Patent ID: 7757430

Claim:
An electronic pest trap comprising: a trap body having a power source and a switch mechanism for placing said trap into an active standby mode; a plurality of spaced killing plates including first and second killing plates positioned within said trap body; an interruptible beam sensor including a beam transmitter and a beam receiver configured to transmit and receive, respectively, an interruptible beam signal across a width of said trap between said first and second killing plates; and a high-voltage, automatically rearming circuit coupled to said first and second spaced killing plates and to said interruptible beam sensor, said circuit initiating, in response to said sensor detecting a threshold interruption in said beam signal, delivery of a high-voltage pulse train through said circuit to said first and second killing plates for a time period corresponding to a killing cycle, said current flow to said killing plates being terminated by said circuit upon completion of said killing cycle, said automatically rearming circuit being configured, upon completion of a killing cycle, to check a stored trigger count indicating a number of previous killing cycles completed by said circuit to determine whether a sum of said killing cycle and said stored trigger count has reached a threshold value, and to automatically rearm said circuit in response to said sum being less than said threshold value in combination with the input from said interruptible beam sensor indicating no beam signal interruption remains, said circuit further being configured to initiate, in response to said sum being equal to said threshold value or to said sum being less than said threshold value in combination with an indication from said interruptible beam sensor of beam signal interruption, a visual notification mode indicating manual service of said trap is required.