Patents by Inventor Richard L. Eyer
Richard L. Eyer has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 9949471Abstract: A vented combustion chamber for an insect attractant engine is provided for a flying insect trapping device of the type that relies upon combustion of a fuel to generate a flow of carbon dioxide to attract flying insects. The combustion chamber, which is generally tubular and horizontally oriented in operation, is vented through a hole formed in one side of the chamber wall that extends from the outer surface of the chamber into the interior thereof. During operation of the device, this through-hole allows gas inside the chamber to be vented to the outside, changing the effective length of the combustion chamber for the purposes of wave generation is changed so that creation of a resonance cycle or standing wave, and the resulting acoustic phenomenon of howling, is prevented.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2014Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: WOODSTREAM CORPORATIONInventors: Robert T. Cruz, Richard L. Eyer, Marko Konstantin Lubic, Christopher Kamery
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Publication number: 20140325893Abstract: A vented combustion chamber for an insect attractant engine is provided for a flying insect trapping device of the type that relies upon combustion of a fuel to generate a flow of carbon dioxide to attract flying insects. The combustion chamber, which is generally tubular and horizontally oriented in operation, is vented through a hole formed in one side of the chamber wall that extends from the outer surface of the chamber into the interior thereof. During operation of the device, this through-hole allows gas inside the chamber to be vented to the outside, changing the effective length of the combustion chamber for the purposes of wave generation is changed so that creation of a resonance cycle or standing wave, and the resulting acoustic phenomenon of howling, is prevented.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 7, 2014Publication date: November 6, 2014Applicant: WOODSTREAM CORPORATIONInventors: Robert T. CRUZ, Richard L. EYER, Marko Konstantin LUBIC, Christopher KAMERY
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Patent number: 8753110Abstract: A vented combustion chamber for an insect attractant engine is provided for a flying insect trapping device of the type that relies upon combustion of a fuel to generate a flow of carbon dioxide to attract flying insects. The combustion chamber, which is generally tubular and horizontally oriented in operation, is vented through a hole formed in one side of the chamber wall that extends from the outer surface of the chamber into the interior thereof. During operation of the device, this through-hole allows gas inside the chamber to be vented to the outside, changing the effective length of the combustion chamber for the purposes of wave generation is changed so that creation of a resonance cycle or standing wave, and the resulting acoustic phenomenon of howling, is prevented.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2010Date of Patent: June 17, 2014Assignee: Woodstream CorporationInventors: Robert T. Cruz, Richard L. Eyer, Marko Konstantin Lubic, Christopher Kamery
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Publication number: 20140075824Abstract: A Wi-Fi enabled flying insect trapping device is provided that is able to wirelessly communicate information to, and receive commands and inquiries from, a remote device.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2012Publication date: March 20, 2014Applicant: Woodstream CorporationInventors: GARY ROULSTON, Richard L. Eyer, Andrew Beck
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Patent number: 8418398Abstract: An electronic mouse trap is provided having multiple kill and automatic killing chamber clearing capabilities. The trap includes an elevated killing chamber rotatably mounted on a base that houses a collection bin positioned under the chamber and which has an entrance pathway that provides mice with access to the chamber. Upon completion of a killing cycle and the killing of a mouse, the chamber is automatically rotated by a gear motor about a longitudinal axis that is slightly below the floor of the chamber. The chamber rotates approximately 180 degrees so as to be inverted, allowing the dead mouse to fall downwardly into the collection bin. Once the chamber has been inverted and the mouse removed by gravity, the gear motor reverses the rotation direction and returns the chamber to its upright position where it is ready to reinitiate the killing cycle for another mouse.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2012Date of Patent: April 16, 2013Assignee: Woodstream CorporationInventors: Alan Weir Bucher, Richard L. Eyer, Marko Konstantin Lubic, Troy A. Wetzel, Robert T. Cruz
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Patent number: 8418397Abstract: An electronic mouse trap is provided having multiple kill and automatic killing chamber clearing capabilities. The trap includes an elevated killing chamber rotatably mounted on a base that houses a collection bin positioned under the chamber and which has an entrance pathway that provides mice with access to the chamber. Upon completion of a killing cycle and the killing of a mouse, the chamber is automatically rotated by a gear motor to an inverted position, allowing the dead mouse to fall downwardly into the collection bin. During such rotation, the entrance pathway if blocked to prevent access to the trap by a next mouse. Once the chamber has been inverted and the mouse removed by gravity, the gear motor reverses the rotation direction and returns the chamber to its upright position, opening the entrance pathway such that the trap is ready to reinitiate the killing cycle for another mouse.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2009Date of Patent: April 16, 2013Assignee: Woodstream CorporationInventors: Robert T. Cruz, Marko Konstantin Lubic, Richard L. Eyer
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Publication number: 20120240450Abstract: An electronic mouse trap is provided having multiple kill and automatic killing chamber clearing capabilities. The trap includes an elevated killing chamber rotatably mounted on a base that houses a collection bin positioned under the chamber and which has an entrance pathway that provides mice with access to the chamber. Upon completion of a killing cycle and the killing of a mouse, the chamber is automatically rotated by a gear motor about a longitudinal axis that is slightly below the floor of the chamber. The chamber rotates approximately 180 degrees so as to be inverted, allowing the dead mouse to fall downwardly into the collection bin. Once the chamber has been inverted and the mouse removed by gravity, the gear motor reverses the rotation direction and returns the chamber to its upright position where it is ready to reinitiate the killing cycle for another mouse.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2012Publication date: September 27, 2012Inventors: Alan Weir BUCHER, Richard L. Eyer, Marko Konstantin Lubic, Troy A. Wetzel, Robert T. Cruz
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Patent number: 8151514Abstract: An electronic mouse trap is provided having multiple kill and automatic killing chamber clearing capabilities. The trap includes an elevated killing chamber rotatably mounted on a base that houses a collection bin positioned under the chamber and which has an entrance pathway that provides mice with access to the chamber. Upon completion of a killing cycle and the killing of a mouse, the chamber is automatically rotated by a gear motor about a longitudinal axis that is slightly below the floor of the chamber. The chamber rotates approximately 180 degrees so as to be inverted, allowing the dead mouse to fall downwardly into the collection bin. Once the chamber has been inverted and the mouse removed by gravity, the gear motor reverses the rotation direction and returns the chamber to its upright position where it is ready to reinitiate the killing cycle for another mouse.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2008Date of Patent: April 10, 2012Assignee: Woodstream CorporationInventors: Alan Weir Bucher, Richard L. Eyer, Marko Konstantin Lubic, Troy A. Wetzel, Robert T. Cruz
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Publication number: 20110283598Abstract: A vented combustion chamber for an insect attractant engine is provided for a flying insect trapping device of the type that relies upon combustion of a fuel to generate a flow of carbon dioxide to attract flying insects. The combustion chamber, which is generally tubular and horizontally oriented in operation, is vented through a hole formed in one side of the chamber wall that extends from the outer surface of the chamber into the interior thereof. During operation of the device, this through-hole allows gas inside the chamber to be vented to the outside, changing the effective length of the combustion chamber for the purposes of wave generation is changed so that creation of a resonance cycle or standing wave, and the resulting acoustic phenomenon of howling, is prevented.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 20, 2010Publication date: November 24, 2011Inventors: Robert T. Cruz, Richard L. Eyer, Marko Konstantin Lubic, Christopher Kamery
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Patent number: 8024888Abstract: An electric or electronic animal trap with a CPU-controlled, rearming, multiple killing plate configuration and automatically resetting interruptible beam sensor for triggering a high voltage cycle. A high-voltage output circuit is connected to killing plates which are activated with a high-voltage pulse train when a pest interrupts the beam signal, such as an infrared beam signal generated by an infrared transmitter to an infrared receiver. The trap is preferably configured to automatically rearm if the IR beam signal is no longer interrupted after the killing cycle. If the IR beam signal is still blocked after the killing cycle, however, the trap enters a standby mode indicating trap servicing is required to remove the dead rodent from the trap.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2010Date of Patent: September 27, 2011Assignee: Woodstream CorporationInventors: Troy A. Wetzel, Robert T. Cruz, Richard L. Eyer
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Publication number: 20100283610Abstract: An electric or electronic animal trap with a CPU-controlled, rearming, multiple killing plate configuration and automatically resetting interruptible beam sensor for triggering a high voltage cycle. A high-voltage output circuit is connected to killing plates which are activated with a high-voltage pulse train when a pest interrupts the beam signal, such as an infrared beam signal generated by an infrared transmitter to an infrared receiver. The trap is preferably configured to automatically rearm if the IR beam signal is no longer interrupted after the killing cycle. If the IR beam signal is still blocked after the killing cycle, however, the trap enters a standby mode indicating trap servicing is required to remove the dead rodent from the trap.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 16, 2010Publication date: November 11, 2010Inventors: Troy A. Wetzel, Robert T. Cruz, Richard L. Eyer
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Patent number: 7757430Abstract: An electric or electronic animal trap with a CPU-controlled, rearming, multiple killing plate configuration and automatically resetting interruptible beam sensor for triggering a high voltage cycle. A high-voltage output circuit is connected to killing plates which are activated with a high-voltage pulse train when a pest interrupts the beam signal, such as an infrared beam signal generated by an infrared transmitter to an infrared receiver. The trap is preferably configured to automatically rearm if the IR beam signal is no longer interrupted after the killing cycle. If the IR beam signal is still blocked after the killing cycle, however, the trap enters a standby mode indicating trap servicing is required to remove the dead rodent from the trap.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2008Date of Patent: July 20, 2010Assignee: Woodstream CorporationInventors: Troy A. Wetzel, Robert T. Cruz, Richard L. Eyer
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Publication number: 20100146839Abstract: An electronic mouse trap is provided having multiple kill and automatic killing chamber clearing capabilities. The trap includes an elevated killing chamber rotatably mounted on a base that houses a collection bin positioned under the chamber and which has an entrance pathway that provides mice with access to the chamber. Upon completion of a killing cycle and the killing of a mouse, the chamber is automatically rotated by a gear motor to an inverted position, allowing the dead mouse to fall downwardly into the collection bin. During such rotation, the entrance pathway if blocked to prevent access to the trap by a next mouse. Once the chamber has been inverted and the mouse removed by gravity, the gear motor reverses the rotation direction and returns the chamber to its upright position, opening the entrance pathway such that the trap is ready to reinitiate the killing cycle for another mouse.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 3, 2009Publication date: June 17, 2010Inventors: Robert T. Cruz, Marko Konstantin Lubic, Richard L. Eyer
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Patent number: 7690147Abstract: An electric or electronic animal trap with a CPU-controlled, rearming, multiple killing plate configuration and automatically resetting mechanical switch for triggering a high voltage cycle. A high-voltage output circuit is connected to killing plates which are activated with a high-voltage pulse train when a pest closes the mechanical switch. The trap is configured to automatically rearm an indefinite number of times until a first dispatch is detected. Once the first dispatch is detected, the circuit will automatically rearm twice more. Accordingly, a plurality of mice may be dispatched and retained within the trap before the trap requires servicing.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2007Date of Patent: April 6, 2010Assignee: Woodstream CorporationInventors: Troy A. Wetzel, Robert T. Cruz, Richard L. Eyer
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Publication number: 20090313880Abstract: An electronic mouse trap is provided having multiple kill and automatic killing chamber clearing capabilities. The trap includes an elevated killing chamber rotatably mounted on a base that houses a collection bin positioned under the chamber and which has an entrance pathway that provides mice with access to the chamber. Upon completion of a killing cycle and the killing of a mouse, the chamber is automatically rotated by a gear motor about a longitudinal axis that is slightly below the floor of the chamber. The chamber rotates approximately 180 degrees so as to be inverted, allowing the dead mouse to fall downwardly into the collection bin. Once the chamber has been inverted and the mouse removed by gravity, the gear motor reverses the rotation direction and returns the chamber to its upright position where it is ready to reinitiate the killing cycle for another mouse.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 18, 2008Publication date: December 24, 2009Inventors: Alan Weir Bucher, Richard L. Eyer, Marko Konstantin Lubic, Troy A. Wetzel
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Publication number: 20090172995Abstract: An electric or electronic animal trap with a CPU-controlled, rearming, multiple killing plate configuration and automatically resetting interruptible beam sensor for triggering a high voltage cycle. A high-voltage output circuit is connected to killing plates which are activated with a high-voltage pulse train when a pest interrupts the beam signal, such as an infrared beam signal generated by an infrared transmitter to an infrared receiver. The trap is preferably configured to automatically rearm if the IR beam signal is no longer interrupted after the killing cycle. If the IR beam signal is still blocked after the killing cycle, however, the trap enters a standby mode indicating trap servicing is required to remove the dead rodent from the trap.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 3, 2008Publication date: July 9, 2009Inventors: Troy A. Wetzel, Robert T. Cruz, Richard L. Eyer
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Publication number: 20090120373Abstract: An ultrasonic device is provided for training a dog to cease from certain undesirable behaviors using a short ultrasonic burst that sweeps across multiple frequencies in one of several user-selected ranges. The user can program the device to a particular range by stepping through the available frequency ranges and noting the animal's response to ultrasonic bursts at each frequency range. Once the frequency range most disturbing to the animal has been identified, the user can set the device to operate in that range. In response to bark detection in an automatic mode or to a manual trigger in either an automatic or manual mode of operation, the device administers a short ultrasonic burst in the programmed frequency range for a fixed time duration. When triggered manually, the length of the burst is the same regardless of how long the manual trigger remains activated.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 9, 2007Publication date: May 14, 2009Inventors: Troy A. Wetzel, Richard L. Eyer
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Publication number: 20090013587Abstract: An electric or electronic animal trap with a CPU-controlled, rearming, multiple killing plate configuration and automatically resetting mechanical switch for triggering a high voltage cycle. A high-voltage output circuit is connected to killing plates which are activated with a high-voltage pulse train when a pest closes the mechanical switch. The trap is configured to automatically rearm an indefinite number of times until a first dispatch is detected. Once the first dispatch is detected, the circuit will automatically rearm twice more. Accordingly, a plurality of mice may be dispatched and retained within the trap before the trap requires servicing.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 9, 2007Publication date: January 15, 2009Inventors: Troy A. Wetzel, Robert T. Cruz, Richard L. Eyer