JP2604947Y2 - Transpiration device - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed description of the invention]

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an evaporating apparatus for evaporating chemicals such as fragrances, deodorants, germicides and insecticides.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art FIGS. 13 and 14 show a conventional evaporating apparatus. That is, the evaporating apparatus includes an apparatus main body 61 and a drug solution cartridge 62 removably mounted on the apparatus main body 61. The apparatus main body 61 has an outer case 63, a transpiration port 64 is opened on the upper surface of the outer case 63, and an insertion port 65 is formed on the lower surface. A tubular portion 66 is provided above the inside of the outer case 63, and a female screw portion 67 is formed on the inner periphery of the lower portion of the tubular portion 66. A heater 69 having an insertion hole 68 at the center is provided at the upper end of the cylindrical portion 66, and a cord routed from a power cord port 70 is connected to the heater 69.

On the other hand, the chemical solution cartridge 62 has a chemical solution container 72 having a circular cross section in which a chemical solution 71 having a predetermined effect such as fragrance is accommodated. Is formed with a male screw portion 73 that is screwed into the screw. A cap 74 is fitted into the upper end opening of the chemical solution container 72, and the center of the cap 74 has an upper end protruding outside the chemical solution container 72 and a lower end formed on the bottom surface of the chemical solution container 72. Liquid absorption wick 75 extended to the vicinity
Is fitted.

In such a structure, the chemical solution cartridge 62 is inserted into the outer case 63 through the insertion opening 65 when used.
Insert and rotate. Thereby, as shown in FIG. 14, the male screw portion 7 provided at the upper end of the chemical solution container 72 is provided.
3 is screwed into a female screw portion 67 provided on the cylindrical portion 66, and the chemical liquid cartridge 62 is loaded into the apparatus main body 61. As described above, when the liquid medicine cartridge 62 is loaded, the upper end portion of the liquid absorption core 75 is loosely inserted into the insertion hole 68 of the heater 69. When the heater 69 generates heat in this state, the drug component evaporates from the absorbent core 75 and diffuses outside through the evaporation port 64.

[0005]

However, such a conventional evaporating apparatus is configured such that the heater 69 is constantly operated to generate heat to evaporate. Therefore, even during times when transpiration is unnecessary,
When the liquid absorbent core 75 is heated, the liquid chemical component evaporates, whereby not only the liquid chemical 71 is unnecessarily consumed, but also energy for heating the heater 69 is wasted. Therefore, it is conceivable to provide a timer circuit to cause the heater 69 to generate heat only during a desired time zone to perform evaporation. However, if the timer circuit is simply provided, the set operation time of the heater 69 cannot be confirmed, and therefore, the time required for the chemical liquid 71 to evaporate cannot be grasped.

[0006] The present invention has been made in view of such conventional problems, and there is provided an evaporating apparatus which can evaporate a medicine only at a desired time and can grasp the evaporating time. It is intended to provide.

[0007]

According to the present invention, there is provided a medicine supplying means for supplying a medicine which evaporates with heating, and heating of the medicine supplied from the medicine supplying means. Represented by the heating means and the predetermined time unit
Multiple unit times corresponding to each time of day
Clock register and the unit time registers independently.
ON / OFF setting means for setting ON / OFF, and the unit time
Registers are provided independently for each
Multiple display elements to show the on / off status of the star
Display means having at least a predetermined time unit
Time measuring means for measuring the time; and
Unit time register corresponding to the specified time unit time
Control means for controlling the heating means based on the setting contents of the heater.

[0008]

In the above construction, the medicine supplied from the medicine supply means is heated by the heating means and evaporates. This addition
The operation of the heating means is provided independently for each time of a predetermined unit time.
ON / OFF status set for each set unit time register
Controlled by the state. And the display means is this unit time
A display element provided for each register;
Displays the setting status of the corresponding unit time register
I am trying to do it. This allows the user to use the specified unit
The start and stop of transpiration can be set independently for each time of day.
Time and transpiration on a time axis in units of one day
No time zone will be clearly visible.

[0009]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS One embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. As shown in FIG.
1 and a liquid medicine cartridge 102 detachably mounted on the apparatus main body 101. The device body 10
1 has an outer case 103. As shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, the outer case 103 has an upper surface portion 104, left and right side surface portions 105 and 106, and a front portion 107 and a rear portion 108 provided only in the upper portion. It is formed integrally.

Inside the outer case 103, an air flow passage 109 extending vertically along the front surface 7 is formed. The air flow passage 109 is formed on the other side of the outer case 103 by a vertical partition 110. It is separated from the department side. At the lower end of the air flow passage 109, a transpiration air intake 111 is formed over the entire surface, and at the upper end, a transpiration port 112 is formed. At the lower part in the air flow passage 109, a board mounting portion 116 is provided to protrude from the vertical partition 110, and the printed circuit board 1 is formed by the board mounting portion 116.
The evaporation thermistor 118 is fixed to the printed circuit board 117 in an oblique manner with its base displaced downward.

On the other side of the vertical partition 110 of the outer case 103, one end is connected to the lower portion of the vertical partition 110 slightly below the central portion, and extends in the horizontal direction in parallel with the upper surface portion 104. The horizontal partition 120 is formed integrally.
The horizontal partition 120 has an inclined shape displaced upward at one end coupled to the vertical partition 110, and the other end is connected to the back surface 1
08. A cartridge loading section 121 is provided above the horizontal partition 120, and the cartridge loading section 121 is inserted into the insertion port 1 formed in the rear face 108.
It is open to the outside through 22.

The insertion slot 122 has a vertically long rectangular shape, and the cartridge loading portion 121 has a left side wall 124 and a right side wall 125 connected to an opening edge of the insertion slot 122 and an upper wall 12.
6 and a lower wall 127, and an inner wall 128 facing the insertion opening 122. The lower wall 127 is the upper surface of the horizontal partition wall 120, and is therefore formed into an inclined shape that gradually rises from the insertion port 122 side to the back wall 128 side. The upper wall 126 extends in parallel with the lower wall 127, so that the upper wall 126 also extends from the insertion port 122 side to the back wall 128.
It is formed in an inclined shape that gradually rises along the side. An upper guide groove 129 and a lower guide groove 1 are formed on the upper wall 126 and the lower wall 127 extending in parallel by a pair of parallel ribs extending from the insertion port 122 side to the back wall 128 side.
30 are provided. A lower part of the inner wall 128 is provided with a liquid container take-out button 119 slidably penetrating therethrough, and an upper part is provided with a liquid absorbent core passage 123 penetrating the vertical partition 110.

On the other hand, the chemical solution cartridge 102 has a chemical solution container 131, and contains therein a chemical solution 132 having a characteristic of evaporating in an amount proportional to the temperature above a predetermined temperature. The chemical solution container 131 is inserted into the insertion port 122.
The cartridge has a rectangular cross section that can be inserted into the cartridge loading section 121 from above, and is formed slightly longer than the depth dimension of the cartridge loading section 121. Inside the chemical liquid container 131, a liquid absorbing core 133 whose one end is in contact with the bottom wall of the chemical liquid container 131 is arranged, and the other end of the liquid absorbing core 133 projects outside from the upper front surface of the chemical liquid container 131. Projecting part 135
Is provided.

A seal member 134 having heat resistance is fitted around the base end of the projecting portion 135. An upper guide ridge 136 and a lower guide ridge 137 project from the upper surface and the lower surface of the chemical solution container 131, respectively.
9, and the lower guide ridge 137 is formed to have a width that can be inserted into the lower guide groove 130.

On the other hand, as shown in FIG.
The right side 106 has an LCD display 13 on its outer surface.
8, a mode button 150, a forward button 151, an on setting button 152, and an off setting button 153 are arranged. The mode button 150 is provided with a mode switch 154, the feed button 151 is provided with a feed switch 155, the on-setting button 152 is provided with an on-setting switch 156, and the off-setting button 153 is provided with an off-setting switch SW1.
57 is attached. These SWs 154 to 157
The LCD display section 138 is connected to a control circuit printed board 143 disposed inside the right side section 106. The control circuit printed board 143 includes a control LSI.
144 are provided.

As shown in FIG. 4, the control LSI 144 includes a CPU 145, a program ROM 146, a work RAM 149, an LCD driver 147 for driving the LCD display unit 138, and the like. And the signals are input from the SWs 154 to 157. The CPU 145 operates in accordance with these input signals, programs stored in the ROM 146, data temporarily stored in the RAM 149, and the like, to control the LCD driver 147 and the thermistor control circuit 148.
Perform the necessary instructions. The thermistor control circuit 148 includes
The power supply for transpiration is operated to control the transpiration thermistor 118 in accordance with an instruction from the CPU 145.

As shown in FIG. 5, on the LCD display section 138, the letters "AM" and numbers 0 to 11 are printed on the upper row, and the letters "PM" and 0 to 1 on the lower row.
The number 1 is printed. And "AM" in the upper row
Below the numbers 0 to 11 in the column are segments 1 to 1, respectively.
2 are arranged, and segments 13 to 24 are arranged below the numbers 0 to 11 in the lower “PM” column.
Further, below the character “PM”, a segment 25 that lights up and displays the character “SET” is arranged.

The RAM 149 is provided in FIG. 6 and FIG.
The various registers shown in FIG. That is, the timer setting register TR of FIG.
, Each of the registers R1 to R24 has "0" indicating off (evaporation pause) and "1" indicating on (evaporation execution). FIG.
Is a time register JR and a minute register F.
R and a second register BR. The hour register JR is composed of 5 bits and stores "hour" of the current time in units of one day from 1:00 to 24:00. Each of the minute register FR and the second register BR is composed of 6 bits, and stores “minute” and “second” of the current time, respectively. The LCD blinking location register LR stores the values of segments 1 to 24 which are composed of 5 bits and which should be turned on.
R is composed of 1 bit, “0” indicates a timer setting mode, and “1” indicates an operation mode.

In the present embodiment having the above-described structure, the chemical solution cartridge 102 is inserted into the liquid absorbing core 133 when used.
Is inserted into the cartridge loading portion 121 through the insertion port 122 with the protruding portion 135 side of the tip upper side. At this time, the upper guide groove 129 and the upper guide ridge 136, and the lower guide groove 130 and the lower guide ridge 137 are matched and then pushed in. Then, not only the fitting by the guide grooves 129 and 130 and the guide ridges 136 and 137, but also the sliding by the left and right side walls 124 and 125 and the upper and lower walls 126 and 127, the chemical solution cartridge 102 is loaded into the cartridge loading portion 121. Slides in the depth direction.

Then, with this sliding, the liquid absorbing core 133
Projecting portion 135 passes through the absorbent core passage 123 and reaches the evaporation thermistor 118. In addition, the lower end of the chemical solution container 31 contacts the chemical solution container removal button 119, whereby the chemical solution container removal button 119 protrudes to the outside, and reaches the predetermined position of the chemical solution cartridge 102.
In addition, the chemical liquid 132 penetrates into the absorbent core 133 and
5, the chemical liquid 132 is always supplied to the protruding portion 135.

When a power source (not shown) is turned on in this state, C
The PU 145 starts control according to the flowchart shown in FIG. That is, first, “0” is set in the register MR and “1” is set in LR (SA
1) Therefore, in the initial state immediately after the power is turned on, the MR
= 0 sets the timer setting mode. Next, T
After setting all R to "0" (SA2), display processing is executed (SA3). This display process is executed according to a series of flowcharts shown in FIGS. 9 and 10, and first, all segments are turned off (SB1). Thereafter, it is determined whether or not the MR is “0”. If MR = 0, the segment 25 is turned on (SB3). If MR = 1, the process of SB3 is executed. SB4 without
Proceed to. Therefore, by the determination process of SB2 and SB3, in the case of the timer setting mode (MR = 0), the character of "SETTING" is displayed by lighting of the segment 25. However, in the case of the operation mode (MR = 1), since the segment 25 remains turned off, the "setting"
Disappears.

Next, in each even-numbered step in SB4 in FIG. 9 to SB51 in FIG. 10, R1 to R24 are set to "1".
Is determined. If the value is "1", the segment having a value corresponding to R1 to R24 is turned on in each of the odd steps. Note that S in FIG.
If this display processing is executed in A3, the previous S
Since all TRs are reset to 0 in A2, all the determinations in the even steps are NO, and none of the segments 1 to 24 is lit. However, since MR is set to “0” in SA1 of FIG. 8,
SB2 in FIG. 9 becomes YES, and segment 25 is entered in SB3.
Is turned on, thereby displaying the word “SETTING”.

In SB52 following SB51, BR
It is determined whether or not the least significant bit is “0”, and if it is “0”, the segment indicated by LR is turned on (SB5
3) If "1", the segment indicated by LR is turned off (SB54). That is, as described above, since the second register BR stores the second of the current time in 6 bits, the least significant bit changes to “0” or “1” every one second. Therefore, the segment indicated by the LR is turned on at the timing when the least significant bit of the BR becomes “0”, and the segment is turned off at the timing of “1”, so that the segment blinks at one second intervals.

In the main routine of FIG.
In SA4 following A3, it is determined whether or not the mode switch 154 is turned on. Then, the mode SW 154 is turned off.
In the case of, the timer setting mode process (SA5) is executed, and the mode button 150 is operated and the mode switch
The operation mode process (SA6) is started when 4 is turned on. Thereafter, while the power is on, SA4
When only the determination process of SA6 is executed and the mode button 150 is not operated after the power is turned on, SA4 →
The loop from SA5 to SA4 is repeated, and as a result, the timer setting mode is maintained.

The timer setting mode process (SA5)
Is executed according to the flowchart shown in FIG.
First, it is determined whether or not the feed SW 155 has been turned on (SC1). Then, the feed button 151 is operated,
If the feed SW 155 is turned on, it is determined whether or not LR = 24 (SC2).
R is incremented (SC3), and if LR = 24, LR is set to "1". Therefore, LR
Increases in the range from the minimum value “1” to the maximum value “24” each time the feed SW 155 is turned ON.

Further, in SC5, it is determined whether or not the on-setting switch 156 is turned on. When the on-setting button 152 is operated and the on-setting SW 156 is turned on, the TR of the value indicated by LR is set to "TR". Write 1 "(SC6). Subsequently, it is determined whether or not the off setting switch 157 is turned on (SC7). If the off setting button 153 is operated and the off setting switch 157 is turned on, L is determined.
Write "0" in TR of the value indicated by R. After a while, FIG.
10 to execute the above-described display processing (SC9).

That is, the timer setting mode processing shown in the flow shown in FIG.
11 to 11 is a process for setting a time for performing the transpiration and a time for stopping the transpiration in units of one hour. Then, by operating the feed button 151, for example, L
At each point where R = 9,10,14,15,16,
Each time the on setting button 152 is operated, "1" is written in the value TR indicated by LR. In this case, as shown in FIG. 6, R9, R1 of the timer setting register TR are set.
"1" is stored in 0, R14, R15, and R16.

Since all "0" s are stored in TR by the processing of SA2 in FIG.
"0" is stored in advance except for 9, R10 and R14 to R16. Therefore, the off setting SW 157 is
It is necessary to operate only when any of the Rs in which "1" is written is set to "0" again.

When the display processing is executed in SC9 during the timer setting mode processing in FIG.
When SB4 to SB51 are executed, in the case of the above example, R
9, "10" is stored in R10 and R14 to R16, so that SBs 20, 22, 30, 32, and 34 are YE
At S, the segments 9, 10, 14, 15, 16 are turned on (SB21, 23, 31, 31, 33, 35). Thereby, the segments corresponding to AM8,9 and PM1,2,3 are illuminated, and the time for performing the transpiration is visually displayed.

After the time required for transpiration is set in the timer setting mode in this way, when the mode button 150 is operated, the mode switch 154 is turned on, and in the main routine shown in FIG. Proceeding to SA6, the operation mode process is started. This operation mode process is executed according to the flowchart shown in FIG. 12, and first sets "1" to MR (SD
1). Subsequently, the value of JR is stored in LR (SD2),
Therefore, the LR indicates “hour” of the current time from 1:00 to 24:00.
Is stored.

Next, the above-described display processing of FIGS. 9 and 10 is executed (SD3).
Since all the segments are turned off in B1, the segments 25 that were turned on in the timer setting mode are turned off.
Goes out and the word “SET” disappears. Further, since MR = 1 at this time, the determination of SB2 is NO, and the segment 25 "SETTING" is maintained in the unlit state, thereby indicating the operation mode.

Further, SB4 to SB51 shown in FIGS.
Is executed, in the case of the above example, R9, R10 and R1
Since “1” is stored in 4-R16, SB2
0, 22, 30, 32, and 34 are YES, and the segments 9, 10, 14, 15, and 16 are turned on (SB2
1, 23, 31, 33, 35). Thereby, AM8,
9 and the segments corresponding to PMs 1, 2, 3 are illuminated, so that even in the operating mode, the time for performing the transpiration is visually displayed. Further, the execution of SB52 to SB54 causes the segment corresponding to the "hour" of the current time to blink, and thus the blinking of the segment causes the "hour" of the current time.
Is shown.

In SD4 following SD3, it is determined whether or not the value of TR indicated by LR is "1". That is, the LR stores any one of the values 1 to 24 corresponding to the current time "hour". Therefore, the TR value indicated by the LR value is the value of R1 corresponding to the current time "hour". ~ R2
4 Also, the corresponding R1 to R24
Is "1", it is a time set in advance in the timer setting mode to perform transpiration. Therefore, when the determination of SD4 is YES, the thermistor control circuit 148 is instructed to energize the thermistor (SD
6), according to this instruction, thermistor control circuit 148
When the transpiration thermistor 118 is energized, the protrusion 135 is heated. As a result, the chemical solution 132 that has leached out into the protruding portion 135 evaporates, and the component thereof evaporates.
Via 12 it diffuses into the surrounding space. Next, LR = JR
It is determined whether or not, that is, whether or not the value of the JR indicating the current hour "hour" is still the same as the LR and one hour has not elapsed (SD7). And one hour has not passed,
If LR = JR still exists, the mode SW 154 is set to O
It is determined whether or not N has been reached (SD9). If it has not been turned ON, the processing from SD3 is executed. Therefore, the mode button 150 is operated and the mode SW 154 is operated.
Is turned on, the loop of SD3 to SD9 is repeated.

In a state where this loop is repeated, after one hour elapses, the value of JR increases by "1", so that LR ≠ JR. Therefore, from SD7 to SD
Proceeding to 8, the value of the JR increased by "1" is stored in the LR. That is, the value of LR is incremented each time one hour elapses.
It is determined whether or not the value of TR indicated by the value of LR that is incremented every time is “1”. And this SD
If the determination of No. 4 is NO and the value of TR indicated by the value of LR is "0", it instructs the thermistor control circuit 148 to prohibit the energization of the thermistor (SD6). In accordance with this instruction, the thermistor control circuit 148 prohibits the energization of the evaporation thermistor 118, so that the heat generation of the evaporation thermistor 118 is stopped, and the evaporation of the chemical 132 is stopped.

Therefore, the loop of SD3 to SD9 is composed of R9, R10 and R14 to R16 as in the above example.
When executed under the condition that “1” is stored in
During the time, the transpiration execution and the transpiration suspension are performed in the following cycles.

AM 8. Corresponding to segments 9 and 10.
9 time zone (from 8:00 am to 10:00 am): transpiration is performed AM10,1 corresponding to segments 11,12,13
1, PM0 time zone (from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm): Transpiration pause PM1,2,2 corresponding to segments 14,15,16
Time period 3 (from 1:00 pm to 4:00): Evaporation is performed. Other time periods: Evaporation is suspended. When the mode button 150 is operated and the mode SW 154 is turned on, the process proceeds from SD9 to SD10 to control the thermistor. Evaporation thermistor 1 in circuit 148
After the instruction to prohibit the energization of No. 18 is made, MR = 0 (timer setting mode) is set (SD11), and the display process is executed again (SD12). When this display process is executed, M
Since R = 0, SB2 in FIG. 9 becomes YES, the segment 25 is turned on (SB3), and "SETTING" is displayed again.

[0037]

[Effects of the Invention] As described above, the present invention requires only one day.
Start transpiring at every predetermined time on the time axis
Set stop and display the setting contents for each time unit
Control the heating means according to the settings.
Caught. For this reason, the heating is performed in the predetermined time unit.
The means can be operated to evaporate the drug. As a result, efficient evaporation can be achieved by suppressing unnecessary consumption of the drug in a time when the evaporation is not required and energy waste of the heating means. In addition, corresponding to the predetermined unit time,
Display element on the time axis of the day
The settings can be displayed in predetermined time units,
To be able to recognize the time zone of transpiration more accurately
become.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a cross-sectional view taken along line aa of FIG. 2 in a state in which a chemical liquid cartridge is loaded in an apparatus main body according to a first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a rear view of the apparatus main body.

FIG. 3 is a sectional view taken along line aa of FIG. 2;

FIG. 4 is a circuit diagram of the first embodiment.

FIG. 5 is a plan view showing an LCD display unit of the embodiment.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing a configuration of a timer setting register TR.

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing a configuration of another register.

FIG. 8 is a flowchart illustrating a main routine of the present embodiment.

FIG. 9 is a flowchart showing the contents of a display process.

FIG. 10 is a flowchart following FIG. 9;

FIG. 11 is a flowchart showing the contents of a timer setting mode process.

FIG. 12 is a flowchart showing the contents of an operation mode process.

FIG. 13 is a vertical sectional view showing a device main body of a conventional evaporation device and a chemical liquid cartridge.

FIG. 14 is a vertical sectional view showing a state in which a chemical liquid cartridge is loaded in the apparatus main body of the evaporation apparatus.

[Explanation of symbols]

 101 Device main body 102 Chemical liquid cartridge 109 Air flow passage 118 Evaporation thermistor 121 Cartridge loading part 132 Chemical liquid 133 Liquid absorption core 138 LCD display 154 Mode SW 155 Feed SW 156 ON setting SW 157 OFF setting SW

Continuation of the front page (58) Field surveyed (Int. Cl. ⁷ , DB name) A61L 9/00-9/22 A01M 1/20 A01N 25/18 103

Claims (2)

(57) [Scope of request for utility model registration] 1. A medicine supply means for supplying a medicine which evaporates with heating, a heating means for heating a medicine supplied from the medicine supply means, and at each time of a day represented by a predetermined time unit. Correspondingly
Multiple unit time registers provided and independently set on / off for each of the multiple unit time registers
ON / OFF setting means, which is provided independently for each of the unit time registers,
Display multiple ON / OFF states of the unit time register
Display means having a display element, and a time-measuring hand for measuring time in at least a predetermined time unit
And a time corresponding to a time in a predetermined time unit measured by the time clock means.
Control means for controlling the heating means based on the contents set in a corresponding unit time register . 2. The time display means according to claim 2, wherein
The time measured in the specified time unit is set to the time corresponding to the time.
Setting contents of the unit time register using a display element
The evaporating apparatus according to claim 1, wherein a display mode different from the display mode for displaying is displayed .