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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 21, 2020
Filed:
Jun. 12, 2013
Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Takayoshi Tanizawa, Osaka, JP;
Shin Matsugi, Kyoto, JP;
Naofumi Kodama, Shiga, JP;
Shingo Nagatomo, Osaka, JP;
Shinya Hirota, Osaka, JP;
Yoshifumi Kariatsumari, Osaka, JP;
Woo-Hyeun Jeong, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A water supply apparatus is arranged inside a house body and includes a watering apparatus that performs watering to a cluster of plants from above. The watering apparatus supplies water to the plants and controls an ambient temperature of the plants due to heat transfer utilizing vaporization heat by watering. A control apparatus acquires an environment information including the ambient temperature of the plants from an environment sensor, and performs the watering by driving the water supply apparatus in a watering period determined according to the environment information, and prohibits the watering by the water supply apparatus in an idle period that is set after the watering period so as to obtain a temperature and a humidity appropriate for growth of the plants.