JP2013252076A - Water filtering device with illumination part - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a water filtering device with an illumination part for a water tank used in rearing and appreciating animals such as fishes and growing and appreciating plants, which has both a water filtering function and an illumination function, and can mount the functional parts collectively in the water tank in a compact manner.SOLUTION: A water filtering device 10 with an illumination part includes: integrally constructed water filtering part 1 and illumination part; and a mounting part 3 for mounting the parts in a water tank. The water filtering part 1 includes: a water filtering chamber 11; a water intake part 12; and a filtered water discharge part 13, wherein the water intake part 12 has a pump disposing part 121. The mounting part 3 can mount the integrally constructed water filtering part 1 and illumination part 2 in the tank so that the water filtering part 1 is disposed inside the water tank as viewed from the plane, and the illumination part 2 is projected from the water filtering part 1 so that the water tank can be illuminated from above in front of the water filtering part 1.

Description

  The present invention relates to the filtration and illumination of water in an aquarium used for the breeding and appreciation of animals such as fish, the growth and appreciation of plants, and the like.

  Various water filtration devices for filtering water in aquariums used for breeding and appreciating animals such as fish and for growing and admiring plants have been developed and put into practical use. Various lighting devices for aquariums that illuminate the inside of the aquarium have been developed and put into practical use.

  About the water filtration apparatus, the thing of the type mounted in the upper frame of a water tank is common. The illumination device is generally of the type mounted on the upper frame of the water tank.

  However, the type of water filtration device and lighting device that are mounted on the water tank upper frame in this way must be shifted or removed during operations such as maintenance, inspection and replacement of water tank items. Therefore, the maintenance work becomes time-consuming and troublesome. Many of the water filtration devices themselves require labor and maintenance.

  Therefore, for the water filtration device, the water absorption pipe and the filtered water discharge part are inserted into the water tank, but are hooked on the water tank upper frame so that most of the water filtration chamber and the like are disposed outside the water tank wall. An external water filtration device that can be used in the past has been proposed. This type of water filtration device is described in, for example, Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2006-333779.

  As for the lighting device, for example, Design Registration No. 1283858 describes a lighting arm supported by a support arm that is detachably raised from a water tank upper frame.

JP 2006-333779 A Design Registration No.1283858

  However, when such a hook-type water filtration device is used by being hooked on the upper frame of the water tank, the majority including the water filtration chamber and the like protrudes outward of the water tank wall. Therefore, for example, when a water tank is installed near the wall in a room or the like and the water filtration device is also arranged on the wall side, if the water tank itself is brought close to the wall to a desired extent, the protruding portion outside the water tank of the water filtration device is May get in the way.

In addition, a lighting device that supports a lighting fixture on a support arm that is detachably mounted on a water tank upper frame,
It is separate from the water filtration device, and when adopting this lighting device, in addition to the water filtration device, in addition to the water filtration device, it is not different from the lighting device mounted on the aquarium frame. It is pointed out that the illuminating device has a luminaire attached to a support arm that is detachably raised from the upper frame of the aquarium, so that it is easily displaced due to contact with a human body or the like.

Therefore, it is conceivable to combine a lighting device with the hook-type water filtration device.
However, when illuminating the inside of the aquarium, it is common to arrange the illumination device so as to illuminate the central portion of the aquarium as much as possible when viewed from the plane.

  Even in the case of combining a lighting device with the hook-type water filtration device, if the lighting device is combined with the water filtration device so as to illuminate the central part of the water tank, the lighting device is combined with the protruding portion outside the water tank of the water filtration device, In addition, the lighting device must be extended to the center of the water tank as viewed from above, and the entire water filtration device including the lighting device is increased in size and cost. Moreover, the whole water tank provided with the water filtration apparatus including such an illuminating device also becomes bulky. For example, when it is intended to install the water tank compactly in a place suitable for water tank installation in a room or the like, it becomes difficult.

The present invention is a water filtration device for an aquarium used for the breeding and appreciation of fish and other animals, the growth and appreciation of plants, and the like, and provides a water filtration device with an illumination unit having the following advantages. Let it be an issue.
(1) It has a function of filtering the water in the water tank and a function of illuminating the water tank, and both functional parts can be easily and detachably attached to the water tank.
(2) The part that protrudes outward from the aquarium wall is small and can be mounted compactly on the aquarium, and the whole including the aquarium, water filtration part, and lighting part can be made compact. The range becomes wider.
(3) Although having the advantages (1) and (2) above, it can be provided at a low cost.

In order to solve the above problems, the present invention provides:
Including a water filtration part and an illumination part configured integrally, and a mounting part for detachably attaching the water filtration part and illumination part configured integrally to the water tank,
The water filtration unit includes a water filtration chamber to which a water filtration filter can be attached and detached, a water intake unit communicating with the water filtration chamber, and a post-filtered water discharge unit communicating with the water filtration chamber. And a pump arrangement part that can arrange a pump for sending it to the discharge part through the water filtration chamber,
The mounting portion is disposed in the water tank so that the water filtering portion is disposed inside the water tank as viewed from above, and water is taken from the water tank by the water intake portion, and filtered water can be discharged from the discharge portion into the water tank. As described above, the integrally configured water filtration part and the illumination part are detachably attached to the water tank,
The illuminating unit can illuminate the water tank from above in front of the water filtering unit in a state where the integrally configured water filtering unit and the illuminating unit are mounted on the water tank by the mounting unit. Provided is a water filtration device with an illumination part protruding from a part.

  According to the water filtration device with an illumination unit according to the present invention, the water filtration unit and the illumination unit are integrally configured, and the integrally configured water filtration unit and the illumination unit are collectively removed from the mounting tank in the water tank. It can be installed as easily as possible, and can be easily attached to and removed from the aquarium.

  According to the water filtration device with an illumination unit according to the present invention, in a state where the attachment unit is attached to the aquarium, the water filtration unit is disposed on the inner side of the aquarium as viewed from above, and the illumination unit is disposed in front of the water filtration unit. It protrudes from the water filtration part so that the inside of the water tank can be illuminated from above.

  Therefore, the part protruding outward of the aquarium wall is a mounting part or a part thereof, which is small and can be mounted compactly on the aquarium, and thus the whole including the aquarium and the water filtration device with an illumination part attached to the aquarium. The size can be reduced, and the range of selection of the water tank installation location is widened. For example, it can be easily installed in a desired location indoors.

  The water filtration device with an illumination unit according to the present invention is compact and inexpensive compared with a case where an illumination unit is provided in a projecting manner on an external water filtration device as described in, for example, Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2006-33379. Can be provided.

  As said water filtration part, what has the discharge part of the said post-filtration water in the front side of an upper end part, and has the said water intake part in a lower end part can be mentioned, for example. Moreover, what protrudes from the upper end part of this water filtration part as the said illumination part can be mentioned, for example so that the inside of a water tank can be illuminated from upper direction ahead of the upper end part front side of this water filtration part.

  When the water filtration part and the illumination part are such, for example, the water intake part of the water filtration part is immersed in the water in the water tank and the discharge part is above the water level in the water tank. The integrated water filtration part and the illumination part are removed from the water tank so that the filtered water can be discharged into the water tank and the illumination part can illuminate the water tank from above the water level in the water tank. The thing which can be mounted can be mentioned.

  In addition, the illumination unit may be integrated with the integrated unit in order to make it less likely to be affected by water such as splash water or to make it easier to observe the discharge state of filtered water from the discharge unit of the water filtration unit. Examples of the water filtration unit and the illumination unit that are configured to protrude from the water filtration unit so that the water filtration unit and the illumination unit are placed at a higher position than the discharge unit of the post-filtered water in a state of being mounted on the water tank by the mounting unit.

  In order to illuminate a wider area in the water tank brightly, the illuminating part protrudes in a bowl shape wider than the width of the water filtering part that traverses the direction in which the illuminating part protrudes forward of the water filtering part. it can. An example of such a bowl-shaped illuminating section is one that can project light downward from a projection window formed in a distributed manner on the lower surface of the bowl-shaped portion. For example, one or more light sources can be disposed in the illumination unit, and a light source (for example, a bean ball, a light emitting diode, or the like) may be disposed for each projection window.

  The mounting part is simple and not bulky, and is integrated with the rear surface of the water filtering part for detachably hooking and mounting the integrally constructed water filtering part and the lighting part on the upper edge of the water tank. An example of a hook member that is formed manually is illustrated.

As described above, according to the present invention, it is a water filtration device for an aquarium used for breeding and appreciating animals such as fish, plant growing and appreciation, etc., and has the following advantages. A filtration device can be provided.
(1) It has a function of filtering the water in the water tank and a function of illuminating the water tank, and both functional parts can be easily and detachably attached to the water tank.
(2) The part that protrudes outward from the aquarium wall is small and can be mounted compactly on the aquarium, and the whole including the aquarium, water filtration part, and lighting part can be made compact. The range becomes wider.
(3) Although having the advantages (1) and (2) above, it can be provided at a low cost.

It is a front view of one example of the water filtration apparatus with an illumination part concerning the present invention. It is a rear view of the water filtration apparatus with an illumination part of FIG. It is a top view of the water filtration apparatus with an illumination part of FIG. It is a bottom view of the water filtration apparatus with an illumination part of FIG. It is a right view of the water filtration apparatus with an illumination part of FIG. It is sectional drawing which follows the AA line of FIG. 1, and is sectional drawing which has shown the internal mechanism of the illumination part schematically. It is a top view which removes the cover body and shows the water filter with an illumination part of FIG. It is a perspective view shown with the filter medium before mounting | wearing of the water filtration apparatus with an illumination part of FIG. 1 of the state which opened the cover body. It is sectional drawing which shows the example of a use condition of the water filter with an illumination part of FIG.

Hereinafter, a water filtration device with an illumination unit according to the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.
An example 10 of the illustrated water filtration device with an illumination unit includes a water filtration unit 1 and an illumination unit 2. The water filtration part 1 and the illumination part 2 are comprised integrally.

  The illumination part-equipped water filtration device 10 further includes a mounting part 3. The mounting portion 3 is formed integrally with the back wall 1B of the water filtering portion 1. The mounting portion 3 is for detachably mounting the integrally formed water filtering portion 1 and the illumination portion 2 to the water tank.

  The mounting unit 3 may be any unit as long as it can detachably mount the water filtering unit 1 and the illumination unit 2 that are integrally configured to the water tank, and may be, for example, a clip type that can be attached to and detached from the upper edge of the water tank. However, as illustrated in FIG. 9, the structure is simple and easy to handle, and includes a hook member that can be removably hooked on the upper edge 101 of the water tank 100.

  The water filtration unit 1 includes a water filtration chamber 11, a water intake unit 12 that communicates with the water filtration chamber 11, and a post-filtered water discharge unit 13 that communicates with the water filtration chamber 11. In the water filtration chamber 11, two pairs of left and right filter material mounting grooves 111 extending in the vertical direction are formed in the front and rear. Each groove portion 111 includes a pair of vertical bars 111a extending in the vertical direction.

  The water filtration part 1 has the discharge part 13 of the filtered water on the front face 1F side at the upper end part, and has the water intake part 12 at the lower end part. As illustrated in FIG. 9, the water intake unit 12 includes a pump arrangement unit 121 that can arrange a pump P for taking in the aquarium water W and sending it to the discharge unit 13 through the water filtration chamber 11.

  Although the discharge part 13 should just be what can discharge | release the water after filtration into a water tank, in this example, the water after filtration can be discharge | released into a water tank from the some discharge port 131 (refer FIG. 1).

  The illumination part 2 protrudes from the upper end part of the water filtration part 1 so that the inside of the water tank can be illuminated from above in front of the front face 1F side at the upper end part of the water filtration part 1. In this example, the illuminating unit 2 is placed at a higher position than the post-filtration water discharge unit 13 in a state where the integrally configured water filtering unit 1 and the illuminating unit 2 are hooked and mounted on the water tank by the mounting unit 3. It protrudes from the water filtration part 1.

  The illuminating unit 2 protrudes in a bowl shape wider than the width of the water filtration section that crosses the projection direction of the illumination section toward the front of the water filtration section 1, and is a light projection window 22 formed in a distributed manner on the lower surface 21 of the bowl-shaped portion (see FIG. It is formed so that light can be projected downward from the reference).

  In this example, a light source 23 composed of a light emitting diode LED faces each light projection window 22 from the inside. The light source 23 is disposed on a light emitting diode base 24 in the illumination unit, and the base 24 is supplied with power from a power supply unit (not shown). Turns on when it is done.

The water filtration apparatus 10 with an illumination part demonstrated above can be used as follows.
The pump P is arranged in the pump arrangement part 121 of the water intake part 12 of the water filtration part 1, and is attached to the upper edge 101 of the water tank 100 by the attachment part 3 in a state where the pump communicates with the water filtration chamber 11.

  At this time, the water filtering unit 1 is disposed inside the water tank 100 as illustrated in FIG. 9 as viewed from above, and water is taken from the water tank 100 by the water intake part 12, and the filtered water is discharged from the discharge part 13 into the water tank 100. It arrange | positions in the water tank 100 so that discharge | release is possible.

  In the state of being hooked and attached by the mounting portion 3, the water intake portion 12 of the water filtration portion 1 is immersed in the water W in the water tank 100 and the discharge portion 13 discharges the filtered water into the water tank 100 above the water level in the water tank 100. The illumination unit 2 can illuminate the water tank 100 from above the water level in the water tank 100.

Further, the lid 14 of the water filter 1 is removed, and a pair of left and right filter media mounting grooves 111 extending in the vertical direction in the water filter chamber 11 are provided with plate-type filter media 15 and 16 as illustrated in FIG. Insert in a replaceable manner. Thereafter, the lid body 14 is closed.

  The lid 14 is provided to prevent water jumping and improve the appearance, but is not necessarily required. Further, the lid body 14 may be one that can be opened and closed by a hinge. Here, the lid 14 has transparency to the extent that the inside of the chamber 11 can be seen through for facilitating the confirmation of the water flow, but it does not have to be transparent.

  The pump P is operated by supplying power from a power supply (not shown) while being attached to the water tank 100 as described above, whereby water tank water W is taken in by the water intake part 12 and the filter material mounting groove part 111 in the water filtration chamber 11 is taken. The filter medium 15 is inserted into the filter medium 15 and 16, and is filtered to be discharged from the discharge portion 13 into the water tank 100.

  On the other hand, the inside of the water tank 100 is illuminated by the illumination unit 2.

  The water filtration apparatus 10 with an illumination part demonstrated above has the function to filter the water in the water tank 100, and the function to illuminate the water tank 100, These both functional parts can be easily removed to the water tank 100 collectively. It can be installed.

  Moreover, the part which protrudes outside the aquarium wall is small and can be mounted on the aquarium 100 in a compact manner. As a result, the whole including the aquarium 100, the water filtration part 1 and the lighting part 2 can be made compact. The range of location selection is widened.

  Although it has the above advantages, it can be provided at a low cost.

  INDUSTRIAL APPLICABILITY The present invention can be used to provide a water filtration device with an illumination unit for an aquarium used for breeding and appreciating animals such as fish, and growing and appreciating plants.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 Water filtration apparatus with illumination part 1 Water filtration part 1F Water filtration part front 1B Water filtration part back surface 11 Water filtration chamber 111 Filter material mounting groove part 111a Vertical beam 12 Water intake part 121 Pump arrangement part P Pump 13 Water discharge part 131 after filtration Release Exit 14 Lid 15, 16 Filter medium 2 Illumination unit 21 Lower surface 22 of bowl-shaped portion of illumination unit Light projection window 23 Light source 24 Light emitting diode base 3 Mounting unit 100 Water tank 101 Water tank upper edge W Water in tank

Claims (5)

Including a water filtration part and an illumination part configured integrally, and a mounting part for detachably attaching the water filtration part and illumination part configured integrally to the water tank,
The water filtration unit includes a water filtration chamber to which a water filtration filter can be attached and detached, a water intake unit communicating with the water filtration chamber, and a post-filtered water discharge unit communicating with the water filtration chamber. And a pump arrangement part that can arrange a pump for sending it to the discharge part through the water filtration chamber,
The mounting portion is disposed in the water tank so that the water filtering portion is disposed inside the water tank as viewed from above, and water is taken from the water tank by the water intake portion, and filtered water can be discharged from the discharge portion into the water tank. As described above, the integrally configured water filtration part and the illumination part are detachably attached to the water tank,
The illuminating unit can illuminate the water tank from above in front of the water filtering unit in a state where the integrally configured water filtering unit and the illuminating unit are mounted on the water tank by the mounting unit. The water filtration apparatus with an illumination part which protrudes from the part.   The water filtration part has a discharge part of the filtered water on the front side of the upper end part, the water intake part on the lower end part, and the illumination part is on the front side of the upper end part of the water filtration part. It protrudes from the upper end of the water filtration part so that the inside of the water tank can be illuminated from above, and the mounting part is soaked in the water in the water tank while the discharge part is in the water tank. The water filtration unit and the illumination unit configured integrally so that the filtered water can be discharged into the water tank above the water level inside the water tank, and the illumination unit can illuminate the inside of the water tank from above the water level in the water tank. The water filtration apparatus with an illuminating unit according to claim 1, wherein the water tank is detachably attached to the water tank.   The illuminating unit is configured such that the integrally formed water filtering unit and the illuminating unit are placed at a higher position than the post-filtered water discharge unit in a state where the illuminating unit is mounted on the water tank by the mounting unit. The water filtration apparatus with an illumination part according to claim 1 or 2, which protrudes from the above.   The illuminating unit protrudes in a bowl shape wider than the width of the water filtering section that crosses the direction in which the illuminating section protrudes forward of the water filtering section, and projects downward from a light projection window that is dispersedly formed on the lower surface of the bowl-shaped portion. The water filtration apparatus with an illumination part according to claim 2 or 3, wherein the water filtration apparatus is formed to be capable of light. The mounting portion is a hook member integrally formed on the back surface of the water filtration portion for detachably hooking and mounting the integrally configured water filtration portion and the illumination portion on the upper edge of the water tank. The water filtration apparatus with an illumination part according to claim 1, 2, 3 or 4.

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