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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 08, 2022
Filed:
Oct. 31, 2019
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Sergio A. Bermudez Rodriguez, Boston, MA (US);
Levente Klein, Tuckahoe, NY (US);
Alejandro G. Schrott, New York, NY (US);
Theodore G. van Kessel, Millbrook, NY (US);
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A water irrigation system is provided for irrigating a plurality of zones. The water irrigation system includes a set of acoustic pressure modulators for generating a set of modulated acoustic pressure signals that include an actuating pressure signal and a de-actuating pressure signal. The set of acoustic pressure modulators include different subsets. The different subsets control different ones of the plurality of zones by selectively providing the same or different ones of the actuating and de-actuating pressure signals to the different ones of the plurality of zones at any given time. The water irrigation system further includes a set of acoustically-reactive irrigating elements disposed in each of the plurality of zones, each including an acoustically-reactive oscillating disk based water emitter. The acoustically-reactive oscillating disk based water emitter is selectively actuated or de-actuated responsive to the actuating pressure signal and the de-actuating pressure signal, respectively.