CN115885864A - Anti-pinch device control method and device for cat litter box and storage medium - Google Patents

Anti-pinch device control method and device for cat litter box and storage medium Download PDF

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CN115885864A
CN115885864A CN202110939545.9A CN202110939545A CN115885864A CN 115885864 A CN115885864 A CN 115885864A CN 202110939545 A CN202110939545 A CN 202110939545A CN 115885864 A CN115885864 A CN 115885864A
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The invention discloses a control method and a device for an anti-pinch device of a cat litter box and a storage medium, wherein the method comprises the following steps: under the condition that the cat litter box rotates clockwise, if the first anti-pinch device monitors that a base window of the cat litter box has a shelter, the cat litter box is controlled to stop rotating; under the cat litter basin anticlockwise rotation condition, if the base window of second anti-pinch device monitoring cat litter basin has the shelter from the thing, control cat litter section of thick bamboo stall. On the basis of not changing the whole structure and the original control logic, the use logic of the anti-pinch device is optimized, namely, different anti-pinch devices are selected to be used for monitoring shelters near the edges of the corresponding base window according to different rotating directions of the cat sand cylinder and used as conditions for stopping the rotation of the cat sand cylinder, so that the phenomenon that excrement in the cat sand cylinder cannot be discharged completely is reduced, and meanwhile, when a cat is in the rotating cat sand cylinder, the cat feet stretch into the base window and cannot be pinched.

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Anti-pinch device control method and device for cat litter box and storage medium
Technical Field
The invention relates to the technical field of pet feeding equipment control, in particular to a control method and device for an anti-pinch device of a cat litter box and a storage medium.
Background
Because cats have the physiological habit of pushing cat litter after excretion to bury the excrement, all breeders will equip pet cats with a special cat toilet, namely a litter box. The cat litter basin usually comprises a cat litter cylinder and a base, wherein a pouring opening is formed in the cat litter cylinder, a window opposite to the built-in garbage can is formed in the base, when excrement is cleaned, the cat litter cylinder starts to rotate, when the pouring opening of the cat litter cylinder rotates to the position of the window in the base, the excrement wrapped with the cat litter falls into the built-in garbage can from the pouring opening under the action of gravity, and the automatic cleaning process of the cat litter cylinder is completed.
At present, in order to avoid a cat litter cylinder to rotate a cat in the cat litter cylinder, if objects such as the feet of the cat stretch into a window of a base, the cat litter cylinder rotates to clamp the objects such as the feet of the cat, two sets of anti-clamping devices can be installed at positions close to the left edge and the right edge of the window of the base, whether shielding objects exist near the left wall and the right wall of a built-in garbage can is monitored respectively, when the shielding objects are monitored by any set of anti-clamping devices, the cat litter cylinder is controlled to stop rotating, and the cat is prevented from being clamped in the rotation process of the cat litter cylinder.
However, although the anti-pinch device that base window border set up can prevent that the cat from being pressed from both sides at cat litter section of thick bamboo rotation in-process, when the excrement from pouring the mouth when not falling into the garbage bin completely yet, can be monitored for sheltering from the thing by anti-pinch device sometimes, cause a cat litter section of thick bamboo stall, and then lead to the excrement to be pressed from both sides and can not accomplish the automatic clearance of a cat litter section of thick bamboo in pouring the mouth department, appear the unclean phenomenon of excrement clearance.
Disclosure of Invention
The invention aims to provide a control method, a device and a storage medium for an anti-clamping device of a cat litter box, aiming at the defects of the prior art, and the aim is realized by the following technical scheme.
A first aspect of the invention provides a method of controlling an anti-pinch device for a litter box, the method comprising:
under the condition that the cat litter box rotates clockwise, if the first anti-pinch device monitors that a shielding object is arranged on a base window of the cat litter box, the cat litter box is controlled to stop rotating;
under the condition that the cat litter box rotates anticlockwise, if the second anti-pinch device monitors that a shielding object is arranged on a base window of the cat litter box, the cat litter cylinder is controlled to stop rotating;
wherein, first anti-pinch device with the second anti-pinch device is used for the monitoring respectively to be located the shelter from the thing at two relative borders of base window, just two relative borders with the rotation direction is perpendicular.
In some embodiments of the present application, prior to obtaining the direction of rotation of the litter box in the litter box, the method further comprises:
when detecting that a cat enters or exits from the cat litter box, acquiring a first weight of the cat litter box before the cat enters and a second weight of the cat litter box after the cat exits; and controlling the cat litter box to rotate according to the cat litter box automatic cleaning control logic when the difference value between the first weight and the second weight exceeds a threshold value.
In some embodiments of the present application, the method further comprises the process of obtaining the rotational direction of the litter box: determining the rotation direction of the cat litter cylinder according to the rotation direction of a motor in the cat litter box; the rotation direction includes clockwise rotation and counterclockwise rotation.
In some embodiments of the present application, the first anti-pinch device is a first infrared pair of tubes; there is shelter from thing through the base window of first anti-pinch device monitoring cat litter basin, include:
monitoring the transceiving data between the first infrared pair transistors in real time; and when the data receiving and sending are interrupted, determining that the base window has a shelter.
In some embodiments of the present application, the second anti-pinch device is a second infrared pair of tubes; there is shelter from thing through the base window of second anti-pinch device monitoring cat litter basin, include:
monitoring the receiving and transmitting data between the second infrared pair transistors in real time; and when the data receiving and sending are interrupted, determining that the base window has a shelter.
In some embodiments of the present application, the direction of rotation is clockwise, the method further comprising:
the border of the monitoring of first anti-pinch device on the base window is tangent with the first border of pouring opening on the cat litter cylinder, and the base window of monitoring cat litter basin through first anti-pinch device has shelter, control cat litter cylinder stall.
In some embodiments of the present application, the direction of rotation is counterclockwise, and the method further comprises:
according to the base window on the border of the monitoring of the second anti-pinch device and the second border of pouring opening on the cat litter section of thick bamboo tangent, there is shelter from thing, control through the base window of the monitoring cat litter basin of second anti-pinch device a cat litter section of thick bamboo stall.
A second aspect of the invention provides an anti-squeeze device control for a litter box, the device comprising a memory, a processor and a computer program stored on the memory and executable on the processor, the processor when executing the computer program implementing the steps of the method as described in the first aspect above.
A third aspect of the invention provides a litter box comprising:
an anti-trap control device for a litter box as described above in relation to the second aspect;
the cat sand cylinder is arranged above the base, a pouring opening for discharging excrement is formed in the cat sand cylinder, a window for receiving the excrement is formed in the base, and a first anti-pinch device and a second anti-pinch device are arranged at the edge of the window;
wherein, first anti-pinch device and second anti-pinch device are used for the monitoring respectively to be located the shelter from the thing at two relative borders of base window, just two relative borders with the rotation direction is perpendicular.
A fourth aspect of the invention provides a computer-readable storage medium having stored thereon a computer program which, when executed by a processor, performs the steps of the method according to the first aspect.
Based on the first aspect, the anti-pinch device control method for the cat litter box has the following beneficial effects or advantages:
on the basis of not changing the whole structure and the original control logic of the cat litter box, the invention optimizes the use logic of the anti-clamping device, namely when the rotation direction of the cat litter box is clockwise, the first anti-clamping device (used for monitoring the shielding object at the left edge of the base window) monitors that the base window of the cat litter box is provided with the shielding object, and controls the cat litter box to stop rotating, so that when the pouring opening of the cat litter box rotates to the position of the base window, the excrement wrapped with the cat litter can be completely discharged into the garbage can arranged in the base from the cat litter box; and when the rotation direction of cat litter section of thick bamboo is anticlockwise, there is the shelter through the base window of second anti-pinch device (being used for monitoring the shelter of base window right side border department) monitoring cat litter basin, and control cat litter section of thick bamboo stall, like this can ensure when the pouring opening of cat litter section of thick bamboo changes base window position, the excrement that is wrapped up in the cat litter can be arranged to the built-in garbage bin of base completely from cat litter section of thick bamboo.
Therefore, according to different rotating directions of the cat litter box, different anti-clamping devices are selected to monitor shelters near the edge of the corresponding base window to serve as conditions for stopping the cat litter box from rotating, so that unnecessary stopping actions are reduced, excrement can fall into the garbage can, the operation efficiency of the cat litter box is improved, and meanwhile, cat feet can be prevented from stretching into the base window and being clamped and damaged when a cat is in the rotating cat litter box. It is noted that the non-selected anti-pinch devices may or may not be subject to occlusion monitoring.
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FIG. 1 is a schematic view of a cat litter box according to the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a schematic top view of a base of the present invention;
FIG. 3 is a flowchart illustrating an embodiment of a method of anti-pinch device control for a litter box according to an exemplary embodiment of the invention;
FIG. 4 is a schematic view of a first edge of a pour spout of a litter box of the type shown in FIG. 3 being tangent to an edge of a window monitored by a first anti-pinch device in accordance with the embodiment of the invention;
FIG. 5 is a schematic view of a second edge of a pour spout of a litter box of the type shown in FIG. 3 being cut-away from a window edge monitored by a second anti-pinch device in accordance with the embodiment of the invention;
FIG. 6 is a schematic diagram of an anti-pinch device control for a litter box according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention;
fig. 7 is a schematic structural diagram of a storage medium according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.
The implementation, functional features and advantages of the objects of the present invention will be further explained with reference to the accompanying drawings.
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The technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention will be described clearly and completely with reference to the drawings in the embodiments of the present invention, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are only a part of the embodiments of the present invention, and not all of the embodiments. All other embodiments, which can be derived by a person skilled in the art from the embodiments given herein without making any creative effort, shall fall within the protection scope of the present invention.
It should be noted that all directional indicators (such as up, down, left, right, front, back \8230;) in the embodiments of the present invention are only used to explain the relative positional relationship between the components, the motion situation, etc. in a specific posture (as shown in the attached drawings), and if the specific posture is changed, the directional indicator is changed accordingly.
In addition, descriptions such as "first", "second", etc. in the present invention are used for descriptive purposes only and are not to be construed as indicating or implying relative importance or implicitly indicating the number of technical features indicated. Thus, a feature defined as "first" or "second" may explicitly or implicitly include at least one such feature. In the description of the present invention, "a plurality" means at least two, e.g., two, three, etc., unless explicitly specified otherwise.
In the present invention, unless otherwise expressly stated or limited, the terms "connected," "secured," and the like are to be construed broadly, and for example, "secured" may be a fixed connection, a removable connection, or an integral part; can be mechanically or electrically connected; they may be directly connected or indirectly connected through intervening media, or they may be connected internally or in any other suitable relationship, unless expressly stated otherwise. The specific meanings of the above terms in the present invention can be understood by those skilled in the art according to specific situations.
In addition, the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention may be combined with each other, but it must be based on the realization of the technical solutions by those skilled in the art, and when the technical solutions are contradictory to each other or cannot be realized, such a combination of the technical solutions should not be considered to exist, and is not within the protection scope of the present invention.
Referring to the construction of the litter box shown in fig. 1 and the base top view construction shown in fig. 2, the litter box generally comprises a litter box 10 and a base 20.
Wherein, the cat litter box 10 is provided with a pouring port 101 for discharging excrement, and the inside of the cat litter box 10 is further provided with a sieve plate 102 for separating cat litter and excrement wrapped with the cat litter. Further, a pinch prevention device control (not shown in FIG. 1) for the litter box is also provided inside the litter box 10.
With the base 20, a window 201 is provided thereon for receiving excrement, and a trash can (not shown in fig. 1 and 2) is provided inside thereof for collecting excrement. A set of anti-pinch device AA '(hereinafter referred to as a first anti-pinch device) is installed at the left edge of the window 201 for monitoring the sheltering object near the left edge of the window 201, and a set of anti-pinch device BB' (hereinafter referred to as a second anti-pinch device) is installed at the right edge of the window 201 for monitoring the sheltering object near the right edge of the window 201.
As can be seen from the above, the edge of the window monitored by the anti-pinch device AA and the edge of the window monitored by the anti-pinch device BB' are two opposite edges, and as shown in fig. 1 and 2, the two opposite edges are perpendicular to the direction of rotation of the litter box 10.
During the automatic cleaning process, the litter box 10 rotates continuously, the sieve plate 102 separates the litter from the litter-laden waste, and when the pouring opening 101 of the litter box 10 rotates to the position of the window 201 of the base 20, the litter-laden waste is discharged into the trash can of the base, and when the pouring opening 101 completely leaves the window 201, the discharging process is finished.
At present, in order to avoid the cat in the cat litter box 10, the cat foot stretches into the base window, the cat litter box 10 rotates and clamps the cat foot, in the rotation process of the cat litter box 10, whether a shielding object exists near the left edge of the anti-pinch device AA 'real-time monitoring window 201, whether a shielding object exists near the right edge of the anti-pinch device BB' real-time monitoring window 201, and when any anti-pinch device monitors the shielding object, the cat litter box 10 is controlled to stop rotating, so that the cat is prevented from being pinched.
However, although the anti-pinch device AA 'and the anti-pinch device BB' can prevent a cat from being pinched during the rotation of the litter box 10, if excrement does not completely fall into the trash can from the pouring opening 102, the excrement sometimes hangs on the edge of the window due to viscosity or is pinched between the edge of the pouring opening 102 and the edge of the window 201, the cat litter box stops rotating due to the fact that the anti-pinch device monitors the excrement, and then the excrement cannot be automatically cleaned, and the phenomenon that the machine stops rotating due to the fact that the excrement cannot be cleaned completely occurs.
In order to solve the problem of unclean excrement cleaning, the control logic of the anti-clamping device control device for the cat litter box is optimized on the basis of not changing the whole structure of the cat litter box, and the optimized control logic is as follows:
in the process of automatically cleaning the cat litter box 10 by rotating, under the condition that the cat litter box 10 rotates clockwise, if the first anti-pinch device monitors that a shielding object is arranged on the window 201 of the base, the cat litter box 10 is controlled to stop rotating; under the anticlockwise rotation condition of a cat litter section of thick bamboo 10, if the window 201 that the second anti-pinch device monitored the base has the shelter, then control cat litter section of thick bamboo stall.
The sheltering object monitored by the first anti-pinch device or the second anti-pinch device is hung at the edge of the base window or an object clamped between the edge of the cat litter box pouring opening and the edge of the base window.
The technical effects that can be achieved based on the above description are:
on the basis of not changing the whole structure and the original control logic of the cat litter box, the use logic of the anti-clamping device is optimized, namely when the rotation direction of the cat litter box is clockwise, the first anti-clamping device (used for monitoring the shielding object at the left edge of the base window) is used for monitoring the base window of the cat litter box to have the shielding object, and the cat litter box is controlled to stop rotating, so that when the pouring opening of the cat litter box just starts to rotate to the position of the base window, excrement wrapped by the cat litter can be more efficiently discharged into a garbage can arranged in the base from the cat litter box, and meanwhile, when the pouring opening of the cat litter box gradually rotates to deviate from the base window, a pet cat can be prevented from being injured; and when the rotation direction of cat litter section of thick bamboo is anticlockwise, there is the shelter through the base window of second anti-pinch device (being used for monitoring the shelter of base window right side border department) monitoring cat litter basin, control cat litter section of thick bamboo stall, like this can guarantee that the pouring opening of cat litter section of thick bamboo just begins to rotate to the base window position, the excrement of wrapping up in the cat litter can be followed cat litter section of thick bamboo and more efficiently arranged to the built-in garbage bin of base in, can prevent simultaneously that the pouring opening of cat litter section of thick bamboo from rotating when skew base window gradually, the pet cat is wounded.
Therefore, according to different rotation directions of the cat litter barrel, different anti-pinch devices are selected to monitor shelters near the edge of the corresponding base window, and the shelters are used as conditions for stopping rotation of the cat litter barrel, so that the phenomenon that excrement in the cat litter barrel cannot be discharged completely is reduced, unnecessary stop motion is avoided, the operation efficiency of the cat litter basin is improved, and meanwhile, when a cat is in the rotating cat litter barrel, cat feet stretch into the base window and are not pinched. It is noted that the non-selected anti-pinch devices may or may not be subject to occlusion monitoring.
In order to make the technical solutions better understood by those skilled in the art, the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present application will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the drawings in the embodiments of the present application.
The first embodiment is as follows:
fig. 3 is a schematic flow chart illustrating an embodiment of a method for controlling an anti-trap device for a litter box according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, the method is applicable to the litter box structure illustrated in fig. 1 and 2, and as shown in fig. 3, the method for controlling an anti-trap device for a litter box includes the following steps:
step 301: under the cat litter basin clockwise rotation circumstances, if first anti-pinch device monitors that there is the shelter at the base window of cat litter basin, then control cat litter section of thick bamboo stall.
Step 302: under the anticlockwise rotation condition of cat litter basin, if the base window that the second anti-pinch device monitored the cat litter basin has the shelter from when, control cat litter section of thick bamboo stall.
It can be understood by those skilled in the art that the steps 302 and 303 are two parallel steps, and there is no limitation on the execution order.
It should be noted that before executing step 301 or step 302, the triggering process for the cat litter box automatic cleaning control logic may include:
after the cat litter basin is connected with the power supply, whether there is the cat business turn over in the real-time detection cat litter section of thick bamboo, when detecting there is the cat business turn over, obtain the first weight of cat litter section of thick bamboo before the cat gets into and the second weight of cat litter section of thick bamboo after the cat goes out, and obtain the difference between first weight and the second weight, and then compare this difference and threshold value, if exceed the threshold value, explain that the cat leaves excrement (including excrement and urine, urine etc.) in cat litter section of thick bamboo, then begin to rotate according to the automatic control logic control cat litter section of thick bamboo that clears up of cat litter section of thick bamboo, in order to realize the automatic clearance function of cat litter section of thick bamboo.
Optionally, a gravity sensing element may be provided on the cat litter box to detect the action of the cat entering or exiting, and the weight of the cat litter box before the cat enters and after the cat exits.
Furthermore, an infrared sensing element can be arranged near the entrance on the cat litter barrel so as to detect the entrance and exit actions of the cat in combination with the gravity sensing element.
In an alternative embodiment, the rotation direction of the cat litter box can be obtained from the rotation direction of the motor in the cat litter box for the rotation of the cat litter box.
For example, if the motor is rotating clockwise, then the litter cartridge will correspondingly rotate in a clockwise direction, and if the motor is rotating counterclockwise, then the litter cartridge will correspondingly rotate in a clockwise direction.
In some alternative embodiments, the litter box auto purge control logic comprises:
firstly, determining the position of the cat sand cylinder, then calculating the rotation direction and the rotation time of the cat sand cylinder according to the position of the cat sand cylinder, and controlling the cat sand cylinder according to the calculated rotation direction and the calculated rotation time.
The cat litter box position refers to the angle of the access port on the cat litter box relative to the base. After the execution of the rotation direction and the rotation time of the cat litter cylinder is finished, namely the automatic cleaning is finished, the cat litter cylinder entry is ensured to be parallel to the base, so that a cat can freely enter and exit the cat litter cylinder. And in the process, in order to realize the purpose of pouring excrement into the garbage can of the base, the pouring opening of the cat sand cylinder and the window of the base are required to be completely overlapped at least once.
Further, in order to ensure that excrement is completely poured into the garbage can of the base, the pouring opening of the cat sand cylinder and the window of the base can be completely overlapped twice.
That is to say, the cat litter cylinder is controlled to rotate according to one direction firstly, so that the pouring opening and the base window are completely overlapped once, after the pouring opening of the cat litter cylinder leaves the base window along with the rotation, the cat litter cylinder is controlled to rotate according to the opposite direction, so that the pouring opening and the base window are completely overlapped once again, and the rotation is stopped until the entrance of the cat litter cylinder is parallel to the base.
Can know by the above-mentioned description, a cat litter section of thick bamboo can involve the rotation of equidirectional not in automatic clearance in-process, clockwise rotation and anticlockwise rotation promptly, consequently in the automatic clearance in-process of a cat litter section of thick bamboo, needs select corresponding anti-pinch device to monitor according to the rotation direction in real time.
It will be appreciated by those skilled in the art that the determination of the position of the litter box can be achieved using related art techniques, and the present application is not limited in this regard. For example, can set up a pair of opposite polarity's magnet and hall element on the cat litter section of thick bamboo, at the cat litter section of thick bamboo rotation process, hall element can be according to the position and the moment output cat litter section of thick bamboo position that detect two opposite polarity magnets.
So far, the control flow shown in the above fig. 3 is completed, and the invention, on the basis of not changing the whole structure of the litter box and the original control logic, by optimizing the use logic of the anti-pinch device, namely when the rotation direction of the litter box is clockwise, monitoring that the base window of the litter box has a shelter through the first anti-pinch device (used for monitoring the shelter at the left edge of the base window), and controlling the litter box to stop rotating, so that when the pouring opening of the litter box rotates to the position of the base window, the excrement wrapped with the litter can be more efficiently discharged from the litter box to the trash can arranged in the base; and when the rotation direction of cat litter section of thick bamboo is anticlockwise, there is the shelter through the base window of second anti-pinch device (being used for monitoring the shelter of base window right side border department) monitoring cat litter basin, and control cat litter section of thick bamboo stall, like this can ensure when the pouring opening of cat litter section of thick bamboo changes base window position, the excrement of wrapping up in the cat litter can be arranged to the built-in garbage bin of base more effectively from cat litter section of thick bamboo.
Therefore, according to different rotation directions of the cat litter box, different anti-clamping devices are selected to monitor shelters near the edge of the corresponding base window to serve as conditions for stopping rotation of the cat litter box, so that the phenomenon that excrement in the cat litter box cannot be discharged completely is reduced, unnecessary stopping actions are avoided, the operation efficiency of the cat litter box is improved, and meanwhile, cat feet can be prevented from stretching into the base window and being clamped and damaged when a cat is in the rotating cat litter box. It is noted that the non-selected anti-pinch devices may or may not be subject to occlusion monitoring.
The following specific description of the step 301 of selecting the first anti-pinch device to detect the occlusion condition is as follows:
referring to fig. 1 and 2, the initial position of the litter box when it is powered up is generally with the pour spout directly over, which facilitates the user's addition of litter, where the right edge of the pour spout is defined as the first edge, the left edge of the pour spout is defined as the second edge, and the first anti-pinch device is used to monitor the covering near the left edge of the base window, and the second anti-pinch device is used to monitor the covering near the right edge of the base window. When a cat litter section of thick bamboo rotates according to the clockwise, the first edge of pouring opening is at first tangent with base window right edge, then along with the rotation of a cat litter section of thick bamboo, the area of coincidence between pouring opening and the base window increases gradually, until the area of coincidence is the biggest, and when the first edge of pouring opening is tangent with base window left side edge, along with the rotation of a cat litter section of thick bamboo, the area of coincidence between pouring opening and the base window can reduce gradually, until there is not the area of coincidence completely.
According to the description, the first edge of the pouring opening is tangent to the right edge of the base window firstly, then the overlapping area between the pouring opening and the base window is gradually increased along with the rotation of the cat litter box, and in the process of the maximum overlapping area, because the space between the right edge of the base window and the first edge of the pouring opening is gradually increased, the cat litter box is not clamped even if a cat foot extends into the base window actually, and the overlapping area between the pouring opening and the base window is gradually increased until the overlapping area is maximum, the best discharge opportunity of the excrement in the cat litter box under the action of gravity is realized, and at the moment, the excrement at the pouring opening can easily shield the vicinity of the right edge of the base window. Therefore, the blocking condition detected by the second anti-pinch device for monitoring the blocking object near the right edge of the base window does not need to be used as a judgment condition for stopping the rotation of the litter box.
When the first edge of the pouring opening is tangent to the left edge of the base window, the overlapping area between the pouring opening and the base window can be gradually reduced along with the rotation of the cat litter box until the overlapping area is not formed, because the overlapping area between the pouring opening and the base window is gradually reduced, if objects such as cat feet and the like extend into the base window, the phenomenon of being clamped can occur, the blocking condition detected by the first anti-clamping device of the blocking object near the left edge of the base window needs to be monitored, the judging condition that the cat litter box stops rotating needs to be used as the judging condition, the overlapping time between the pouring opening and the base window is up, and at the moment, excrement in the cat litter box has enough time to be discharged into the garbage can of the base window.
Further, rotate the in-process at a cat litter section of thick bamboo clockwise, can close the second anti-pinch device to reduce system energy consumption.
In an optional specific implementation, under the condition that the first anti-pinch device is specifically a first infrared pair tube, the receiving and sending data between the first infrared pair tubes can be monitored in real time aiming at the process that the base window of the cat litter box is monitored through the first anti-pinch device to have the shielding object, and if the receiving and sending data are interrupted, it is indicated that an object is shielded near the left edge of the base window, and then the base window is determined to have the shielding object.
The interruption of data receiving and transmitting refers to the fact that data is transmitted by one infrared tube, and the other infrared tube on the other side cannot receive the data due to the fact that the data is shielded by an object, so that the interruption occurs.
It should be noted that, the above-mentioned first anti-pinch device adopts infrared pair tubes as an exemplary illustration only, which does not form a limitation to the scope of the present application, and the anti-pinch device may also be other sensing devices capable of detecting the blocking object.
In some alternative embodiments, it can be seen from the above analysis that the effective monitoring of the first anti-pinch device should begin with the first edge of the pour spout being tangent to the left edge of the base window, and the overlap area between the pour spout and the base window will gradually decrease until the process is completely misaligned, and in other processes, no object occlusion will occur near the left edge of the base window.
Based on this, as shown in fig. 4, when the edge monitored by the first anti-pinch device on the base window (i.e. the left edge of the base window) is tangent to the first edge of the pouring opening (i.e. the right edge of the pouring opening), the first anti-pinch device starts to monitor whether the base window of the cat litter box has a shelter or not, so as to further reduce the energy consumption of the system.
The monitoring element is arranged at the first edge of the pouring opening, the preset mark is arranged at the left edge of the base window, and when the monitoring element at the first edge of the pouring opening monitors the preset mark in the clockwise rotation process of the cat litter cylinder, the left edge of the base window is determined to be tangent to the first edge of the pouring opening.
The following description of the selection of the second anti-pinch device to detect the occlusion in step 302 is as follows:
referring to fig. 1 and 2 above, when the litter box rotates in a counterclockwise direction, the second edge of the pour spout is first tangent to the left edge of the base window, then the overlapping area between the pour spout and the base window gradually increases as the litter box rotates until the overlapping area is maximized, and when the second edge of the pour spout is tangent to the right edge of the base window, the overlapping area between the pour spout and the base window gradually decreases as the litter box rotates until there is no overlapping area.
According to the description, the second edge of the pouring opening is tangent to the left edge of the base window, then the overlapping area between the pouring opening and the base window is gradually increased along with the rotation of the cat litter box, and in the process of the maximum overlapping area, as the space between the left edge of the base window and the second edge of the pouring opening is gradually increased, even if a cat foot extends into the base window, the phenomenon of being clamped can not occur, and the overlapping area between the pouring opening and the base window is gradually increased until the overlapping area is maximum, the best discharge time of excrement in the cat litter box under the action of gravity is realized, and at the moment, the excrement at the pouring opening is easy to shield the vicinity of the left edge of the base window. Therefore, the shielding condition detected by the first anti-pinch device for monitoring the shielding object near the left edge of the base window does not need to be used as a judgment condition for stopping the rotation of the cat litter cylinder.
When the second edge of the pouring opening is tangent to the right edge of the base window, along with the rotation of the cat litter box, the overlapping area between the pouring opening and the base window can be gradually reduced until the overlapping area is not generated, because the overlapping area between the pouring opening and the base window is gradually reduced, if objects such as cat feet and the like extend into the base window, the phenomenon of being clamped occurs, the shielding condition detected by the second anti-clamping device for monitoring the shielding object near the right edge of the base window needs to be used as a judgment condition for stopping the rotation of the cat litter box, and the overlapping between the pouring opening and the base window is carried out for a period of time, at the moment, the excrement in the cat litter box has enough time to be discharged into the garbage can of the base window.
Further, at a cat litter section of thick bamboo anticlockwise rotation in-process, can close first anti-pinch device to reduce system energy consumption.
In an optional embodiment, under the second anti-pinch device specifically is the infrared geminate transistor condition of second, to the process that there is the shelter through the base window of second anti-pinch device monitoring cat litter basin, can real-time supervision second infrared geminate transistor between the receiving and dispatching data, if under the condition that the receiving and dispatching data appears interrupting, explain that there is the object shelter in near base window right edge, then confirm that the base window has the shelter from the thing.
The interruption of the data receiving and sending refers to the interruption of the data sending of one infrared tube, and the interruption occurs because the data is shielded by an object and the other infrared tube on the other side cannot receive the data.
It should be noted that, the above-mentioned second anti-pinch device adopts infrared pair tubes as an exemplary illustration only, which does not form a limitation to the scope of the present application, and the anti-pinch device may also be other sensing devices capable of detecting the blocking object.
In some alternative embodiments, it can be seen from the above analysis that the effective monitoring process of the second anti-pinch device should be started when the second edge of the pouring opening is tangent to the right edge of the base window, the overlapping area between the pouring opening and the base window will gradually decrease until there is no overlapping area, and in other processes, no object blocking will occur near the right edge of the base window.
Based on this, as shown in fig. 5, when the edge monitored by the second anti-pinch device (i.e. the right edge of the base window) on the base window is tangent to the second edge of the pouring opening (i.e. the left edge of the pouring opening), the second anti-pinch device can monitor whether the base window of the litter box has a shelter, so as to further reduce the energy consumption of the system.
The monitoring element is arranged at the second edge of the pouring opening, the preset mark is arranged at the right edge of the base window, and when the monitoring element at the second edge of the pouring opening monitors the preset mark in the anticlockwise rotation process of the cat litter cylinder, the right edge of the base window is determined to be tangent to the second edge of the pouring opening.
The embodiment of the invention also provides an anti-pinch device control device for the cat litter box, which corresponds to the anti-pinch device control method for the cat litter box provided by the embodiment, so as to execute the anti-pinch device control method for the cat litter box.
FIG. 6 is a hardware block diagram of a pinch resistant device control for a litter box according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, the pinch resistant device control for a litter box comprising: a communication interface 701, a processor 702, a memory 703, and a bus 704; the communication interface 701, the processor 702 and the memory 703 are in communication with each other via a bus 704. The processor 702 may execute the anti-pinch device control method for a litter box described above by reading and executing machine executable instructions in the memory 703 corresponding to the control logic of the anti-pinch device control method for a litter box, the details of which are described in the above embodiments and will not be repeated here.
The memory 703, as referred to herein, may be any electronic, magnetic, optical, or other physical storage device that can contain stored information, such as executable instructions, data, and the like. Specifically, the Memory 703 may be a RAM (Random Access Memory), a flash Memory, a storage drive (e.g., a hard disk drive), any type of storage disk (e.g., an optical disk, a DVD, etc.), or similar storage medium, or a combination thereof. The communication connection between the network element of the system and at least one other network element is realized through at least one communication interface 701 (which may be wired or wireless), and the internet, a wide area network, a local network, a metropolitan area network, and the like can be used.
Bus 704 may be an ISA bus, PCI bus, EISA bus, or the like. The bus may be divided into an address bus, a data bus, a control bus, etc. The memory 703 is used for storing a program, and the processor 702 executes the program after receiving an execution instruction.
The processor 702 may be an integrated circuit chip having signal processing capabilities. In implementation, the steps of the above method may be performed by integrated logic circuits of hardware or instructions in the form of software in the processor 702. The Processor 702 may be a general-purpose Processor, and includes a Central Processing Unit (CPU), a Network Processor (NP), and the like; but may also be a Digital Signal Processor (DSP), an Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC), an off-the-shelf programmable gate array (FPGA) or other programmable logic device, discrete gate or transistor logic, discrete hardware components. The various methods, steps, and logic blocks disclosed in the embodiments of the present application may be implemented or performed. A general purpose processor may be a microprocessor or the processor may be any conventional processor or the like. The steps of the method disclosed in connection with the embodiments of the present application may be directly implemented by a hardware decoding processor, or implemented by a combination of hardware and software modules in the decoding processor.
The anti-pinch device control device for the cat litter box and the anti-pinch device control method for the cat litter box are based on the same inventive concept and have the same beneficial effects as the method adopted, operated or realized by the anti-pinch device control device.
Referring to fig. 7, the computer readable storage medium is an optical disc 30, and a computer program (i.e., a program product) is stored thereon, and when the computer program is executed by a processor, the computer program executes the method for controlling an anti-pinch device for a cat litter box according to any of the embodiments.
It should be noted that examples of the computer-readable storage medium may also include, but are not limited to, a phase change memory (PRAM), a Static Random Access Memory (SRAM), a Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM), other types of Random Access Memories (RAM), a Read Only Memory (ROM), an Electrically Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory (EEPROM), a flash memory, or other optical and magnetic storage media, which are not described in detail herein.
The computer-readable storage medium provided by the above-mentioned embodiment of the present application and the anti-pinch device control method for a cat litter box provided by the embodiment of the present application are based on the same inventive concept, and have the same beneficial effects as the method adopted, run or implemented by the application program stored in the computer-readable storage medium.
Other embodiments of the invention will be apparent to those skilled in the art from consideration of the specification and practice of the invention disclosed herein. This invention is intended to cover any variations, uses, or adaptations of the invention following, in general, the principles of the invention and including such departures from the present disclosure as come within known or customary practice within the art to which the invention pertains. It is intended that the specification and examples be considered as exemplary only, with a true scope and spirit of the invention being indicated by the following claims.
The above description is only for the purpose of illustrating the preferred embodiments of the present invention and is not to be construed as limiting the invention, and any modifications, equivalents, improvements and the like made within the spirit and principle of the present invention should be included in the scope of the present invention.

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1. A method of controlling an anti-pinch device for a litter box, the method comprising:
under the condition that the cat litter box rotates clockwise, if the first anti-pinch device monitors that a shielding object is arranged on a base window of the cat litter box, the cat litter box is controlled to stop rotating;
under the condition that the cat litter box rotates anticlockwise, if the second anti-pinch device monitors that a shielding object is arranged on a base window of the cat litter box, the cat litter cylinder is controlled to stop rotating;
wherein, first anti-pinch device with the second anti-pinch device is used for the monitoring respectively to be located the shelter from the thing at two relative borders of base window, just two relative borders with the rotation direction is perpendicular.
2. The method of claim 1, wherein prior to obtaining the rotational direction of the litter box in the litter box, the method further comprises:
when detecting that a cat enters or exits from the cat litter box, acquiring a first weight of the cat litter box before the cat enters and a second weight of the cat litter box after the cat exits;
and controlling the cat litter box to rotate according to the cat litter box automatic cleaning control logic when the difference value between the first weight and the second weight exceeds a threshold value.
3. The method of claim 1, further comprising the process of capturing the direction of rotation of the litter box:
determining the rotation direction of the cat litter cylinder according to the rotation direction of a motor in the cat litter box;
the rotation direction includes clockwise rotation and counterclockwise rotation.
4. The method of claim 1, wherein the first anti-pinch device is a first infrared pair of tubes;
there is shelter from thing through the base window of first anti-pinch device monitoring cat litter basin, include:
monitoring the transceiving data between the first infrared pair transistors in real time;
and when the data receiving and sending are interrupted, determining that the base window has a shelter.
5. The method of claim 1, wherein the second anti-pinch device is a second infrared pair of tubes;
there is shelter from thing through the base window of second anti-pinch device monitoring cat litter basin, include:
monitoring the transceiving data between the second infrared pair transistors in real time;
and when the data receiving and sending are interrupted, determining that the base window has a shelter.
6. The method of claim 1, wherein the direction of rotation is clockwise, the method further comprising:
the border of the monitoring of first anti-pinch device on the base window is tangent with the first border of pouring opening on the cat litter cylinder, and the base window of monitoring cat litter basin through first anti-pinch device has shelter, control cat litter cylinder stall.
7. The method of claim 1, wherein the rotational direction is counterclockwise, the method further comprising:
the border of the monitoring of the second anti-pinch device on the base window is tangent to the second border of the pouring opening on the cat litter cylinder, and the base window of the cat litter cylinder is monitored by the second anti-pinch device and is shielded by a shielding object, so that the cat litter cylinder stops rotating.
8. An anti-pinch device control apparatus for a litter box, the apparatus comprising a memory, a processor, and a computer program stored on the memory and executable on the processor, wherein the processor when executing the computer program implements the steps of the method of any of claims 1-7.
9. A litter box, comprising:
the anti-pinch device control for a litter box of claim 8;
the cat sand cylinder is arranged above the base, a pouring opening for discharging excrement is formed in the cat sand cylinder, a window for receiving the excrement is formed in the base, and a first anti-pinch device and a second anti-pinch device are arranged at the edge of the window;
wherein, first anti-pinch device and second anti-pinch device are used for the monitoring respectively to be located the shelter from the thing at two relative borders of base window, just two relative borders with the rotation direction is perpendicular.
10. A computer-readable storage medium, on which a computer program is stored which, when being executed by a processor, carries out the steps of the method according to any one of claims 1 to 7.
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