Bug whacker light
CA 2000374 A1 · Owner: Franco, Nicholas N. · Inventors: Franco, Nicholas N.; Franco, Nicholas N.
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
Open the CIPO recordAbstract From the Canadian patent
This light device is designed to attract and kill insects by high voltage. Primarily, it consists of a large bulb shaped housing received in a common electric socket and, a smaller bulb is received in one of a pair of compartments for insect attraction. A second compartment of the pair includes a pair of extending electrodes for high voltage discharge killing of the insects, and a step-up transformer is electrically connected to the electrodes and is mounted in a neck portion of the large bulb. -8-
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Listed from its CIPO record in Patent Yard's archive of Canadian patents past their term. Its claims, description and drawings are in the CIPO record and on Google Patents, and the Claude kit works from them.
Why it's free to use
- Filed October 10, 1989. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended October 10, 2009.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by October 10, 2011.
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