Patent ID: 7690147

Claim:
An electronic pest trap comprising: a trap body having a power source, a cover having an opened position and a closed position for allowing user access into said trap body in said opened position and for closing said trap body in said closed position, and a switch mechanism for placing said trap into an active standby mode; an entrance opening providing a pest with access into said trap body; a pair of spaced killing plates positioned within said trap body; a pathway leading from said entrance opening into a trap interior and over said killing plates; a high-voltage generator coupled to said pair of spaced killing plates; a barrier having a bottom edge extending downwardly from inside said cover when said cover is in said closed position into said trap interior to reduce a size of said pathway and force an incoming pest into close contact with said killing plates and to be adjacent one of said plates; a mechanical switch positioned within said trap body adjacent said barrier for triggering said generator to generate a high voltage cycle; and a timing mechanism for terminating current flow to said killing plates upon completion of said high voltage cycle; and said trap being configured to automatically return to said active standby mode an indefinite number of times until a first dispatch is detected and to automatically return to said active standby mode a set number of times once said first dispatch has been detected.