KR100850531B1 - Drying apparatus using cross flow fan for pet - Google Patents

Abstract

A pet dryer having an air volume and temperature control function is provided to facilitate pet hair drying by discharging a cross air flow of controlled temperature and volume according to a pet. A pet dryer comprises a main casing(10), a cross flow fan(20), and a holder(30). The main casing includes a rectangular outlet(14) having a built-in heater(12). An outlet grill(13) is provided between the outlet and the heater to prevent the intrusion of foreign matters. An outlet cover(16) is also hinged to the entrance of the outlet. The cross flow fan provides cold/hot wind, and rotatably connected to the main casing through a bearing. The cross flow fan is driven by a fan motor which is connected to a continuously variable transmission or to a Micom for the control of rotation speed of the cross flow fan. Further, a controller(50) is installed underneath the holder to control a swing motor fixed at the holder and the fan motor.

Description

Cross-flow drying device for pets {DRYING APPARATUS USING CROSS FLOW FAN FOR PET}

The present invention relates to a cross-flow drying device for pets, and more particularly, the cold and hot air is evenly discharged to the entire body of the pet to facilitate a quick drying operation and at the same time to reduce the stress received by the pet during the drying process to facilitate the drying operation A cross-flow drying apparatus for pets.

Many homes now have pets such as dogs and cats. Although pets are fun for people, they can cause illness or odor if they are not hygienic, especially if they are not bathed regularly. And furthermore, hair and foreign substances generated from pets become a factor that pollutes the surrounding environment.

Therefore, people who keep pets should bathe their pets regularly. In general, put them in a bathtub filled with water to bathe them, and keep them in one hand to prevent water from entering the pet's eyes, nose, or mouth. Grab the animal, pour water with the rest of your hands or take a bath with a shower, and then dry your pet's wet fur.

At this time, a pet whose body is covered with hair is easily affected by skin disease or smells because the skin is much weaker than a human unless the hair is dried quickly and quickly after bathing. However, pets do not like to dry after bathing. This is because most people use a hair dryer, which is explained below.

First, the hand-held general hair dryer adopts a small motor due to its weight, and rotates at high speed to generate wind, which generates very annoying high noises including ultrasonic waves that are inaudible to humans. In other words, for pets with hearing that are typically five times more sensitive than humans, these noises are sufficient for fear.

Second, the outlet temperature of the human hair dryer is high, about 55 ℃. However, because the skin of the pet wrapped in the hair is fragile, the high temperature hot air generated by the hair dryer is exposed to the pet directly, which is very painful for the pet. In particular, young pets are more sensitive, and once they experience the hot hot air of the dryer, the memory remains, and thereafter, the drying operation of the hair dryer is rejected. Accordingly, the user has a problem in that it is difficult to dry after the pet's bath.

Third, in the case of pets having some double hair, the hair is partially stretched or matted on the part receiving and receiving the warm air due to the characteristics of the hair when partially dried with a general hair dryer. In addition, the hair dryer employs an axial fan and is configured to have a circular discharge port having a diameter of usually 6-7 cm. Therefore, since the generated hot air is discharged only to the local part of the pet through a narrow discharge port, the dryer is moved around and dried. As a result, the overall drying time is long (usually 30-60 minutes), both people and pets are tired, especially pets with weak respiratory problems were also easily respiratory disease.

Fourth, due to the problems described above, the user mainly kept the pet in a professional shop. However, this is a problem that takes a lot of money considering that it is done periodically.

The present invention has been invented by the above-described needs, the horizontal cross-flow drying device for pets to allow the user to use both hands freely while allowing the hot and cold air to be evenly discharged to the whole body during the drying operation of the pet The purpose is to provide.

In addition, the present invention can control the temperature and air volume of the discharge wind to be suitable for drying the pet, as well as providing abundant discharge air volume to facilitate a quick drying in particular, while operating noise is a quiet cross-flow drying device for pets There is another purpose to provide.

According to an embodiment of the present invention for achieving the above object, as a drying device for pets to discharge cold and hot air to dry the hair of the pet, the discharge case and the suction port is formed and the heating means is installed therein ; A cross-flow fan installed in the longitudinal direction and rotating inside the main body case; And it provides a cross-flow drying device for pets comprising a holder coupled to the main body case rotatable at a predetermined angle.

In the above configuration, the cradle may further include a swing motor for rotating the main body case at a predetermined angle.

In the above configuration, the control unit may further include a continuously variable control means for controlling the rotational speed of the cross flow fan.

According to the present invention, first, by using the advantage of the crossflow fan that can discharge the wind in a wide width can be discharged evenly hot and cold air to the whole body of the pet (usually 30 ~ 40cm in the dog indoors) at the same time fast drying operation is possible It reduces the tiredness of people and pets due to long drying time and further prevents pets from developing respiratory diseases.

Second, since the present invention can be used by mounting on the floor, the user can freely dry the pet using both hands, thereby making it easy to dry.

Third, the present invention is because the small motor of about 5 watts (W) at a high speed of 10,000 ~ 15,000rpm per minute high speed to the floor mounting compared to the hair dryer that generates high noise, including ultrasonic, so it is not very sensitive to the weight of the motor 40 By using the motor before and after the wattage (W) by rotating the cross flow fan at a relatively low speed of about 2,000rpm per minute, the noise is significantly reduced, thereby reducing the stress that the pet receives during the drying process.

Fourth, the present invention can simplify the configuration of the device to lower the product cost, there is an economic advantage that can be used by users casually.

Hereinafter, preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

1 is a front view showing the configuration of the cross-flow drying device for pets according to the first embodiment of the present invention, Figure 2 is a simplified view of the operating state of the cross-flow drying device for pets according to the first embodiment of the present invention 3A is a schematic diagram showing the configuration of a cross-flow drying apparatus for pets according to the first embodiment of the present invention.

As shown, the cross-flow drying apparatus for pets of this invention is comprised from the main body case 10, the cross-flow fan 20, and the holder 30. As shown in FIG.

The main body case 10 has a discharge port 14 formed in a rectangular shape protruding on one side. In addition, a heating means 12 is provided inside the discharge port 14. At this time, the discharge port grille 13 may be installed between the discharge port 14 and the heating means 12 to prevent foreign substances of a predetermined size from flowing in. In addition, the discharge port 14 is hinged to the inlet of the discharge port 14 to prevent the entry of fine foreign matter such as dust during storage, the hinge connection is configured to automatically open through a torsion spring It is preferable. In addition, a handle 15 may be installed at an outer side of the main body case 10 to facilitate gripping. In addition, a plurality of inlets 17 may be formed by a predetermined area so that air can be easily sucked. In addition, although not shown in the drawing, the inlet 17 may be equipped with a filter for preventing the inhalation of foreign substances.

The cross flow fan 20 is provided in the longitudinal direction inside the main body case 10. That is, the cross flow fan 20 functions to discharge cold and hot air by a predetermined width in the longitudinal direction. One axis of the cross flow fan 20 is rotatably coupled to the body case 10 via a bearing (not shown). In addition, the other axis of the cross flow fan 20 is connected to the fan motor 22 so that the cross flow fan 20 is rotated by the driving force of the fan motor 22. In addition, the fan motor 22 may be connected to the continuously variable control means. Accordingly, the user can finely adjust the rotational speed of the cross flow fan 20. Here, the continuously variable speed control means may be made of a conventional continuously variable speed control circuit configured between the controller 50 and the fan motor 22. In other words, the rotation of the fan motor 22 can be varied by the variable resistance value input by the user to control the rotation speed of the cross flow fan 20 steplessly. As another means, it may be a digital control device capable of finely controlling the number of revolutions each time the up or down button is pressed by a program input to the control microcomputer. Accordingly, the wind strength can be properly adjusted according to the characteristics of the pet. On the other hand, by employing the cross flow fan 20 in the drying apparatus of the present invention as described above, the hot and cold air can be discharged with uniform intensity through the discharge port 14 having a certain length (length direction). Therefore, during the drying operation, the hot and cold air is uniformly blown to the entire body of the pet to increase the drying efficiency, thereby enabling the quick drying operation.

To the holder 30, one end of the body case 10 is rotatably coupled via a bearing (not shown). In addition, the other end of the main body case 10 is connected to the swing motor 40 fixed to the holder 30 so that the main body case 10 is rotated at a predetermined angle. In this case, the motor cover 45 is preferably installed on the swing motor 40 and the fan motor 22. On the other hand, the control unit 50 for controlling the swing motor 40 and the fan motor 22 is installed below the cradle 30.

At this time, the control unit 50 may be installed to the remote control unit 60 (see FIG. 1) so that the user can freely adjust at a long distance. Here, the remote controller 60 may be a conventional wired or wireless controller.

Referring to the operation and effects of the cross-flow drying device for pets according to the first embodiment of the present invention having such a configuration as follows.

First, when power is supplied to the drying apparatus of the present invention, the cross flow fan 20 is driven in the main body case 10. Accordingly, cold air or warm air is discharged through the discharge port 14 according to the operation of the controller 50. Meanwhile, only the main body case 10 having the inlet port 17 and the outlet port 14 while covering the transverse flow fan 20 which is fixed to the fan motor 22 and rotates by the swing motor 40 is repeated at a predetermined angle. Rotate

Specifically, as shown in FIG. 2, the rotation angle θ s of the main body case 10 is repeatedly rotated in a predetermined angle so that warm air is discharged to the whole body of the pet. At this time, of course, the body case 10 can be fixed and used at an appropriate angle according to the user's discretion. That is, the main body case 10 can be repeatedly rotated at an appropriate discharge angle range and fixed at a constant angle.

In this way, the discharge angle of the warm air can be fixed or automatically rotated within a certain range, so that the user can hold the pet with one hand and clean the hair of the pet with a tool such as a brush with the other hand. Can be.

At this time, as a means to rotate by a predetermined angle by the swing motor 40, the deceleration motor of low speed rotation (preferably 4 ~ 6rpm) repeats the forward / reverse rotation with an electrical signal, or determined by a combination of a drive cam or gear The section can be rotated repeatedly. As the main body case 10 is rotated at a predetermined angle by the swing motor 40 driven as described above, the user can dry the pet using both hands, so that the drying operation is easy and the drying time can be shortened. In other words, the present invention is driven to automatically adjust the discharge angle of cold and hot air by rotating the main body case 10 through the swing motor 40 so as to blow air in a large area.

This is clearly different in configuration and operation from the wind direction adjustment method applied to a typical indoor air conditioner. That is, in the conventional wind direction adjusting method applied to the air conditioner, a damper grill (or blade) is installed at a discharge port, and the wind is discharged by moving the damper grill up and down and the direction is adjusted by the damper grill. There was a problem that is attenuated and causes noise. On the other hand, the wind direction adjustment method of the drying apparatus of the present invention is to adjust the discharge wind automatically by rotating the body case 10 itself at a predetermined angle through the swing motor 40, while preventing the wind pressure of the discharge wind is reduced Noise can be prevented from occurring. Thus, the present invention can be manufactured in a structure capable of adjusting the wind direction by employing the swing motor 40, because the pet can be made smaller in size than a conventional air conditioner.

Hereinafter, another embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

Figure 3b is a schematic diagram showing the configuration of the cross-flow drying apparatus for pets according to the third embodiment of the present invention, Figure 4a is a schematic diagram showing the configuration of a cross-flow drying apparatus for pets according to the third embodiment of the present invention 4B is an enlarged AA view of FIG. 4A, and FIG. 5 is a schematic view illustrating a mounting groove formed on the bottom surface of the holder of the cross-flow drying apparatus for pets according to the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 3B, the second embodiment of the present invention may be configured such that the fan motor 22 is positioned inside the main body case 10. By configuring in this way, an external appearance of a device can also be manufactured.

4A and 4B, in the third embodiment of the present invention, the manual knob 70 may be installed instead of the swing motor 40 for rotating the main body case 10 in the above-described first embodiment. At this time, although not shown in the drawings, the fan motor 22 can be configured to be located in the main body case 10 as in the above-described second embodiment. At this time, one end of the main body case 10 is connected to the swing motor 40 of the first embodiment, so that the user can be configured to automatically rotate the main body case 10 selectively.

The manual knob 70 is formed in a size that can be easily gripped by the user, and may be fixed to one end of the body case 10. Specifically, as shown in FIG. 4B, one side of the manual knob 70 is provided with a tension ball 72 elastically supported by a spring 74 therein and exposed to the outside, and a tension on one side of the cradle 30. A plurality of locking grooves 32 are formed at regular intervals so that the balls 72 are seated correspondingly. In this configuration, the user rotates the manual knob 70 in a desired direction when the pet is dried, and adjusts the discharge angle of the hot and cold winds so that the tension ball 72 is seated in the catching groove 32 so that the discharge hole 14 can be disposed at a predetermined angle. Direction is fixed.

That is, the manual knob 70 can be used by the user to fix the direction of the discharge port 14 at any angle. Therefore, the parts can be simplified to lower the product cost, and intensively dry the parts such as the feet as well as the whole body of the pet.

Meanwhile, as shown in FIG. 5, a plurality of mounting grooves 18 may be formed on the bottom surface of the holder 30. The mounting groove 18 may fix the bracket on the wall and insert the mounting groove 18 into the bracket to install the drying apparatus of the present invention. Therefore, by installing the drying apparatus of the present invention on the wall, it is possible to use the user's hair or other various uses.

In addition, the cradle 30 may be provided with a height adjustment means capable of adjusting the height of the top and bottom can be adjusted to the height of the device (that is, the height of the discharge port) according to the size of the pet. That is, by installing a folding leg on the bottom surface of the cradle 30 to fold or unfold the folding leg as needed to enable height adjustment according to the size of the pet.

In addition, the present invention can be used by mounting on the floor can be adopted a medium or larger motor of the operation noise is significantly smaller. However, even in such a motor, operation noise can not be prevented inherently. Therefore, a separate melody generating device may be built in the controller 50 for a specific pet sensitive to the operation sound. The melody generating device is a known device and is mainly used for music listening or music therapy. Therefore, it can be configured to minimize the stress on the operation sound by listening to the stable music, such as the sound of nature during the drying process.

Although the present invention has been illustrated and described with respect to specific preferred embodiments, the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiments, and those of ordinary skill in the art to which the present invention pertains should have the following claims. Various changes may be made without departing from the spirit of the technical idea of the present invention described.

1 is a front view showing the configuration of a cross-flow drying apparatus for pets according to a first embodiment of the present invention,

Figure 2 is a state diagram briefly showing the operating state of the cross-flow drying apparatus for pets according to the first embodiment of the present invention,

Figure 3a is a schematic diagram showing the configuration of the cross-flow drying apparatus for pets according to the first embodiment of the present invention,

Figure 3b is a schematic diagram showing the configuration of a cross-flow drying device for pets according to a second embodiment of the present invention,

Figure 4a is a schematic diagram showing the configuration of a cross-flow drying device for pets according to a third embodiment of the present invention,

4B is an enlarged view of a portion A-A of FIG. 4A, and

Figure 5 is a schematic diagram showing a mounting groove formed on the bottom surface of the cradle of the pet cross-flow drying apparatus of the present invention.

<Simple description of the main reference signs>

10: body case 20: cross flow fan

30: cradle 40: swing motor

50: control unit 60: remote control unit

70: manual knob

Claims (6)

delete As a pet drying device for discharging cold and hot air to dry the hair of the pet, A main body case having a discharge port and a suction port formed therein and having heating means installed therein; A cross-flow fan installed in the longitudinal direction inside the main body case and rotating by a fan motor; And A manual knob for rotating the main body case at a predetermined angle is provided. On one side of the manual knob, there is provided a tension ball that is elastically supported therein and partially exposed to the outside, On one side of the holder, a cross-flow drying device for a pet, characterized in that a plurality of engaging grooves are formed at regular intervals so that the tension ball is correspondingly seated. The method according to claim 2, Cross-flow drying device for a pet, characterized in that the discharge port further comprises a discharge port cover installed to open and close. The method according to claim 2, One end of the main body case to rotate the main body case automatically Cross-flow drying device for a pet, characterized in that further comprises a swing motor installed. The method according to claim 4, Cross-flow drying device for a pet, characterized in that further comprising a control unit for controlling the swing motor and the fan motor. The method according to claim 5, Cross flow type drying apparatus for a pet, characterized in that further comprising a remote control for controlling the control at a distance.

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