile, for a person skilled in the art, it may be changed in the specific embodiments and the application range according to the idea of the present disclosure. In conclusion, the contents of the description should not be construed as limitations on the disclosure.
Number | Date | Country | Kind |
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201911103613.7 | Nov 2019 | CN | national |
Filing Document | Filing Date | Country | Kind |
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PCT/CN2021/070774 | 1/8/2021 | WO | 00 |