CN216020816U

CN216020816U - Water-saving floor cleaner

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Publication number: CN216020816U
Application number: CN202121566145.XU
Authority: CN
Inventors: 冯国庆; 司傲寒; 曾昊东; 霍云翔; 秦崯泷; 王梦迪; 魏若琛
Original assignee: North China University of Technology
Current assignee: North China University of Technology
Priority date: 2021-07-09
Filing date: 2021-07-09
Publication date: 2022-03-15
Anticipated expiration: 2031-07-09

Abstract

The disclosure relates to a water-saving floor cleaner, which comprises an outer shell, a floor wiping module, a cleaning module, a garbage collecting module and a transmission module, wherein the outer shell comprises a base and a handle; the floor mopping module comprises a rotating shaft and a sponge layer, and the sponge layer is coated on the rotating shaft; the cleaning module comprises a water circulation guide groove and a brush roller; the garbage collection module comprises a dry garbage groove and a sewage tank; the transmission module comprises a first motor, a second motor and a water pump. This is disclosed through based on hydrologic cycle filtration system, has realized the water-saving intelligent floor cleaner of functions such as self-cleaning, solid-liquid rubbish separation, dust removal, has the advantage of high efficiency, environmental protection.

Description

Water-saving floor cleaner

Technical Field

The disclosure relates to the field of machine manufacturing, in particular to a water-saving floor cleaner.

Background

The existing household floor cleaning equipment can be roughly divided into a manual type and an electric type, the manual type is probably a broom, a mop and the like, the tools mainly rely on manual operation of people to complete floor cleaning work, but the structure is too simple, the function is single, the cleaning frequency is high in the using process, generally speaking, 10 liters of clean water is needed for cleaning 100 square meters of floors, the utilization efficiency of water is very low, and the waste phenomenon is serious. Moreover, the mopping and sweeping need to be carried out twice or cleaning personnel need to carry other garbage cleaning tools, so that garbage can be collected at any time, the working efficiency is low, and the effect is poor.

As the technology has advanced and the demand for household floor cleaning tools has increased, electric cleaning apparatuses, such as a vacuum cleaner, have been developed, which suck external air containing dirt and make it enter a filter by using the rotational power of a disc motor to remove impurities on the floor. The vacuum cleaner can maintain a certain cleaning ability, but can only clean debris scattered on the floor and dirt with weak adhesion, such as dust, can not clean some garbage and stains firmly attached to the floor, and the cleaning effect on liquid is not ideal. The common sweeping and mopping integrated equipment only respectively acts and integrates sweeping and mopping functions on the same equipment, so that the efficiency is low and the sweeping and mopping effect is poor.

Accordingly, there is a need for one or more methods to address the above-mentioned problems.

It is to be noted that the information disclosed in the above background section is only for enhancement of understanding of the background of the present disclosure, and thus may include information that does not constitute prior art known to those of ordinary skill in the art.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

It is an object of the present disclosure to provide a water saving floor cleaner that overcomes, at least to some extent, one or more of the problems due to the limitations and disadvantages of the related art.

According to one aspect of the present disclosure, there is provided a water-saving floor cleaner consisting of an outer housing, a floor wiping module, a cleaning module, a garbage collection module, and a transmission module, wherein:

the outer shell is used for supporting the floor cleaner and comprises a base and a handle, and the base and the handle are connected through a switching mechanism;

the floor cleaning module is connected with the base of the outer shell and used for cleaning floors and comprises a rotating shaft and a sponge layer, and the sponge layer is coated on the rotating shaft;

the cleaning module is connected with the outer shell and the floor wiping module and is used for cleaning dry garbage and sewage collected by the floor wiping module, and the cleaning module comprises a water circulation guide groove and a brush roller;

the garbage collection module comprises a dry garbage groove and a sewage tank, the dry garbage groove is connected with the base of the outer shell and used for guiding and collecting dry garbage, and the sewage tank is connected with the handle of the outer shell and used for collecting, purifying and circulating sewage;

the transmission module comprises a first motor, a second motor and a water pump, wherein the first motor is arranged in the rotating shaft and is used for driving the floor mopping module to rotate anticlockwise to finish floor cleaning; the second motor is arranged in the brush roller and is used for driving the brush roller to rotate clockwise to finish cleaning the floor wiping module; the water pump is used for connecting the sewage tank and the water circulation guide groove to complete sewage recovery and clear water transmission.

In an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure, the base of the housing unit of the floor cleaner further comprises a flip housing, a base housing, a side cover plate, and a base back shell:

the flip shell is arranged above the base shell and can be turned and opened relative to the base shell;

the base rear shell is arranged at the rear lower part of the base shell, and the side cover plates are buckled at two sides of the base shell.

In an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure, the handle of the housing unit of the floor cleaner further comprises a grip portion and a body portion:

the handle part comprises a handle upper shell and a handle rear shell;

the machine body part comprises an upper machine body shell and a rear machine body shell;

the handle part is arranged on the machine body part, and the machine body part is connected with the base through the switching mechanism to complete the connection of the handle and the base.

In an exemplary embodiment of the disclosure, the brush roller of the cleaning module further includes a rotating body and cleaning members arranged on the rotating body in a spiral line, and the cleaning members are brushes or teeth and rotate along with the rotating body to clean the dry garbage on the sponge layer.

In an exemplary embodiment of the disclosure, the water circulation guide groove of the cleaning module further includes a water squeezing member covering the roller cover and inside in a direction parallel to the axial direction of the sponge layer:

the roller covering cover is reversely buckled on the sponge layer, and the direct contact position of the roller covering cover and the sponge layer is kept sealed through a sealing element;

the water squeezing piece is of a downward protruding structure and is used for collecting and cleaning sewage in the sponge layer when the sponge layer moves to the sealing piece and then moves to the water squeezing piece.

In an exemplary embodiment of the disclosure, the wringing member may be made of a hard material, and an outer wall of a portion of the wringing member, which is in contact with a surface of the sponge cylinder, is curved.

In an exemplary embodiment of the disclosure, the dry garbage chute of the garbage collection module further includes a guide surface, the guide surface can be tightly attached to the ground and close to the sponge layer of the floor mopping module, and when the sponge layer of the floor mopping module rotates, the garbage is driven by friction to enter the garbage collection module along the guide surface.

In an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure, the sewage tank of the garbage collection module further includes a filtering module, and the clean water tank is used for filtering sewage in the sewage tank to realize water resource recycling;

in an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure, the filtering module further includes: the sewage treatment device comprises a filter screen, a diatomite layer and an activated carbon layer, wherein the filter screen, the diatomite layer and the activated carbon layer are used for enabling sewage to flow down from a bottom hole of a sewage tank, large-particle impurities are filtered through the filter screen, the large-particle impurities flow into the diatomite layer, impurity particles with the diameter being more than 0.7 micrometer are filtered, the impurity particles flow through the activated carbon layer, abnormal color and peculiar smell, organic matters, heavy metal ions and bacteria in the sewage are removed, and the sewage is stored in a clean water tank.

A water-saving floor cleaner in an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure includes an outer housing, a floor wiping module, a cleaning module, a garbage collection module, and a transmission module, wherein the outer housing includes a base and a handle; the floor mopping module comprises a rotating shaft and a sponge layer, and the sponge layer is coated on the rotating shaft; the cleaning module comprises a water circulation guide groove and a brush roller; the garbage collection module comprises a dry garbage groove and a sewage tank; the transmission module comprises a first motor, a second motor and a water pump. This is disclosed through based on hydrologic cycle filtration system, has realized the water-saving intelligent floor cleaner of functions such as self-cleaning, solid-liquid rubbish separation, dust removal, has the advantage of high efficiency, environmental protection.

It is to be understood that both the foregoing general description and the following detailed description are exemplary and explanatory only and are not restrictive of the disclosure.

Drawings

The above and other features and advantages of the present disclosure will become more apparent by describing in detail exemplary embodiments thereof with reference to the attached drawings.

FIG. 1 shows a schematic view of a water saving floor cleaner according to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure;

FIG. 2 shows a schematic view of a floor scrubbing module of a water saving floor cleaner according to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure;

FIG. 3 shows a schematic view of a cleaning module of a water saving floor cleaner according to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure;

Detailed Description

Example embodiments will now be described more fully with reference to the accompanying drawings. Example embodiments may, however, be embodied in many different forms and should not be construed as limited to the embodiments set forth herein; rather, these embodiments are provided so that this disclosure will be thorough and complete, and will fully convey the concept of example embodiments to those skilled in the art. The same reference numerals denote the same or similar parts in the drawings, and thus, a repetitive description thereof will be omitted.

Furthermore, the described features, structures, or characteristics may be combined in any suitable manner in one or more embodiments. In the following description, numerous specific details are provided to give a thorough understanding of embodiments of the disclosure. One skilled in the relevant art will recognize, however, that the embodiments of the disclosure can be practiced without one or more of the specific details, or with other methods, components, materials, devices, steps, and so forth. In other instances, well-known structures, methods, devices, implementations, materials, or operations are not shown or described in detail to avoid obscuring aspects of the disclosure.

The block diagrams shown in the figures are functional entities only and do not necessarily correspond to physically separate entities. That is, these functional entities may be implemented in the form of software, or in one or more software-hardened modules, or in different networks and/or processor devices and/or microcontroller devices.

In the present exemplary embodiment, there is first provided a water-saving floor cleaner; referring to fig. 1, the water-saving floor cleaner is comprised of an outer housing, a floor wiping module, a cleaning module, a garbage collection module, and a transmission module, wherein:

Next, the water-saving floor cleaner in the present exemplary embodiment will be further described.

The water-saving floor cleaner is composed of a shell, a floor wiping module, a cleaning module, a garbage collecting module and a transmission module.

In the embodiment of the example, the floor cleaner uses 900ml of clean water to circulate water and filter sewage in the mopping process, the floor area which can be cleaned is 100 square meters, and the floor area which can be cleaned by using the traditional mop needs 10 liters of water, compared with the floor cleaner which is designed by the design, the water utilization efficiency is greatly improved, and water can be effectively saved. By investigating that the amount of clean water used by a typical household to clean a floor every week is about 50 liters, while only about 5 liters is required to use a floor cleaner designed, the efficiency of water usage is increased by ten times.

In this exemplary embodiment, the outer housing, which supports the floor cleaner, includes a base and a handle connected by an adapter mechanism.

In this exemplary embodiment, the base of the housing unit of the floor cleaner further comprises a flip housing, a base housing, side cover plates, and a base back shell:

In this exemplary embodiment, the handle of the housing unit of the floor cleaner further comprises a handle portion and a body portion:

the handle part comprises a handle upper shell and a handle rear shell;

In the exemplary embodiment, the appearance housing is a support for the floor cleaner and is separable into two parts, one part being the base and the other part being the handle. The base and handle may be connected by an adapter mechanism, which is movable to allow the user to better control the local board cleaner to accomplish more angled cleaning.

In the embodiment of the present example, the floor cleaning module, connected to the base of the outer casing, is used for cleaning a floor, and includes a rotating shaft and a sponge layer, and the sponge layer is coated on the rotating shaft.

In the embodiment of the present example, as shown in fig. 2, which is a schematic view of the floor mopping module, the sponge cylinder is two layers, namely, a water-absorbing sponge layer at the outer layer and a non-water-absorbing sponge layer at the inner layer, and the non-water-absorbing sponge layer is made of a non-water-absorbing sponge material and does not absorb water. The sponge layer that absorbs water is made by the sponge material that absorbs water, and moisture is mainly absorbed by outer sponge layer that absorbs water, consequently when crowded water, only need extrude the moisture on the outer sponge layer that absorbs water can, because the thickness of outer sponge that absorbs water is thinner than current whole sponge layer, consequently need not great extrusion force and just can extrude the moisture, consequently also can not cause the hindrance to the rotation of a sponge section of thick bamboo.

In the embodiment of the present invention, the cleaning module is connected to the outer casing and the floor wiping module, and is used for cleaning dry garbage and sewage collected by the floor wiping module, and the cleaning module includes a water circulation guide groove and a brush roller.

In the embodiment of the present invention, the brush roller of the cleaning module further includes a rotating body and cleaning members arranged on the rotating body in a spiral line, and the cleaning members are brushes or teeth and rotate along with the rotating body to clean the dry garbage on the sponge layer.

In the embodiment of the present example, the water circulation guide groove of the cleaning module further includes a water squeezing member covering the roller cover and the inside in a direction parallel to the axial direction of the sponge layer:

In the embodiment of the example, the water squeezing piece can be made of hard material, and the outer wall of the part, which is in contact with the surface of the sponge cylinder, of the water squeezing piece is arc-shaped.

In the embodiment of the present example, as shown in fig. 3, which is a side view of the cleaning module, in order to achieve sealing, the cleaning module employs a sealing member locked by a screw, and the sealing member is disposed behind the wringing member, that is, the sponge cylinder moves to the sealing member first and then moves to the wringing member. The sealing piece and the water squeezing piece are respectively used as sealing structures of the water tank and the sponge cylinder.

When the sponge layer rotates upwards, the sponge layer contacts with the brush roller part in the cleaning device. The helical arrangement of the hair cleaning elements on the brush roller results in the dry waste and hair being scraped into the dry waste receptacle and not passing through the brush roller because the adjacent gaps are smaller than the size of the dry waste and hair. When the sponge barrel rotates through the brush roller part, only sewage in the sponge layer is present and then reaches the water circulation guide groove in the cleaning device, and due to the existence of the water squeezing piece protruding downwards in the guide groove, the sewage in the sponge layer is squeezed out, and the squeezed sewage enters the inner cavity of the guide groove.

In the exemplary embodiment, the cleaning module includes a rotor and a plurality of cleaning elements disposed on the rotor. The rotor is driven by the cleaning power device to rotate and rotates along the same direction with the sponge cylinder. The cleaning piece is in a spiral shape and can rotate along with the rotating body, and the resistance of the cleaning piece to the sponge cylinder can be reduced by the shape, so that the energy consumption is reduced. And the cleaning piece and the sponge cylinder are provided with a gap with a smaller volume than that of the garbage or are in direct contact, so that the garbage on the sponge cylinder can be cleaned while rotating. The cleaning mechanism is arranged at the rear upper part of the sponge cylinder, namely the upper part of the dustbin, so that the garbage cleaned from the sponge cylinder falls into the dustbin.

In order to have better wringing effect, the wringing piece can be made of hard material, and the outer wall of the contact part of the wringing piece and the surface of the sponge cylinder is arc-shaped. The sealing element only has the sealing effect, and the part of the sealing element, which is contacted with the sponge cylinder, is made into a convex shape by elastic materials, so that the elasticity can avoid extruding the sewage on the sponge cylinder out of the water tank.

In the embodiment of the present example, the garbage collection module includes a dry garbage tank and a sewage tank, the dry garbage tank is connected with the base of the outer housing for guiding and collecting dry garbage, and the sewage tank is connected with the handle of the outer housing for sewage collection, purification and circulation.

In this exemplary embodiment, the dry garbage chute of the garbage collection module further comprises a guide surface, the guide surface can be tightly attached to the ground and close to the sponge layer of the floor mopping module, and when the sponge layer of the floor mopping module rotates, garbage is driven into the garbage collection module along the guide surface by friction.

In the embodiment of the present example, the sewage tank of the garbage collection module further includes a filtering module, and the clean water tank is used for filtering sewage in the sewage tank to realize water resource recycling;

in an embodiment of the present example, the filtering module further comprises: the sewage treatment device comprises a filter screen, a diatomite layer and an activated carbon layer, wherein the filter screen, the diatomite layer and the activated carbon layer are used for enabling sewage to flow down from a bottom hole of a sewage tank, large-particle impurities are filtered through the filter screen, the large-particle impurities flow into the diatomite layer, impurity particles with the diameter being more than 0.7 micrometer are filtered, the impurity particles flow through the activated carbon layer, abnormal color and peculiar smell, organic matters, heavy metal ions and bacteria in the sewage are removed, and the sewage is stored in a clean water tank.

In the embodiment of the example, the garbage collection module is arranged at the rear lower part of the sponge cylinder, and is as close as possible to the sponge cylinder on the premise of not influencing the rotation of the sponge cylinder, so that the garbage is prevented from leaking out of a gap between the sponge cylinder and the garbage can.

In the embodiment of the example, the transmission module comprises a first motor, a second motor and a water pump, wherein the first motor is installed in the rotating shaft and is used for driving the floor mopping module to rotate anticlockwise to complete floor cleaning; the second motor is arranged in the brush roller and is used for driving the brush roller to rotate clockwise to finish cleaning the floor wiping module; the water pump is used for connecting the sewage tank and the water circulation guide groove to complete sewage recovery and clear water transmission.

In the embodiment of the example, under the action of the water pump, sewage is pumped into a sewage tank in the upper handle from one side of the water circulation guide groove through a pipeline; the other side of the water circulation guide groove is provided with a water pump which is connected with the clean water tank through a pipeline, and negative pressure is formed in the clean water tank under the action of the water pump, so that clean water can be pumped into the water circulation guide groove, and the floor scrubbing device is cleaned.

In the embodiment of the example, the water-saving intelligent floor cleaner with the functions of self-cleaning, solid-liquid garbage separation, dust removal and the like based on the water circulation filtering system is designed through modeling, and comprises an appearance shell, a floor cleaning device, a transmission device, a cleaning device, a filtering device and a garbage collecting device. The floor cleaner filters sewage by adopting a mixture of diatomite and activated carbon, can realize purification and reutilization of sewage to the maximum extent, and can realize 'one-clean-to-one' when cleaning floors; the cleaner can separate garbage when cleaning the floor, liquid garbage enters the sewage tank, the hair is adhered to the brush roller, and other solid garbage is collected in the dry garbage tank, so that garbage classification is convenient, solid-liquid separation is realized, peculiar smell is not generated, and bacteria are not easy to breed.

The volume of the clean water tank of the floor cleaner is about 900ml, the floor which can be cleaned approximately is 100 square meters through the water circulation filtering system, the utilization rate of water is ten times of that of a common mop, the service efficiency of household cleaning water is greatly improved, and the ecological environment protection is promoted.

In the embodiment of the present example, the present disclosure has the following advantages:

1. the water circulation system adopts the innovative water circulation system, and improves the utilization efficiency of water. Sewage flows into the sewage tank from one end of the water circulation guide groove, is changed into reusable clean water through the filtering device, and then is injected into the other end of the guide groove to form a complete water circulation system, so that secondary utilization of water is realized when the floor is cleaned, and 'one clean to the end' is realized.

2. The method adopts the mixture of the diatomite and the activated carbon to filter the sewage, so that the sewage and the waste water are secondarily utilized, the utilization efficiency of the water is improved, a reference of some possibilities is provided for the reuse of water resources, and a new journey is taken on a sustainable development road.

3. This openly can the separation rubbish when clean ground, and liquid rubbish gets into the sewage case, and the hair is adhered to the brush cylinder, and other solid waste are collected to dry garbage bin, conveniently carry out waste classification, realize solid-liquid separation, can not produce the peculiar smell, also difficult bacterium of breeding.

4. A sponge cartridge for use in the present disclosure includes an inner sponge layer and an outer sponge layer. Wherein the inner sponge layer is made of non-absorbent sponge and the outer sponge layer is made of absorbent sponge. The sponge cylinder can be increased to a large thickness, so that the cleaning capacity of the cleaner is improved, but the water absorption part of the sponge cylinder is mainly an outer sponge layer, so that water squeezing can be completed without applying excessive water squeezing force, excessive resistance can not be caused to the sponge cylinder, and the excessive energy loss is avoided.

It should be noted that although several modules or units of the water saving floor cleaner apparatus are mentioned in the above detailed description, such division is not mandatory. Indeed, the features and functionality of two or more modules or units described above may be embodied in one module or unit, according to embodiments of the present disclosure. Conversely, the features and functions of one module or unit described above may be further divided into embodiments by a plurality of modules or units.

Furthermore, the above-described figures are merely schematic illustrations of processes involved in methods according to exemplary embodiments of the utility model, and are not intended to be limiting. It will be readily understood that the processes shown in the above figures are not intended to indicate or limit the chronological order of the processes. In addition, it is also readily understood that these processes may be performed synchronously or asynchronously, e.g., in multiple modules.

Other embodiments of the disclosure will be apparent to those skilled in the art from consideration of the specification and practice of the disclosure disclosed herein. This application is intended to cover any variations, uses, or adaptations of the disclosure following, in general, the principles of the disclosure and including such departures from the present disclosure as come within known or customary practice within the art to which the disclosure pertains. It is intended that the specification and examples be considered as exemplary only, with a true scope and spirit of the disclosure being indicated by the following claims.

It will be understood that the present disclosure is not limited to the precise arrangements described above and shown in the drawings and that various modifications and changes may be made without departing from the scope thereof. The scope of the present disclosure is to be limited only by the terms of the appended claims.

Claims

1. A water-saving floor cleaner, comprising an outer housing, a floor wiping module, a cleaning module, a waste collection module, and a transmission module, wherein:

2. The floor cleaner of claim 1, wherein the base of the housing of the floor cleaner further comprises a flip cover housing, a base housing, side cover plates, and a base back housing:

3. The floor cleaner of claim 1, wherein the handle of the housing of the floor cleaner further comprises a handle portion and a body portion:

the handle part comprises a handle upper shell and a handle rear shell;

4. The floor cleaner of claim 1, wherein the brush roller of the cleaning module further comprises a rotor and cleaning elements in a helical arrangement on the rotor, the cleaning elements being brushes or teeth that rotate with the rotor to clean the dry debris from the sponge layer.

5. The floor cleaner of claim 1, wherein the water circulation guide channel of the cleaning module further comprises a water squeeze member covering the roller cover and inside thereof in a direction parallel to the axial direction of the sponge layer:

6. The wringer of claim 5, wherein the wringer is made of a hard material and has an arcuate outer wall at a portion contacting a surface of the sponge cylinder.

7. The floor cleaner of claim 1, wherein the dry refuse chute of the refuse collection module further comprises a guide surface adapted to abut the floor surface and adjacent to the sponge layer of the floor scrubbing module, whereby upon rotation of the sponge layer of the floor scrubbing module, refuse is frictionally carried along the guide surface into the refuse collection module.

8. The floor cleaner of claim 1, wherein the waste tank of the garbage collection module further comprises a filtering module, and the clean water tank is used for filtering the waste water in the waste tank to realize water resource recycling.

9. The floor cleaner of claim 8, wherein the filter module further comprises: the sewage treatment device comprises a filter screen, a diatomite layer and an activated carbon layer, wherein the filter screen, the diatomite layer and the activated carbon layer are used for enabling sewage to flow down from a bottom hole of a sewage tank, large-particle impurities are filtered through the filter screen, the large-particle impurities flow into the diatomite layer, impurity particles with the diameter being more than 0.7 micrometer are filtered, the impurity particles flow through the activated carbon layer, abnormal color and peculiar smell, organic matters, heavy metal ions and bacteria in the sewage are removed, and the sewage is stored in a clean water tank.