Apparatus and method for placing plant cuttings and cutting holding unit for planting cuttings in a cultivation medium

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PATENT NO 9301453
APP PUB NO 20130333600A1
SERIAL NO

13949338

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The present invention relates to an apparatus for placing cuttings of plants in a cultivation medium. The apparatus has a cuttings supply system for supplying a plurality of cuttings, a camera system for identifying cuttings among the plurality of cuttings that are suitable for individual pick up using pattern recognition, a pick-up tool for picking up cuttings identified by the camera system, and a planting system for simultaneously planting multiple cuttings in the cultivation medium. The planting system and the pick-up tool are separate entities. Furthermore, the pick-up tool is arranged for suitably placing picked-up cuttings in the planting system.

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
De, Koning Dirk Jan Son en Breugel, NL 3 10
Schouten, Willem Nicolaas Nederhemert, NL 4 11
Struijk, Wim Delwunen, NL 9 23
Van, Der El Wim Ameide, NL 10 25

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