USE OF AN AEROSOL COMPOSITION AND METHOD TO CONTROL HIDDEN FLYING INSECTS

• Main Authors: DYSON, Alastair Robin, DAS, Avijit, RUDKIN, Scott, JOSHI, Lakshay, MAKKAPATI, Anil Kumar, HELENO, Rodrigo Alves, SHEEHY, Daniel James, MARTINS, Mariana Even Oliveira, VERONEZE, Rafael, ANNA, Niemiec, ABELA, Mario, SHANMUGAM PERUMAL, Shanthakumar
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French
• Published: 27.04.2023
• Subjects: ADHESIVES; AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; APPLYING LIQUIDS OR OTHER FLUENT MATERIALS TO SURFACES, IN GENERAL; ATOMISING APPARATUS; BIOCIDES, e.g. AS DISINFECTANTS, AS PESTICIDES, AS HERBICIDES; CHEMISTRY; DYES; FISHING; FORESTRY; HUMAN NECESSITIES; HUNTING; MATERIALS FOR MISCELLANEOUS APPLICATIONS, NOT PROVIDED FORELSEWHERE; METALLURGY; MISCELLANEOUS APPLICATIONS OF MATERIALS; MISCELLANEOUS COMPOSITIONS; NATURAL RESINS; NOZZLES; PAINTS; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PEST REPELLANTS OR ATTRACTANTS; PLANT GROWTH REGULATORS; POLISHES; PRESERVATION OF BODIES OF HUMANS OR ANIMALS OR PLANTS OR PARTSTHEREOF; SPRAYING APPARATUS; SPRAYING OR ATOMISING IN GENERAL; TRANSPORTING; TRAPPING

The present invention relates to a use of an aerosol composition to kill, knockdown and/or repel hidden flying insects, wherein the composition is an electrically neutral composition in the form of a water-in-oil emulsion or an oil-in-water emulsion, in which droplets of the emulsion on discharge from an aerosol spray device are imparted with a unipolar electrostatic charge. The invention also relates to a method of killing, repelling and/or reducing the quantity of insects in the air, wherein the insects are hidden flying insects; the method comprising spraying into the air an aerosol composition, wherein the composition is sprayed from an aerosol spray device which is mechanically operated under pressure. La présente invention concerne une utilisation d'une composition d'aérosol pour tuer, anéantir et/ou repousser des insectes volants cachés, la composition étant une composition électriquement neutre sous la forme d'une émulsion eau-dans-huile ou d'une émulsion huile-dans-eau, dans laquelle les gouttelettes de l'émulsion, lors de la décharge d'un dispositif de pulvérisation d'aérosol, reçoivent une charge électrostatique unipolaire. L'invention concerne également un procédé consistant à tuer, repousser et/ou réduire la quantité d'insectes dans l'air, les insectes étant des insectes volants cachés; le procédé comprenant la pulvérisation dans l'air d'une composition d'aérosol, la composition étant pulvérisée à partir d'un dispositif de pulvérisation d'aérosol qui est actionné mécaniquement sous pression.