US 12,262,706 B1
Device with sealed sensor module case beneath rodent runway
James R. Walsh, Wauwatosa, WI (US); and Patrick J. Lynch, Fort Lauderdale, FL (US)
Assigned to Bell Laboratories, Inc., Windsor, WI (US)
Filed by Bell Laboratories, Inc., Windsor, WI (US)
Filed on Nov. 20, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/514,110.
Application 18/514,110 is a continuation of application No. 16/659,298, filed on Oct. 21, 2019, granted, now 11,864,548.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/748,942, filed on Oct. 22, 2018.
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. A01M 23/38 (2006.01); A01M 23/08 (2006.01); G01D 5/24 (2006.01)
CPC A01M 23/38 (2013.01) [A01M 23/08 (2013.01); G01D 5/24 (2013.01)] 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An assembly for housing a sensor module to detect passage of rodents into the assembly, the assembly comprising:
a base having an upwardly extending rear wall, and at least one interior wall spaced from the rear wall to define a rodent runway extending between the at least one interior wall and the rear wall, the rodent runway extending from an inlet and communicating with an interior compartment;
a lid mounted to the base;
portions of the base which define a bottom wall over which the rodent runway extends, the bottom wall having portions defining a threshold along the rodent runway over which a rodent must pass to enter the interior compartment;
a case defined extending from the base beneath the threshold, the case having a downwardly extending volume;
a case cover which is secured to the base to close the downwardly extending volume;
wherein the case is configured to accommodate the sensor module disposed within the case and positioned beneath the threshold of the base to thereby detect the passage of the rodent into the interior compartment; and
portions of the base bottom wall and the cover which define a perimeter double lip on one of the base bottom wall and the cover which extends vertically beneath the downwardly extending volume and is configured to extend around the sensor module and on the other of the base bottom wall and the cover there is a vertically protruding peripheral bead which extends between the perimeter double lip.