CN220327421U - Water softener, soft calling system and cleaning machine - Google Patents

Abstract

The utility model relates to a water softener, which comprises a shell with a salt cavity, wherein the bottom of the salt cavity is provided with a weighing assembly for weighing the weight of salt water in the salt cavity. The water softener can acquire the weight of salt water to determine the salt water concentration, can acquire the salt adding amount in real time when adding salt, and can calculate the salt water concentration on the basis that salt is not dissolved, so that the excessive salt adding is avoided. The utility model also relates to a soft breathing system, which comprises a water softener and a respirator, wherein the water softener comprises a shell with a salt cavity, and the respirator) is internally provided with a hot gas channel for high-temperature airflow circulation, and the hot gas channel is communicated with the salt cavity in the water softener. The softening system can increase the dissolution rate of salt. The utility model also relates to a cleaning machine applying the water softener and/or the softening system.

Description

Water softener, soft calling system and cleaning machine

Technical Field

The utility model relates to a water softener, a soft calling system and a cleaning machine applying the water softener or the soft calling system.

Background

The existing dish washing machine generally has a softening function, namely, the resident domestic water is firstly softened by the water softener and then enters the inner cavity of the dish washing machine for dish washing, the water softener can reduce the hardness of the water, excessive water residues of Ca and Mg ions are prevented, the clean and bright white-free five-point dish washing can be ensured, and the inner container of the dish washing machine can be prevented from generating scale and rust.

Water softeners generally comprise a brine chamber and a resin chamber, wherein the resin chamber is generally softened by ion exchange resin, and after a certain period of softening, the ion exchange resin can reach a saturated state of calcium and magnesium ions, and at the moment, the water softener needs to regenerate the water softener by softening salt to release wastewater saturated with Ca and Mg ions and discharge the wastewater. The brine in the resin cavity can realize the regeneration of the ion exchange resin in the resin cavity, so as to circularly soften the water. However, the brine concentration used for regenerating the ion exchange resin has a certain requirement, and when the brine concentration is too low, a user needs to be reminded of carrying out the salt adding operation.

In the prior art, a float is generally used to detect the concentration of salt water, for example, in the chinese patent application No. CN212755550U (202020978833.6), which discloses a water softener device and a dish washer, wherein a second detecting component for detecting whether salt is absent is provided in the water softener, and the second detecting component is a float, and when the concentration of salt water in the salt cavity is high, the float floats, and when salt is absent, the float sinks. However, the structure generally only realizes the judgment of the salt shortage concentration point, the real-time detection of the salt concentration cannot be performed, meanwhile, the floating path of the floater in the salt cavity is generally limited, namely, the cross-sectional area of the floating path is generally smaller, the situation that the floater is blocked easily occurs, and the accurate alarm of the salt shortage condition cannot be performed. And the structure has a requirement on the dissolution rate of salt, if the dissolution rate is low, the situation of salt shortage and false report is easy to occur because the salt is not dissolved in time under the condition of salt addition, so that excessive salt addition is caused, and the waste of softened salt is caused.

Disclosure of Invention

The first technical problem to be solved by the utility model is to provide a water softener which can acquire the weight of salt water to determine the salt water concentration, can acquire the salt adding amount in real time when adding salt, can calculate the salt water concentration on the basis of undissolved salt, and avoids excessive salt adding.

The second technical problem to be solved by the utility model is to provide a soft-calling system capable of accelerating the dissolution rate of salt aiming at the prior art.

The third technical problem to be solved by the present utility model is to provide a cleaning machine using the aforementioned water softener and/or softening system, aiming at the aforementioned prior art.

The technical scheme adopted by the utility model for solving the first technical problem is as follows: a water softener comprising a housing having a salt chamber, characterized in that: the bottom of the salt cavity is provided with a weighing assembly for weighing the weight of the salt water in the salt cavity.

The weighing assembly comprises a weighing disc and a pressure sensor, wherein the weighing disc is arranged in the salt cavity and located at the bottom of the salt cavity, the pressure sensor is arranged below the weighing disc and fixed on the shell, and the weighing disc is connected with the pressure sensor.

Preferably, a positioning hole is formed in the bottom of the shell corresponding to the salt cavity, a connecting shaft is arranged in the positioning hole in a penetrating mode, the lower end of the connecting shaft is propped against the pressure sensor, and the weighing disc is sleeved at the upper end of the connecting shaft.

In order to realize more accurate control to salt water concentration, still be equipped with the float that has magnetism in the salt chamber, be equipped with the hall sensor chip that is used for the response float signal on the shell.

Preferably, a guiding cavity capable of accommodating the floater is formed in the salt cavity along the up-down direction, and a through hole is formed in the bottom of the cavity wall of the guiding cavity.

Preferably, the side wall of the shell is integrally connected with a coaming, and the coaming and the side wall of the shell enclose to form a guide cavity.

In order to ensure the detection result, the side wall of the shell is concavely provided with a mounting groove at a position close to the guide cavity, and the Hall sensing piece is arranged in the mounting groove.

In order to conveniently display the salt adding amount and the corresponding salt water concentration information in real time, the device also comprises a control circuit board and a display screen, wherein the control circuit board is electrically connected with the weighing assembly and the display screen.

The utility model solves the second technical problem by adopting the technical proposal that: a soft-breathing system comprising a water softener and a respirator, the water softener comprising a housing having a salt cavity, characterized in that: the respirator is internally provided with a hot gas passage for high-temperature airflow circulation, and the hot gas passage is communicated with a salt cavity in the water softener.

In order to facilitate the opportunity of leading in the salt cavity simultaneously, the hot gas channel of respirator is linked together through the connecting pipe with the salt cavity in the water softener, be equipped with the ooff valve on the connecting pipe.

Preferably, the water softener is as described above.

The technical scheme adopted by the utility model for solving the third technical problem is as follows: the utility model provides a cleaning machine, includes the box that has the water supply mouth, its characterized in that: comprising the water softener as described above, the water supply port of the tank is in fluid communication with the water softener.

The technical scheme adopted by the utility model for solving the third technical problem is as follows: a cleaning machine, includes the box that has water supply mouth and steam outlet, its characterized in that: comprising a soft breathing system as described above, the water supply of the tank being in fluid communication with the soft breathing system and the steam outlet of the tank being in communication with the hot gas path.

Compared with the prior art, the utility model has the advantages that: according to the water softener, the weighing assembly is arranged in the salt cavity, and can weigh the salt water in the salt cavity, and the water quantity added into the salt cavity is fixed, so that the corresponding salt water concentration can be calculated and obtained based on the salt water weight. When the salt adding operation is performed, the corresponding salt adding amount can be obtained according to the weight increasing amount. Based on weighing assembly, can acquire the salt intracavity in real time and soften salt and dissolve salt water concentration after the salt, control to salt water concentration is more accurate, also more accurate to the instruction of adding the salt volume. The water softener can calculate the corresponding salt water concentration before the salt is completely dissolved, and the salt is not required to be completely dissolved in the salt cavity, so that the condition of excessive salt adding is avoided.

According to the breathing and softening system, the hot gas channel in the respirator is connected with the salt cavity in the water softener, so that the high-temperature gas is introduced into the salt cavity, on one hand, the effect of stirring salt can be exerted, the dissolution rate of the salt is improved, on the other hand, the salt water can be heated, the dissolution rate of the salt is further improved, and after the salt is added, the salt can be quickly dissolved, so that the requirement on the salt water is more timely met. Particularly, when the respirator is connected with other products for generating waste heat gas, the waste heat gas can be utilized, so that the purposes of energy saving and consumption reduction are achieved.

The cleaning machine can be matched with the water softener or the soft calling system to achieve the corresponding purpose.

Drawings

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a respiratory system in accordance with an embodiment of the present utility model.

Fig. 2 is a perspective view of another view of the breathing system according to an embodiment of the present utility model.

Fig. 3 is a cross-sectional view of fig. 1.

Fig. 4 is a cross-sectional view of another section of fig. 1.

Detailed Description

The utility model is described in further detail below with reference to the embodiments of the drawings.

As shown in fig. 1 to 4, a water softener in this embodiment includes a housing 1 having a salt chamber 11, and a weighing assembly 2 for weighing the brine in the salt chamber 11 is provided at the bottom of the salt chamber 11. In general, the amount of water introduced into the salt chamber 11 is fixed, that is, the weight of water in the salt chamber 11 is fixed, and the salt water concentration of the salt water in the salt chamber 11 can be calculated based on the weight of the total weight of the salt water by the weighing assembly 2, even if the salt in the salt chamber 11 is not completely dissolved, the calculation of the salt water concentration is not affected because the weight is determined. When the salt adding operation is performed, the corresponding salt adding amount can be obtained according to the weight increasing amount. Based on weighing assembly 2, can acquire the salt concentration after softening salt dissolves in the salt chamber 11 in real time, control to salt concentration is more accurate, also more accurate to the instruction of adding the salt volume. The water softener can calculate the corresponding salt water concentration before the salt is completely dissolved, and the salt is not required to be completely dissolved in the salt cavity 11, so that the condition of excessive salt adding is avoided. In order to facilitate users to check the parameter conditions of the brine in the brine cavity 11 in time, in this embodiment, a control circuit board and a display screen are further provided, and the setting of the control circuit board and the display screen is specifically set according to needs, for example, when the water softener is used in a product, the control circuit board and the display screen in the product can be adopted, and of course, the control circuit board and the display screen matched with the water softener can also be independently set. The control circuit board is respectively connected with the weighing assembly 2 and the display screen in an electric signal mode, and the quality of the introduced water is fixedly stored in the salt cavity 11 in the control circuit board. The control circuit board then calculates the corresponding brine concentration based on the weight information detected by the weighing assembly 2. In the salt adding process, the weight of newly added salt and the final salt water concentration of the salt water in the salt cavity 11 can be displayed in real time, so that the user can more accurately control the salt adding amount.

As shown in fig. 3 and 4, the weighing assembly 2 in this embodiment includes a weighing pan 21 and a pressure sensor 22, the weighing pan 21 is disposed in the salt cavity 11 and is located at the bottom of the salt cavity 11, the pressure sensor 22 is disposed below the weighing pan 21 and is fixed on the housing 1, in this embodiment, the pressure sensor 22 is specifically disposed at the bottom of the housing 1, so as to avoid corrosion of the pressure sensor 22 caused by brine disposed in the salt cavity 11.

The weighing pan 21 is connected to a pressure sensor 22, and the weighing pan 21 presses down the pressure sensor 22 based on the weight of brine, and the pressure sensor 22 may employ various pressure sensors 22 in the prior art, such as a micro-piezoelectric sheet. Specifically, the bottom of the shell 1 is provided with a positioning hole 12 corresponding to the salt cavity 11, a connecting shaft 23 is penetrated in the positioning hole 12 in a sealing way, the lower end of the connecting shaft 23 is propped against the pressure sensor 22, and the weighing disc 21 is sleeved at the upper end of the connecting shaft 23. The weighing pan 21 presses down the connecting shaft 23 based on the pressure, and the pressure sensor 22 obtains corresponding pressure information based on the micro-variable of the position of the connecting shaft 23, so as to generate weight information, thereby achieving the purpose. In this embodiment, specifically, the pressure sensor 22 in the weighing assembly 2 is electrically connected to the control circuit board, so as to implement communication connection between the weighing assembly 2 and the control circuit board.

In addition, in order to verify the brine concentration information correspondingly, in this embodiment, a magnetic floater 3 is further arranged in the salt cavity 11, and a hall sensor 4 for sensing signals of the floater 3 is arranged on the shell 1. The hall sensing piece 4 generates unused sensing signals based on the difference of the positions of the floats 3 relative to the floats, so that corresponding salt water concentration conditions are determined, the working relationship between the two mutually matched sensing pieces is the same as that of the prior art, the hall sensing piece 4 can be electrically connected with a control circuit board, and the control circuit board can also determine corresponding salt water concentration information according to the sensing signal of the hall sensing piece 4.

As shown in fig. 2 and 4, a specific mounting structure of the float 3 and the hall sensing chip 4 is as follows. A guiding cavity 13 capable of accommodating the floater 3 is formed in the salt cavity 11 along the up-down direction, a through hole 131 is formed in the bottom of the cavity wall of the guiding cavity 13, brine in the salt cavity 11 can enter the guiding cavity 13 through the through hole 131, and the floater 3 floats at different heights based on different brine concentrations. The side wall of the shell 1 is integrally connected with a coaming, and the coaming and the side wall of the shell 1 enclose to form a guide cavity 13. The side wall of the shell 1 is concave to form a mounting groove 14 at a position close to the guide cavity 13, the Hall sensing piece 4 is arranged in the mounting groove 14, and a more stable and accurate signal can be obtained based on the fact that the Hall sensing piece 4 is relatively close to the floater 3.

Meanwhile, the weighing assembly 2 and the matching assembly of the floater 3 and the Hall sensing piece 4 are arranged, so that the reliability of brine concentration condition detection can be ensured, and when a group of detection devices have problems, the normal operation of the water softener is not influenced. And can judge which group of detection devices has problems according to the difference of the salt water concentration of the two.

As shown in fig. 1 to 4, the present utility model also relates to a soft breathing system comprising a water softener and a respirator 5. The water softener can adopt various water softener structures in the prior art, and can also adopt the water softener so as to solve the corresponding technical problems.

The water softener comprises a shell 1 with a salt cavity 11, after a user adds softened salt into the salt cavity 11, the softened salt can be deposited at the bottom of the salt cavity 11, meanwhile, water in the salt cavity 11 is usually warm water, the dissolution speed of the salt is slower, and the salt concentration of the regenerated ion exchange resin cannot be reached quickly. The respirator 5 in the embodiment is provided with a hot gas channel, and the shell 1 of the water softener is provided with an air inlet which is used for communicating with the hot gas channel and corresponds to the salt cavity 11. So through the mode that the steam passageway of respirator 5 is connected with the air inlet in salt chamber 11, can let in high-heat gas to salt chamber 11, so on the one hand can utilize gas stirring salt chamber 11 in the water, play the stirring effect to salt in the salt chamber 11, promote its dissolution rate, these high-heat gas can also heat the water in the salt chamber 11 simultaneously, further promote the dissolution rate of salt. Specifically, in this embodiment, the hot air channel of the respirator 5 is connected to the salt cavity of the water softener through a connection pipe, and for convenience of the opportunity of introducing hot air into the salt cavity 11 at the same time, the connection pipe 51 is provided with a switch valve, so that the opportunity of introducing hot air into the salt cavity 11 is controlled by controlling the on-off of the switch valve.

Particularly, when the breather 5 is connected with a cleaning machine product such as a dish washer, a washing machine and the like, waste heat steam generated by the cleaning machine product in the working process can be introduced into a hot gas passage of the breather 5, so that the hot gas passage in the breather 5 is connected with a steam outlet of the cleaning machine product, the output waste heat steam directly enters a salt cavity 11 through the hot gas passage in the breather 5, the waste heat steam is recycled, and condensed water can be recovered on the basis of improving the dissolution rate of salt, thereby achieving the purposes of energy conservation and consumption reduction.

The present embodiment also relates to a cleaning machine comprising a tank having a water supply port, and further comprising a water softener as described above and/or a softening system as described above, the water supply port of the tank being in fluid communication with the water softener. The box body further comprises a steam outlet, the water supply port of the box body is in fluid communication with the soft breathing system, the steam outlet of the box body is communicated with the hot air channel, so that high-heat steam generated in the cleaning or drying working process of the cleaning machine can enter the hot air channel of the respirator 5 and is conveyed into the resin cavity of the water softener, and further waste heat steam is reused. The functions of the connection system are correspondingly realized based on different systems of the box body connection.

The washing machine may be any washing product requiring water supply, such as a dishwasher, washing machine, etc.

In the description and claims of the present utility model, terms indicating directions, such as "front", "rear", "upper", "lower", "left", "right", "side", "top", "bottom", etc., are used to describe various example structural parts and elements of the present utility model, but these terms are used herein for convenience of description only and are determined based on the example orientations shown in the drawings. Because the disclosed embodiments of the utility model may be arranged in a variety of orientations, the directional terminology is used for purposes of illustration and is in no way limiting, such as "upper" and "lower" are not necessarily limited to being in a direction opposite or coincident with the direction of gravity.

Claims (13)

1. A water softener comprising a housing (1) with a salt chamber (11), characterized in that: the bottom of the salt cavity (11) is provided with a weighing component (2) for weighing the weight of the salt water in the salt cavity (11).

2. The water softener according to claim 1, characterized in that: the weighing assembly (2) comprises a weighing disc (21) and a pressure sensor (22), wherein the weighing disc (21) is arranged in the salt cavity (11) and is located at the bottom of the salt cavity (11), the pressure sensor (22) is arranged below the weighing disc (21) and is fixed on the shell (1), and the weighing disc (21) is connected with the pressure sensor (22).

3. The water softener according to claim 2, characterized in that: the bottom of shell (1) has seted up locating hole (12) corresponding to salt chamber (11), wear to be equipped with connecting axle (23) in locating hole (12), the lower extreme of connecting axle (23) supports to press on pressure sensor (22), weighing disk (21) cup joints the upper end at connecting axle (23).

4. The water softener according to claim 1, characterized in that: the salt cavity (11) is internally provided with a magnetic floater (3), and the shell (1) is provided with a Hall sensing piece (4) for sensing signals of the floater (3).

5. The water softener according to claim 4, wherein: a guide cavity (13) capable of accommodating the floater (3) is formed in the salt cavity (11) along the up-down direction, and a through hole (131) is formed in the bottom of the cavity wall of the guide cavity (13).

6. The water softener according to claim 5, characterized in that: the side wall of the shell (1) is integrally connected with a coaming, and the coaming and the side wall of the shell (1) are surrounded to form a guide cavity (13).

7. The water softener according to claim 6, wherein: the side wall of the shell (1) is concavely provided with a mounting groove (14) at a position close to the guide cavity (13), and the Hall sensing piece (4) is arranged in the mounting groove (14).

8. The water softener according to claim 1, characterized in that: the weighing device further comprises a control circuit board and a display screen, wherein the control circuit board is electrically connected with the weighing assembly (2) and the display screen.

9. A soft breathing system comprising a water softener and a respirator (5), the water softener comprising a housing (1) having a salt chamber (11), characterized in that: a hot gas passage for high-temperature airflow circulation is arranged in the respirator (5), and the hot gas passage is communicated with a salt cavity (11) in the water softener.

10. The call softening system of claim 9, wherein: the hot gas channel of the respirator (5) is communicated with a salt cavity (11) in the water softener through a connecting pipe (51), and a switch valve is arranged on the connecting pipe (51).

11. The call softening system of claim 9, wherein: the water softener employs the water softener according to any one of claims 1 to 8.

12. The utility model provides a cleaning machine, includes the box that has the water supply mouth, its characterized in that: a water softener comprising any one of claims 1 to 8, the water supply port of the tank being in fluid communication with the water softener.

13. A cleaning machine, includes the box that has water supply mouth and steam outlet, its characterized in that: a softening system comprising any one of claims 9 to 11, the water supply of the tank being in fluid communication with the softening system and the steam outlet of the tank being in communication with the hot gas path.