CN209950070U

CN209950070U - Intelligent cat litter basin

Info

Publication number: CN209950070U
Application number: CN201920698200.7U
Authority: CN
Inventors: 王畅; 李勇
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 2019-05-15
Filing date: 2019-05-15
Publication date: 2020-01-17
Anticipated expiration: 2029-05-15

Abstract

The utility model provides an intelligence cat litter basin, include: a housing, a space in the housing being divided into a first area space and a second area space which are communicated with each other; the sand basin is placed at the bottom of the first area space; a waste box, wherein the waste box is arranged at the bottom of the second area space; the filter shovel device comprises a guide rail movement mechanism, a connecting plate, a transmission mechanism and a filter shovel, wherein the guide rail movement mechanism is installed on the top wall of the first area space, the first end of the connecting plate is connected to the guide rail movement mechanism and moves back and forth along the arrangement direction of the sand basin and the waste box along with the guide rail movement mechanism, the transmission mechanism is installed on the connecting plate, and the filter shovel is connected to the second end of the connecting plate; and the controller controls the guide rail movement mechanism and the transmission mechanism to work. Use the technical scheme of the utility model cat litter basin can solve among the prior art can not separate excrement and cat litter automatically, need artifically to pack very inconvenient problem after cat litter and excrement separate.

Description

Intelligent cat litter basin

Technical Field

The utility model belongs to the technical field of the pet apparatus, especially, relate to an intelligence cat litter basin.

Background

With the continuous improvement of living standard of people, people begin to pay attention to the spiritual life on the basis of continuous rich physical life, and the pet breeding is one of ways for enriching the spiritual life, and companion and consolation are obtained by breeding pets. The pet cat is deeply loved by people due to the mild sexual emotion and the clean life habit. At the family of cat care personage, normally prepare specially for the cat litter basin of defecation, however, current cat litter basin is not only bulky, can not separate excrement and cat litter automatically moreover, needs the manual work to pack after cat litter and excrement separate, and is very inconvenient.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

The utility model aims to solve the technical problem that an intelligence cat litter basin is provided, aim at solving among the prior art cat litter basin not only bulky, can not separate excrement and cat litter automatically moreover, need artifically to pack very inconvenient problem after cat litter and excrement separate.

In order to solve the technical problem, the utility model discloses a realize like this, an intelligent cat litter basin, include: the space in the shell is divided into a first area space and a second area space which are communicated with each other, and the shell is provided with an inlet and an outlet corresponding to the first area space; the sand basin is placed at the bottom of the first area space; a waste box, wherein the waste box is arranged at the bottom of the second area space; the filter shovel device comprises a guide rail movement mechanism, a connecting plate, a transmission mechanism and a filter shovel, wherein the guide rail movement mechanism is installed on the top wall of the first area space, the first end of the connecting plate is connected to the guide rail movement mechanism and moves back and forth along the arrangement direction of the sand basin and the waste box along with the guide rail movement mechanism, the transmission mechanism is installed on the connecting plate, the filter shovel is connected to the second end of the connecting plate, the filter shovel has a lower working position and an upper working position relative to the connecting plate, and the transmission mechanism drives the filter shovel to switch between the upper working position and the lower working position; and the controller controls the guide rail movement mechanism and the transmission mechanism to work.

Furthermore, the transmission mechanism comprises a power motor and a worm transmission assembly, the power motor is installed on the connecting plate and electrically connected with the controller, the worm transmission assembly can be rotatably connected to the connecting plate around the axis of the worm transmission assembly, the first end of the worm transmission assembly is in transmission connection with the power output end of the power motor, and the second end of the worm transmission assembly is in transmission connection with the filter shovel.

Furthermore, intelligence cat litter basin still includes air filter equipment, and air filter equipment connects in the top in the regional space of second, and air filter equipment discharges the outside and makes the air unidirectional flow replacement of outside air and the space in the shell after filtering first regional space and the regional space of second, and air filter equipment is connected with the controller electricity.

Further, intelligence cat litter basin still includes sterilizing equipment, and sterilizing equipment installs on the inner wall of shell, and sterilizing equipment is used for disinfecting the excrement in the grit in the litter basin and the waste box.

Further, the sterilization device is an ultraviolet lamp.

Further, intelligence cat litter basin still includes synthesizes the module, synthesizes the module and sets up in the regional space of second with air filter equipment side by side.

Further, the shell includes epitheca and the drain pan that covers each other and close, and exit sets up in the epitheca, and the drain pan is equipped with the first mouth of placing that is used for taking out to put the sand basin and is used for placing the second of wastes material box and places the mouth.

Further, the sand basin is square basin, and the pelvic floor portion of the sand basin and the adjacent one side of wastes material box sets up to the circular arc transition, and the pelvic floor that is close to the first one side of placing the mouth of sand basin also sets up to the circular arc transition.

Furthermore, the filtering shovel is provided with two upper working positions which are positioned on the two opposite side plate surfaces of the connecting plate, the filtering shovels which are respectively positioned at the two upper working positions are mutually symmetrical, and the included angle range of the filtering shovel and the connecting plate when the filtering shovel is positioned at the upper working position is [30 degrees ] and [ 90 degrees ].

Further, intelligence cat litter basin still includes induction system, and induction system installs in the shell department of importing and exporting, and induction system is connected with the controller electricity.

Compared with the prior art, the utility model, beneficial effect lies in:

in indoor application the utility model provides an intelligence cat litter basin provides the defecation place for the cat, after the cat defecation, corresponding shovel device that strains in this intelligence cat litter basin can filter the clearance under the automatic control of controller in the excrement in the sand of litter basin to collect in the waste material box, the user only needs in time to clear up the waste material box and can concentrate the clearance to the excrement of cat, need not oneself again and filters the excrement in the cat litter or change the cat litter regularly, it is very convenient to use.

Drawings

FIG. 1 is an assembly schematic diagram of an intelligent litter box of an embodiment of the invention;

FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional view A-A of FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is a schematic structural view of the intelligent litter box of the embodiment of the present invention after the upper casing is opened;

FIG. 4 is an exploded view of FIG. 3;

FIG. 5 is an exploded view of a partial exploded view of a strainer blade structure in an intelligent litter box in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention;

figure 6 is the utility model discloses the shovel structure of straining of intelligence cat litter basin removes the process diagram in the course of the work.

In the drawings, each reference numeral denotes:

10. a housing; 11. an upper shell; 12. a bottom case; 121. a first placing port; 122. a second placing port; 13. a partition plate; 20. a sand basin; 30. a waste box; 40. a filter shovel device; 41. a guide rail movement mechanism; 411. mounting blocks; 412. a moving block; 413. a guide rail; 42. a connecting plate; 43. a transmission mechanism; 431. a power motor; 432. a worm drive assembly; 44. filtering and shoveling; 50. an air filtration device; 60. and a synthesis module.

Detailed Description

In order to make the objects, technical solutions and advantages of the present invention more clearly understood, the present invention is further described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings and embodiments. It should be understood that the specific embodiments described herein are merely illustrative of the invention and are not intended to limit the invention.

It will be understood that when an element is referred to as being "secured to" or "disposed on" another element, it can be directly on the other element or be indirectly on the other element. When an element is referred to as being "connected to" another element, it can be directly connected to the other element or be indirectly connected to the other element.

It will be understood that the terms "length," "width," "upper," "lower," "front," "rear," "left," "right," "vertical," "horizontal," "top," "bottom," "inner," "outer," and the like, as used herein, refer to an orientation or positional relationship indicated in the drawings that is solely for the purpose of facilitating the description and simplifying the description, and do not indicate or imply that the device or element being referred to must have a particular orientation, be constructed and operated in a particular orientation, and thus should not be considered as limiting the present application.

Furthermore, the terms "first", "second" and "first" 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 one or more of that feature. In the description of the present application, "a plurality" means two or more unless specifically limited otherwise.

As shown in fig. 1-5, embodiments of the present invention provide an intelligent litter box for a cat to defecate. The intelligent litter box comprises a housing 10, a litter box 20, a waste box 30, a filter shovel device 40 and a controller (not shown), wherein the filter shovel device 40 comprises a guide rail moving mechanism 41, a connecting plate 42, a transmission mechanism 43 and a filter shovel 44, the space in the housing 10 is divided into a first area space and a second area space which are communicated with each other, the housing 10 is provided with an inlet and an outlet corresponding to the first area space, the litter box 20 is placed at the bottom of the first area space, the waste box 30 is placed at the bottom of the second area space, the guide rail moving mechanism 41 is installed on the top wall of the first area space, a first end of the connecting plate 42 is connected to the guide rail moving mechanism 41 and moves back and forth along the arrangement direction of the litter box 20 and the waste box 30 along with the guide rail moving mechanism 41, the transmission mechanism 43 is installed on the connecting plate 42, the filter shovel 44 is connected to a second end of the connecting plate 42, the filter shovel 44 has a lower working, the transmission mechanism 43 drives the filter shovel 44 to switch between the upper working position and the lower working position, and the controller controls the guide rail movement mechanism 41 and the transmission mechanism 43 to work.

In this embodiment, the controller may adopt an MCU control module, a PLC industrial control module, and the like, which are already well-established and widely used in the prior art, or other control modules that can realize a control function and are suitable for controlling the intelligent litter box in the prior art may be purchased and used, which is not limited herein.

Place this intelligent cat litter box in the fixed corner position department of room to hold an appropriate amount of sand in litter box 20, then place litter box 20 in the bottom in first region space, and place waste material box 30 and litter box 20 side by side in the bottom in second region space. When the cat need carry out the defecation, the cat enters into first regional space from the entrance to carry out the defecation on the sand of wash basin 20 (the clean life habit of cat's love can oneself use the sand to bury the excrement and leave from exit), after the cat left, the controller just controlled and filtered the excrement work of shovel device 40 in the sand according to the removal process that fig. 6 shows, promptly: the controller then controls the guide track mechanism 41 to actuate to move the filter blade 44 from the initial position to the first operating position (a in fig. 6 shows the initial position of the filter blade 44, b in fig. 6 shows the first operating position of the filter blade 44), in the first operating position, the controller controls the transmission mechanism 43 to rotate the filter blade 44 downward to the lower operating position (c in fig. 6), then the controller controls the guide track mechanism 41 to move the filter blade 44 from the first operating position to the second operating position (d in fig. 6 shows the second operating position of the filter blade), in the second operating position, the controller controls the filter blade 44 to rotate to the upper operating position to filter cat excrement in the sand out on the filter blade 44 (e in fig. 6), and then the controller controls the guide track mechanism 41 to move the filter blade 44 from the second operating position to the initial position to the upper position of the waste box 30 (i.e. the filter blade 44 moves from the position shown in fig. 6 to the position shown in e in fig. 6 F in fig. 6) and controls the filter blade 44 to be turned down to dump the excrement into the waste box 30 (g in fig. 6), and after the excrement is dumped out, the controller controls the filter blade 44 to be returned to the upper working position to be in the initial state of the working standby. Of course, in order to clean up the excrement in the sandy soil, the controller may control the filter blade 44 to perform a second filtering process on the sandy soil, at which, after the first filtered excrement is dumped into the waste box 30, the controller controls the rail moving mechanism 41 to move the filter blade 44 to the left side of the waste box 30 (only by turning the filter blade 44 upward toward the sand basin 20), the filter blade is turned upward (shown by h in fig. 6), the controller controls the rail moving mechanism 41 to move the filter blade 44 to the second working position, the filter blade 44 is then turned to the lower working position by controlling the transmission mechanism 43 to be inserted into the sandy soil (shown by i in fig. 6), then the rail moving mechanism 41 is controlled to continue to move the filter blade 44 from the second working position to the first working position (shown by j in fig. 6), the filter blade 44 is turned to the upper working position in the first working position to filter out the excrement still remaining in the sandy soil (shown by k in fig. 6), the controller then controls the track movement mechanism 41 to move the filter blade 44 from the first working position directly to the left of the waste box 30 (i.e. the filter blade 44 can be turned down towards the sand basin 20, as shown by l in fig. 6), then dumps the excrement on the filter blade 44 into the waste box 30 (as shown by m in fig. 6), and then turns back to the upper working position after moving the filter blade 44 back to the initial position to be in the initial state of working standby (as shown by n in fig. 6).

In indoor application the utility model provides an intelligence cat litter basin provides the defecation place for the cat, after the cat defecation, corresponding straining shovel device 40 can filter the excrement in the sand of litter basin 20 under the automatic control of controller in this intelligence cat litter basin to collect in the waste box 30 of concentrating, the user only needs in time to clear up waste box 30 and can concentrate the clearance to the excrement of cat, need not oneself again and filters the excrement in the cat litter or change the cat litter regularly, and it is very convenient to use.

As shown in fig. 5, the drive mechanism 43 in the filtering shovel device 40 of the smart litter box includes a power motor 431 and a worm drive assembly 432. A wide opening is formed in the middle of the connecting plate 42, so that the overall weight of the intelligent cat litter box can be reduced, and an assembly position can also be set for the transmission mechanism 43, wherein the power motor 431 is installed at the upper position of the wide opening of the connecting plate 42, the power motor 431 is electrically connected with the controller to automatically control the starting operation or the shutdown operation of the power motor 431 through the controller, the worm transmission assembly 432 is rotatably connected to the connecting plate 42 around the axis thereof, specifically, an assembly through hole (not shown) is formed in the connecting plate 42 along the vertical direction, the worm transmission assembly 432 comprises a bearing and a worm with meshing threads at two ends, the bearing is sleeved on the rod body of the worm, the bearing is fixedly assembled in the assembly through hole, the meshing threads at the first end of the worm transmission assembly 432 are meshed with the meshing teeth of the worm wheel at the power output end of the power motor 431 for transmission connection, the meshing threads of the second end of the worm drive assembly 432 are in meshing drive connection with the meshing teeth of the worm wheel of the filter shovel 44.

As shown in fig. 1, in this embodiment, the smart litter box further includes an air filtering device 50, air in the first area space and the second area space is cleaned and filtered by the air filtering device 50, so that air odor inside the casing 10 is clear, and then the air is exhausted, and during the process that the air filtering device 50 extracts the air in the first area space and the second area space, the first area space and the second area space form a pressure difference with the outside, so that the outside air flows to supplement the air in the first area space and the second area space, and an air circulation replacement mechanism is formed. Specifically, the air filtering device 50 is connected to the top of the second area space, and the air filtering device 50 filters the air in the first area space and the second area space and then discharges the air to the outside and makes the outside air and the air in the space inside the housing 10 flow and replace in one direction, that is: the external air is supplied to the first area space and the second area space from the first opening 121, the inlet, the outlet, etc. of the sand basin 20, and then the air flows to the air filter device 50 to be filtered to remove the odor. The air filter device 50 is electrically connected to a controller for automatic control. In fact, the brushless variable-frequency mute fan is used in the air filtering device 50, the air filtering material is filled in the air filtering device 50, and the air circulation replacement process performed by the air filtering device 50 has the characteristic of omnidirectional air flow at a low speed, so that the intelligent cat litter box is free from any sound and does not feel obvious air flow in and out when working indoors. Moreover, the air filter device 50 is modularly assembled in the second area space, facilitating disassembly and upgrade.

Preferably, intelligence cat litter basin is still including synthesizing module 60, synthesizes module 60 and can be that various functions such as display screen, WIFI module do not have the module. In practice, the integration module 60 is disposed in the second zone space in parallel with the air filtering device 50.

In the present embodiment, the second area space where the air filter device 50 and the integration module 60 are located is separated from the first area space by the partition 13.

As shown in fig. 1 to 4, in the intelligent litter box of this embodiment, the housing 10 includes an upper shell 11 and a bottom shell 12 that are covered with each other, and the upper shell 11 and the bottom shell 12 are detachably assembled therebetween, which is more convenient for installing the filtering shovel device 40. In the installation process, the upper shell 11 and the bottom shell 12 are detached and separated, as shown in fig. 2, then the guide rail 413 is installed on the top inner wall of the upper shell 11, and the moving block 412 is connected to the guide rail 413 (wherein, a power traction assembly is installed on the moving block 412, power is output through the power traction assembly and the moving block 412 is pulled to move along the guide rail 413), and the installation block 411 is fixedly connected with the connection plate 42, and then the installation block 411 is fixedly connected with the moving block 412, so that the installation block 411, the moving block 412 and the guide rail 413 constitute the guide rail movement mechanism 41. The inlet and outlet are arranged on the upper shell, the bottom shell 12 is provided with a first placing opening 121 for placing the sand basin 20 and a second placing opening 122 for placing the waste box 30, so that a user can respectively and independently extract the sand basin 20 and the waste box 30 to be cleaned independently, and the use is convenient.

Correspondingly, the sand basin 20 is square basin, the pelvic floor portion of the side of the sand basin 20 adjacent to the waste box 30 is set to be circular arc transition, the pelvic floor portion of the side of the sand basin 20 close to the first placing opening 121 is also set to be circular arc transition, the circular arc transition setting mode can adapt to the arc-shaped track swept by the end portion of the filtering shovel 44 in the overturning process of the lower working position to the upper working position, and after the circular arc transition section, the upper half section of the edge of the sand basin 20 is a vertical section, so that the filtering shovel 44 can be effectively ensured to be continuously overturned to finally reach the upper working position when the filtering shovel 44 is overturned to the horizontal position in the overturning process of the lower working position to the upper working position, and excrement on the filtering shovel 44 can not fall outside.

In the present embodiment, the filter blade 44 has two upper working positions located on two opposite side plate surfaces of the connecting plate 42, and correspondingly, the lower working positions also have two lower working positions, the filter blades 44 located in the two upper working positions or the two lower working positions are symmetrical to each other, and the included angle range between the filter blade 44 located in the upper working position and the connecting plate 42 is [30 °,90 °). During operation of the filter blade 44, the filter blade 44 is angled relative to the attachment plate 42 by an angle in the range of [30 °,90 °), so that the excrement is collected on the filter blade 44 towards the attachment plate 42 and does not fall off the filter blade 44.

Preferably, the smart litter box further comprises a sterilizing device mounted on the inner wall of the housing 10, also automatically controlled by the controller, for sterilizing the sand in the litter box 20 and the excreta in the waste box 30. Specifically, the sterilization device is an ultraviolet lamp, and the ultraviolet lamp is electrically connected with the controller. In addition, the sterilization device can also be an atomizer device for spraying sterilization spray, and the atomizer device is electrically connected with the controller.

In this embodiment, intelligence cat litter basin still includes induction system, and this induction system is used for responding to the cat and gets into and run out first regional space, and induction system installs the shell 10 department at the exit, and induction system is connected with the controller electricity to trigger controller automatic control and strain shovel device 40 and filter the clearance work to the excrement in the sand. And, the entrance and exit is equipped with the sliding door panel (not shown), and this sliding door panel keeps the entrance and exit normally open at ordinary times in the position of entrance and exit, just utilizes this sliding door panel to close the entrance and exit when carrying out the sand clearance. In the actual work of the sensing device, when the kitty enters the first area space through the inlet and the outlet for defecation, the sensing device senses that the kitty passes through the inlet and the outlet for the first time and does not send a signal to the controller; after defecation, the cat goes out from first regional space through exit once more, then induction system senses the cat process the second time, and induction system sends the signal to the controller and the controller that starts works this moment. After the controller receives the signal, the controller immediately controls the sliding door panel to close the inlet and outlet, and then the controller controls the filter shovel device 40 to work. After the filter shovel device 40 finishes filtering and cleaning and returns to the initial state, the controller controls the sliding door panel to open the inlet and outlet again. Preferably, the sensing device of the present embodiment is assembled using a photoelectric sensor or an infrared ray sensor.

The above description is only exemplary of the present invention and should not be taken as limiting the scope of the present invention, as any modifications, equivalents, improvements and the like made within the spirit and principles of the present invention are intended to be included within the scope of the present invention.

Claims

1. An intelligent litter box, comprising:

the space in the shell (10) is divided into a first area space and a second area space which are communicated with each other, and the shell (10) is provided with an inlet and an outlet corresponding to the first area space;

a sand basin (20), the sand basin (20) being placed at the bottom of the first area space;

a waste box (30), the waste box (30) being placed at the bottom of the second area space;

a filter shovel device (40), wherein the filter shovel device (40) comprises a guide rail movement mechanism (41), a connecting plate (42), a transmission mechanism (43) and a filter shovel (44), the guide rail moving mechanism (41) is installed on the top wall of the first area space, the first end of the connecting plate (42) is connected to the guide rail moving mechanism (41) and moves back and forth along the arrangement direction of the sand basin (20) and the waste box (30) along with the guide rail moving mechanism (41), the transmission mechanism (43) is arranged on the connecting plate (42), the filter shovel (44) is connected to the second end of the connecting plate (42), the filter blade (44) having a lower working position and an upper working position with respect to the connecting plate (42), the transmission mechanism (43) drives the filter shovel (44) to switch between the upper working position and the lower working position;

the controller controls the guide rail movement mechanism (41) and the transmission mechanism (43) to work.

2. The smart litter box of claim 1 wherein said drive mechanism (43) comprises a power motor (431) and a worm drive assembly (432), said power motor (431) being mounted on said connection plate (42), said power motor (431) being electrically connected to said controller, said worm drive assembly (432) being rotatably connected to said connection plate (42) about its axis, a first end of said worm drive assembly (432) being drivingly connected to a power output of said power motor (431), a second end of said worm drive assembly (432) being drivingly connected to said filter blade (44).

3. The smart litter box of claim 2, further comprising an air filtering device (50), said air filtering device (50) being connected to the top of said second area space, said air filtering device (50) filtering air in said first area space and said second area space to be discharged to the outside and displacing outside air with unidirectional air flow in said space inside said housing (10), said air filtering device (50) being electrically connected to said controller.

4. The smart litter box of claim 3, further comprising a sterilizing device mounted on an inner wall of said housing (10) for sterilizing sand within said litter box (20) and waste within said waste bin (30).

5. The smart litter box of claim 4, wherein said sterilizing device is an ultraviolet light.

6. The smart litter box of any one of claims 3 to 5, further comprising an integration module (60), said integration module (60) being disposed in said second area space in juxtaposition to said air filtering device (50).

7. Intelligent litter box according to any of claims 1 to 5, characterized in that said outer casing (10) comprises an upper casing (11) and a lower casing (12) which cover each other, said access opening being provided in said upper casing, said lower casing (12) being provided with a first placing opening (121) for drawing said litter box (20) and a second placing opening (122) for placing a waste box (30).

8. The smart litter box of claim 7, wherein the litter box (20) is a square box, and wherein a bottom of the litter box (20) on a side adjacent to the waste box (30) is configured as an arc transition, and wherein a bottom of the litter box (20) on a side adjacent to the first placing port (121) is also configured as an arc transition.

9. The intelligent litter box of claim 1 wherein said filter blade (44) has two of said upper working positions on opposite sides of said connecting plate (42), said filter blade (44) in each of said two upper working positions being symmetrical to each other, said filter blade (44) in said upper working positions being at an angle of [30 °,90 °) to said connecting plate (42).

10. The smart litter box of claim 1, further comprising a sensing device mounted at said housing (10) of said access opening, said sensing device being electrically connected to said controller.