Bed bug monitoring furniture leg
AssigneeValpas Enterprises Oy
InventorsVertti Sarimaa, Aku Viskari, Martim Gois
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Abstract
A monitoring device for insects such as bed bugs comprising: an elongated member constituting a furniture leg, wherein said elongated member comprises: a space inside the elongated member comprising a trap for insects, at least one opening in the leg wherein insects may enter the trap, the opening being connected to the trap by pathway that is inclined and slippery such that the bed bugs entering the opening slide to the trap. Corresponding arrangement and method for bed bug monitoring are also presented.
Claims13
A monitoring device for insects, comprising:
- an elongated member constituting a furniture leg, wherein said elongated member comprises:
- a space inside the elongated member comprising a trap for insects,
- at least one opening in the elongated member wherein insects may enter the trap,
- the opening being connected to the trap by a pathway that is inclined and slippery such that the bed bugs entering the opening slide to the trap,
- wherein outer surface of the elongated member comprises a gripping surface, one or more gripping shapes, one or more gripping patterns, or one or more gripping structures which allow the bed bugs to travel more easily along the surface of the elongated member to the opening and consequently to the trap and wherein the trap has slippery surface on one or more inner surfaces of the trap.
An arrangement for monitoring insects, comprising:
- at least one bed bug monitoring device, comprising means to detect bed bugs, said monitoring device being situated as a leg of a piece of furniture;
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- a communication module comprising means to obtain detection signals from said bed bug monitoring device and further to send said signals towards a remote entity,
- wherein an outer surface of the leg comprises a gripping surface, one or more gripping shapes, one or more gripping patterns, or one or more gripping structures which allow the bed bugs to travel more easily along the surface of the elongated member in a direction towards the monitoring device.
A method for monitoring bed bugs comprising:
- attaching a bed bug monitoring device as a leg of a piece of furniture, such as that bed bugs cannot travel along said leg to or from the piece of furniture without being trapped in said monitoring device,
- detecting the bed bugs traveling to or caught in the monitoring device,
- sending data or a signal representing information about the detected bed bugs towards a remote device,
- wherein an outer surface of the leg comprises a gripping surface, one or more gripping shapes, one or more gripping patterns, or one or more gripping structures which allow the bed bugs to travel more easily along the surface of the elongated member in a direction towards the monitoring device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.