Synergistic Essential Oil Insecticide Composition for Ant Control

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional insecticide compositions for controlling crawling insects like ants are expensive, ineffective, and exhibit side effects such as irritation and allergy, failing to adequately repel, kill, or reduce their populations.

Innovation Solution

Insecticide compositions comprising Pimpinella anisum and Syzygium aromaticum in specific weight percentages, along with excipients, exhibit synergistic activity to repel, kill, and reduce crawling insects effectively.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If conventional insecticide compositions are used, then crawling insects can be controlled, but the compositions are expensive and exhibit side effects such as irritation and allergy

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveinsect control efficacyVSAvoidirritation and allergy side effects

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The patent changes the chemical composition parameters by using plant-based essential oils (Pimpinella anisum and Syzygium aromaticum) instead of conventional synthetic insecticides. This substitution maintains insect control efficacy while eliminating harmful side effects like irritation and allergy, directly resolving the technical contradiction between reliability and harmful factors

Inventive Principle:

Principle #35Parameter changes

Solution Approach 2:

The patent creates a composite insecticide formulation combining multiple plant-based essential oils (Pimpinella anisum and Syzygium aromaticum) with excipients. This composite approach achieves synergistic insect control while using naturally derived components that reduce harmful side effects, addressing both the efficacy and safety concerns

Inventive Principle:

Principle #40Composite materials

2Reliability

If conventional insecticide compositions are used, then crawling insects can be controlled, but the compositions are expensive

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveinsect control efficacyVSAvoidcost of active agents

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSQuantity of substance

Solution Approach 1:

The patent replaces expensive conventional insecticide active agents with cheaper plant-based essential oils (Pimpinella anisum and Syzygium aromaticum). These natural ingredients provide effective insect control at lower cost, directly addressing the contradiction between maintaining efficacy and reducing substance cost

Inventive Principle:

Principle #27Cheap short-living objects (Disposable)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent changes the economic parameter by substituting costly synthetic chemicals with affordable plant-derived essential oils. This parameter change maintains the biological effectiveness against crawling insects while significantly reducing the cost of active agents

Inventive Principle:

Principle #35Parameter changes

Data Source

PatentUS20260013517A1Synergistic insecticide compositions and formulations thereof

Publication Date: 2026.01.15 ROSS LIFESCIENCE LTD

AI summary

The present disclosure provides an insecticide composition for controlling crawling insects, said composition including Pimpinella anisum in an amount ranging from 1% to 50% by weight of the composition, Syzygium aromaticum in an amount ranging from 1% to 50% by weight of the composition, and rest being an excipient. The ingredients of the composition of the present disclosure exhibit functional reciprocity therebetween, and accordingly aid in repelling, reducing, preventing, killing and/or controlling the population of crawling insects. The crawling insect is ants.