CN212465892U

CN212465892U - Water tank assembly and cleaning robot cleaning base station

Info

Publication number: CN212465892U
Application number: CN202021680678.6U
Authority: CN
Inventors: 杨勇; 廖佰军; 李奇; 潘发兰
Original assignee: Shenzhen 3irobotix Co Ltd
Current assignee: Shenzhen 3irobotix Co Ltd
Priority date: 2020-08-11
Filing date: 2020-08-11
Publication date: 2021-02-05
Anticipated expiration: 2030-08-11

Abstract

The utility model discloses a water tank component and a cleaning base station of a cleaning robot, wherein the water tank component comprises a shell component, a movable sealing element and an elastic push-button switch; the shell component is provided with a clean water bin and a sewage bin arranged in the clean water bin, the sewage bin is provided with a sewage discharge outlet, and the sewage discharge outlet is provided with a movable sealing piece; the movable sealing piece is movably arranged on the shell assembly between an initial position and a sewage draining position; the elastic push-buckle switch is arranged in the shell component and is in driving connection with the movable sealing element; the elastic push-buckle switch is used for driving the movable sealing piece to switch between an initial position and a sewage discharge position; when the movable sealing element is positioned at the initial position, the sewage draining outlet is sealed; when the movable sealing element is positioned at the sewage discharge position, the sewage discharge port is opened. The utility model discloses the structure of water tank subassembly has been improved to keep apart sewage and clear water, and convenience of customers emptys sewage.

Description

Water tank assembly and cleaning robot cleaning base station

Technical Field

The utility model relates to a water tank technical field especially relates to a water tank subassembly and cleaning machines people clean basic station.

Background

The clean basic station of current cleaning machines people includes the water tank set spare, adorns sewage and water purification respectively in two containers in the water tank set spare, and the mode of empting of sewage is bimanualness usually, and the user uses comparatively trouble.

Therefore, how to improve the convenience of dumping the sewage in the water tank assembly becomes a problem to be solved urgently.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

A primary object of the present invention is to provide a water tank assembly for improving the convenience of sewage dumping for the convenience of users.

In order to achieve the above object, the utility model provides a water tank assembly for cleaning robot clean basic station, water tank assembly includes:

the shell assembly is provided with a purified water bin and a sewage bin arranged in the purified water bin, the sewage bin is provided with a sewage discharge outlet, and a movable sealing piece is arranged at the sewage discharge outlet;

a movable seal member movably disposed on the housing assembly between an initial position and a waste position; and

the elastic push-buckle switch is arranged in the shell component and is in driving connection with the movable sealing piece; the elastic push-buckle switch is used for driving the movable sealing piece to switch positions between the initial position and the sewage disposal position; when the movable sealing element is positioned at the initial position, the sewage draining outlet is closed; and when the movable sealing element is positioned at the sewage discharge position, the sewage discharge port is opened.

In one embodiment, the housing assembly includes a first housing, a second housing, and a cover plate, the first housing is recessed with a receiving groove, the second housing is received in the receiving groove, the cover plate is covered on a notch of the receiving groove, and the first housing, the second housing, and the cover plate enclose the purified water bin and the sewage bin;

the first shell is provided with a purified water inlet and a purified water outlet which are respectively communicated with the purified water bin;

and a sewage inlet communicated with the sewage bin is formed in the second shell.

In an embodiment, a cylindrical cavity for mounting the elastic push-buckle switch is convexly arranged at the bottom of the accommodating groove, a jack is arranged at a position of the second shell corresponding to the cylindrical cavity, and the cylindrical cavity extends into the second shell through the jack so that the second shell is accommodated in the accommodating groove of the first shell.

In one embodiment, the elastic push-button switch comprises a key, an elastic piece, a switch board, a gear ring component and a connecting rod, wherein a groove for accommodating the key is concavely arranged on the cover board, the groove is communicated with the columnar cavity, the key extends into the columnar cavity from the groove and is connected with the switch board through the elastic piece, the switch board, the gear ring component and the movable sealing piece are all arranged in the columnar cavity, one side of the switch board, which is opposite to the key, is connected with the gear ring component, the movable sealing piece is arranged close to the jack and is connected with the gear ring component, the movable sealing piece is elastically connected with the switch board through the connecting rod, and the sewage outlet is arranged on the columnar cavity and corresponds to the position of the movable sealing piece;

when the key is pressed, the switch board moves downwards under the driving of the elastic piece and drives the gear ring assembly to move downwards from the initial position to a limiting position, the gear ring assembly clamps the movable sealing piece, and when the pressing is finished, the connecting rod drives the movable sealing piece and the gear ring assembly to move upwards to the sewage discharge position under the action of the elastic force so as to open the sewage discharge outlet;

when the key is pressed again, the switch board moves upwards under the driving of the elastic piece and drives the gear ring component to move upwards to a non-limiting position, the gear ring component is separated from the movable sealing piece, and the movable sealing piece moves to the initial position under the action of the elastic piece and is clamped with the gear ring component, so that the sewage outlet is closed.

In one embodiment, the gear ring assembly includes a first gear ring, a second gear ring and a third gear ring, a first end of the first gear ring is fixedly connected to the switch plate, a second end of the first gear ring is engaged with a first end of the second gear ring, a second end of the second gear ring is engaged with a first end of the third gear ring, and a second end of the third gear ring is engaged with the movable seal.

In an embodiment, the elastic push-button switch further includes a sealing plate, and the sealing plate is disposed on one side of the cylindrical cavity close to the groove to seal a communication position between the groove and the cylindrical cavity.

In one embodiment, the connecting rod is abutted with the sealing plate through a spring and fixed with the switch plate through a threaded connection.

In one embodiment, a key sealing element is further arranged on one side of the key close to the columnar cavity, and the key sealing element is used for sealing the communication position of the groove and the columnar cavity.

In an embodiment, a notch of the accommodating groove of the first housing is hermetically connected with the second housing and the cover plate;

the bottom of the second shell is hermetically connected with the columnar cavity, so that the sewage bin is hermetically separated from the purified water bin.

In order to achieve the above object, the utility model also provides a clean basic station of cleaning robot, clean basic station includes as above the water tank set spare, the water tank set spare includes:

In the technical scheme of the utility model, because the water tank component comprises a shell component, a movable sealing element and an elastic push-buckle switch, the shell component is provided with a clean water bin and a sewage bin arranged in the clean water bin, the sewage bin is provided with a sewage discharge outlet, the sewage discharge outlet is provided with the movable sealing element, the movable sealing element is movably arranged on the shell component between an initial position and a sewage discharge position in a switching way, the elastic push-buckle switch is arranged in the shell component and is in driving connection with the movable sealing element, the elastic push-buckle switch is used for driving the movable sealing element to switch the position between the initial position and the sewage discharge position, when the movable sealing element is positioned at the initial position, the sewage discharge outlet is sealed, at the moment, the sewage bin is in a sealed water storage state, when the movable sealing element is positioned at the sewage discharge position, the sewage discharge outlet is opened, at the moment, the sewage bin is in a, the use of the user is convenient.

Drawings

In order to more clearly illustrate the embodiments of the present invention or the technical solutions in the prior art, the drawings needed to be used in the description of the embodiments or the prior art will be briefly described below, it is obvious that the drawings in the following description are only some embodiments of the present invention, and for those skilled in the art, other drawings can be obtained according to the structures shown in the drawings without creative efforts.

FIG. 1 is a schematic structural view of an embodiment of a water tank assembly according to the present invention;

fig. 2 is a schematic structural view (top view) of another view of the water tank assembly of the present invention;

FIG. 3 is a schematic view of a cover plate of an embodiment of a water tank assembly according to the present invention after partially cutting;

FIG. 4 is a cross-sectional view of an embodiment of the water tank assembly of the present invention;

FIG. 5 is an enlarged view of portion A of FIG. 4;

fig. 6 is an enlarged view of a portion B in fig. 4.

The reference numbers illustrate:

reference numerals	Name (R)	Reference numerals	Name (R)
				100	Shell assembly	101	Water purifying storehouse
200	Movable sealing element	102	Sewage bin
				300	Elastic push-button switch	102a	Liquid inlet for sewage
110	First shell	102b	Drain outlet
				120	Second shell	101a	Liquid inlet for purified water
130	Cover plate	101b	Purified water outlet
				111	Columnar cavity	310	Push-button
320	Elastic piece	330	Switch board
				340	Gear ring assembly	342	Second gear ring
341	First toothed ring	350	Sealing plate
				343	Third toothed ring	311	Key sealing piece
360	Connecting rod

The objects, features and advantages of the present invention will be further described with reference to the accompanying drawings.

Detailed Description

The technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention will be described clearly and completely with reference to the accompanying drawings in the embodiments of the present invention, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are only some embodiments of the present invention, not all embodiments. Based on the embodiments in the present invention, all other embodiments obtained by a person skilled in the art without any creative effort belong to the protection scope of the present invention.

It should be noted that all the directional indicators (such as upper, lower, left, right, front and rear … …) in the embodiment of the present invention are only used to explain the relative position relationship between the components, the motion situation, etc. in a specific posture (as shown in the drawings), and if the specific posture is changed, the directional indicator is changed accordingly.

In addition, the descriptions related to "first", "second", etc. in the present invention are for descriptive purposes only and are not to be construed as indicating or implying relative importance or implicit ly 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 addition, the meaning of "and/or" appearing throughout is to include three juxtapositions, exemplified by "A and/or B" including either scheme A, or scheme B, or a scheme in which both A and B are satisfied. In addition, the technical solutions in the embodiments may be combined with each other, but it must be based on the realization of those skilled in the art, and when the technical solutions are contradictory or cannot be realized, the combination of the technical solutions should not be considered to exist, and is not within the protection scope of the present invention.

In an exemplary technique, a cleaning base station of a cleaning robot includes a water tank assembly in which sewage and clean water are respectively contained in two containers, and a user needs to operate with both hands to pour the sewage, which is troublesome for the user.

In order to improve the convenience that water tank set spare sewage was emptyd to convenience of customers uses, the utility model provides a water tank set spare is applicable to various cleaning machines people's clean basic station, especially intelligence clean basic station of sweeping floor the robot, and here is not limited.

Referring to fig. 1 to 4, in an embodiment of the present invention, the water tank assembly includes a housing assembly 100, a movable sealing member 200, and an elastic push button switch 300; the shell assembly 100 is provided with a clean water bin 101 and a sewage bin 102 arranged in the clean water bin 101, the sewage bin 102 is provided with a sewage outlet 102b, and a movable sealing element 200 is arranged at the sewage outlet 102 b; the movable sealing member 200 is movably switchably provided on the housing assembly 100 between an initial position and a sewage disposal position; the elastic push-button switch 300 is arranged in the shell assembly 100 and is in driving connection with the movable sealing element 200; the elastic push-button switch 300 is used for driving the movable sealing element 200 to switch the position between the initial position and the sewage disposal position; when the movable sealing member 200 is located at the initial position, the sewage discharge port 102b is closed; when the movable sealing member 200 is located at the sewage disposal position, the sewage discharge port 102b is opened.

Referring mainly to fig. 4, the clean water tank 101 and the dirty water tank 102 may be formed by assembling a plurality of split plastic parts, the body of the clean water tank 101 may be preferably made of hard material, and the body of the dirty water tank 102 may be preferably made of soft material and may be in a bag-like structure, where the specific composition of the housing assembly 100 and the materials of the components are not limited.

Referring mainly to fig. 4, the movable sealing member 200 may be an integrally formed member of a soft plastic body or an over-molded member of a hard plastic body coated with a soft plastic, and the like, which is not limited herein.

Referring mainly to fig. 4, the elastic push-button switch 300 may be an elastic reset structure composed of a button, an elastic member, and a gear or a gear ring having a certain limit structure, but not limited herein.

During production and assembly, the parts of the housing assembly 100 can be assembled together by clamping, bonding or threaded connection, the movable sealing element 200 is installed in the housing assembly 100 at a position corresponding to the sewage outlet 102b, the components of the elastic push-button switch 300 are assembled, the components or the parts are sequentially installed in the installation positions corresponding to the housing assembly 100 according to the assembly trend, and the elastic push-button switch 300 is in driving connection with the movable sealing element 200, so that the assembly of the whole water tank assembly is completed.

It can be understood that, the present invention forms the housing assembly 100 of the water tank assembly with the clean water tank 101 and the sewage tank 102 disposed in the clean water tank 101, the sewage tank 102 has the sewage outlet 102b, the sewage outlet 102b is provided with the movable sealing member 200, the movable sealing member 200 is movably disposed on the housing assembly 100 between the initial position and the sewage discharge position, the elastic push-button switch 300 is disposed in the housing assembly 100 and drivingly connected with the movable sealing member 200, the elastic push-button switch 300 is used for driving the movable sealing member 200 to switch between the initial position and the sewage discharge position, when the movable sealing member 200 is at the initial position, the sewage outlet 102b is closed, at this time, the sewage tank 102 is in a closed water storage state, when the movable sealing member 200 is at the sewage discharge position, the sewage outlet 102b is opened, at this time, the sewage tank 102 is in a sewage discharge state, thereby improving convenience of the water tank assembly for dumping sewage, the use of the user is convenient.

Referring to fig. 1 to 4, in an embodiment, the housing assembly 100 may include a first housing 110, a second housing 120, and a cover plate 130, wherein the first housing 110 is recessed to form a receiving cavity, the second housing 120 is received in the receiving cavity, the cover plate 130 is covered on a notch of the receiving cavity, and the first housing 110, the second housing 120, and the cover plate 130 enclose a clean water bin 101 and a sewage bin 102; a purified water inlet 101a and a purified water outlet 101b which are respectively communicated with the purified water bin 101 are formed on the first shell 110; the second housing 120 is formed with a sewage inlet 102a communicating with the sewage reservoir 102. Therefore, the sewage bin 102 is arranged in the water purifying bin 101, the whole volume of the water tank assembly is reduced, and the practicability of the water tank assembly is improved.

Based on the above embodiments, in order to assemble the elastic push-button switch 300, in an embodiment, referring to fig. 4, a cylindrical cavity 111 for installing the elastic push-button switch 300 is protruded at the bottom of the accommodating groove, a position of the second housing 120 corresponding to the cylindrical cavity 111 is provided with an insertion hole, and the cylindrical cavity 111 extends into the second housing 120 through the insertion hole, so that the second housing 120 is accommodated in the accommodating groove of the first housing 110.

In the present embodiment, referring to fig. 5, the slot of the accommodating slot of the first housing 110 may be hermetically connected with the second housing 120 and the cover plate 130; referring to fig. 6, the bottom of the second housing 120 and the cylindrical cavity 111 may be in sealing connection to seal the sewage tank 102 and the clean water tank 101 from each other to prevent the sewage and the clean water from mixing with each other. Wherein, when the sealing member that realizes sealing connection is the flexible glue, the accessible sets up the fixture block structure and carries out spacing fixed to it, and the sealing member can be for sealed glue, sealed flexible glue etc. does not do the restriction here.

Referring mainly to fig. 4, in an embodiment, the elastic push-button switch 300 may include a button 310, an elastic member 320, a switch board 330, a gear ring assembly 340 and a connecting rod 360, the cover plate 130 is concavely provided with a groove for accommodating the button 310, the groove is communicated with the cylindrical cavity 111, the button 310 extends into the cylindrical cavity 111 from the groove and is connected with the switch board 330 through the elastic member 320, the switch board 330, the gear ring assembly 340 and the movable sealing member 200 are all disposed in the cylindrical cavity 111, one side of the switch board 330 opposite to the button 310 is connected with the gear ring assembly 340, the movable sealing member 200 is disposed near the insertion hole and is connected with the gear ring assembly 340, the movable sealing member 200 is elastically connected with the switch board 330 through the connecting rod 360, and the drain outlet 102b is disposed on the cylindrical cavity 111 and corresponds to the position of the movable sealing member 200. The number of the elastic members 320 may be one or more, and is not limited herein.

When the button 310 is pressed, the switch board 330 is driven by the elastic member 320 to move downwards and drive the gear ring assembly 340 to move downwards from the initial position to the limit position, the gear ring assembly 340 clamps the movable sealing member 200, and when the pressing is finished, the connecting rod 360 drives the movable sealing member 200 and the gear ring assembly 340 to move upwards to the sewage discharge position under the action of the elastic force, so that the sewage discharge port 102b is opened; at this time, the movable sealing member 200 is separated from the sewage discharge opening 102b, and the sewage bin 102 is in a sewage discharge state.

When the button 310 is pressed again (or in an initial state), the switch plate 330 is driven by the elastic member 320 to move upwards and drive the toothed ring assembly 340 to move upwards to the non-limiting position, the toothed ring assembly 340 is separated from the movable sealing element 200, and the movable sealing element 200 moves to the initial position under the action of the elastic member 320 and is clamped with the toothed ring assembly 340, so that the sewage outlet 102b is closed; at this time, the movable sealing member 200 closes the sewage discharge port 102b, and the sewage storage 102 is in a water storage state.

Referring to fig. 4, in the present embodiment, the gear ring assembly 340 may include a first gear ring 341, a second gear ring 342, and a third gear ring 343, a first end of the first gear ring 341 is fixedly connected to the switching plate 330, a second end of the first gear ring 341 is engaged with a first end of the second gear ring 342, a second end of the second gear ring 342 is engaged with a first end of the third gear ring 343, and a second end of the third gear ring 343 is engaged with the movable seal 200. Of course, in some embodiments, a greater or lesser number of gears or ring gear combinations may be used, and the number is not limited herein.

In addition, in order to obtain better sealing performance of the water tank assembly, in some embodiments, referring to fig. 4, the elastic push-button switch 300 further includes a sealing plate 350, and the sealing plate 350 is disposed on a side of the cylindrical cavity 111 close to the groove to seal a communication between the groove and the cylindrical cavity 111. So set up, improved the leakproofness of sewage storehouse 102 to avoid sewage to ooze along the intercommunication department of cylindrical cavity 111 and recess.

Referring to fig. 4, in order to implement the elastic return function of the connection column, and further implement the switching of the movable sealing member 200 between the initial position and the sewage draining position, in the present embodiment, the connection rod 360 may be abutted against the sealing plate 350 by a spring and fixed with the switch plate 330 by a screw connection.

Referring to fig. 1 and 2, in an embodiment, referring to fig. 4, a key sealing member 311 is further disposed on a side of the key 310 close to the cylindrical cavity 111, and the key sealing member 311 is used for sealing a communication position between the groove of the cover plate 130 and the cylindrical cavity 111. Thus, the tightness of the water tank assembly is further improved to prevent the sewage from leaking out of the sewage silo 102.

The utility model also provides a clean basic station of cleaning machines people, this clean basic station of cleaning machines people include the water tank subassembly, and the concrete structure of this water tank subassembly refers to above-mentioned embodiment, because the utility model provides a clean basic station of cleaning machines people includes all schemes of all embodiments of above-mentioned water tank subassembly, consequently, have at least with the same technological effect of water tank subassembly, the explanation differs here.

The above is only the optional embodiment of the present invention, and not the scope of the present invention is limited thereby, all the equivalent structure changes made by the contents of the specification and the drawings are utilized under the inventive concept of the present invention, or the direct/indirect application in other related technical fields is included in the patent protection scope of the present invention.

Claims

1. A water tank assembly for a cleaning robot cleaning base station, the water tank assembly comprising:

2. The water tank assembly of claim 1, wherein said housing assembly comprises a first housing, a second housing, and a cover plate, said first housing having a receiving cavity recessed therein, said second housing being received in said receiving cavity, said cover plate covering a slot opening of said receiving cavity, said first housing, said second housing, and said cover plate enclosing said clean water tank and said dirty water tank;

3. The water tank assembly as claimed in claim 2, wherein a cylindrical cavity for the resilient push-button switch to be mounted is protruded from a bottom of the receiving groove, and a socket is formed at a position of the second housing corresponding to the cylindrical cavity, and the cylindrical cavity extends into the second housing through the socket, so that the second housing is received in the receiving groove of the first housing.

4. The water tank assembly of claim 3, wherein said resilient push button switch comprises a button, a resilient member, a switch plate, a ring gear assembly and a connecting rod, the cover plate is concavely provided with a groove for accommodating the key, the groove is communicated with the columnar cavity, the key extends into the cylindrical cavity from the groove and is connected with the switch board through the elastic piece, the switch plate, the gear ring assembly and the movable sealing element are all arranged in the cylindrical cavity, one side of the switch board back to the key is connected with the toothed ring component, the movable sealing piece is arranged close to the jack and connected with the toothed ring component, the movable sealing piece is elastically connected with the switch board through the connecting rod, and the sewage draining outlet is arranged on the columnar cavity and corresponds to the position of the movable sealing piece;

5. The water tank assembly of claim 4, wherein said gear ring assembly includes a first gear ring, a second gear ring and a third gear ring, a first end of said first gear ring is fixedly coupled to said switch plate, a second end of said first gear ring is engaged with a first end of said second gear ring, a second end of said second gear ring is engaged with a first end of said third gear ring, and a second end of said third gear ring is engaged with said moveable seal.

6. The water tank assembly as defined in claim 4, wherein said resilient push button switch further comprises a sealing plate disposed on a side of said cylindrical cavity adjacent to said recess to seal a communication between said recess and said cylindrical cavity.

7. The water tank assembly of claim 6, wherein said connecting rod is spring biased against said seal plate and secured to said switch plate by a threaded connection.

8. The water tank assembly as recited in claim 4, wherein a key seal is further provided on a side of said key adjacent to said cylindrical cavity, said key seal being adapted to seal a communication between said recess and said cylindrical cavity.

9. A cistern assembly as claimed in claim 3, wherein the mouth of the receiving groove of the first housing is sealingly connected to the second housing and the cover plate;

10. A cleaning robot cleaning base station, characterized in that the cleaning base station comprises a water tank assembly according to any of claims 1-9.