CN106305465A

CN106305465A - Feeder

Info

Publication number: CN106305465A
Application number: CN201510352464.3A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 李向东; 张磊
Original assignee: Shenzhen Yixin Science & Technology Co Ltd
Current assignee: Shenzhen Yixin Science & Technology Co Ltd
Priority date: 2015-06-24
Filing date: 2015-06-24
Publication date: 2017-01-11

Abstract

The invention discloses a feeder which comprises a main body, a base and a control device, wherein the main body is used for containing pet food; the base is provided with a food disc; the control device comprises a monitoring component and a control unit; the monitoring component is arranged on the food disc and is used for monitoring the amount of the pet food in the food disc; the control unit is electrically connected with the monitoring component and is used for driving the main body to put the pet food into the food disc, and used for controlling the main body to stop putting the pet food according to a sensed signal generated from the monitoring component.

Description

Feeder

Technical field

The present invention relates to a kind of pet supplies, particularly relate to a kind of feeding trough for pets.

Background technology

Along with the living standard of people generally improves, the people of pet feeding is liked also to get more and more.But a lot of people to face have a holiday, go on business, situation that the short-term such as tourism is gone out, this time the treatment of house pet is just seemed and has a heart but no strength.Pet fan, generally before going out, estimates the pet food needed for house pet according to the time of going out and enough pet foods is invested in food dish with feeding house pet.But, when the pet food held in food dish is externally exposed in environment for a long time, it is susceptible to contamination and deterioration phenomenon, additionally, house pet can eat the pet food in food dish at any time, it is impossible to realize feeding at regular time and quantity, the diet easily causing house pet is irregular, affects pet health.

Summary of the invention

In view of this, it is necessary to a kind of feeder that house pet can carry out quantitative feeding is provided.

A kind of feeder, the base that including the main body for accommodating pet food, there is food dish and control device, control device and include monitoring assembly and control unit, monitoring assembly is arranged on food dish, for monitoring the amount of pet food in food dish, control unit and monitoring assembly communicate to connect, and are used for starting main body and throw in pet food to food dish, and the sensing signal produced according to monitoring assembly controls main body and stops input pet food.

Described feeder only need to load abundant pet food in main body, and set feeding plan, the automatic feeding at regular time and quantity to house pet can be realized, and the most quantitative pet food is put to food dish, pet food can be avoided to be chronically exposed to external environment condition and be contaminated, and avoid the too much feed of house pet and unhealthful.

Accompanying drawing explanation

Fig. 1 is the schematic perspective view of the feeder of a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

Fig. 2 is the perspective exploded view of the base of feeder shown in Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is the schematic diagram of another angle of the food dish of feeder shown in Fig. 1.

Fig. 4 is the high-level schematic functional block diagram controlling device of feeder shown in Fig. 1.

Detailed description of the invention

Please join Fig. 1 and Fig. 4, the feeder 10 of a preferred embodiment of the present invention includes main body 20, lid 30, base 40 and controls device 60.

Main body 20 is in hollow tube-shape, and the bottom of main body 20 is installed on base 40, and the top of main body 20 has an opening, in order to user loads pet food since then in main body 20.The separable top being installed on main body 20 of lid 30, sets opening for lid, to pollute pet food in preventing water vapour, dust from entering main body 20.Base 40 includes food dish 41, and main body 20 can throw in pet food to food dish 41 with feeding house pet under the control controlling device 60.The food dish 41 cell body in top end opening, including groove bottom wall 411 and the groove sidewall 413 enclosing the periphery being located at groove bottom wall 411.It is prior art that feeder 10 throws in pet food to function and the structure of food dish 41, does not repeats them here.

Control device 60 and include monitoring assembly 61 and control unit 63.

Monitoring assembly 61 is arranged on food dish 41, for monitoring the amount of pet food in food dish 41.Monitoring assembly 61 includes that at least one OPTICAL SENSORS group 611, each OPTICAL SENSORS group include light emission portion 613 and light receiver 615.Light emission portion 613 and light receiver 615 may be contained within the groove sidewall 413 of food dish 41, and arrange with light receiver 615 level of relative with the light emission portion 613 of group.OPTICAL SENSORS group 611 can be arranged at the groove sidewall 413 position close to food dish 41 top of food dish 41, for the spilling situation of monitoring pet food when throwing in pet food.When light receiver 615 can receive the light that light emission portion 613 launches, light receiver 613 transmits the first signal to control unit 63, control unit 63 judges that the height at light sensing group 611 place covers without pet food, the pet food thrown in is measured not, and control feeder 10 is persistently thrown in pet food by control unit 63；When light receiver 615 cannot receive the light that light emission portion 613 launches, light receiver 615 transmits secondary signal to control unit 63, control unit 63 judges that the height at light sensing group 611 place has had pet food, the enough amounts of the pet food thrown in, control feeder 10 is stopped throwing in pet food by control unit 63, to avoid the pet food thrown in overflow.

It is also preferred that the left monitoring assembly 61 can be also the OPTICAL SENSORS matrix of some OPTICAL SENSORS groups 611 composition, and it is arranged at the different height of the groove sidewall 413 of food dish 41.So, control unit 63 can also stop throwing in food to realize throwing in different amounts of pet food according to the secondary signal that the OPTICAL SENSORS group 611 of the differing heights of monitoring assembly 61 produces.So, it is simple to user arranges different pet food injected volumes for the appetite of oneself house pet, meets the individual demand of house pet.Further, the appetite of house pet when control unit 63 can also calculate each feeding according to the sensing signal that OPTICAL SENSORS matrix produces.

Control unit 63 communicates to connect with monitoring assembly 61, for controlling startup and the closedown of monitoring assembly 61, and receives the sensing signal that monitoring assembly 61 produces, such as the first signal and secondary signal.Control unit 63 can be single-chip microcomputer or microcontroller (Micro Control Unit).Control unit 63 storage has the feeding time of user setup to select and the parameter information such as corresponding pet food injected volume.

When control unit 63 monitor current time arrive feeding time point time, start feeder 10 and throw in pet food, and start monitoring assembly 62 and throw in the pet food of respective amount to control feeder 10.Concrete, control unit 63 internal memory contains the mapping table of pet food injected volume and the OPTICAL SENSORS group 611 of differing heights.When the OPTICAL SENSORS group 611 of the height corresponding to pet food injected volume produces the first signal, control feeder 10 is persistently thrown in pet food by control unit 63；When the raw secondary signal of the OPTICAL SENSORS group 611 of the height corresponding to pet food injected volume, control feeder 10 is stopped throwing in pet food by control unit 63.

After throwing in pet food certain time, control unit 63 is again started up monitoring assembly 61, and the pet food injected volume of the current pet food injected volume comparison user preset corresponding to OPTICAL SENSORS group 611 producing secondary signal of foundation is to calculate and to store the appetite of the house pet of this feeding time point.

It is appreciated that this feeder 10 can farther include control panel, it is simple to user arranges above-mentioned feeding time by control panel and selects and pet food injected volume.

It is appreciated that this feeder 10 can farther include communication module 65, to set up communication connection by Networks and Communications terminal.This communication module 65 can access the mobile communications networks such as 2G, 3G, 4G, or accesses Internet by Wi-Fi, netting twine.Communication terminal can be smart mobile phone, PDA, panel computer, notebook computer, desktop computer or far-end server.Communication terminal provides a User Interface, so that user arranges above-mentioned parameter information by the User Interface of communication terminal, send control instruction in real time with operation feeder 10 in real time to feeding pet, and obtain the actual appetite of the house pet of each feeding time point in the past.

Described feeder 10 only need to load abundant pet food in main body 20, and set feeding plan, the automatic feeding at regular time and quantity to house pet can be realized, and the most quantitative pet food is devoted to food dish 41, pet food can be avoided to be chronically exposed to external environment condition and be contaminated, and avoid the too much feed of house pet and unhealthful.At the end of feeding, described feeder 10 calculates and stores the actual appetite of the house pet of each feeding time point automatically, can conveniently monitor the change of pet food amount, in order to user adjusts pet food injected volume according to the actual appetite of house pet.When feeder 10 access network, user controls feeder 10 to feeding pet in real time also by communication terminal at one's side, has provided the user great convenience.

Claims

1. a feeder, including for accommodating the main body of pet food and there is the base of food dish, it is characterized in that: this feeder also includes controlling device, control device and include monitoring assembly and control unit, monitoring assembly is arranged on food dish, and for monitoring the amount of pet food in food dish, control unit communicates to connect with monitoring assembly, throw in pet food to food dish for starting main body, and the sensing signal produced according to monitoring assembly controls main body and stops input pet food.

2. feeder as claimed in claim 1, it is characterized in that: food dish includes groove bottom wall and the groove sidewall enclosing the periphery being located at groove bottom wall, monitoring assembly includes that at least one is arranged at the OPTICAL SENSORS group of groove sidewall, each OPTICAL SENSORS group includes light emission portion and light receiver, light emission portion is arranged with light receiver level of relative, and light receiver is for receiving the light of light emission portion transmitting and producing sensing signal.

3. feeder as claimed in claim 2, it is characterised in that: when light receiver receives the light that light emission portion launches, light receiver produces and transmits the first signal, to control unit, control unit, control feeder persistently thrown in pet food；When light receiver cannot receive the light that light emission portion launches, light receiver produces and transmit secondary signal to be stopped throwing in pet food to control unit, control unit control main body.

4. feeder as claimed in claim 3, it is characterised in that: OPTICAL SENSORS group is arranged at the groove sidewall position close to food dish top of food dish.

5. feeder as claimed in claim 3, it is characterized in that: the quantity of OPTICAL SENSORS group is multiple, being arranged at the position of the different height of groove sidewall and form OPTICAL SENSORS matrix, control unit stops throwing in food to realize throwing in different amounts of pet food according to the secondary signal that the OPTICAL SENSORS group of the differing heights of OPTICAL SENSORS matrix produces.

6. feeder as claimed in claim 5, it is characterised in that: control unit internal memory contains the mapping table of pet food injected volume and the OPTICAL SENSORS group of differing heights.

7. feeder as claimed in claim 6, it is characterised in that: control unit calculates and stores the actual appetite of each feeding time point house pet according to the sensing signal that OPTICAL SENSORS matrix produces.

8. feeder as claimed in claim 7, it is characterised in that: feeder includes control panel, it is simple to user arranges parameter information by control panel, and parameter information includes feeding time point and corresponding house pet reality product injected volume.

9. feeder as claimed in claim 8, it is characterised in that: this feeder includes communication module, to set up communication connection with a communication terminal, and arranges parameter information by communication terminal and transmits the actual appetite of house pet of each feeding time point.