Patent ID: 8505235

Claim:
An electronic pest trap comprising: a trap body having a power source and a mechanism for placing said trap into an active standby mode; a plurality of killing plates positioned within said trap body, said plurality of killing plates including first and second killing plates directly coupled to said circuit, and a third killing plate receiving said high-voltage pulse train via said first killing plate, said third plate being brought to a voltage level of said first plate up to approximately 1 msec after said first and second plates are activated by said high-voltage pulse train; a high-voltage automatic rearming circuit coupled to said killing plates, said circuit, with said trap in said active standby mode, automatically activating in response to detection of a pest body adjacent a pair of said killing plates such that said power source delivers a high-voltage pulse train through said circuit to said killing plates for a time period; a processing unit configured to terminate current flow to said killing plates upon completion of said time period; and said circuit being configured to automatically rearm said trap to said active standby mode if a pest body is not detected adjacent said killing plates following termination of said current flow.