Avian Flight Diverter with Segmented Visual Deterrent
Find Innovative SolutionsGenerate Solutions
Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional avian flight diverters fail to effectively deter birds from colliding with aerial lines due to lack of visual deterrent, structural integrity, complex installation processes, and safety concerns, leading to potential harm to birds and increased costs for electric utilities.
Innovation Solution
An avian flight diverter with a tubular member and avian flight diverting member, featuring a resilient design that securely engages aerial lines, remains fixed, and is visually observable from multiple flight paths, allowing for safe and simple installation using insulated poles, reducing attraction to birds and minimizing movement.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If conventional avian flight diverters are used, then birds may be deterred from colliding with aerial lines, but the devices lack sufficient visual deterrent and structural integrity
Solution Approach 1:
The avian flight diverter is divided into multiple components: a body portion, an avian flight diverting member, and an aerial line fastening member. This segmentation allows each component to perform its specific function - the body provides structural support, the diverting member provides visual deterrent, and the fastening member ensures secure attachment to the aerial line.
Solution Approach 2:
The avian flight diverting member is designed with high-contrast visual characteristics that make it visible to birds in flight. The component's configuration and visual properties are optimized to create a deterrent effect, causing birds to perceive the aerial line as hazardous and avoid collision.
2Reliability
If conventional avian flight diverters are installed on aerial lines, then bird collision prevention is improved, but installation requires violating safe working clearances and increases costs
Solution Approach 1:
The avian flight diverter incorporates self-fastening capabilities through the aerial line fastening member that secures the device to the aerial line without requiring complex installation procedures or violation of safe working clearances. The device is designed to be installed using insulated poles, maintaining safety distances from energized lines.
3Object-affected harmful factors
If conventional avian flight diverters are designed with physical barriers, then birds are prevented from contacting structures, but birds can learn to work around barriers or use them as perches
Solution Approach 1:
The avian flight diverting member uses visual deterrent properties rather than relying solely on physical barriers. The high-contrast visual design creates a deterrent effect that prevents birds from approaching the aerial line in the first place, rather than merely blocking their path.
Solution Approach 2:
The device creates a visual barrier that prevents birds from even attempting to contact the aerial line. By making the aerial line visually prominent and hazardous-looking before the bird reaches it, the device preemptively stops the collision attempt rather than relying on physical contact prevention.
4Ease of operation
If conventional avian flight diverters are mounted on aerial lines, then bird diversion is attempted, but the devices rotate or flutter appearing like birds in flight, attracting birds instead of diverting them
Solution Approach 1:
Instead of allowing the diverter to rotate or flutter like a bird, the design inverts the approach by creating a stable, non-mimicking visual structure. The avian flight diverting member is configured to remain stationary or with minimal movement, avoiding the appearance of living bird-like motion that would attract birds.
5Device complexity
If conventional avian flight diverters are designed with single visual plane configuration, then installation is simplified, but the device is not viewable to birds in vertical or horizontal flight paths
Solution Approach 1:
The avian flight diverting member is designed with three-dimensional configuration that provides visual deterrent from multiple angles and flight paths. The component's geometry ensures visibility to birds whether they are approaching vertically or horizontally, creating comprehensive coverage without excessive complexity.
Data Source
AI summary
Generally, an avian flight diverter fixed to an aerial line to divert the flight of birds. Specifically, an avian flight diverter having a body coupled to an avian flight diverting member having a first component and a second component generally a mirror image of the other joined in opposed fixed angled relation, each of the components of generally flat material having a first face and a second face having a surface area sufficient to divert flight of an avian animal when secured to an aerial line.