阅读说明：本技术 动物控制系统 (Animal control system ) 是由 洛克·哈特 杰米·普利多 乔纳森·韦斯特 于 2018-06-08 设计创作，主要内容包括：一种在远程操作员的控制下的动物注射系统,该系统可用于向动物注射药物和/或RFID芯片。提供食物诱饵的目的是要求动物露出其胸部和下侧。摄像机用于确定动物的定向及其性别。将动物的图像发送到远程操作员,远程操作员确定是否要对动物进行注射。手机网络可用于将动物图像传输给远程操作员,并将操作员的指令发送给注射系统。该系统可以包括温度控制系统,以将药物维持在预选的温度范围内。(an animal injection system under the control of a remote operator, the system being operable to inject drugs and/or RFID chips into an animal the purpose of providing food bait is to expose the chest and underside of the animal.)

An animal injection device of species, comprising:

an animal bait holder;

an injection system disposed adjacent to an animal bait holder;

a camera, said th camera positioned to enable a remote operator to detect when an animal has exposed its chest to said injection system;

a second camera positioned to enable a remote operator to determine the sex of the animal; and

a transmitter to transmit images from the th camera and the second camera to a remote operator.

2. The animal injection device of claim 1, wherein the injection system comprises:

at least dart cartridges, the at least dart cartridges comprising syringe darts, and

a control system that allows a remote operator to fire a dart cartridge to inject an animal with a syringe dart.

3. The animal injection device of claim 2, wherein the at least dart cartridges are gas-driven dart cartridges.

4. The animal injection device of claim 2, wherein the syringe dart contains a medication for an animal.

5. The animal injection device of claim 4, wherein the drug is a fertility control agent.

6. The animal injection device of claim 4, wherein the drug is a disease control agent.

7. The animal injection device of claim 4, further comprising a temperature control system for maintaining the medicament within a predetermined temperature range.

8. The animal injection device of claim 7, wherein the temperature control system comprises a Peltier system or or more gel packs.

9. The animal injection device of claim 2, wherein the injector dart comprises an RFID chip.

10. The animal injection device of claim 2, wherein the control system includes a cell phone modem and gateway router for sending images to a remote operator and sending and receiving data and commands.

11. The animal injection device of claim 1, wherein the animal bait holder is configured such that an animal accessing the animal bait holder exposes its chest to the th camera and the injection system and such that the bottom side of the animal is exposed to the second camera.

12. The animal injection device of claim 1, further comprising:

a second injection system disposed adjacent to the animal bait holder;

a third camera positioned to enable a remote operator to determine when a second animal has exposed its chest to the second injection system;

a fourth camera positioned to enable a remote operator to determine the gender of the second animal.

A method of injecting animals, the method comprising:

providing a bait station to attract an animal;

transmitting or more images showing the presence of an animal at the bait station and or more second images showing the underside of the animal to the remote operator, and

the injection is performed on the animal in accordance with the command of the remote operator.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the step of injecting the animal comprises launching a syringe dart containing a medication from a dart cartridge.

15. The method of claim 14, further comprising the steps of: maintaining the temperature of the injection station within a predetermined range.

16. The method of claim 13, wherein the step of injecting the animal comprises: a syringe dart containing an RFID chip is launched from a dart barrel.

17. The method of claim 13, further comprising positioning a camera to capture the or more images and positioning a second camera to capture the or more second images.

18. The method of claim 13, wherein the transmitting step comprises:

connecting the th camera and the second camera to a handset modem and gateway router system, and

the and second images of the th and second cameras are sent to the remote operator via cell phone transmission.

19. The method of claim 13, wherein the or more second images enable the remote operator to determine the gender of the animal.

Technical Field

The present invention relates to a system for assisting in the control and vaccination of animals, and more particularly to an apparatus and method for administering drugs to wild or domestic animals such as mares or cattle and, if necessary, simultaneously injecting Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) chips into the animals while administering the required vaccines.in instances, the number of mares causes significant damage to the pasture and themselves.

Background

Disclosure of Invention

The present invention relates to a animal injection device comprising a bait holder, an injection system arranged adjacent to the bait holder, a third camera positioned to enable a remote operator to detect when an animal has exposed its chest to the injection system, a second camera positioned to enable the remote operator to determine the animal's gender, and a transmitter to transmit images from the cameras to the remote operator the injection system may comprise a control system and at least dart cartridges containing injector darts, the control system allowing the remote operator to trigger the dart cartridges to inject the animal with the injector darts.

The present invention also relates to a method for injecting an animal, the method comprising providing a bait station to attract the animal, transmitting or more th images and or more second images to a remote operator, the or more th images showing the presence of the animal at the bait station, the or more second images showing the bottom side of the animal, and injecting the animal in accordance with the operator's command, the step of injecting the animal preferably comprising launching a syringe dart containing a medication from a dart cartridge.

The objects, advantages and novel features, and other areas of applicability of the present invention will be set forth in part in the detailed description to follow, taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, and in part will become apparent to those skilled in the art upon examination of the following, or may be learned by practice of the invention. The objects and advantages of the invention may be realized and attained by means of the instrumentalities and combinations particularly pointed out in the appended claims.

Drawings

The accompanying drawings, which are incorporated in and constitute a part of this specification, , illustrate one or more embodiments and, together with the description , serve to explain the principles of the invention.

Fig. 1 is a perspective view showing an injection system according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a schematic cross-sectional side view of a dart rack of the system of FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is a schematic view of the operating components and remote control station of the system of FIG. 1; and

fig. 4 is a schematic top view of another embodiment of an injection system according to the present invention.

Detailed Description

At least embodiments of the present invention are animal injection systems preferably including an animal bait station, an injection station preferably disposed adjacent to the bait station, at least individual cameras, each of the at least individual cameras preferably adjacent to the bait station, and a transmitter that transmits images from the cameras to a remote operator the injection station may include at least gas-driven dart cartridges for transmitting the injectors and a control system that allows the remote operator to trigger the dart cartridges to inject an animal at the bait station.

In embodiments of the present invention, fig. 1 shows an injection dispensing system 10, the injection dispensing system 10 is a remote control system for injecting RFID tags or chips and injecting vaccines, fertility control agents, tranquilizers or euthanics into large to medium animals, particularly wildlife animals such as horses, deer, antelopes, wolfs, pigs and donkeys, for example, the injection dispensing system 10 may also be used with domestic animals such as sheep, cattle or goats, the injection dispensing system 10 injects syringes containing drugs into the animal to treat diseases and apply fertility control drugs such as PZP or gonacon to treat diseases that may include, but are not limited to, west nile disease, chronic wasting disease or any animal disease requiring injection using a syringe Dart type, the syringe Dart(s) may also contain a tranquilizer or euthanizer (if applicable) injection or syringe may be of a commercially available type manufactured by Pnu-darts corporation, if applicable, the injection dispensing system may be a variety of weather resistant Dart dispensing systems such as a bait station 16, a variety of a weather resistant Dart dispensing system 20, such as a bait station 16, a dry Dart dispensing system 20, a bait station 18 may be designed to contain a variety of bait station 18, and a bait station may be designed to contain bait for dispensing a variety of bait cartridges 16 to contain bait for animals such as may be used to contain bait and to contain bait for a variety of bait stations or to contain bait stations such as a variety of bait stations or as may be designed to contain bait stations 16 to contain bait for animals that may be used to contain bait stations or to contain bait stations such as may be able to contain bait stations such as may be used to contain bait stations such as may be able to contain bait stations 16 to contain bait stations or to contain bait stations to treat diseases such as may be able to treat animals such as may be expected to treat animals such as a variety of weather resistant Dart animals such as may be expected to treat animals such as dry Dart animals such as may be expected to treat animals such as a weather resistant to treat animals such as a variety of bait stations as a variety of weather resistant Dart 18 to treat animals such as a weather resistant Dart 18 to treat animals such as a weather.

The dart rack 22 preferably includes a dart barrel 20, the dart barrel 20 containing a syringe dart containing a medication, with a portion exposed to deliver the dart to an animal 24. the dart rack 22 also preferably includes a dart barrel 56, the dart barrel 56 with a syringe dart containing an RFID chip, and a portion of the dart rack 22 exposed to deliver the dart to the animal 24. the chest camera 28 and the gender camera 30 are preferably mounted outside the dart rack 22. these cameras can be located at other locations within the injection dosing system 10 as long as camera functionality is enabled.the chest camera 28 is mounted to observe when the animal 24 exposes its chest on the dart barrel 20. the gender camera 30 is mounted to view the underside of the animal 24 to allow determination of its gender to be achieved.an operator located at the remote station 31 (see FIG. 3) can view images of these cameras and determine if the animal 24 should be injected with a dart/cooled by the dart/heat system 21, the battery temperature of the dart rack can be read in a battery heating system, if the battery temperature of the dart rack 22 is not set to a temperature reading system, if the battery temperature reading system is required to prevent the battery temperature reading of the dart rack 23, if the battery temperature reading system is not set in a temperature reading system 14.

Fig. 3 shows in schematic form the operating components 14 and also includes in schematic form the remote operating station 31. in operation, multiple injection dosing systems 10 are expected to be positioned over an area of hundreds of square kilometers it should be understood that the environment may require such systems 10 to be positioned in a denser array or in any arrangement, but the remote control functions to be described allow such systems 10 to be placed over a wider area the chest camera 28 and the gender camera 30 are preferably controlled by the components 14 fig. 3 shows that the injection dosing system 10 is preferably designed to operate with a cell phone 3g/4g network the cell phone modem 32 receives the cell phone data signals and with the gateway router 34 acting as an internal data distribution center for the injection dosing system 10 the use of this technology allows for minimal hard wiring and flexibility brought when the components are located on site the cartridge if no service is provided, a transmission system ranging about 20 kilometers may be used if no further two communication systems are available, such as a satellite based communication system in the satellite, a battery based communication system 14, a battery operated by a battery mounted controller 40, a remote control system 20, a battery mounted controller 50, a microcontroller 40, and a microcontroller 40, and a microcontroller 40.

Fig. 4 shows an embodiment of a multiple injection dosing station 100, the multiple injection dosing station 100 providing three possible locations for dart to be launched into an animal (e.g., a horse), although the single station system discussed above is operationally reasonable, in some cases it may be useful to give the dosing station a location with multiple dart launches, the station 100 preferably has a single bait rack 102 containing a bait 104, the bait 104 and the single bait rack 102 in turn defining a bait station, the station 100 also preferably includes a single equipment rack 108, the single equipment rack 108 containing operating components as previously described, the station 100 as shown includes three dart racks 108, 110, 112, the dart racks 108, 110, 112 contain incoming dart cartridges 114, 116, 118 for drugs and vaccines, respectively, as previously described, there may be multiple stacked cartridges at each location, the racks 108, 110, 112 may also include RFID cartridges 120, 122, 124 for launching RFID chips 120, 122 may be located in a lower, a plurality of such cartridges 120, 122, 124, 3626 may be located in a lower, a lower video camera rack 120, 3614, a plurality of such as a dart storage rack 120, 122, a dart storage device, a dart storage, a dart.

In operation, many injection dosing stations will be placed in the area of .an operator at the remote station 31 can be made aware of the approach of the animal 24. the operator can view or more gender cameras to determine the gender of the animal, in the case of a wild horse, if PZP fertility control is targeted, can determine that the horse is mares and or more cameras show that the horse is in a location to receive darts, the operator can fire fertility control darts into the horse, if the same horse returns at a later date and has had an RFID chip injected into the horse, the operator can read the RFID chip and avoid medication injections at steps until a prescribed time.

It is noted that in the specification and claims, "about" or "approximately" means within twenty percent (20%) of the number of the referenced digits unless the context clearly dictates otherwise, the singular forms "," "," and "the " include plural references, thus, for example, reference to " functional groups" means or more functional groups, and reference to "the methods" includes a number of equivalent steps and methods that would be understood and appreciated by those skilled in the art, and so forth.

Although the invention has been described in detail with particular reference to the described embodiments, other embodiments can achieve the same results. Variations and modifications of the present invention will be obvious to those skilled in the art, and it is intended to cover in the appended claims all such modifications and equivalents. The entire disclosures of the above-cited references, applications, patents, and publications are incorporated herein by reference.