Electronic Rodent Trap Parallel Plate Triggering
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing electronic rodent traps face issues such as rodents avoiding single entrance traps, inefficient triggering mechanisms leading to missed catches or false activations, and susceptibility to false triggers due to environmental conditions or non-target species interactions.
Innovation Solution
The electronic rodent trap features a high voltage killing circuit with parallel lower plates and an elevated upper plate, ensuring that the trap is only activated when a rodent fully enters and contacts both the lower and upper plates, reducing false triggers and improving dispatch efficiency.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Device complexity
If a single entrance door is used in the trap, then the device complexity is reduced, but rodent interaction decreases and trap avoidance increases
Solution Approach 1:
The trap door is divided into two separate doors instead of one single door. This segmentation allows rodents to enter through one door while being blocked from entering through the other, increasing trap interaction without significantly increasing overall device complexity.
2Device complexity
If plates are oriented in series with the rodent encountering plate one, then plate two and then plate three, then the device complexity is simplified, but the trap may not be triggered if the rodent does not fully enter or may be triggered by improperly oriented rodents
Solution Approach 1:
The killing plates are arranged in a parallel configuration rather than a series arrangement, representing a dimensional change in the spatial organization of the plates. This parallel arrangement ensures that rodents must contact multiple plates simultaneously or in sequence across different spatial dimensions, improving trigger accuracy while maintaining simplified device complexity.
3Productivity
If the trap uses remote monitoring capability with notifications, then productivity is improved through automated monitoring, but false triggers increase due to environmental conditions and non-target species interactions
Solution Approach 1:
The trap incorporates a verification mechanism that provides feedback before sending notifications. The system checks whether the triggered condition meets predetermined criteria (such as proper rodent contact with plates) before activating the notification, thereby reducing false triggers while maintaining automated monitoring productivity.
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AI summary
An electronic rodent trap and monitoring method is provided. Each trap has at least one entrance, and preferably two entrances in opposed relationship to create a longitudinal tunnel, with a pair of lower plates extending longitudinally and oriented in spaced substantially parallel relationship, and a triggering element, such as a third plate, positioned above the lower plates, and preferably adjacent the ceiling of the trap on a center baffle that also shields a bait cup. The trap is activated when the rodent, with its left and right feet on the parallel lower plates, which are preferably raised above the floor, contacts the triggering element on the center baffle. The trap is preferably modular in design with an electronics module and a tunnel module removably secured within and protected by an outer housing. The trap also has improved features for more accurate remote monitoring of rodent dispatch and kill verification.