CN1215304A - Fly trap with two or more directional light patterns - Google Patents
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Abstract
An insect trap (400) using attractant light, comprising a source of insect attractant light and a housing (404) that can be mounted on a generally planar or flat mounting surface. The housing (404) and the source of light cooperate to form a bidirectional or a multidirectional (overlapping or non-overlapping) pattern of insect attractant light. The housing comprises one, two or more openings for the insect attractant light (401) that is reflected and radiated onto the flat mounting surface. The housing and the source of insect attractant light can cooperate to form a light pattern directed in a continuous display pattern that can surround the housing. The housing openings further facilitate the entry of flying insect pests into the trap. As the insects enter the trap, they are immobilized on an insect immobilization surface mounted within the trap. Cooperation between the direct radiant light, reflected light and the position of the housing and insect immobilization surface forms at least two (preferably non-overlapping) light displays that can substantially increase capture rates when compared to prior traps. The trap can also display a light pattern substantially surrounding the trap housing.
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FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a kind ofly can lure flying insect and insect is confined illumination trapper (trapping trap) in the trapper casing.This trapper encases an insect attractant light with a casing.The internal reflection surface of this casing and cooperation forms a kind of multidirectional light image on wall or the smooth installed surface of this class of ceiling (ceiling).This image can comprise one or two, three or more overlapping or nonoverlapping light that generally is arranged in any direction shows.In a kind of two-way trapper, the direction of light from each demonstration on smooth installed surface is arranged to be separated by 180 °.A kind of like this configuration can improve catch rate.Have in the trapper of three or more light demonstrations at other, light image can be arranged or arrange arbitrarily by the interval of rule.The invention still further relates to a kind of use throws light on so that lure the flying insect trap of flying insect with the image around this trapper basically.The background of invention
The flying insect trap that light source is lured in some uses had been proposed in prior art.The Insect-O-Cutor winged insect trapper of being made by I-O-C uses the bulb that exposes that has the high-voltage electric shock system.Pickens and Thimijan disclose be used for traping and the flying insect that shocks by electricity expose ultraviolet emission light source and electrical network.Another kind of trapper system is general use onwards or the ultraviolet black light that flatly exposes so as attract insects to trapper.In trapper, insect is dropped on the electrical network at chamber rear portion.Electrical network provides action of low-voltage pulse, and insect is flown on the nontoxic adhesive insect-catching plate.The insect of grasping can abandon with removable adhesive plate later on.Equally, people's such as Grothaus U.S. Patent No. 4 696 126 discloses a kind of bulb adhesive trapper that exposes.Lazeroni, people's such as Sr. U.S. Patent No. Des.325 954 discloses a kind of bulb trapper that exposes basically forward.People's such as Aiello U.S. Patent No. 4 959 923 relates to Lazzeroni, and people's such as Sr. U.S. Patent No. Des.325 954 uses ultraviolet source, pulse electric power and an adhesive trapper of the insect that is used for hitting unconsciously.Equally, Gilbert insect light trapper for the purpose of trapping fly use expose bulb and basically forward enter the space.This trapper with point to light in the room leaving this trapper insect attractant before trapper.Hollingsworth and Hartstack, Jr. disclose the relevant efficiency in data that exposes the various parts of bulb winged insect trapper.
The U.S. Patent No. 4 949 501 of Larkin and ARP Venus Flylite
TMSystem discloses a kind of light source of luring.The casing of this light source and it hangs on the wall attaching device, causes this unit to use in a kind of vertical mode, and wherein this light source is with vertically the surface is parallel, perhaps be arranged to perpendicular to vertically surperficial horizontal surface at an angle of 90.In this so-called invisible mode that uses in the business hours, trapper is designed to keep the workpiece of winged insect trapper not realized.This winged insect trapper can be arranged by " worm gear " mode, wherein light source and casing are perpendicular to vertical surface and be parallel to floor (perhaps becoming the angle greater than 90 ° with vertical surface), thereby as seen light directly exposed in that the position is set, this improves insect attractant certainly.
The U.S. Patent No. 4 876 822 of White discloses the flying insect unit of being made up of the rectangular box that encases light source and adhesive trapping face.Box part is parallel to or perpendicular to vertical installation surface.People's such as Nelson U.S. Patent No. 5 365 690 is introduced a kind of casing that forms the insect attractant light image on installed surface.The invention summary
We have developed a kind of improved flying insect trap, and it utilizes points at least two radiant lights overlapping or nonoverlapping direction or catoptrical improved and shockingly effectively demonstration.This demonstration can be along two induction light images of projection on the installed surface on the plane of the wall of the direction opposite with this trapper orientation or ceiling and so on.In addition, the present invention can be included in and form three light images on the plane surface.Each image orientation becomes to form nonoverlapping image with 120 ° of intervals.In addition, smooth trapper of the present invention can be included on the plane surface around four the different images of this casing with about 90 ° of interval formation.In addition, such trapper can be from a core case projection five, six, seven or more a plurality of different image, so that form the induction light image on plane surface.Another embodiment of flying insect trap of the present invention be a kind of around with surround the trapper that core case forms continuous light image.From the shape of any light image of any embodiment that is discussed can along with the shape of the size of the position of insect attractant light source, trapper and light source, trapper, box house parts and reflectivity and basically the installed surface on plane geometry and change.Design feature according to any reflecting surface in casing and the case, the shape of the insect attractant light image on wall can be become any elective image by appearance, for example in fact rectangular image, " fan-shaped " image, avette or oval image or one circular image basically in fact roughly in fact roughly roughly.When using one to form the casing of consecutive image around this casing, this casing can be circular, avette, leg-of-mutton, square, pentagonal, hexagonal or the like, this continuous light image can be with a circular basically light source, for example an annular fluorescent tube forms, perhaps formed by a plurality of light sources, these light sources use overlapping light image to form continuous basically demonstration.
We have found that in most of zones with the place is set, light luring on being formed at wall must have about at least 5 footcandles in the image illumination is just attractive.We have found that, relevant with a kind of casing with the illumination that winged insect trapper of the present invention obtains, this casing become to be guaranteed to drop on installed surface (normally ceiling or wall) with the supporting plane basically of this trapper from the emittance major part of luring light source to send by appearance.Near the trapper place, illumination may be quite high, under the situation of typical fluorescent tube light source from about 20 to the radiation luminous energy of about 50 footcandles or higher.Along with widening of the distance between measurement point and the winged insect trapper, illumination descends, so that at certain some place of leaving trapper, illumination is lower than about 5 footcandles.Usually, the induction light image can be regular shape on its geometry, as circular image, square chart picture, perhaps can be arbitrarily or roughly triangle, rectangle, avette, oval, fan-shaped or circle etc. in fact.We also find, importantly the insect stop surface will be arranged in the casing and be supporting with insect attractant light.Insect pest tends to fly on vertical installation surface or directly and flies in the trapper.Along with insect crawls into or flies in the trapper, they tend to fly to insect attractant light, and in case in trapper, and by mixed and disorderly flight or creep, motion will be confined on the insect stop surfaces most probably.The reflecting surface internal reflection surface of casing, self-support or that install and other aspects of trapper are added in reverberation on the radiant light, so that form the induction light image on the installed surface on plane basically.We have found that, be used in trapper unlimited inlet, improve catch rate to the core passage of insect stop device in abutting connection with light image.Flying insect trap of the present invention is installed on the perpendicular of wall surface and so on for example usually, perhaps basically on the ceiling surface on plane.Flying insect trap should be installed like this, and promptly whole or most of reverberation and radiation luminous energy drop on the installed surface so that form the induction light image.
For the application, " multidirectional " flying insect trap one speech can comprise the insect trap of the nonoverlapping flying insect trapping image that has two, three, four or more a plurality of separation." multidirectional " speech can comprise again and has two, three, four or more a plurality of separation but the flying insect trap of overlapping image.Along with the increase of picture number, all images tend to be fused into overlapping image, and when insect trap had a large amount of images, all image co-registration became a continuous images basically of surrounding this trapper basically.For the application, " continuous " speech is meant that the light from trapper points to an image that illuminates the installed surface (for example ceiling and wall) on plane with the image that surrounds this trapper basically.Such one basically continuous images may comprise other electric or mechanical aspects, erecting device, lamp support or any other aspect of the present invention cause little shadows by mounting bracket, lamp fixture, lead or casing.In addition, for the application, " plane basically " speech is meant that flying insect trap of the present invention can successfully be installed on the surface.This surface can have for example circular or the oval-shaped stake or the pillar of certain curvature.Yet as long as this trapper can successfully be installed on such surface and can form multidirectional light image, such surface just can be regarded as plane basically.For the application, when being provided with, on a position vertical, cannot see the light of trap interior with trapper with certain preferential orientation.The position that " vertical " speech is meant the beholder with respect to the intersection point of two straight lines that intersect with 90 ° of angles each other at the trapper place that drawn on installed surface at an angle of 90.Brief description of drawings
Fig. 1～Fig. 7 respectively is an embodiment of winged insect trapper of the present invention.In each figure, the geometry of trapper forms and is used for luring the two or more light images of insect or the continuous light image of an encirclement trapper.All figure also represent the setting of insect attractant light source and the various layouts of insect stop surface.Detailed Description Of The Invention
Improved winged insect trapper of the present invention comprises a casing, an insect attractant light source and at least one fly stop device.Casing can comprise two, three, four or more a plurality of reflecting surface, and these reflectings surface guarantee from the radiant light major part of insect attractant light source by radiation and reflection so that form the induction light image on the installed surface on plane basically.Light demonstration in luring image is attracted to the winged insect trapper to fly.Fly tends to fly on illumination image, casing or other surfaces at trapper.The insect stop surface is arranged to guarantee that the flying insect insect is easy to be confined in trapper after it attracted to trapper.
We have found that the inner surface from a part of light of radiation of light source from casing and be arranged in any other reflecting surface reflection within the casing and appear on the installed surface on plane with direct radiant light.Reverberation and radiant light form the induction light image on supporting plane surface.Casing or two or more light images are directed on the reflecting surface perhaps guides a light image of surrounding the trapper casing basically.In the 1st mode of trapper of the present invention, casing can comprise an insect attractant light source and two reflectings surface, forms (being separated by 180 ° on the plane surface) reflection of face-off and the insect attractant light image of radiation.When using a light source, the trapper of easy appearance is the trapper that has the induction light image direction that distributes along the direction of face-off, and but, direction of light can become any arbitrarily angled and can be overlapping or form image separately in the image.Along the direction between each light path, angle can be as small as 10 or 15 ° or greatly to 180 °.The casing that selection comprises internal reflection surface and insect attractant light source must be hanked and guarantee formed induction light image has at least 5 footcandles in image energy.This surface light density or illumination are important for the fly rate of catching of remaining valid.In a kind of alternative embodiment, it is enough with illumination or the superficial density that guarantees the induction light image for effective catch rate that the bi-directional light trapper that has two induction light images can utilize two or more insect attractant light sources.
The 2nd embodiment of the present invention can comprise one or more insect attractant light sources and a casing, this casing with photosynthetic work so that on the installed surface on plane, form three different insect attractant light images.Casing can be leg-of-mutton and can cause the such light image of formation on wall with respect to the such appearance of insect attractant light source that promptly the image around tank is opened with about 120 ° angle intervals.Angle between the image can be less than 120 °.In addition, light image increases the surface area of induction light image and it seems also raising or optimization catch rate around the rule location of trapper.
In another embodiment of the present invention, one or more insect attractant light sources, preferably four light sources are disposed such in casing, cause by radiant light and formed four the insect attractant light image around tanks of reverberation to distribute.Light image distributes with the interval around tank of 90 ° of image directions, and casing can be got the shape of square or rectangle.This best casing embodiment of the present invention can provide two, three, four, five or more a plurality of different light image that is separated by the angle of rule around core case, so that produce the demonstration have greater than the insect attractant light of the optimization area of the power of 5 footcandles.
Along with the increase of light area number, each image in this demonstration can be fused into a demonstration of the insect attractant light of around tank distribution continuously basically.The result, an important embodiment of the present invention is a kind of flying insect trap that remains in the casing, it comprises a circle, avette, oval or casing that other are such, and this casing and the cooperation of insect attractant light source form an image of luring that surrounds casing with the insect attractant light image.According to the difference of tank geometry, the shape of light image can be selected arbitrarily by common those of skill in the art.But, we have found that light image therein has in the geometry greater than the rule of 5 footcandle illumination, the optimum shape of light image is circular, avette, ellipse etc.
Casing can be installed on the perpendicular surface of wall and so on or the horizontal planar surface of ceiling and so on.Trapper can be installed like this, causes a part of insect attractant light both to drop on the wall, drops on again on any other surface in ceiling surface or this trapping environment that coexists.The light source that is used for insect attractant trapper of the present invention comprises at least one ultraviolet source.This light source is designed and manufactured into the ultraviolet light that main quantity is provided, but reverberation and radiant light within not other in the ultraviolet portion part that drops on electromagnetic spectrum of some part also can be arranged.This light source electric light source of energizing that is normally incandescent or fluorescence, they can launch the wide spectrum wavelength, but mainly are optimized to the emission ultraviolet light.For the purpose of the present invention, ultraviolet light comprises the electromagnetic radiation with the wavelength between about 400nm and the 4nm, has been found that they can attract the flying insect insect.Light source provides usually from about 0.5 to the output of about 100 watts light, preferably this light provide from about 0.5 to about 75 watts or more than.Best light source is to have enough wattages to have fluorescence light source greater than the induction light image of the illumination of about 5 footcandles with formation.Trapper can use in casing level, vertically or one or two or more light sources arranging of oblique angle.Light source form or appearance can be (for example circular avette or oval) straight line or curve and also can be a kind of more novel fluorescent tube, and they are called as screw-in small fluorescent fluorescent tube, are threaded in a kind of screw-type incandescent lamp bulb formula socket.This fluorescent tube can share with the casing that adapts to its specific bulb geometry.
One or more light sources are enclosed in the casing that has internal reflection surface basically.In best casing, when casing is set at one when catching in the fly environment, the occupant of this environment is not exposed to the direct radiation of this light usually.Therefore, casing surrounds the insect attractant light source basically, prevents that the individual in this environment from seeing, but optimizes the induction light size of images simultaneously on the installed surface on plane.In addition, casing also plays flight insect pest inlet when encasing the insect attractant light source.Therefore, opening should have very big area and can not hinder entering or stoping these insects to be confined on the insect stop surface in trapper of insect pest.Casing can appearance become to have and the light image that vertically becomes the trapper of arbitrarily angled setting.Casing can be so positioned, and causes the direction of the light image of the light source on the comfortable plane surface to have vertical orientation, perhaps optional any angle during trapper is provided with.
Smooth trapper of the present invention forms two or more insect attractant light images on vertical installation surface.Though image can show that around trapper image can be formed on the installed surface with in fact any relative angle at regular intervals on plane surface.
Light source is enclosed in the casing that has internal reflection surface basically.
Casing can take and use casing or reflecting surface to come on installed surface reflection and radiant light to lure the corresponding in fact any arbitrary shape of flying insect.Casing can be the shape of rule, comprising triangle, square, rectangle, parallelogram, circle, avette, oval, tear-drop shaped, star, perhaps can be irregular or unbodied shape.
Casing is made by general available structural material usually, comprising fill or unfilled thermoplastic, for example polystyrene, polyethylene, polypropylene, polyethylene terephthalate (PET polyester), acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene copolymer etc.; Metal material, for example aluminium, magnesium or relevant alloy, steel, stainless steel or other relevant ferroalloys; Timber or wooden article; The thermoplasticity or the thermosets that strengthen; Paper mold, compacting paper mold, corrugation paper mold and can form in fact any other material with casing of enough structural intergrities, so that this casing can be subjected to such an extent that live to be provided with, the bulb maintenance, the setting of insect stop surface and dismounting, cleaning and other maintenances or treatment.
Box house can be high reflection or be partial reflection at least.Casing can be made by the vehement white that can reflect incident radiation, white or canescence material, so that form image.These materials can by and become to have inner pigment, for example titanium dioxide, calcium carbonate or tend to reflect other white mineral matter of most of incident radiation.In addition, casing can paint or cover with reflective material.Can use the white paint of many high reflection, these white paints almost reflect whole ultraviolet incident radiations.In addition, the metal surface can be introduced into, and is made by thin section metal, metallized polyester or any other shinny metal surface.The object lesson in this reflecting layer is aluminium foil, metallized polyester, contain the bright whitish reflection plate of the titanium dioxide white pigment of considerable part, silvered glass mirror or other relevant high reflection surfaces.
Casing can also comprise at least one insect stop device.For the purpose of the present invention, " insect stop device " speech comprises and can prevent that fly from leaving any device or the surface of winged insect trapper after entering.This stop device can comprise the insecticide that is agricultural chemicals surface, agricultural chemicals layer or agricultural chemicals trapper form, active or passive mechanical trapper, make fly be soaked in wherein liquid trapper, make fly become sticking adhesive layer thereon, formation of pressure-sensitive adhesive layer, high pressure or low voltage electric network, perhaps other devices that can catch insect pest confinement, kill or dismember.Stop device can be arranged on the casing, on the installed surface or in abutting connection with any position of induction light or light image.
For the purpose of the present invention, a kind of insect stop device of the best comprises a pressure-sensitive adhesive surface.This best surface comprises highly sticky pressure-sensitive adhesive surface, if fly contacts with this surperficial any part, then should the surface be confined by fly firmly.This pressure-sensitive adhesive surface can be made by various known pressure-sensitive adhesive agent materials, and these materials are highly sticky for contact.A kind of so known adhesive is to tangle the trapper adhesive by what Tanglefoot company made.The location of insect stop device in casing is the selection in the design.This device can be positioned in fact any position that can be used for the flying insect insect in casing.Insect may fly in the trapper or fly on the vertical installation surface or on the casing, may crawl into or be entrapped the operation of device then and bring the insect stop device into.Best pressure-sensitive adhesive trapping surface can be positioned in the trapper on the vertical installation surface, on the casing, directly on the trapping surface that the insect attractant light source is installed or attracted to any other position that the flying insect insect of formed image on the plane surface of adjacency often haunts in the trapper.Trapper of the present invention can comprise a kind of chemicals that attracts insect.This chemicals is some volatile organic matter at least normally, and is to derive from typical insect food source or comprise goods at the pheromones mixture of known concrete insect pest, so that spread all over the trapping environment.
Insect trap in general, perhaps the insect stop surfaces specifically can also comprise the insecticide of effective quantity.Various non-volatility insecticides in the formula components are known effectively and mostly can be used flying insect.Being used for best insecticide of the present invention is the prescription insect composition that is suitable for the non-volatility of kill insects insect when contact.This non-volatility insect pest composition is not discharged in the trapping environment.This material may comprise pyrethroid and organic phosphate insecticide composition.This material can fusion in or the pressure-sensitive adhesive on the insect stop surfaces of filling a prescription in, perhaps can be arranged at a position in the trapper individually.
The best mode of the structure of insect trap of the present invention relates to the geometry of the one or more reflectings surface in the trapper, this trapper forms two, three, four, five or more a plurality of induction light area that separates, and shows the continuous light image around this casing up to a casing.Yet, the most of lists of references in the prior art be designed to their induction light point to around this light environment rather than light radiation with reflex on the installed surface on the plane of trapper.People's such as Nelson U.S. Patent No. 5 365 690 is showed a kind of trapper that forms a single insect attractant image on the wall surface of adjacency.
We have proposed a kind of geometry of the casing that improves to some extent than the trapper of prior art, cause the attraction of light image to produce the catch rate that surpasses expection.By around two of cabinet arrangement, three, four, five or more a plurality of insect attractant light image,, can realize the catch rate that significantly improves up to an insect attractant image that entirely surrounds this casing.The internal geometry of casing, and in casing or be contained on the tank surface or and can locate with respect to installed surface with angle perpendicular to this installed surface in abutting connection with any reflecting surface of light source setting form light image so that guarantee by the casing that comprises a considerable amount of light.Insect trap of the present invention can comprise a protective cover or grid to the opening of casing.This grid is made of silk screen or plastic wire, causes the flying insect insect can enter trapper and grid or net are not reduced in basically on the wall and form the light quantity of luring image.For the purpose of the present invention, can use to have the enough big size that allows insect to enter, but can repel bigger object, simultaneously grid or the net that reflection of light or radiation from trapper are not constituted major obstacles.This net or grid can be made with various materials, comprising transparent, translucent or opaque material.These materials comprise wire, synthetic fibers or native fiber line, thermoplasticity grid, grid, metal lath, silk screen etc.
Insect trap of the present invention can be arranged on the surface on plane basically of level, and this surface can be in abutting connection with the 2nd wall surface, in abutting connection with the ceiling surface or any other inner surface of fly trapping environment.Trapper can be shown have greater than the winged insect trapper of the maximum light area of 5 footcandle illumination and arrange, can guarantee catch rate best.This light can be reflected and be radiated the wall of adjacency or ceiling surface and not reduce catch rate substantially.
We also find in our research and development, and the color of contrast or illumination terminate suddenly or fall into dark-coloured tangible edge effect and can attract the flying insect insect.In eye-catching edge from light to often being discerned than the contrast of dark-part and may being an attractive feature by the flying insect insect.This contrast or edge effect can be by using the color or the decorative pattern of sharp-pointed contrast to produce when forming trapper or in the trapper setting area.
When flying insect trap of the present invention was arranged in the environment for use, this trapper comprised and can be used to flying insect trap of the present invention is fixed in the erecting device on the plane surface such as wall or ceiling.This erecting device comprises a mechanical system, and this mechanical system can support the weight of trapper and can keep the orientation of trapper and guarantee that light is formed with the image of luring of usefulness on this surface.This trapper can be with various mounted apparatus fix in position, and for example screw, bolt, nail, clamp, flange etc. perhaps can use velcro, pressure-sensitive adhesive seat, epoxy or polyurethane structural adhesive etc. to arrange in environment for use temporarily.A key character of the erecting device of winged insect trapper of the present invention is the selection of erecting device, causes trapper to be fixedly mounted on wall or the ceiling surface, forms the induction light image so that accept from the light of trapper.In addition, wall can work to define winged insect trapper opening.
Illumination or lure light source can directly be installed in the casing or can be installed on vertical wall or the ceiling surface that surrounds by casing.Preferably, the light trapper is the single device that has the lamp, reflecting surface and the insect stop device that are fixed within the casing.Yet, lure any part of system can be installed in trapper separate but be preferably on the vertical surface within the casing.If be assembled into single assembly, then the insect attractant light source can be arranged in the optimum position with respect to casing and any optional additional reflection face, so that make the area and the illumination maximum of luring image.Equally, stop surfaces can be fixed in any position within the casing.Stop surfaces preferably is fixed in position that cannot see the insect pest of being confined within the casing when the individual position from typical environment watches.Preferably, stop surfaces is directly arranged facing to the trapper opening that is passed when the light propagation is lured surface image with formation.When any any direction enters trapper, creep or the flying insect insect can fly then on the illumination image, on the casing or on any other inside or the outer surface.The insect stop surfaces is arranged in the casing in such a way, and promptly the typical fly that is attracted by light image will enter trapper at certain some place and be confined on stop surfaces.The insect trap casing comprises at least one reflecting surface, and this reflecting surface can be supporting with the inner surface of casing.Reflecting surface has various configurations with respect to the insect attractant light source.Lamp can vertically be located with respect to reflecting surface, causes light by effectively from the trapper radiation with reflex on the installed surface.The casing that designs at the layout on vertical or horizontal surface is when may get different shape when the trapper outside is watched.The shape of casing can be selected arbitrarily, the internal reflection surface that keeps trapper simultaneously, cause light images such as two-way, three-dimensional on the wall surface of adjacency, to form, keep casing outward appearance arbitrarily simultaneously, that is to say circular, avette, oval, square substantially, rectangle, triangle, hexagon etc.Outer surface or internal reflection surface can be the plane, crooked, the oblique angle or can form and do not hinder to luring catoptrical effectively Any shape on the image.The position of trapper on vertical (wall) surface or on ceiling is optional.Can be arranged in and it seems in the environmental area in the zone that fly attracted.Therefore, trapper can be installed in abutting connection with window, door or the ceiling fixture that has an induction light.In addition, trapper can be in abutting connection with organic matter or thermal source-they also are known attract insects things-arrange.Usually, insect trap of the present invention is arranged in eyes or the height more than the eyes in environment space.Such layout outward appearance has aesthetic feeling and does not reduce catch rate.Multiple ultraviolet light image experiment background of experimental section and target
Reflection and being radiated on the wall forms the ultraviolet light of single " light image " above the insect trap that comprises ultraviolet source open-topped, be attractive (United States Patent (USP) 5 365 690 and 5 505 017) to flying insect.Multiple " light image " that this measuring forms by top, sidepiece and bottom opening is being attracted to flying insect the effect that has aspect the insect trap.
Method
1) four Stealth Decora Tm winged insect trappers are lined up two arrays on a vertical installation surface (being coated with the wall of white paint) in a test " flight room ".The 1st array has four trappers, forms a square formation, and the trapper of light image and adjacency is met at right angles.Trapper is arranged to light image and points to the center of leaving this layout.The 2nd array becomes similar arranged at right angles, and the center of this array is pointed in the light image of all trappers.
2) each Stealth Decora medium ultraviolet light source is that (Osram DuluxS 9W/78), arranges used trapper to provide 32 watts altogether for one 9 watts lamp.
3) a single contrast trapper comprises a single Stealth Decora who has four 9 watts lamp (32 watts altogether).
4) housefly is put into this " flight room " with density that every cubic feet of 0.1 fly is provided and supply food they were conformed 2 hours.
5) carry out above test arrangement and contrast setting, each a kind of setting on wall by complete block design at random.
6) at the seizure number of every kind of setting measurement per half an hour, then setting make into by at random complete block design access following a kind of, and set at this and to measure every halfhour fly number of catching, or the like.
7) carrying out at least four district's groups repeats so that obtain four times at every kind of setting at least.
What 8) mensuration was average catches the fly number so that performance is set in evaluation with the every halfhour of centre.
The result
The 1st array compared with the control the time catch aspect the fly shockingly effective.The detailed description of accompanying drawing
Fig. 1 is the view of the two-way flying insect trap of the present invention watched when time on the vertical wall surface that is arranged on plane basically.Fig. 1 represents a two-way trapper 100.This two-way trapper comprises a casing (housing) part 101, and this chest portion branch encases a lamp and a locking strip.Casing 101 and 101a and lamp cooperation are so that form two nonoverlapping induction light images 102 and 102a on wall 105 and 105a.
Fig. 2 is in the casing 101 of horizontally disposed Fig. 1 and the interior views of 101a.Total label of expression is 200 trapper among the figure.A ultraviolet insect attractant light source is showed in inside at trapper, is expressed as a fluorescent tube 102 that is fixed within the casing 101.An insect stop adhesive band 103 is illustrated in casing 101 inside.Lamp and casing and the demonstration 106 of cremasteric reflex light and radiant light on the wall surface 105 of reflecting surface 104 in adjacency of box house.
Fig. 3 represents a trapper that has the wall installation of four overlapping flying insect induction light images.In Fig. 3, the total label of trapper is 300.This trapper comprises four fluorescence ultraviolet insect attractant light source 301a, 301b, 301c, 301d.These lamps and casing 304 cooperations produce induction light image 302a, 302b, 302c and 302d.
Fig. 4 is the end view of the flying insect trap shown in Fig. 3.Trapper 300 comprises a casing 304 that encases lamp 301, and lamp and casing cooperation are to form light image 302.Light image is by being formed by the light on installed surface fluorescent lamp bulb emission and that concentrate on plane basically.Casing is adhesive flying insect locking strip 303 under cover also.
Fig. 5 is the view of the triangle flying insect pest trap 400 on a kind of vertical surface (wall) that is installed in a plane.Trapper casing 404 fluorescence insect attractant light emission under cover lamp 404, this lamp and 404 cooperations of trapper casing are to form induction light image 402a, 402b, 402c.Trapper casing 404 is adhesive insect stop surfaces 403 under cover also, and this stop surface uses a kind of pressure-sensitive adhesive material to trap the flying insect insect.
Fig. 6 is a kind of view that is arranged on the circular flying insect trap on the ceiling 606.Trapper 600 comprises the casing 603 of a bending.The curvature of casing 603 is left wall usually, but also can point to wall.Reverse side at the casing 603 of bending has an insect stop adhesive film 601.Casing 603 and unillustrated stake of electrical box 604 usefulness are attached on the vertical installation surface.Box 604 also supports fluorescence electrical equipment and fluorescent tube 602, and this fluorescent tube is transmitted in the insect attractant light that forms image on the ceiling 606.
Fig. 7 is the end view of the flying insect trap of Fig. 6.Flying insect trap is installed on the ceiling surface 606 so that casing 603 fix in position with electrical box 604.Reverse side at casing has insect stop pressure-sensitive adhesive surface 601.Be attached to unillustrated electric fluorescent tube actuator device of having of central electrical box 604 and the fluorescent tube 602 that insect attractant light is provided.Light from lamp is directed into horizontal mounting surface (wall) upward to form induction light image 605.
Above specification, accompanying drawing and experiment provide the manufacturing of equipment of the present invention and the complete description of use.Do not break away from the spirit and scope of the present invention owing to can make many embodiment of the present invention, so the invention reside in following appending claims.
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1. flying insect trap, this trapper use reflection and are radiated a kind of demonstration of the insect attractant light on the installed surface on plane basically, and described trapper comprises:
(a) be used for flying insect trap is installed in device on the installed surface;
(b) at least one insect attractant light source;
(c) at least one insect stop surfaces; And
(d) casing that encases this light source, described casing comprises at least one internal reflection surface of the casing of location like this, cause the light from this light source to be directed into the insect attractant light image that is an above direction diffusion, described image comprises the illumination of at least 5 footcandles; And
Wherein said trapper forms two or more induction light images.
2. the trapper of claim 1, wherein this insect attractant light source comprises at least one ultraviolet source.
3. the trapper of claim 1, wherein this reflecting surface is the reflecting surface of a bending.
4. the trapper of claim 1, wherein this insect attractant light source can not be seen when the beholder is positioned on the straight line vertical with this installed surface.
5. the trapper of claim 1, wherein this casing comprises two openings.
6. the trapper of claim 1, wherein this casing comprises a unlimited rectangular parallelepiped protrusion part, and described unlimited rectangular parallelepiped protrusion part has two parallel surfaces that comprise the opening that is used for insect attractant light.
7. the trapper of claim 5, wherein this trapper forms two light images, and these light images are directed on this installed surface by this trapper, are separated by 180 °.
8. the trapper of claim 1, wherein this trapper forms three light images, and these light images are directed on this installed surface by this trapper, are separated by 120 °.
9. the trapper of claim 1, wherein this trapper forms four light images, and these light images are directed on this installed surface by this trapper, are separated by 90 °.
10. the trapper of claim 7, wherein this bi-directional light image is nonoverlapping.
11. the trapper of claim 1, wherein this trapper shape geometric figure that is a kind of rule.
12. a flying insect trap, it forms an insect attractant light image, and this light image is to be presented at one basically on the installed surface on plane around this casing image expanding continuously basically, and described trapper comprises:
(a) be used for flying insect trap is installed in a device on the installed surface on plane basically;
(b) insect attractant light source;
(c) insect stop surfaces; And
(d) casing, this casing comprises an internal reflection surface of locating like this with respect to this insect attractant light, cause light to be directed into this basically on the installed surface on plane, form the diffused light image of a reflection and radiation, a continuous basically light image on this installed surface is pointed in this light image, and wherein this light image has the illumination of at least 5 footcandles in demonstration.
13. the trapper of claim 12, wherein this fluorescence insect attractant lamp comprises at least one ultraviolet source.
14. the trapper of claim 12, wherein this light source is the fluorescent tube of a bending, and this fluorescent tube forms a circular basically image.
15. the trapper of claim 12, wherein this casing comprises a plane surface that has circular periphery.
16. the trapper of claim 12, wherein this casing comprises one with respect to this installed surface and has the concave surface of parabolic curvature basically.
17. the trapper of claim 12, wherein this light image forms an oval image basically.
18. the trapper of claim 12, wherein this light is in the image around the annular basically of a round box.
19. the trapper of claim 12, light image and this casing decentraction that wherein should annular.
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