Adhesive Gap Insect Trap Housing for Covered-Space Capture
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing insect capture devices struggle with accurately positioning adhesive surfaces to effectively trap insects, particularly those that prefer narrow or covered spaces, leading to incomplete capture and escape.
Innovation Solution
A device with a housing featuring a raised portion and notches or ledges to securely position a glue board overhead, allowing insects to pass through a gap and adhere to an adhesive surface, optionally combined with a pesticide for enhanced capture and kill.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If a flat glue board is placed with its sticky side up, then the device structure is simple, but only the edges of the board are filled with insects while the center remains empty
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transitions from a flat 2D adhesive surface to a 3D cylindrical adhesive structure. The adhesive is applied in a spiral pattern around a core, creating a cylindrical shape that insects can enter and become trapped throughout the entire surface area, not just at the edges.
Solution Approach 2:
The adhesive board is formed into a cylindrical shape with curved surfaces. This curvature allows insects to enter the cylindrical structure from multiple directions and become trapped on the curved adhesive surface, improving capture effectiveness compared to flat boards where insects tend to avoid the center.
2Ease of operation
If adhesive boards are rolled into cylinders, then insect capture improves, but cockroaches fill the underside of the roll making installation difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The cylindrical adhesive board is segmented into discrete sections or layers that can be individually handled and installed. The spiral adhesive application creates natural segments that can be separated, allowing for easier installation and replacement without dealing with a completely filled cylindrical roll.
Solution Approach 2:
A core structure or support element is introduced as an intermediary around which the adhesive is applied in a spiral pattern. This core provides structural support and creates a hollow center, allowing the adhesive cylinder to be installed without cockroaches filling the entire underside, while still maintaining the effective cylindrical capture shape.
3Area of stationary object
If the adhesive surface is made larger to improve capture, then more insects can be trapped, but positioning accuracy decreases leading to improper installation
Solution Approach 1:
The adhesive is applied in a spiral pattern around a core, creating a cylindrical 3D structure. This dimensional change allows the adhesive surface area to be increased by extending the spiral length rather than simply expanding the board footprint, maintaining positioning accuracy through the structured spiral application method.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
Ensures efficient and complete capture of insects by ensuring the adhesive is positioned optimally, enhancing trapping efficiency and allowing for easy installation and replacement of glue boards.
Implementation Method 1
an adhesive is placed relative to the device so an insect moves generally underneath the adhesive and gets 'caught' by the overhead adhesive
Data Source
AI summary
An insect capture device is used to monitor, capture, and/or kill insects. The device has a raised portion to create a gap between a surface and the device to entice insects to pass under. At the raised portion, a glue board includes an adhesive facing the surface. As the insect passes under the raised portion, the insect can unknowingly become attached to the adhesive portion and stuck thereto. To aid in installing the glue board, one or more sections of the glue board can be free of adhesive to connect or fit to a part of the device to hold the glue board in place, while also allowing for easy removal to replace the glue board with a new one, free of captured insects.