CN100574841C

CN100574841C - Has the hand-held shower nozzle that upgrades the filter prior-warning device

Info

Publication number: CN100574841C
Application number: CN200580048950A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 徐兆火
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 2005-01-06
Filing date: 2005-04-18
Publication date: 2009-12-30
Anticipated expiration: 2025-04-18
Also published as: KR100912738B1; DE112005003282T5; WO2006073425A1; CN101189055A; CN1836787B; GB2435797B; JP2008523949A; GB2435797A; KR20070086943A; GB0712976D0; CN1836787A

Abstract

A kind of hand-held shower nozzle (10) with renewal filter (62) prior-warning device, it comprises a rotary blade (56) with magnetic induction signal transmitter, an and corresponding signal receiver at this signal transmitter, this signal receiver and be connected with a data display equipment, therefore, apparatus of the present invention can be according to the current total flow value of the outflow that filter is accumulated of flowing through, when arriving its effective saturation point flow value, reminding the user to change filter in time and produce warning function, is good with the quality of reaching filtered water really.

Description

Has the hand-held shower nozzle that upgrades the filter prior-warning device

(1) technical field:

The present invention is relevant a kind of hand-held shower nozzle that upgrades the filter prior-warning device that has, the sound that particularly can give the alarm notifies the user to change a kind of shower shower nozzle with filter fitting of filter, this warning system is the accumulative total Total Water according to its built-in filter of flowing through, when reaching its effective saturation point, and start alarm to remind upgrade in time filter in it of user, be good really with the quality that guarantees filtered water.

(2) background technology:

Because modern industrialization and do not pay attention to the result of environmental protection, make the rivers and creeks all be subjected to industrial wastewater, domestic waste water, the pollution that rubbish and cattle waste etc. caused, and make and be full of agricultural chemicals in the domestic water, chemical substance and various impurity, even if through water factory with chlorine purified treatment in addition, but also residual in water have chloride and influence health, therefore, the consumer often filters with equipment for filtering water and obtains suitable drinking water quality, and many families even on shower water, add filter, in the hope of better shower water quality, its principle system is by the activated carbon of inside, the sulfurous metal, KDF adsorptivity filter materials such as (power degradability hydrotropy high-purity copper-zincs) adsorbs or removes various agricultural chemicals in the water, chemical substance and impurity.

At present, there are some known patents to be disclosed with hand-held shower nozzle product of filter, United States Patent (USP) for example, the patent No. is 410107046,6016977 and 6270023 etc., though can reach the effect of filtering shower water, but the absorbability of adsorbate has its limit in the filter, and when arriving its filtration saturation point, will lose filter effect, that is to say, the service life of filter under normal the use is terminable, when the filtered water of filter when the discharge that arrives maximum indication is flowed out in accumulation, this filter will lose filter effect.

For example, suppose with 1500 gallons of effective filtration water yields as the cumulative maximum outflow, then just represent it is the drainage saturation point of filter for 1500 gallons, when in case filter reaches this saturation point, promptly pile up because of the impurity that is filtered, make its decline and ruin and lose filter effect, and must upgrade the effect that to possess its drainage again immediately.Yet, present commercially available filter, be its service life (Service Life) though manufacturer all at this filter in appearance, has to indicate its use saturation point or indicate how many gallons, any instrument or instrument for this gallon of metering numerical value is not provided.

Therefore, the user is when buying new filter, and manufacturer promptly changes into informs that the consumer should do renewal in the mode after half a year or several months, if the consumer avoids the time of hyperfiltration water saturation point and when upgrading ahead of time, will form the waste of another kind of form, and increase financial burden on foot; Otherwise, if just upgrade after the time of hyperfiltration water saturation point, then again will be because of the long-pending dirt that completely is filtered in the filter, and lose original drainage effect, and it is more unholiness that the filtered water that flows out is not installed the water of filter, simultaneously to invading the health hazards that caused in the human body skin pore also with even more serious.

Moreover, hand-held shower nozzle internal filter will reach the time of its saturation point, different different because of the population in use number of each household family also, for example, if with everyone shower water every day amount is calculating for 2 gallons, in a family family of three members, the effective life of this hand-held shower nozzle internal filter, be 250 days, and in the six mouthfuls of people families in a family, the effective life of this hand-held shower nozzle internal filter, but only have 125 days; In other words, the filter of case is when arriving its drainage saturation point before above-mentioned each patent, both there be not any forewarning function, more can't accomplish correct metering control or any record, so that always missing the time that upgrades in time, the user still do not know, so continue to use the filter that has lost filter effect, to cause using the back to take place allergic or senses of discomfort such as sufferings, very and, filter is because of the chlorine in the effective filtering water, so that push away for a long time and amass on skin, will produce carcinogenic danger; Obviously, the filter of above-mentioned each known patent case both do not had practicality more do not have a desirable effect.

(3) summary of the invention:

So the present invention adopts additional design or the one mode in conjunction with design, before the water side of hand-held shower nozzle, be provided with and have the device that can calculate the water yield and produce forewarning function.

Main purpose of the present invention when reaching its drainage saturation point, does not but have the disappearance of any forewarning function eliminating the known filter hand-held shower nozzle that has; Utilize the additional setting before the hand-held shower nozzle water side, the therefore design that can calculate the water yield and produce forewarning function can be reminded upgrade in time the filter of hand-held shower nozzle of user, to guarantee its drainage quality.

A kind of hand-held shower nozzle of the present invention with renewal filter prior-warning device, it comprises:

One shower nozzle, be a ducted body and be provided with a helicoid water inlet that can be screwed together mutually with the hand grip filter, its front has installed an outer cover, on this outer cover, be equipped with a plurality of hole for water sprayings, in the back side of this shower nozzle build-in one LCD data display equipment arranged again;

One base, be the inside that is arranged in shower nozzle, its bottom faces is provided with the water chamber of an indent, respectively is provided with one in the dual-side of this water chamber and goes into aquaporin and an exhalant canal and connect each other, and convex with a rotation support shaft under the mediad of the bottom surface of this water chamber;

One upper cover base, be the inside that is arranged in shower nozzle, and on the fastening end face that is fitted in base, it has a water inlet and a delivery port, and this water inlet is to be connected with the aquaporin of going into of base, this delivery port then is to be connected with the exhalant canal of base, in addition convexes with one at upper cover base towards the back side of base central authorities and rotates supporting axis, then is convexly equipped with a center protruding pin with screwed hole with respect to another front position central authorities of this rotation supporting axis;

One impeller, be to be arranged between base and the upper cover base, be the be equally spaced cylinders of a plurality of radial strut helical blades of outer peripheral edges, its front respectively is concaved with an axis hole on same position of center line with back side central authorities, and other build-in has a magnetic element on the front, the front that this impeller has magnetic element is towards base, is placed on respectively on the rotation supporting axis of the rotation support shaft of base and upper cover base by its central diaxon hole simultaneously; And

One signal circuit device, it is connected in DC power supply, a circuit on the micro processor by a micro processor, a circuit and is connected in signal converter, a circuit on the micro processor and is connected in restart switch and the circuit that the switch that makes zero, a circuit on the micro processor be connected on the micro processor and is connected in LCD data display equipment, a circuit on the micro processor and is connected in alarm and on the micro processor and is located at base back surface and is formed corresponding to the signal receiver of magnetic element position.

One shower nozzle, be a ducted body and have a long threaded portion, bottom in this length threaded portion is provided with a water chamber, and on the both end sides up and down of this water chamber, be respectively equipped with one and go into aquaporin and an exhalant canal and connect each other, on the front of this shower nozzle, be installed with an outer cover, and be equipped with a plurality of hole for water sprayings on this outer cover, in the back side of this shower nozzle build-in one LCD data display equipment arranged again;

One impeller, be in the water chamber that is placed in the long threaded portion of shower nozzle and can pivot neatly, be the be equally spaced cylinders of a plurality of radial strut helical blades of outer peripheral edges, its front respectively is concaved with an axis hole on same position of center line with back side central authorities, and positive other build-in of going up has a magnetic element; And

One signal circuit device, it is connected in DC power supply, a circuit on the micro processor by a micro processor, a circuit and is connected in signal converter, a circuit on the micro processor and is connected in restart switch and the circuit that the switch that makes zero, a circuit on the micro processor be connected on the micro processor and is connected in LCD data display equipment, a circuit on the micro processor and is connected in the signal receiver that alarm and on the micro processor is located on the apical position of magnetic element of relative impeller and is formed.

(4) description of drawings:

Fig. 1: the generalized section that has first embodiment in the hand-held shower head structure that upgrades the filter prior-warning device for the present invention.

Fig. 2: be the decomposing schematic representation of partial structurtes in the first embodiment of the invention.

Fig. 3: be the circuit block diagram of signal circuit arrangement among the present invention.

Fig. 4: the generalized section that has second embodiment in the hand-held shower head structure that upgrades the filter prior-warning device for the present invention.

Concrete label and symbol description are as follows among the figure:

10,100-shower nozzle 11-water inlet

12,105-outer cover 20-base

21,102-water chamber 22,103-go into aquaporin

23,104-exhalant canal 24-rotation support shaft

30-upper cover base 31-water inlet

32-delivery port 33-rotates supporting axis

34-center protruding pin 40-impeller

41-axis hole 42-magnetic element

50-signal circuit device 51-micro processor

52-DC power supply 53-signal converter

The 54-switch 55-that makes zero restarts switch

56-LCD data display equipment 57-alarm

58-signal receiver 60-handle filter

The long threaded portion of 61-terminal part 101-

111-screw thread 121-screw

106,122-hole for water spraying 341-screwed hole

(5) specific embodiment:

As shown in Figure 1 to Figure 3, according to a kind of hand-held shower nozzle of first embodiment of the invention, be to comprise a shower nozzle 10, a base 20, a upper cover base 30, an impeller 40 and a signal circuit device 50 with renewal filter prior-warning device.

As shown in Figures 1 and 2, this shower nozzle 10 is a ducted body and the water inlet 11 that is provided with a tool screw thread 111, can be screwed together mutually with hand grip filter 60, its front has installed an outer cover 12 and has been to be secured on this shower nozzle 10 by a screw 121, on this outer cover 12, be equipped with a plurality of hole for water sprayings 122, so that the water in the shower nozzle 10 can outwards spray from this hole for water spraying 122, in the back side of this shower nozzle 10 build-in one LCD data display equipment 56 is arranged again, have reception from the signal that micro processor 51 is exported in the signal circuit device 50 after, row shows the function (as shown in Figure 3) of output again.

As shown in Figures 1 and 2, this base 20, upper cover base 30 and impeller 40 all are fixed on the inside of shower nozzle 10, wherein, the bottom faces of base 20 is to establish the water chamber 21 that tool becomes an indent, and respectively have into aquaporin 22 and an exhalant canal 23 and perforation each other at the dual-side of water chamber 21, other convexes with a rotation support shaft 24 under the bottom surface mediad of the water chamber 21 of this base 20.

As shown in Figure 2, this upper cover base 30 is on the fastening end face that is fitted in base 20, make the bottom surface of base 20 abut against the upper surface of upper cover base 30, it has a water inlet 31 and a delivery port 32 this upper cover base 30, and this water inlet 31 is to be connected with the aquaporin 22 of going into of base 20, this delivery port 32 then is to be connected with the exhalant canal 23 of base 20, in addition convex with one towards the back side of base 20 central authorities and rotate supporting axis 33, then be convexly equipped with a center protruding pin 34 with screwed hole 341 with respect to another front position central authorities of this rotation supporting axis 33 at upper cover base 30.

As shown in Figure 2, this impeller 40 is the be equally spaced cylinders of a plurality of radial strut helical blades of outer peripheral edges, end face and bottom surface central authorities at this impeller 40 respectively are concaved with an axis hole 41 on same position of center line, and build-in has a magnetic element 42 in addition on the end face of this impeller 40, this impeller 40 is located in and is supported in the water chamber 21 of base 20, and present rotatable state, and rotation support shaft 24 with rotate supporting axis 33 and be installed on two axis holes 41 of 21 central authorities of water chamber of base 20 (as shown in Figure 1).

As shown in Figure 3, signal circuit device 50 of the present invention comprises: a micro processor 51, one circuit is connected in the DC power supply 52 on the micro processor 51, one circuit is connected in the signal converter 53 on the micro processor 51, one circuit is connected in the switch 54 that makes zero on the micro processor 51, restart switch 55 and a circuit that one circuit is connected on the micro processor 51 are connected in LCD data display equipment 56 on the micro processor 51, the alarm 57 and one that one circuit is connected on the micro processor 51 is located at base 20 back sides and forms (as shown in Figure 1) corresponding to the signal receiver 58 of magnetic element 42 positions.

As shown in Figure 1, this base 20, upper cover base 30 and impeller 40 are to be combined together by screw 121 to be fixed on the inside of shower nozzle 10, therefore by this water inlet 31, go into aquaporin 22, water chamber 21, exhalant canal 23 and delivery port 32 and form a water-flowing path jointly.

As Fig. 1 and shown in Figure 3, the present invention is to have a water pipe to be connected on the hand grip filter 60 on the pattern of using, current via water inlet 31 enter water chamber 21 go into aquaporin 22 after, promote impeller 40 rotations, flow out via exhalant canal 23 and delivery port 32 again, hole for water spraying 122 from outer cover 12 outwards sprays water at last, when water pressure promotes impeller 40 rotations, during impeller 40 every rotations one time, the magnetic element 42 of its signal circuit device 50 tops promptly synchronously sensor signal give signal receiver 58 once, and be communicated in the signal circuit device 50, this signal is each time converted to the water flow measurement signal via signal converter 53, after by micro processor 51 signal each time being done accumulative total again, transfer in the LCD data display equipment 56 and demonstrate the data of discharge, correct discharge can be calculated according to following formula:

Flow (Q)=water flow section is amassed (A) * flow velocity (V)

So the user can by naked eyes visual directly know handle the statistics of holding the discharge that filter 60 has been filtered at present.

Total Water value after all hand grip filters 60 filtrations of flowing through just of the aggregate values of aforementioned all discharges, after formaing and be input to the default reference values of 51 one-tenth one of micro processors, and be used as the numerical canonical reference value of filter assemblies out of the ordinary service life (saturation point); When the water yield aggregate values of the hand grip filter 60 of flowing through reaches the total flow value in service life (promptly filtering saturation point) of (or being about to reach) this hand grip filter 60, this micro processor 51 will send a digital information to alarm 57 and touch and send alert song and ring, and should in time change the interior filter of handle filter 60 to remind the user.Therefore, this user is avoided continuing to use the filter of inefficacy and the consequence of missing timely replacing.

And for example shown in Figure 4, be the second embodiment of the present invention, wherein, the structure of this impeller 40 and signal circuit device 50 is all identical with aforesaid first embodiment, and what second embodiment was revised is to be shower nozzle 100.

According to second embodiment, shower nozzle 100 wherein is a ducted body and has a long threaded portion 101, can be for being screwed together mutually with hand grip filter 60, bottom in this length threaded portion 101 is provided with a water chamber 102, and on the both end sides up and down of this water chamber 102, be respectively equipped with an entry path 10 3 and an exhalant canal 104 and connect each other, be installed with in the front of this shower nozzle 100 and be equipped with a plurality of hole for water sprayings 106 on an outer cover 105 and this outer cover 105, so that the water in the shower nozzle 100 can outwards spray from this hole for water spraying 106, in the back side of this shower nozzle 100 build-in one LCD data display equipment 56 is arranged again, have reception from the signal that micro processor 51 is exported in the signal circuit device 50 after, go the function (as shown in Figure 3) of demonstration again, and this impeller 40 is to be placed in the water chamber 102 of shower nozzle 100 and can to pivot neatly, and signal receiver 58 then is arranged on the apical position of magnetic element 42 of relative impeller 40.

As shown in Figure 4, second embodiment of the invention is to have a water pipe to be connected on the terminal part 61 of hand grip filter 60 when using, after current enter water chamber 102 via entry path 10 3, promote impeller 40 rotations, flow out via exhalant canal 104 again, hole for water spraying 106 from outer cover 105 outwards sprays water at last, wherein, when water pressure promotes impeller 40 rotations, during impeller 40 every rotations one time, the magnetic element 42 of its signal circuit device 50 tops promptly synchronously sensor signal give signal receiver 58 once, and be communicated to (as shown in Figure 3) in the signal circuit device 50, this signal is each time converted to the water flow measurement signal via signal converter 53, after by micro processor 51 signal each time being done accumulative total again, transfer in the LCD data display equipment 56 and demonstrate the data of discharge, correct discharge can be calculated according to following formula:

Flow (Q)=water flow section is amassed (A) * flow velocity (V)

In sum, the present invention has following effect:

Can make the filter in the hand shower nozzle reach the due maximum filtering water yield by effective utilization.

When the filter in the hand shower nozzle reached (or being about to reach) saturation point, generation can be heard Maybe can see alarm to inform the user.

Can allow user's filter that function had lost efficacy in the hand shower nozzle that upgrades in time, make reach thing to the greatest extent its With purpose, and then reach maximum practical usefulness and economic benefit; Therefore, it has industrial utilization.

Claims

1. one kind has the hand-held shower nozzle that upgrades the filter prior-warning device, and it is characterized in that: it comprises:

2. one kind has the hand-held shower nozzle that upgrades the filter prior-warning device, and it is characterized in that: it comprises: