Baited Insect Trap With Perimeter Closure for Leak-Free Access
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing insect traps face challenges in maintaining a larger bait volume while allowing multiple insect access, preventing bait leakage, and enabling horizontal and vertical use without sealing stations on the production line.
Innovation Solution
A container with a diaphanous interior and anchoring means, featuring elevations and a skirt with windows, allows easy assembly and sealing outside the production line, ensuring airtightness and insect access.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If the trap is sealed during shipping and storage, then the bait is protected from leakage and contamination, but the trap cannot be easily assembled or modified on the production line
Solution Approach 1:
The trap is divided into separate base and cover components that are assembled after production line exit. The base includes an integrated reservoir and the cover has access windows, allowing each component to be manufactured separately and then assembled with proper sealing, enabling both manufacturing flexibility and sealed containment.
Solution Approach 2:
The trap is assembled and sealed outside the production line before shipping. This preliminary sealing action ensures the bait containment integrity is established early, while the production line itself remains simple and doesn't require complex sealing equipment.
2Area of stationary object
If the container interior is made diaphanous, then the bait surface area is increased and insect access is facilitated, but the structural strength against vertical pressures is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The container structure is segmented into a base and a cover, with the diaphanous material used specifically for the interior surfaces where light transmission and insect visibility are needed. The base provides structural support while the cover with its access windows facilitates insect entry and bait visibility without compromising overall strength.
Solution Approach 2:
The diaphanous material is applied locally to the interior surfaces and cover portions where transparency is needed for insect access and bait visibility. The base and structural framework maintain opaque, strong materials to provide structural support against vertical pressures, creating different material properties in different locations.
3Adaptability or versatility
If the trap can be used both horizontally and vertically, then the adaptability is improved, but the risk of bait leakage increases
Solution Approach 1:
The trap is sealed and prepared for shipping before being placed in the final usage position. This preliminary sealing ensures the bait containment is established regardless of subsequent orientation, allowing the trap to be used horizontally or vertically without leakage risk.
Solution Approach 2:
The trap design accommodates dynamic repositioning from horizontal to vertical orientations. The base and cover assembly with proper sealing mechanisms allows the trap to maintain containment integrity regardless of its final usage orientation, providing versatility while preventing leakage.
4Stability of the object's composition
If the anchoring means are added to secure the cover to the base, then the structural stability is improved, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The anchoring means are merged with the base and cover structures themselves rather than being separate components. The base includes integrated anchoring features that directly engage with the cover, providing structural stability while minimizing additional parts and simplifying the overall assembly process.
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AI summary
The invention relates to an insect trap which comprises a container that, in turn, comprises a base and a cover suitable for housing the bait and with anchoring means therebetween, where this container has a series of holes, by way of accesses where the effluvia attractive to insects exit , where insects can ingress and egress after eating the bait.