Electrified bird repellent track
AssigneeBird-B-Gone, Inc.
InventorBruce Donoho
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Abstract
An animal deterring device has a carrier with first and second conductive traces that are separated by an arc suppressor. Most typically, the arc suppressor is configured to eliminate short circuiting of the device when exposed to fog, dew, rain, or animal excrements while at the same time to allow an animal to contact both conductive traces at the same time.
Claims18
An animal deterring device comprising a carrier having a first conductive trace that is separated from a second conductive trace by an arc suppressor that has at least one of (a) an umbrelloid shape, and (b) a configuration effective to increase creep distance between the first and second conductive traces by at least 1.5 times.
An animal deterring device comprising a stripe-shaped carrier having a first conductive trace that is separated from a second conductive trace by an umbrelloid arc suppressor, and wherein the device has a height to width ratio between 1:5 and 1:2.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.