Electronic insect trap
CA 2049339 A1 · Owner: Brown, Jeffrey K. · Inventors: Lazzeroni, Edward J. Jr.; Quella, John F.; Zollers, Timothy E.
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
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An electronic trap (10) for flying insects. Insects such as flies are attracted to the trap by a UV light source (22) and then alight on a conductive grid (30) with carefully spaced alternative areas of opposite potential (40, 38). A pulsed cycle of electricity stuns the insects, which then dive down to a trap (26) at the bottom of the device and, being entrapped die.
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Why it's free to use
- Filed April 10, 1990. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended April 10, 2010.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by April 10, 2012.
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