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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 09, 2025
Filed:
Nov. 30, 2021
Fieldbot, Llc, Newport Beach, CA (US);
Kevin J. Abts, Newport Beach, CA (US);
Gerald L. Abts, Highlands Ranch, CO (US);
Leslie H. Bruntz, Elkhorn, NE (US);
D. James Gonske, Redding, CA (US);
FIELDBOT, LLC, Newport Beach, CA (US);
Abstract
An apparatus may include a reservoir configured to hold a fluid additive, an injector element to inject the fluid additive into the primary fluid applied to a ground surface by the irrigation apparatus, a flow sensor to measure the flow of the fluid additive from the reservoir to the injector element, and a pump apparatus controller configured to maintain a rate of pumping of the fluid additive based on the output of the flow sensor. The additive pumping apparatus configured to vary a pump motor speed and thereby the rate at which the fluid additive may be pumped into the primary fluid of the fluid application assembly, the adjustment to the pumping rate being based upon the current position and the actual speed of movement of the distal-end of the outermost span of the irrigation apparatus in the field.