Carousel Insect Trap with Multi-Bait Support
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional insect traps are limited by their design, allowing only one or two types of baits and requiring multiple traps for different bait types, leading to high costs and cumbersome storage, as well as issues with bait contamination, light obstruction, and bait durability.
Innovation Solution
A Carousel-Type Insect Trap with clamping arms and a tubular design that supports multiple bait types, including solids, liquids, and glue boards, with a sealed cover to prevent contamination and improve bait handling, allowing for efficient and simultaneous use of various baits without physical contact, reducing light obstruction, and enhancing trap clarity.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If conventional traps use fixed support structures for baits, then the trap design is simple, but the trap can only support one or two types of baits simultaneously
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a universal support structure (carousel device) that can accommodate multiple types of baits including solids, liquids, and glue boards through standardized mounting mechanisms. This single trap design replaces the need for multiple specialized traps, allowing users to switch between different bait types without changing the trap itself.
Solution Approach 2:
The support structure is divided into multiple independent bait holders arranged on a carousel, each capable of holding different bait types. This segmentation allows the trap to support multiple baits simultaneously while maintaining a unified trap design.
2Reliability
If multiple traps are purchased to support different bait types, then each trap can be optimized for its specific bait, but the cost and storage requirements increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The trap is designed as a multi-functional device that can hold and optimize for multiple bait types within a single unit. The carousel support structure provides standardized interfaces for different bait formats while maintaining optimal positioning and presentation for each bait type, eliminating the need to purchase multiple specialized traps.
3Device complexity
If baits are placed directly on trap structures, then the trap design is simple, but bait contamination occurs reducing effectiveness
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces removable bait holders and carousel components as intermediary elements between the bait and the trap structure. These intermediaries can be easily removed, replaced, and cleaned without affecting the main trap body, preventing contamination while maintaining simple overall design. The standardized interfaces allow quick exchange of bait carriers.
4Strength
If the trap structure obstructs light, then the structural integrity is maintained, but insect capture effectiveness decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The trap structure uses selective transparency where light-blocking materials are applied only in specific areas that do not interfere with insect attraction and capture zones. The carousel and support structures are positioned or designed to minimize light obstruction while maintaining structural strength, allowing light to pass through critical areas that insects respond to.
Data Source
AI summary
The invention refers to a Carousel-Type Insect Trap, in order to control or monitor insects through different types of bait mounted on a carousel, thus facilitating the handling of baits used in traps for the monitoring of insects, which is of great economic importance, with uniformity and consistency, thus establishing a world-wide monitoring system for plague control, which will allow us to compare capture results with no variables in the handling and placement of baits and retention substrates inside the traps.