CN218736539U

CN218736539U - Pet feeder

Info

Publication number: CN218736539U
Application number: CN202223278333.XU
Authority: CN
Inventors: 陈辉; 王凌云
Original assignee: Beijing Kitten and Puppy Technology Co Ltd
Current assignee: Beijing Kitten and Puppy Technology Co Ltd
Priority date: 2022-12-07
Filing date: 2022-12-07
Publication date: 2023-03-28
Anticipated expiration: 2032-12-07

Abstract

The utility model relates to a pet feeder, include: the storage cavity is provided with a detachable grain storage part, and the grain storage part is provided with a plurality of grain storage units so as to store at least two pet grains; the grain storage unit is provided with a discharge hole; the grain discharging assembly is positioned below the storage cavity and communicated with the discharge hole so as to be ready for receiving the pet grains output by the discharge hole, and the pet grains are uniformly stirred, mixed and conveyed to the feeding bowl.

Description

Pet feeder

Technical Field

The utility model relates to a pet articles for use technical field especially relates to a pet feeder.

Background

For the health of pets, the pets need to be fed with pet foods of different nutritional types to ensure a balanced nutrition. The existing pet feeder is mainly characterized in that various pet grains are manually mixed uniformly and then placed into the feeder, the feeder outputs the mixed pet grains for the pet to eat, the artificial mixing stirring is not intelligent enough, the various pet grains are mixed together for a long time, the nutrition loss is easily caused, and more people easily cause deterioration and influence the health of the pet.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

In view of the above analysis, the present invention is directed to a pet food dispensing device to solve the above problems.

The purpose of the utility model is mainly realized through the following technical scheme:

the utility model provides a pet feeder, include:

the storage cavity is provided with a detachable grain storage part, and the grain storage part is provided with a plurality of grain storage units so as to store at least two pet grains; the grain storage unit is provided with a discharge hole;

the grain discharging assembly is positioned below the storage cavity and communicated with the discharge hole so as to be ready for receiving the pet grains output by the discharge hole, and the pet grains are uniformly stirred, mixed and conveyed to the feeding bowl.

Further, the storage cavity is provided with a weighing sensor, and an elastic piece of the weighing sensor is abutted to the grain storage part so as to weigh the weight of the grain storage part.

Further, the discharge hole is provided with a switch for controlling the opening and closing of the discharge hole.

Furthermore, the grain storage part comprises a plurality of detachably arranged partition plates, and the grain storage part is divided into a plurality of grain storage units through the partition plates;

the number of the partition plates is one less than that of the grain storage units.

Further, the grain storage part comprises a plurality of grain storage units which can be arranged in a split mode.

Furthermore, a correlation sensor is arranged at the bottom of the grain storage unit to detect whether the grain storage unit is short of grain.

Further, the grain discharging assembly comprises a collecting hopper, a stirring roller and a grain discharging channel;

the collecting hopper is positioned between the grain storage part and the stirring roller and comprises a wide inlet and a narrow outlet which are communicated, the wide inlet is positioned right below the discharge hole, and the wide inlet is communicated with the discharge hole;

the stirring roller is provided with an opening part which is operatively communicated with the narrow outlet or the grain outlet channel;

the grain outlet channel can be communicated with the opening part and the feeding bowl in the rotating process of the stirring roller.

Further, the stirring drum comprises an initial state, a stirring state and a rotating state;

in the initial state, the opening part is communicated with the narrow outlet;

when the pet food is in the stirring state, the stirring roller swings left and right to uniformly mix the pet food falling into the stirring roller, and the opening part is positioned above the rotating axis of the stirring roller;

when the stirring drum is in the rotating state, the stirring drum rotates 360 degrees around the rotating axis from the initial state to return to the initial state, and in the rotating process, the opening part can be communicated with the grain outlet channel so as to convey the mixed pet grains to the feeding bowl.

Furthermore, the pet feeder also comprises a cover body and a shell which are arranged in a split manner, wherein the cover body and the shell are limited out of the storage cavity;

the grain discharging assembly is arranged in the shell;

the side wall of the shell is provided with a pet feeding opening communicated with a grain outlet channel of the grain outlet assembly, and the feeding bowl is arranged at a position matched with the pet feeding opening.

Further, the lid inner wall is equipped with assembly portion, assembly portion can be dismantled and be equipped with dry box, dry box with store up grain unit intercommunication.

Compared with the prior art, the utility model discloses can realize one of following beneficial effect at least: the pet feeder has the advantages that the pet feeder is detachably provided with the grain storage parts of the plurality of grain storage units, so that on one hand, the mixing of various pet grains can be realized without manual stirring, and the using effect of the pet feeder is improved; on the other hand, various pet foods are stored separately, so that the problems of nutrition loss, easy deterioration and the like caused by mixed storage are avoided. In addition, the grain storage part can be detachably arranged, so that the pet feeder is convenient to clean, and the using effect of the pet feeder is further improved.

The utility model discloses in, can also make up each other between the above-mentioned each technical scheme to realize more preferred combination scheme. Additional features and advantages of the invention will be set forth in the description which follows, and in part will be obvious from the description, or may be learned by practice of the invention. The objectives and other advantages of the invention will be realized and attained by the structure particularly pointed out in the written description and drawings.

Drawings

The drawings, in which like reference numerals refer to like parts throughout, are for the purpose of illustrating particular embodiments only and are not to be considered limiting of the invention.

Fig. 1 is a schematic structural view of a pet food dispensing device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Reference numerals:

1-a grain storage part; 11-a grain storage unit; 111-a discharge port; 112-correlation sensor; 2-grain discharging component; 21-a collection hopper; 211-wide import; 212-narrow outlet; 22-a stirring drum; 221-an opening part; 23-grain outlet channel; 3-a weighing sensor; 4-cover body; 41-drying box; 5-a shell.

Detailed Description

The following detailed description of the preferred embodiments of the invention, which is to be read in connection with the accompanying drawings, forms a part of the invention, and together with the embodiments of the invention, serve to explain the principles of the invention and not to limit the scope of the invention.

In the description of the embodiments of the present invention, it should be noted that, unless otherwise explicitly specified or limited, the term "connected" should be understood broadly, and for example, the term may be fixed connection, detachable connection, or integrated connection, which may be mechanical connection, electrical connection, which may be direct connection, or indirect connection through an intermediate medium. The specific meaning of the above terms in the present invention can be understood according to specific situations by those skilled in the art.

The terms "top," "bottom," "at 8230; \8230; above," "below," and "at 8230; above" are used throughout the description to refer to the relative positions of the components of the device, such as the relative positions of the top and bottom substrates inside the device. It will be appreciated that the devices are multifunctional, independent of their orientation in space.

The utility model discloses usual working face can be plane or curved surface, can incline, also can the level. For convenience of explanation, the embodiments of the present invention are placed on a horizontal plane and used on the horizontal plane, and thus "high and low" and "up and down" are defined.

The utility model discloses a concrete embodiment discloses a pet feeder, as figure 1, include:

the storage cavity is provided with a detachable grain storage part 1, and the grain storage part 1 is provided with a plurality of grain storage units 11 for storing at least two pet grains; the grain storage units 11 are provided with discharge ports 111, namely each grain storage unit 11 is provided with a discharge port 111;

the grain discharging assembly 2 is located below the storage cavity and communicated with the discharge hole 111 to receive pet grains output by the discharge hole 111, and the pet grains are stirred uniformly and conveyed to the feeding bowl for the pet to eat.

The pet feeder of the utility model, through the detachable grain storage part 1 with a plurality of grain storage units 11, on one hand, can realize the mixing of a plurality of pet grains without manual stirring, thereby improving the use effect of the pet feeder; on the other hand, various pet foods are stored separately, so that the problems of nutrition loss, easy deterioration and the like caused by mixed storage are avoided. In addition, the grain storage part 1 can be detachably arranged so as to be convenient to clean, and the using effect of the pet feeder is further improved.

It should be noted that the types of pet food stored in different food storage units 11 may be the same or different, but at least two food storage units 11 store different types of pet food, so as to provide more abundant pet food for pets, and preferably, different food storage units 11 store different types of pet food.

The arrangement mode of the grain storage units 11 can be horizontal arrangement or vertical arrangement. Preferably, the grain storage unit 11 is placed in parallel in a vertical row, that is, the grain storage unit 11 extends along the gravity direction, and the discharge hole 111 is formed in the bottom of the grain storage unit 11 so as to discharge grains. In this embodiment, the grain storage part 1 comprises four grain storage units 11 arranged in parallel and vertically.

In order to accurately control the feeding amount of various pet grains, the storage cavity is provided with a weighing sensor 3, an elastic part of the weighing sensor 3 is abutted to the grain storage part 1 to weigh the weight of the grain storage part 1, and it needs to be explained that when a plurality of grain storage units 11 discharge grains, a mode of discharging grains one by one is adopted, namely, the condition that two grain storage units 11 discharge grains simultaneously does not exist, so that the grain discharge amount of the grain storage unit 11 is determined by weighing the weight change of the grain storage part 1 before and after the grain discharge of a certain grain storage unit 11.

According to an embodiment of the weighing sensor 3, the weighing sensor 3 comprises an elastic body and a base, the base is detachably arranged in the storage cavity, one end of the elastic body is abutted to the grain storage part 1, and the other end of the elastic body is abutted to the base. The elastic body is a stressed element, a resistance strain gauge is arranged on the elastic body to form a Wheatstone bridge, when the elastic body is not loaded, the bridge is in a balanced state, and the output voltage is zero; when the elastic body bears load, the deformation of the elastic body causes the resistance of the strain gauge to change, so that the bridge is unbalanced, a voltage signal is output, and the magnitude of the signal output is in direct proportion to the load on the elastic body.

The pet feeder comprises a controller, the controller is electrically connected with the weighing sensor 3, the weighing sensor 3 transmits a generated voltage signal to the controller, the controller processes the voltage signal according to the received voltage signal to obtain the weight change of the grain storage part, when the grain storage unit discharges grains, the elastic body deforms, the resistance strain gauge generates a corresponding ground voltage signal, and the controller judges the weight change of the grain storage part according to the received voltage signal to further judge the grain discharge amount of the grain storage unit.

In order to further facilitate the control of the grain discharging of the grain storage unit 11, the discharge port 111 is provided with a switch for controlling the opening and closing of the discharge port 111. Preferably, the discharge hole 111 is provided with an electromagnetic switch to control whether each grain storage unit 11 discharges grains. Further, electromagnetic switch and controller electric connection, the controller can the accurate control every store up the grain volume of 11 of grain unit through electromagnetic switch and weighing sensor's cooperation, and then the accurate control pet feed volume and the pet food nutrition ratio.

According to an embodiment of the grain storage part, the grain storage part 1 comprises a plurality of detachably arranged partition plates, the grain storage part 1 is divided into a plurality of grain storage units 11 through the partition plates, and the number of the partition plates is one less than that of the grain storage units 11. Correspondingly, the inner wall of the grain storage part is provided with a sliding groove matched with the partition plate, so that the space of each grain storage unit 11 is relatively independent, and the grain storage effect of each grain storage unit 11 is ensured.

According to another embodiment of the grain storage part, as shown in fig. 1, the grain storage part 1 comprises a plurality of grain storage units 11 which can be arranged in a split manner. Preferably, the grain storage units 11 can be detachably connected with each other to improve the assembly stability of the grain storage part 1.

It should be noted that the volumes of the different grain storage units 11 may be the same or different. Preferably, according to the required pet food kind's of pet the proportion of eating of feeding, set up a plurality of volume ratios that store up grain unit 11 to the pet grain consumption in the storage grain unit of avoiding some is too fast, needs frequently supply grain, so set up, can store up grain unit to the difference and mend grain more or less simultaneously, improve the use body of feeder and feel. It should be noted that the proportion of different pet foods can be set by setting the number of the food storage units, so that some food storage units contain the same pet foods, and preferably, the volume of each food storage unit is the same, so as to control the proportion of different pet foods.

In order to conveniently remind a user of timely supplementing the grain shortage storage unit, the bottom of the grain storage unit 11 is provided with a correlation sensor 112 for detecting whether the grain shortage exists in the grain storage unit 11. Correlation sensor 112 with controller electric connection, correlation sensor 112 sends the signal transmission who detects to the controller, and after correlation sensor 112 detected the interior short-cut grain of grain storage unit 11, the controller sent reminding information to the user to remind the user to mend grain to this grain storage unit 11. The reminding information can remind the user through visual and audible modes such as characters, sound, light and patterns, preferably, the pet feeder comprises a warning unit electrically connected with the controller so as to receive the reminding information generated by the controller, namely, the warning unit is configured to remind the user through visual and audible modes such as characters, sound, light and patterns.

The controller can be connected with a remote terminal (such as a computer, a mobile phone, a tablet and other intelligent terminals), and the remote terminal can receive the reminding information so that a user can remotely know the using condition of the pet feeder.

According to one embodiment of the pet food dispensing device, the food discharging assembly 2 comprises a collecting hopper 21, a stirring drum 22 and a food discharging passage 23.

The collecting hopper 21 is located store up grain portion 1 with between the stirring cylinder 22, collecting hopper 21 is including wide import 211 and the narrow export 212 of intercommunication, wide import 211 is located under discharge gate 111, and wide import 211 with discharge gate 111 intercommunication to the pet food that discharges from discharge gate 111 can both get into collecting hopper 21 through wide import 211, and the direction illumination that is located to discharge gate 111 by wide import promptly can cover all discharge gates 111 completely. The side wall of the collecting hopper 21 is gradually reduced from the wide inlet 211 to the narrow outlet 212, that is, the side wall of the collecting hopper 21 is inclined from the wide inlet 211 to the narrow outlet 212, the caliber of the wide inlet 211 is larger than that of the narrow outlet 212, that is, the collecting hopper is shaped like a horn, so that the pet food discharged from the discharge port 111 is guided into the stirring drum 22.

The mixing drum 22 is provided with an opening 221, and the opening 221 is operatively connected to the narrow outlet 212 or the grain outlet channel 23. Preferably, the opening 221 is located on a sidewall of the agitation drum 22.

The food outlet channel 23 can communicate the opening 221 with the feeding bowl in the rotation process of the stirring roller 22, so that the mixed pet food can be guided into the feeding bowl, and the pet can eat food through the feeding bowl, wherein the feeding bowl can be a separable part of the pet feeder, and can also be a feeding container arranged additionally.

Specifically, the agitation drum 22 includes an initial state, an agitation state, and a rotation state.

In the initial state, the opening 221 is communicated with the narrow outlet, and the stirring drum 22 is always in the initial state when the grain storage unit discharges grains.

During the stirring state, the stirring roller 22 swings left and right to uniformly mix the pet food falling into the stirring roller, and the opening part 221 is located above the rotation axis of the stirring roller, so that the pet food in the stirring roller 22 is prevented from carelessly falling from the opening part 221 in the swinging process. After the agitation state is oscillated, the agitation drum 22 returns to the initial state.

In the rotating state, the stirring roller 22 rotates 360 degrees around the rotation axis from the initial state to return to the initial state, and in the rotating process, the opening part 221 can be communicated with the grain outlet channel 23 so as to convey the mixed pet food to the feeding bowl.

The driving motor of the stirring drum 22 is electrically connected with the controller, that is, the controller controls the state of the stirring drum 22 through the driving motor, so as to feed the pet more intelligently.

According to an implementation mode of the pet feeder, the pet feeder further comprises a cover body 4 and a shell body 5 which are arranged in a split mode, the cover body 4 and the shell body 5 are limited out of the storage cavity, specifically, the cover body 4 is detachably arranged on the top of the shell body 5 and is used for opening and closing the storage cavity so as to take and place the grain storage part 1.

The grain discharging component 2 is arranged in the shell 5. The side wall of the shell 5 is provided with a pet feeding opening communicated with the grain outlet channel 23 of the grain outlet assembly, and the feeding bowl is arranged at the position matched with the pet feeding opening.

Preferably, 4 inner walls of lid are equipped with assembly portion, assembly portion can be dismantled and be equipped with dry box 41, and dry box 41 is used for depositing drier or drying plate, dry box 41 with store up grain unit 11 intercommunication to guarantee the drying of the interior pet grain of storing up grain unit 11, avoid pet grain to wet rotten.

The above description is only a preferred embodiment of the present invention, but the scope of the present invention is not limited thereto, and any changes or substitutions that can be easily conceived by those skilled in the art within the technical scope of the present invention should be covered by the present invention.

Claims

1. A pet food dispensing device, comprising:

2. The pet feeder of claim 1, wherein the storage cavity is provided with a load cell, and an elastic member of the load cell abuts against the grain storage part to weigh the grain storage part.

3. The pet feeder of claim 2, wherein the dispensing spout is provided with a switch for controlling the opening and closing of the dispensing spout.

4. The pet feeder of claim 3, wherein the food storage portion comprises a plurality of detachably arranged partition plates, and the food storage portion is divided into a plurality of food storage units by the partition plates;

5. The pet feeder of claim 3, wherein the food storage portion comprises a plurality of food storage units that are separable.

6. The pet feeder of claim 5, wherein the grain storage unit is provided with a correlation sensor at a bottom thereof to detect whether the grain storage unit is short of grain.

7. The pet food dispensing device as claimed in any one of claims 1 to 6, wherein the food discharging assembly comprises a collecting hopper, a stirring drum and a food discharging passage;

the grain outlet channel can be communicated with the opening part and the feeding bowl in the rotation process of the stirring roller.

8. The pet feeder of claim 7, wherein the stirring drum comprises an initial state, a stirring state, and a rotating state;

in the initial state, the opening part is communicated with the narrow outlet;

9. The pet feeder of any one of claims 1 to 6, further comprising a cover and a housing that are separately disposed, the cover and the housing being confined out of the storage chamber;

the grain discharging assembly is arranged in the shell;

10. The pet feeder as claimed in claim 9, wherein the cover body is provided with an assembly portion on an inner wall thereof, and the assembly portion is detachably provided with a drying box communicated with the grain storage unit.