| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 119226000 | Fish enclosure - recirculating type | 19 |
| 20090293812 | OVERFLOW DEVICE FOR WATER TANK - An aquarium overflow device capable of preventing inadvertent supply of water in an aquarium from being supplied to an outside during, e.g., power failure is provided. | 12-03-2009 |
| 20090301399 | FISH AND PLANT FACTORY - The present invention relates to a combined interdependent fish and plant factory. An embodiment of the present invention includes a fish house connected to a greenhouse, a biofuel source, and a generator connected to the biofuel source and to at least one of the fish house and the greenhouse, where the generator is adapted to utilize biofuel as a fuel source and to provide electrical power to at least one of the fish house and the greenhouse. An embodiment can also include a waste heat recovery boiler or an algae reactor. Another embodiment includes a method for growing plants and farming fish in a combined interdependent fish and plant factory including a fish house connected to a greenhouse, including the steps of utilizing biofuel from a biofuel source to create electric power, and providing the electric power to at least one of the fish house and the greenhouse. | 12-10-2009 |
| 20110048331 | AQUACULTURE NET WITH DIFFERENT DENSITIES OF WEIGHT - The invention relates to an aquaculture net ( | 03-03-2011 |
| 20110139085 | Cage Net - A cage net ( | 06-16-2011 |
| 20110265729 | Net, In Particular for a Basket for Pisciculture and a Method and Device for Production Thereof | 11-03-2011 |
| 20110308473 | SOLID WALL CLOSED CONTAINMENT AQUACULTURE SYSTEM - This system for cultivating marine species employs a marine-based array of floating closed-containment tanks composed of panels made of waterproof fiberglass laminate materials and internal buoyant foam-based materials. The panels, connected by flanged struts, form the walls and bottom of the tanks, which are substantially cylindrical in overall shape. The tops of the tanks are open to the atmosphere but are protected from predators via a thick mesh top net. The system also employs a filtration system which utilizes centrifugal water flow and hydraulics to remove sludge and solid matter which is then filtered and transformed into a component for use in garden fertilizers. It also uses an electronic computerized system for monitoring and controlling the marine species rearing environment. | 12-22-2011 |
| 20120111281 | Aquaponic Method and Apparatus for Use in Arid Environments - An aquaponic method and apparatus used to raise fish in fish rearing tanks is combined with hydroponic channels for growing crops, in which fertilizer nutrients from the aquaculture effluent are utilized as fertilizer. The aquaponic method and apparatus produce a first water circulation system during the day in which water is repeatedly cycled from a sump, bypassing fish rearing tanks, to a clarifier for removing solids, a degasifier for removing volatile compound, then to the hydroponic channels, and then, back from the hydroponic channels to the sump. The aquaponic method and apparatus also produce a second circulation system during the night in which water is repeatedly cycled from the sump to the fish rearing tanks, from the fish rearing tanks to the clarifier, then from the clarifier to the hydroponic channels and then back from the hydroponic channels to the sump. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120192798 | CONTAINER FOR TRANSPORTING LIVE FISH - The present invention relates to a container for transporting live fish, in which a protein skimmer is installed together with a fish tank in an interior of a cargo room of the container, bubbles discharged from the protein skimmer are stored in a large-capacity bubble tank, a water cooler having a refrigerating unit is installed in a container driver unit such that water discharged from the fish tank is cooled and resupplied to the fish tank, or water cooled by the water cooler can be brought into contact with the external air while the water is being injected into a dry filtering tank installed on the fish tank, and a filtering member impregnated with microorganisms that have been cultured therein is arranged in the dry filtering tank. | 08-02-2012 |
| 20120325161 | Finfish Containment Pens and Polyhedral Structures - A finfish aquaculture containment pen having a plurality of panels that when joined together form the majority of the exterior surface of the containment pen. The panels each comprise tension-hearing mesh material forming the exterior surface of the containment pen, a plurality of compression-bearing struts extending along the boundaries between panels, wherein the mesh material is attached to the struts along the lengths of the struts, and a plurality of hubs at which a plurality of struts and the corners of a plurality of panels abut each other. The panels can form a polyhedral structure. The mesh can comprise coated wire mesh. The struts can be curved members with convex curvature. | 12-27-2012 |
| 20130263792 | ENDLESS STREAM FISH TANK - A method for keeping fish in a live and healthy condition, wherein the fish are placed in an endless flow fish tank, which occupies relatively little space, yet allows instinctively swimming fish to swim comfortably. Aerated water is pumped in one direction through a swim chamber, and water returns through a space between inner and outer container, through return flow piping, or through a second swim chamber which also serves as a return flow chamber. | 10-10-2013 |
| 20150101539 | Nutrient Capture System - An apparatus includes a tank having a body of water, the tank having a submerged plant material zone having plant material submerged within the body of water. The apparatus also includes an irrigated plant material platform, including additional plant material which is separated from the submerged plant material. The apparatus further includes an animal raising zone in fluid communication with at least a portion of the body of water, the animal raising zone separated from the submerged plant material zone by a porous filter. The apparatus includes a tank influent stream for passing water through the plant material zone and subsequently through the animal raising zone. The system includes a recycle loop having a pump disposed within the animal raising zone for pumping a waste product from the animal raising zone to the irrigated plant material platform. The animal raising zone may be a fish raising zone. | 04-16-2015 |
| 20150136037 | ILLUMINATION SYSTEM FOR CULTIVATION OF AQUATIC ANIMALS - There is provided an illumination system ( | 05-21-2015 |
| 119227000 | With biological filter | 7 |
| 20100031893 | AQUAPONICS SYSTEM - The present invention relates to an aquaponics system and method. There is provided an aquaponics system including a tank ( | 02-11-2010 |
| 20120152176 | MICROBIAL MEDIATED CHEMICAL SEQUESTERING OF PHOSPHATE IN A CLOSED-LOOP RECIRCULATING AQUACULTURE SYSTEM - A system and method for removal of phosphates from a closed loop estuarine or marine recirculating aquaculture system (RAS), involving denitrification in the presence of a media substrate for: 1) anaerobic nitrate, nitrite and ammonia removal and 2) sequestering of excess phosphate in the RAS. Phosphate is precipitated in or on the denitrifying biofilm formed on the media substrate as phosphate salts. The phosphate salt-containing media substrate can be removed from the RAS, the phosphates can be removed, and both the substrate and the phosphates can be reused or recycled. | 06-21-2012 |
| 20130180460 | Aquaculture Pump System and Method - Embodiments of the invention provide a method of operating a pump in an aquaculture system including a water tank that houses aquatic life. The method includes monitoring a dissolved oxygen level in the culture tank, determining a flow rate threshold based on the dissolved oxygen level, and changing a speed of the pump to maintain a current flow rate through the culture tank above the flow rate threshold. | 07-18-2013 |
| 20130319342 | RECIRCULATING FISH BROODING AND FILTRATION SYSTEM - Embodiments disclosed herein disclose a fish brooding and filtration system. The system includes a brooding tank configured to contain water and fish for breeding. The brooding tank is in fluid communication a filtration tank, which is configured to extract nitrites from the water circulating through the system. A pump circulates the water through at least one conduit and an injector that receives a flow of water generated by the pump and draws air into the injector. The injector is further operable to inject a mixture of the drawn air and the water into the brooding tank. | 12-05-2013 |
| 20140041594 | Aquaponic System - An aquaponic system generally comprises an aquarium module, a garden module and a reservoir module. The aquarium module is generally configured to be installed on a supporting structure (e.g. a cabinet). The garden module is generally configured to be installed on the supporting structure near the aquarium module, in front, beside or even all around it. The garden module is generally configured to support terrestrial and/or semi-aquatic plants. The reservoir module is typically installed inside the supporting structure with the utilities (e.g. pumps). The system is generally designed such that the waste water from the aquarium module flows to the garden module where it irrigates the plants and where it is at least partially filtered by plants which consume at least some of the waste products contained in the water. | 02-13-2014 |
| 20150342161 | FISH CULTURING SYSTEM - The fish culturing system includes a culture tank for raising fish, a multi-stage filter system to clean the water in the culture tank, and an air manifold supplying air to the whole system. A water return manifold substantially surrounds the upper portion of the culture tank and a waste output manifold substantially surrounds the lower portion of the culture tank. Water flowing through the water return manifold exits through a plurality of openings into the culture tank and an air diffuser assembly aerates and induces opposing flows in the water in the culture tank. Waste material in the culture tank is drawn through the waste output manifold and directed through the multi-stage filter system to remove solid waste and reduce toxic levels of ammonia. At least one clean-out port communicates with the water return manifold and the waste output manifold for respective cleaning. An adjustable overflow pipe regulates water levels. | 12-03-2015 |
| 20160095301 | CLOSED LOOP FISH AND PLANT FARMING STRUCTURE AND METHOD - A system, method and structure are presented to allow water from a fish tank to be pumped upward to an aquaponic trough on the top floor in a multi-floor greenhouse structure, from which the water will have a gravity-fed and unpumped flow to lower troughs. Furthermore, the application describes a plumbing system to control the feed of pumped and gravity fed water through the various aquaponic troughs and back to the fish tank at predetermined intervals. | 04-07-2016 |
