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(12) United States Patent (10) Patent No.: US 10 ,021,870 B2

Wang et al. (45) Date of Patent : Jul. 17 , 2018
(54 ) REAL - TIME COUNTING INSECTICIDAL 31/00 (2013.01); AO1M 2200 /01 (2013.01);
LAMP F21Y 2101/ 02 ( 2013 .01)
(71 ) Applicant: Nanjing Agricultural University , (58 ) Field of Classification Search
Nanjing , Jiangsu (CN ) CPC ... A01M 1/ 223 ; F21V 23 /001; F21V 23/003 ;
F21V 23 /02; F21V 23 /04
(72 ) Inventors: Xiaochan Wang , Jiangsu (CN ); See application file for complete search history .
Tingting Yan , Jiangsu (CN ); Guoxiang (56 ) References Cited
Sun , Jiangsu (CN ); Guyue Hu, Jiangsu
(CN ) U .S . PATENT DOCUMENTS
( 73 ) Assignee : Nanjing Agricultural University , 2005/0025357 A1 * 2/2005 Landwehr ............ A01M3821 //026
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Nanjing , Jiangsu (CN ) 2006 /0150470 A1 * 7 /2006 Ronnau ............. A01M 1/026
43/58
( * ) Notice: Subject to any disclaimer, the term of this 2007/0169401 A1 * 7/2007 Chyun .............. A01M 1/ 145
patent is extended or adjusted under 35 43 / 113
U .S .C . 154 (b ) by 302 days. 2008 /0181352 A1* 7 /2008 Hirafuji .......... A01M 1/026
377 / 16
(21) Appl. No.: 15/172,901 (Continued )
Primary Examiner — Christopher P Ellis
(22) Filed : Jun. 3, 2016 (74 ) Attorney, Agent, or Firm — Rankin , Hill & Clark
LLP
(65 ) Prior Publication Data (57 ) ABSTRACT
US 2017 /0273294 A1 Sep . 28, 2017 A real-time counting insecticidal lamp includes a rainproof
(30 ) Foreign Application Priority Data cover, a LED lamp body, an insect receiver, and a high
voltage grid ; the rainproof cover is arranged above the lamp
Mar . 28 , 2016 (CN ) .......................... 2016 1 0184438 body, the insect receiver is arranged below the lamp body,
and the high - voltage grid is arranged at the periphery of the
(51) Int. Ci. lamp body; the high - voltage grid includes a high - voltage
A01M 1 /22 ( 2006 .01 ) direct current power supply and N -1 wires, and the N -1
F21V 23 /00 ( 2015 . 01) wires are arranged in parallel in each interval to form a
F21V 23 /02 ( 2006 .01) circle , wherein , N is no less than 10 ; top ends of the wires
F21V 23/04 ( 2006 .01) are all connected to the power supply end of the power
F21V 31/00 (2006 .01) supply , but one of two adjacent wires is electrically con
F21Y 101/02 ( 2006 .01 ) nected to the positive end of the power supply while the
(52) U .S . CI. other is electrically connected to the negative end ; the
CPC ........... A01M 1/223 (2013 .01); F21V 23/001 real-time counting insecticidal lamp also includes a counting
(2013 .01 ); F21V 23 /003 (2013 .01 ); F21V unit.
23/02 ( 2013 .01); F21V 23 /04 (2013 .01); F21V 5 Claims, 2 Drawing Sheets

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(56) References Cited

U . S . PATENT DOCUMENTS
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2011/0030266 A1 * 2/2011 Roy ... A01M 1/ 08
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2014 /0190071 A1 * 7 / 2014 Mistretta .............. A01M 1/223
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2017 /0094960 A1 * 4 / 2017 Sasaki HO2S 40/38
2017 /0223943 A1 * 8 / 2017 Park A01M 1/026
2017 /0367314 A1 * 12 / 2017 Billingsley , Jr. ........ F21V 3 /061
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REAL - TIME COUNTING INSECTICIDAL on the basis of the morphological specificity of a standard
LAMP gesture , is easy to weaken the classifier generalization
ability, and is not beneficial for recognizing the injurious
TECHNICAL FIELD insects and counting the quantity thereof.
5 The above solutions for counting injurious insects are
The present invention relates to an trap lamp for agricul- either complicated or counts inaccurately.
tural insects.
SUMMARY
BACKGROUND
Our country is a big agricultural country , and the healthy 10 realThe
-
object of the present invention is to provide a
time counting insecticidal lamp capable of implement
development of agriculture is relating to the roots of the ing an automatic counting function while trapping and
state . In recent years , with the improvement of living killing injurious insects .
standard , customers demand for the quality and safety of To fulfill the foregoing object, the present invention
agricultural products continuously .Modem agriculture is the 15 adopts the following technical solution . A real-time counting
organic combination of physical technologies and agricul insecticidal lamp includes a rainproof cover, a LED lamp
tural production , which is an environment control type body, an insect receiver, and a high - voltage grid , the rain
agriculture that controls the living environments and grow
ing development of animals and plants through such physi- proof cover being arranged above the LED lamp body, the
cal factors having biological effects like electricity, sound, 20 insect receiver being arranged below the LED lamp body,
light, magnetism , heat, nucleus, or the like, promotes the and the high -voltage grid being arranged at the periphery of
conventional agriculture to gradually get rid of the depen - the LED lamp body, wherein :
dence on such chemicals like chemical pesticides, chemical the high -voltage grid includes a high - voltage direct cur
fertilizers and antibiotics , and finally obtains non -toxic rent power supply and N - 1 wires, and the N - 1 wires are
agricultural products with good quality and high volume. 25 arranged in parallel in each interval to form a circle ,
Therefore , the principal job for predicting injurious insects wherein , N is no less than 10 ;
is to recognize the injurious insects and accurately obtain the the top ends of the wires are all connected to the power
quantity information. supply end of the high - voltage direct current power supply ,
Conventional injurious insect recognition and counting but one of two adjacent wires is electrically connected to the
are mainly subjected to an artificial recognition method , a 30 positive end of the power supply while the other is electri
field survey method , a trapping method , or the like. The cally connected to the negative end of the power supply ;
artificial recognition and counting severely has such defects an injurious insect counting unit is further included ,
like low recognition rate, poor counting accuracy , high field wherein :
task labor intensity and being not in real time due to such the injurious insect counting unit includes a direct current
factors like complicated and instable field environments , and 35 constant-current source , an analogue - to -digital conversion
this method cannot satisfy the monitoring requirements on a module , N resistors with same resistance values , (2N - 2 )
condition that the current injurious insects in the fields are high - frequency switches , a controller and a display module ;
severe . The field survey method consumes time and effort, the two ends of the N resistors with same resistance values
and hasmore procedures in data investigation , recording and after being connected in series are connected to the two
reporting, has high workload for monitoring personnel, is 40 output ends of the direct current constant- current source;
largely affected by subjective factors , and has poor data the input end of the analogue -to -digital conversion mod
application timeliness, which affects the accurate prediction ule is connected to the two output ends of the constant
of the injurious insects, and cannot satisfy the actual pro - current source ;
duction requirements . In order to solve the problemsof time the output end of the analogue -to - digital conversion mod
and effort consuming for recognizing the injurious insects 45 ule is electrically connected to an IO input port of the
and obtaining the quantity data , scientists are continuing to controller ;
explore new technologies for automatically recognizing and the display module is electrically connected to the con
counting injurious insects. troller;
With the development of computer technology , micro - the N resistors with same resistance values have N - 1
electronic technology or the like , a great progress has been 50 common nodes in total;
made on technologies for automatically recognizing and the bottom ends of the N - 1 wires are electrically con
counting injurious insects. At present, the technologies for n ected to one common node respectively through the high
automatically recognizing and counting injurious insects frequency switches , but the bottom ends of adjacent wires
mainly include sound signal, image technology , infrared are located at the two ends of the same resistor ; and
sensor, or the like. The development of these technologies 55 the high - frequency switches all include a control end, and
improve the efficiency for automatically recognizing and the control ends of the high - frequency switches are all
counting injurious insects, promotes the implementation of electrically connected to the controller.
accurate agriculture , reduces the losses caused by the inju - As a preferable technical solution , the output current of
rious insects , reduces the environment pollution , and the direct current constant-current source is 15 mA, N = 30 ,
improves the be comprehensive control level of the injurious 60 and the resistance value of the resistor is 1 ohm .
insects. However, although the infrared countingmethod has A s a preferable technical solution, the interval between
a quick speed and can record the quantity of the insects adjacent wires is 2 - 20 mm .
trapped , it is weaker in recognizing the types of the injurious As a preferable technical solution , the voltage of the
insects , and is easily disturbed by other articles fell into . high -voltage direct current power supply is 200 - 20000V .
Because the injurious insects trapped in fields are different 65 As a preferable technical solution , the high - frequency
in gestures and are different to master samples, the image switch is implemented using a controllable thyristor , and the
processing method which is subjected to classifier training switching frequency is over millisecond .
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A counting method for a real-time counting insecticidal change at the moment that the injurious insect hit the wires
lamp includes a rainproof cover, a LED lamp body, an insect (because resistors will be short-circuited ), the controller will
receiver, and a high - voltage grid ; the rainproofcover being detect the change of the voltage outputted by the analogue
arranged above the LED lamp body, the insect receiver to - digital conversion module ; at this moment, the insect
being arranged below the LED lamp body, and the high - 5 variable a is added with 1; the controller judges there are
voltage grid being arranged at the periphery of the LED injurious insects hitting the grid , and controls the instanta
lamp body, wherein : neous action of the high - frequency switches , wherein all the
the high - voltage grid includes a high - voltage direct cur high - frequency switches at the bottom ends of the wires are
rent power supply and N - 1 wires, and the N - 1 wires are switched off while all the high - frequency switches at the top
arranged in parallel in each interval to form a circle , 10 ends of the wires are switched on , so that the voltage on the
wherein , N is no less than 10 ; wire is switched from a low voltage to a high voltage , and
the top ends of the wires are all connected to the power the injurious insects are killed by the electrocution of the
supply end of the high - voltage direct current power supply, high - voltage grid , wherein the insect a is just “ the quantity
but one of two adjacent wires is electrically connected to the of the insects killed by electrocution ” so that the function of
positive end of the power supply while the other is electri - 15 automatically counting of the trap lamp is implemented
cally connected to the negative end of the power supply ; while killing the insects .
an injurious insect counting unit is further included ; Compared with the present technical solution , the present
the injurious insect counting unit includes a direct current invention has the advantageous effects that : firstly , the
constant- current source , an analogue - to -digital conversion present invention can accurately count the quantity of inju
module , N resistors with same resistance values , (2N - 2 ) 20 rious insects trapped and killed while trapping and killing
high -frequency switches, a controller and a display module ; the injurious insects, and can remind the farm principal to
the two ends of the N resistors with sameresistance values spray pesticides in time when the quantity of the injurious
after being connected in series are connected to the two insects reaches a pre-warning threshold ; secondly, the pres
output ends of the direct current constant-current source; ent invention has a very simple structure and low manufac
the input end of the analogue -to -digital conversion mod - 25
25 turing cost; and thirdly , the present invention can approxi
ule is connected to the two output ends of the constant mately determine the approximate sizes of the insects killed
current source; by electrocution while counting the quantity of the injurious
the output end of the analogue - to - digital conversion mod insects .
ule is electrically connected to an IO input port of the
controller ; 30 BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
the display module is electrically connected to the con
troller ;
the N resistors with same resistance values have N - 1
FIG . 1 is a structural schematic diagram of a trap lamp in
the present invention :
common nodes in total; FIG . 2 is a schematic diagram showing circuit principles
the bottom ends of the N - 1 wires are electrically con - 35 of a high - voltage grid and an injurious insect counting unit;
nected to one common node respectively through the high - and
frequency switches, but the bottom ends of adjacent wires FIG . 3 is a vertical schematic diagram showing the
are located at the two ends of the same resistor; and high - voltage grid part of the existing trap lamp.
the high - frequency switches all include a control end , and 1 refers to a rainproof cover; 2 refers to a LED lamp body;
the control ends of the high -frequency switches are all 40 3 refers to an insect receiver ; 4 refers to a wire of high
electrically connected to the controller. voltage grid ; 5 refers to an insulated fixing device of
When the voltage U outputted by the analogue -to - digital high -voltage grid : 6 refers to a high - frequency switch : 7
conversion module is equal to 1* R * N millivolt, the control refers to high - voltage direct current power supply ; 8 refers
ler controls all the high - frequency switches at the bottom to wire : 9 refers to direct current constant -current source; 10
end of the wires to be switched on ; and all the high - 45 refers to analogue-to - digital conversion module ; 11 refers to
frequency switches at the top ends of the wires to be display module ; 12 refers to controller.
switched off;
when the voltage U outputted by the analogue -to - digital DETAILED DESCRIPTION
conversion module is less than I * R * N millivolt, the con
troller controls an insect variable a inside the controller to be 50 The present invention will be further explained in details
added with 1, and meanwhile , the controller controls all the hereinafter with reference to the drawings, but the descrip
high -frequency switches at the bottom ends of the wires to tions do not represent the unique embodiment of the present
be switched off, all the high - frequency switches at the top invention .
end of the wires to be switched on , then a direct current
circuit of the high - voltage grid is switched on to kill the 55 Embodiment 1
injurious insects ;
wherein , I is the current value of the direct current a real-time counting insecticidal lamp includes a rainproof
constant-current source , and the unit is milliampere ; and R cover 1, a LED lamp body 2 , an insect receiver 3 , and a
is the resistance value of each resistor. high - voltage grid , wherein the rainproof cover 1 is arranged
The working principle of the present invention is 60 above the LED lamp body 2 , the insect receiver 3 is arranged
described as follows: at a steady state, the high - frequency below the LED lamp body 2, and the high -voltage grid is
switches at the bottom ends of the wires are switched on , and arranged at the periphery of the LED lamp body 2 , and the
the circuit of the injurious insect counting unit is switched high - voltage grid includes a high - voltage direct current
on , then the controller judges whether insects fall on the power supply and 29 wires, and the 29 wires are arranged in
high -voltage grid according to the voltage outputted by the 65 parallel in each interval to form a circle , wherein , N = 30 ; the
analogue -to - digital conversion module ; the voltage output top ends of the wires are all connected to the power supply
ted by the analogue -to -digital conversion module will end of the high -voltage direct current power supply , but one
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of two adjacentwires is electrically connected to the positive cies of the high -frequency switches in the present invention
end of the power supply while the other is electrically are extremely high , which can implement the instantaneous
connected to the negative end of the power supply ; an action of the circuit ; therefore, the injurious insects can be
injurious insect counting unit is further included ; the inju counted accurately , and the approximate sizes of the injuri
int-- 50
rious insect counting unit includes a direct current constant 5 ous insects can be calculated and judged .
current source , an analogue-to - digital conversion module , The invention claimed is :
30 resistors with same resistance values , 58 high - frequency rainproof1 . A real-time counting insecticidal lamp, comprising a
switches , a controller and a display module ; the two ends of high -voltage cover, a LED lamp body, an insect receiver , and a
the 30 resistors with same resistance values after being grid ; the rainproof cover being arranged above
· 10 the LED
connected in series are connected to the two output ends of 10 below the LED lamp lamp body, the insect receiver being arranged
the direct current constant -current source; the input end of arranged at the periphery body, and the high - voltage grid being
the analogue-to -digital conversion module is connected to of the LED lamp body, wherein :
the two output ends of the constant- current source ; the the high - voltage grid includes a high -voltage direct cur
output end of the analogue - to - digital conversion module is rent power supply and N - 1 wires, and the N - 1 wires
electrically connected to an IO input port of the controller ; 15 are arranged in parallel in each interval to form a circle ,
the display module is electrically connected to the control wherein , N is no less than 10 ;
ler ; the 30 resistors with same resistance values have 29 the top ends of the wires are all connected to the power
common nodes in total; the bottom ends of the 29 wires are supply end of the high - voltage direct current power
electrically connected to one common node respectively supply, but one of two adjacent wires is electrically
through the high - frequency switches , but the bottom ends of 20 connected to the positive end of the power supply while
adjacent wires are located at the two ends of the same the other is electrically connected to the negative end of
resistor ; and the high - frequency switches all include a the power supply ; and
control end , and the control ends of the high - frequency an injurious insect counting unit is further included ,
switches are all electrically connected to the controller. 25 wherein :
Wherein , the output current of the direct current constant- 25 the injurious insect counting unit comprises a direct
current source is 15 mA, N = 30 , and the resistance value of current constant-current source , an analogue -to - digital
the resistor is 1 ohm . The interval between adjacentwires is conversion module , N resistors with same resistance
2 mm . values, (2N - 2 ) high - frequency switches, a controller
Wherein , the voltage of the high -voltage direct current and a display module ;
power supply is 2000V . The high - frequency switch is imple - 30 the two ends of the N resistors with same resistance values
mented using a controllable thyristor, and the switching after being connected in series are connected to the two
frequency is over millisecond . output ends of the direct current constant- current
In FIG . 3 , the wires of the high - voltage grid are parallel source ;
to each other, and vertical to the ground . The wires of the the input end of the analogue- to - digital conversion mod
high -voltage grid in FIG . 3 are corresponding to the wires of 35 ule is connected to the two output ends of the constant
the high - voltage grid in FIG . 2 . The wires of the high current source ;
voltage grid are drawn into horizontal wires in FIG . 2 , and the output end of the analogue - to -digital conversion mod
unfolded in a plane for the requirement of the schematic ule is electrically connected to an IO input port of the
circuit diagram of FIG . 2 only ; the wires ofthe high -voltage 40 controller;
grid are actually parallel to each other , and are vertical to the 40 the display module is electrically connected to the con
ground to form a circle . troller;
FIG . 2 is equivalent to actually unfold the high - voltage the N resistors with same resistance values have N - 1
grid and then anticlockwise rotate by 90 degrees . common nodes in total;
The working principle of the present invention for the bottom ends of the N - 1 wires are electrically con
approximately calculating the size of the injurious insects is 45 nected to one common node respectively through the
described as follows: once there are insects falling on the high - frequency switches , but the bottom ends of adja
wires of the high - voltage grid , the resistor between two cent wires are located at the two ends of the same
adjacent wires will be short -circuited ; because the constant resistor; and
current source is connected in series with the resistor with the high - frequency switches all comprise a control end ,
same resistance values in the circuit, the value of the voltage 50 and the control ends of the high -frequency switches are
outputted by the analogue- to -digital conversion module is all electrically connected to the controller.
linearly changed , and the quantity of the resistors that are 2 . The real-time counting insecticidal lamp according to
short -circuited can be easily calculated out through the constant claim 1 , wherein the output current of the direct current
change of the voltage outputted by the analogue-to - digital -current source is 15 mA, N = 30 , and the resistance
conversion module ; it is provided that two resistors mare 5555 value of the resistor is 1 ohm .
3 . The real-time counting insecticidal lamp according to
short- circuited at the same time, it can be judged that one
insect short-circuits the two resistors at the same time, and claim 1 , wherein the interval between adjacentwires is 2 -20
it can be judged that the size of the insect is larger; because mm4 .. The real-time counting insecticidal lamp according to
the distance between the adjacent wires is known , for
example , 2 mm , it can be judged that the size of the insect 6060 current
claim 1, wherein the voltage of the high -voltage direct
power supply is 200 -20000V.
is greater 4 mm ; based on previous experiment experience ,
the probability for two insects to fall in the high - voltage grid claim5. The 1 ,
real- time counting insecticidal lamp according to
wherein the high - frequency switch is implemented
( or wires ) at the samemoment is tiny , and can be neglected
(the insects will be killed by electrocution at the moment that using a controllable thyristor, and the switching frequency is
fall on the high -voltage grid , and then fall into the insectsect 6565 over
ove millisecond .
receiver 3 arranged below the trap lamp ), while the frequen * * * * *