KR101594338B1 - Water purifying filter - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a water filter.

The water filter according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a housing member 200 having an inlet 210 into which water to be filtered flows, an outlet hole 220 formed at one side thereof, and an assembling protrusion 230 formed on an inner peripheral surface thereof; And an outlet 310 through which filtered water flows out is formed on one side and a filter member 400 is connected to the other side to be assembled to the housing member 200 and the assembling protrusion 230 can be guided and fitted A cap member 300 formed on an outer circumferential surface of the assembly groove 320 made up of the inflow inducing part G and the assembly part C; The inlet guide G is wider than the assembly C and the inlet guide G may have a reduced width toward the assembly C side.

According to the present invention, the assembly protrusion for assembling the water filter can be easily and accurately guided into the assembly groove, so that the water filter can be assembled easily and correctly, It is possible to prevent the assembly of the water filter and to prevent the water filter from being damaged due to misassembly of the water filter or leakage of the water filter due to machining error and the productivity can be improved.

Water filter, water filter assembly

Description

Water filter {WATER PURIFYING FILTER}

The present invention relates to a water filter.

The water filter is a device for filtering out the inflowed water to flow out. Such a water filter is provided in a plurality of kinds, such as a water purifier and the like, and the inflow water is filtered many times and supplied to the user.

The water filter 10 shown in Fig. 1 is an exploded perspective view showing a membrane filter among these various water filters 10. As shown, the water filter 10 may be configured to include a housing member 20, a cap member 30, and a filter member 40.

As shown in FIG. 1, the housing member 20 has an inlet 21 and two outlet openings 22 formed at one side thereof. As shown in the figure, a communication port 22a is formed in the outlet port insertion groove 22 so as to be connected to another water filter or purified water storage tank. As shown in the figure, two ribs 23 having different lengths are formed on one side of the inner circumferential surface of the housing member 20, and one rib 23 is formed on the other side of the inner circumferential surface. Two outlets 31 are formed on one side of the cap member 30 so that the filtered water and the unfiltered water can be discharged from the filter member 40, respectively. One rib 32 is formed on one side of the outer circumferential surface of the cap member 30, and two ribs 32 having different lengths are formed on the other side of the outer circumferential surface. The filter member 40 is connected to the other side of the cap member 30.

The water filter 10 constituted by the housing member 20, the cap member 30 and the filter member 40 is assembled as follows. That is, first, the filter member 40 is connected to the other side of the cap member 30. Then, the cap member 30 connected to the other side of the filter member 40 is inserted into the housing member 20. One rib 23 formed on the other side of the inner circumferential surface of the housing member 20 and one rib 32 formed on one side of the outer circumferential surface of the cap member 30 are formed on the other side of the outer circumferential surface of the cap member 30 The housing member 20 or the cap member 30 can be positioned between the ribs 32 of the housing member 20 and the two ribs 23 formed on one side of the inner circumferential surface of the housing member 20, . 2A, the two outlets 31 of the cap member 30 are inserted into the two outflow inlet grooves 22 of the housing member 20 Respectively. When the cover member 24 of the housing member 20 is assembled to the housing member 20, assembly of the water filter 10 is completed as shown in FIG. 2B.

The user holds the housing member 20 for assembling the water filter 10 and one ribs 23 and 32 formed on each of the housing member 20 and the cap member 30 face the cap member 30 Or two ribs 32, 23 formed in each of the housing members 20, respectively. Therefore, there is a problem that the water filter 10 is not easily assembled. One ribs 23 and 32 formed on each of the housing member 20 or the cap member 30 due to carelessness of the user are formed on two ribs 32 and 32 formed on the cap member 30 or the housing member 20, 23, and can be inserted outside the two ribs 32, 23 without being inserted properly. Therefore, there is a problem that the water filter 10 can be misassembled. In this case, since the user has to reassemble the water filter 10, it takes a long time to assemble the water filter 10. On the other hand, when the water filter 10 is misassembled as described above, there is a problem that the water filter 10 may be damaged. In addition, a total of three ribs 23 must be formed on the housing member 20 and three ribs 32 must be formed on the cap member 30. Thus, the ribs 23, There is a problem that water leakage may occur in the water filter 10 due to an error.

The present invention is realized by recognizing at least any one of the requirements or problems occurring in the conventional water filter.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION It is an object of the present invention to allow an assembling protrusion for assembling a water filter to be easily and accurately guided into an assembling groove.

Another object of the present invention is to make the water filter easily and accurately assembled.

Another object of the present invention is to prevent misassembly of the water filter.

An integer filter according to an embodiment for realizing at least one of the above problems may include the following features.

The present invention is basically based on the constitution that the assembling protrusion for assembling the water filter is guided into the assembling groove correctly so that the water filter can be assembled easily and correctly, do.

A water filter according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a housing member having an inlet port through which water to be filtered flows and an outlet port groove formed at one side and an assembling protrusion formed on an inner peripheral surface; And an opening for discharging the filtered water is formed on one side and a filter member is connected to the other side to be assembled to the housing member and the assembling groove composed of the inflow inducing portion and the assembling portion is inserted into the cap absence; The inflow inducing portion is larger in width than the assembling portion, and the inflow inducing portion may be reduced in width toward the assembling portion.

A second assembly groove may be formed on the inner circumferential surface of the housing member so that the second assembly protrusion can be guided into the inner circumferential surface of the cap member. have.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a water filter comprising: a housing member having an inlet port through which water to be filtered flows, an outlet hole formed at one side thereof, and an assembly groove formed by the inlet guide section and the assembly section; A cap member formed on one side of an outlet port through which the filtered water flows, a cap member having a filter member connected to the filter member on the other side thereof and assembled to the housing member and having an assembling protrusion that is guided by the inflow inducing unit, The inflow inducing portion is larger in width than the assembling portion, and the inflow inducing portion may be reduced in width toward the assembling portion.

According to another embodiment of the present invention, the inflow inducing portion of the second assembling groove may be wider than the assembling portion of the second assembling groove.

The inflow inducing portion of the second assembling groove may be reduced in width toward the assembling portion of the second assembling groove.

As described above, according to the embodiment of the present invention, the assembling protrusion for assembling the water filter can be easily and accurately guided into the assembling groove.

Further, according to the embodiment of the present invention, the water filter can be easily and accurately assembled.

Furthermore, according to the embodiment of the present invention, misassembly of the water filter can be prevented.

Further, according to the embodiment of the present invention, it is possible to prevent the water filter from being damaged due to misassembly of the water filter, or water leakage from the water filter due to processing error.

In addition, according to the embodiment of the present invention, it is possible to save time required for assembling the water filter, prevent the water filter from being damaged due to misassembly or water leakage of the water filter due to processing error, Can be improved.

In order to facilitate understanding of the features of the present invention, the water filter according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail.

Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments will be described based on embodiments best suited for understanding the technical characteristics of the present invention, and the technical features of the present invention are not limited by the illustrated embodiments, It is to be understood that the present invention may be implemented as illustrated embodiments. Therefore, it is intended that the present invention covers the modifications and variations of this invention provided they come within the scope of the appended claims and their equivalents. In order to facilitate the understanding of the embodiments described below, in the reference numerals shown in the accompanying drawings, among the constituent elements that perform the same function in the respective embodiments, the related constituent elements are indicated by the same or an extension line number.

Embodiments related to the present invention are basically composed of an inlet guide portion and an assembly portion so that the assembly protrusion for assembling the water filter can be correctly guided into the assembly groove so that the water filter can be easily and accurately assembled .

3 to 4, the water filter according to the present invention may include a housing member 200 and a cap member 300.

The inlet member 210 may be formed on one side of the housing member 200 as shown in FIGS. Water to be filtered may be introduced into the filter member 400 through an inlet 210 of the housing member 200. The outlet member insertion groove 220 may be formed at one side of the housing member 200 in addition to the inlet port 210 as shown in FIG. The outlet port 310, which will be described later, formed in the cap member 300 may be inserted into the outlet port insertion groove 220.

In the present embodiment, the water filter 100 exemplifies a membrane filter. In the membrane filter, two outlets 310 are formed in the cap member 300, as shown in FIGS. 3 and 4, since the filtered water and the unfiltered water are discharged from the membrane filter. Accordingly, two outflow port insertion grooves 220 are also formed on one side of the housing member 200 as shown. However, the number of the outlet insertion grooves 220 is not limited to the present embodiment, but may be one or more than two, corresponding to the number of the outflow ports 310 inserted therein.

3 and 4, the outlet 220 may be formed with a communication port 220a. The filtered water flowing out of the outlet 310 of the cap member 300 is moved to another water filter (not shown) or a purified water storage tank (not shown) (Not shown) provided with a water purifier (not shown).

Meanwhile, the inner circumferential surface of the housing member 200 may be provided with an assembling protrusion 230 for assembling with the cap member 300 to which the filter member 400 is connected. The shape of the assembly protrusion 230 is not limited to that of the present embodiment and the shape of the assembling protrusion 230 may be the same as the shape of the cap member to which the filter member 400 is connected 300 of the present invention.

An outlet 310 may be formed at one side of the cap member 300. As described above, in the present embodiment, since the membrane filter is taken as an example of the water filter 100, two outflow openings 310 are formed in order to flow filtered water and unfiltered domestic water. However, the number of outflow ports 310 is not limited to two as in the present embodiment, but may be one or more than two.

The filter member 400 may be connected to the other side of the cap member 300 as shown in FIGS. The water introduced through the inlet 210 of the housing member 200 is filtered while passing through the filter member 400 and the water filtered by the filter member 400 is discharged through two outlets 310 and the unfiltered domestic water in the filter member 400 may be drained through one of the two outlets 310 of the cap member 300.

As shown in FIGS. 3 and 4, an assembling groove 320 may be formed on the outer circumferential surface of the cap member 300, in which the assembling protrusion 230 of the housing member 200 is guided.

The assembly groove 320 may include an inlet guide G and an assembly C as shown in FIGS. The inlet guide portion G of the assembly groove 320 is formed such that when the cap member 300 to which the filter member 400 is connected is assembled to the housing member 200, the assembly protrusion 230 of the housing member 200 is assembled So that it can be easily guided and fitted into the assembly portion C of the groove 320.

3 and 4, the width of the inflow inducing part G may be larger than the width of the assembly part C, as shown in FIGS. For example, the width of the assembly portion C is equal to the width of the assembly protrusion 230 of the housing member 200, and the width of the inflow induction portion G may be larger than the width of the assembly portion C. The user can easily place one side of the assembling protrusion 230 of the housing member 200 in the inflow inducing portion G of the assembling groove 320 of the cap member 300. [ The cap member 300 or the housing member 200 to which the filter member 400 is connected may be attached to the inlet guide portion G of the assembly groove 320 with one side of the assembly protrusion 230 positioned as described above. The assembling protrusions 230 can be easily guided and inserted into the assembly portion C by the inflow inducing portion G of the assembling groove 320. [ Therefore, the assembly of the cap member 300 to which the filter member 400 is connected and the housing member 200 can be easily and accurately performed.

In this case, as shown in FIGS. 3 and 4, the inlet guide G of the assembly groove 320 may be reduced in width toward the assembly section C. Accordingly, the introduction protrusion 230 can be easily guided to the assembly portion C by the inflow inducing portion G. [

3, an assembling protrusion 230 is formed on the inner circumferential surface of the housing member 200, and an assembly guide groove G is formed on the outer circumferential surface of the cap member 300, (320) is formed, but the opposite structure is also possible. That is, the inner circumferential surface of the housing member 200 may have an assembling groove formed of the inflow inducing portion G and the assembling portion C, and the assembling protrusion may be formed on the outer circumferential surface of the cap member 300.

4, the assembly protrusion 230 is formed on one side of the inner circumferential surface of the housing member 200 and the inflow inducing part G and the assembly part C are formed on one side of the outer circumferential surface of the cap member 300. [ A second assembly groove 240 is formed at the other side of the inner circumferential surface of the housing member 200 and includes an inlet guide G and an assembly C, 300 may be formed on the other side of the outer circumferential surface thereof.

5 (a) and 5 (b), the assembly of one embodiment of the water filter according to the present invention shown in FIG. 3 will be described in detail.

First, the user connects the filter member 400 to the cap member 300. One side of the assembling protrusion 230 of the housing member 200 is positioned on the inflow inducing portion G of the assembling groove 320 of the cap member 300 to which the filter member 400 is connected. Then, the cap member 300 to which the filter member 400 is connected is moved in the direction of the arrow shown in Fig. 5A. When the cap member 300 to which the filter member 400 is connected is moved as described above, the assembling protrusion 230 of the housing member 200 is inserted into the inlet guide G of the assembling groove 320 of the cap member 300 And is guided to the assembly section C to be fitted into the assembly section C. Thus, the cap member 300 to which the filter member 400 is connected and the housing member 200 are assembled. Then, when the cover member 250 of the housing member 200 is assembled to the housing member 200, the assembling of the embodiment of the water filter 100 according to the present invention is completed.

3, the assembly groove formed of the inlet guide G and the assembly C is formed on the inner circumferential surface of the housing member 200 and the embodiment shown in Fig. 4 , And the case where the cap member 300 is provided with an assembling protrusion on the outer circumferential surface may be assembled as described above.

The use of the water filter 100 according to the present invention allows the assembly protrusion 230 for assembling the water filter 100 to be guided by the inflow induction part G of the assembly groove 320, Can easily and accurately be fitted to the assembly portion (C) of the base plate (320).

Therefore, the water filter 100 can be assembled easily and correctly.

Also, it is possible to prevent the cap member 300 to which the filter member 400 is connected from being erroneously assembled with the housing member 200, thereby preventing the misassembly of the water filter 100.

As described above, since the water filter 100 can be prevented from being misassembled, it is possible to prevent the water filter 100 from being damaged due to misassembly of the water filter 100.

In addition, since it has a simple structure, it is possible to prevent water leakage which may occur in the water filter (100) due to processing errors.

In addition, the time required for assembling the water filter 100 can be saved, and as described above, it is possible to prevent leakage or water leakage due to breakage or machining error of the water filter 100 due to misassembly, .

The water filter described above can be applied to a configuration of the embodiment described above. However, the embodiments may be configured so that all or some of the embodiments may be selectively combined so that various modifications may be made.

1 is an exploded perspective view showing a conventional water filter.

FIGS. 2A and 2B are views showing that a conventional water filter is assembled.

3 is an exploded perspective view showing an embodiment of a water filter according to the present invention.

4 is an exploded perspective view showing another embodiment of the water filter according to the present invention.

5A and 5B are views showing an embodiment of a water filter according to the present invention is assembled.

   Description of the Related Art [0002]

10, 100: water filter 20, 200: housing member

21, 210: inlet port 22, 220: outlet port insertion groove

22a, 220a: communication hole 230: assembling projection

240: second assembly groove 23, 32: rib

24, 250: cover member 30, 300: cap member

31, 310: Outlet 320: Assembly groove

330: second assembling protrusion 40, 400: filter member

G: Inflow inducing part C: Assembly part

Claims (5)

A housing member having an inlet port through which water to be filtered is introduced and an outlet hole insertion groove formed at one side and an assembling protrusion formed on an inner peripheral surface; And And an assembling groove formed of an inflow inducing part and an assembling part is formed on the outer circumferential surface so that the assembling protrusion can be guided and fitted to the housing member, an outlet port through which the filtered water flows out is formed on one side, A cap member; And, Wherein the inflow inducing portion is larger in width than the assembling portion, and the inflow inducing portion is reduced in width toward the assembling portion. The cap member according to claim 1, wherein a second assembling protrusion is formed on an outer circumferential surface of the cap member, Wherein a second assembly groove is formed on an inner circumferential surface of the housing member, the second assembly groove including an inlet guide portion and an assembly portion so that the second assembly protrusion can be guided. A housing member having an inlet port through which water to be filtered flows and an outlet hole insertion groove formed at one side thereof and having an assembly groove formed by an inflow inducing section and an assembly section formed on an inner peripheral surface; And A cap member formed on one side of an outlet port through which the filtered water flows, a filter member connected to the other side of the filter member, assembled to the housing member, and having an assembling protrusion that is guided by the inflow inducing portion, And, Wherein the inflow inducing portion is larger in width than the assembling portion, and the inflow inducing portion is reduced in width toward the assembling portion. The water filter according to claim 2, wherein the inlet guide portion of the second assembly groove is wider than the assembly portion of the second assembly groove. The water filter according to claim 4, wherein the inlet guide portion of the second assembly groove is reduced in width toward the assembly portion of the second assembly groove.

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