Insect Feeding Trap With Splitter And Wavy Cover
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing insect feeding traps face issues with structural integrity, particularly the risk of collapse under load and limited accessibility for insects while maintaining bait containment and safety from accidental access, especially by children.
Innovation Solution
The trap incorporates a splitter at each access point, featuring a body that rises from the base to the cover, providing ventilation while preventing involuntary access through a wavy cover design with vertical trunco-conical protrusions that split the access conduits, ensuring the bait remains central and secure.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of manufacture
If the cover rests only on the walls of the base, then the assembly is simpler to manufacture, but the structural integrity is compromised and the trap is at high risk of collapse
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by providing reinforced walls at specific locations where the cover rests, rather than uniformly thickening the entire base. The walls are localized under the cover contact points to provide structural support exactly where needed, maintaining simplicity elsewhere while preventing collapse.
2Ease of operation
If the access orifices are made larger to improve insect accessibility, then insects can enter and exit more easily, but the structural strength of the cover is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the cover structure by adding separate reinforcing walls that are distinct from the cover itself. These walls are integrated into the base structure but function independently to support the cover, allowing larger access openings without compromising overall structural integrity.
3Productivity
If the bait container openings are made larger to promote dispersion of chemical substances, then bait dispersion is improved, but accidental access by children becomes more possible
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary structure - the splitter with its body rising from the base to the cover - that mediates between the need for bait dispersion and child safety. The splitter creates a physical barrier that children cannot easily penetrate while still allowing chemical substances to disperse through the larger openings.
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
This design enhances structural stability, allows effective dispersion of chemical bait substances, and prevents accidental access, ensuring the bait remains in a central position for efficient insect attraction and containment.
Implementation Method 1
The splitter is placed in the central part of each access and comprises a body that rises from the base to the lower face of the cover. This maintains the ventilation characteristics that favor dispersion of the chemical substances of the bait, as well as large access spaces to the same, but introduces an obstacle that prevents involuntary access.
Implementation Method 2
The cover (6) and the base (1) are heat welded, as the notches in the cover (11) and the contact points (5) match, as well as by clipping when the top end of the pillar (3) is inserted in a housing (13) provided on the inner part of the cupola of the cover.
Implementation Method 3
This maintains the ventilation characteristics that favor dispersion of the chemical substances of the bait
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AI summary
The trap is of the type comprising a casing with bait inside the same, the casing being provided with opening communicating the inside and outside such that the insect can enter to feed and subsequently exit, or even allowing several insects to simultaneously feed on the bait without inconveniencing one another, wherein the bait is placed in a container that prevents involuntary access to the bait, and the casing comprises a cover (6) with a periphery that alternates raised (8) and recessed (9) areas that generate gaps (12) providing access to the interior.