KR20170000707U

KR20170000707U - Water Purifier

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Publication number: KR20170000707U
Application number: KR2020150005460U
Authority: KR
Inventors: 권태훈
Original assignee: 권태훈
Priority date: 2015-08-17
Filing date: 2015-08-17
Publication date: 2017-02-27

Abstract

The present invention relates to a water purifier for purifying water, and a water purifier for purifying water through a filter and discharging purified water. The water purifier of the present invention is a water purifier including a filter portion having a plurality of filters for purifying water and an outlet for discharging the purified purified water to the outside, wherein the water purifier has a daily water intake This cumulative stored daily water intake database; A discharge amount measuring sensor for measuring the discharge amount of the purified water discharged to the outside through the discharge port; An input unit for receiving an ID of a user requesting the discharge of purified water; A database updating unit for cumulatively updating the amount of purified water measured by the emission measuring sensor to a daily water intake amount of the user ID; And a display window for displaying the daily water intake per user.

Description

Water Purifier

The present invention relates to a water purifier for purifying water, and a water purifier for purifying water through a filter and discharging purified water.

A water purifier is a device that removes impurities by filtering the water by physical and chemical methods.

Recently, the use of water purifiers in various spaces including homes has been rapidly spreading in order to effectively obtain clean purified drinking water. A water purifier is a device for filtering natural water such as tap water or ground water (hereinafter referred to as "raw water"), and filters raw water through several filters to remove foreign matter or harmful substances contained in the raw water Thereby providing drinking water.

Such a water purifier has a counter top type in which a filter and a water storage tank are installed in a single cabinet, and an under sink type which is installed under a sink of a kitchen for home use.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS Fig. 1 is a configuration diagram showing a water purifier system according to the prior art; Fig.

Referring to FIG. 1, the water purifier basically includes a filter module 1, a water storage tank module 2 in which constants passed through the filter module 1 are stored, and an exhaust module 3.

The filter module 1 includes a plurality of filters 1a, 1b, 1c and 1d, for example, a sediment filter for sedimenting and filtering relatively large particles contained in raw water, A membrane filter for removing ionic heavy metals remaining in the raw water passing through the line carbon filter, and a carbon filter for removing chlorine components and odors contained in the water that has passed through the membrane filter And the like.

The raw water supplied to the water purifier is purified through a filter module 1, that is, a sediment filter, a line carbon filter, a membrane filter, and a post-carbon filter in order to remove harmful components and odors from the body, do.

The purified water through the after-carbon filter is stored in the storage tank module 2, and the water stored in the storage tank module 2 is extracted to the outside through the discharge module 3. The discharge module 3 is provided with a discharge button (not shown) so that the user can drink the water of the storage tank module 2 as needed. When the user wants to drink water of the storage tank module 2 The water can be extracted by pressing the drain button (not shown).

On the other hand, it is essential that people drink lots of water for health and drink several liters of water a day for health.

However, since it is difficult for each individual to check the amount of water he / she drinks per day, he / she can not drink the daily recommended amount of the individual during busy life. In particular, water purifiers installed in public places such as offices and hospitals are commonly used, so it is impossible to individually grasp the amount of water consumed by each individual in the water purifier.

Korean Patent Publication No. 10-2011-0094169

The technical task of this invention is to allow each individual to know the amount of water ingested per day. The technical task of the present invention is to provide a means of knowing the amount of purified water as well as the recommended amount of each individual.

The water purifier of the present invention is a water purifier including a filter portion having a plurality of filters for purifying water and an outlet for discharging the purified purified water to the outside, wherein the water purifier has a daily water intake This cumulative stored daily water intake database; A discharge amount measuring sensor for measuring the discharge amount of the purified water discharged to the outside through the discharge port; An input unit for receiving an ID of a user requesting the discharge of purified water; A database updating unit for cumulatively updating the amount of purified water measured by the emission measuring sensor to a daily water intake amount of the user ID; And a display window for displaying the daily water intake per user.

Wherein the one-day water intake database is allocated and stored with a daily water recommended amount recommended to be consumed for one day by the user ID, and the display window displays a daily water intake amount in the recommended daily water amount The remaining daily water intake can be displayed.

The water purifier includes an identification tag reader for reading the identification tag attached to the bottom of the cup and reading the user ID and the water intake per day, An identification tag updating unit for updating the amount of purified water measured by the emission measuring sensor to a daily water intake read out from the identification tag; And an identification tag recorder for recording the updated daily water intake amount in the identification tag.

The water purifier includes a monthly water intake amount database for storing a monthly water intake amount accumulated for one month by accumulating a daily water intake amount consumed during one day; And a communication unit for transmitting the monthly water intake amount to a mobile communication terminal of a user who has registered in advance, wherein the database updating unit updates the daily water intake amount stored in the daily water intake amount database by one day, The daily water intake taken in a day before may be cumulatively updated in the monthly water intake database.

According to the embodiment of the present invention, each individual can take an appropriate amount of water by providing a means for each individual to know the intake of the purified water ingested per day for each individual.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS Fig. 1 is a block diagram showing a water purifier system according to the prior art;
2 is a schematic block diagram of a water purifier according to an embodiment of the present invention;
3 is a perspective view schematically showing a display window of a water purifier according to an embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 4 is a view showing an example in which an identification tag attached to a cup is read according to an embodiment of the present invention to determine the amount of purified water discharged. FIG.
FIG. 5 is a view showing an example of a water purifier for notifying a water intake amount of one month according to an embodiment of the present invention; FIG.

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in more detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. It will be understood, however, that the present invention is not limited to the disclosed embodiments, but may be embodied in many different forms and should not be construed as limited to the embodiments set forth herein. Rather, these embodiments are provided so that this disclosure will be thorough and complete, It is provided to let you know. Wherein like reference numerals refer to like elements throughout.

FIG. 2 is a schematic block diagram of a water purifier according to an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 3 is a perspective view schematically showing a display window of a water purifier according to an embodiment of the present invention.

If you use your water purifier, how much you drink, how much your family has drank, and if the data you have drunk on the day is displayed on the LCD in front of the water purifier in real time, the user will love the water purifier and drink a lot of water. Placing a water purifier with data for the management of a company, a company, an office fitness gym, an athletic facility, or members can charge the fraud and further improve self-management.

Also, in case of a hospital, you can find out how much the patient replenishes the water by using it in a private room or an inpatient room. If you add an alarm function, supplementary time or medication time or alarm function may be useful. In many places, just let it work by default, letting the data show how much water is coming up, so you can see how much data you've spent in the cup. This is useful if you know the amount of tea or coffee or the amount of measurement. In places like restaurants, it can be used more usefully because you can know how much water is coming out and how much it is when you eat.

To this end, the water purifier according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a filter unit 100 having a plurality of filters for purifying water, and a discharge port 300 for discharging purified purified water to the outside, A water intake amount database 500, a discharge amount measuring sensor 350, an input unit 600, a database updating unit 400, and a display window 700.

The filter unit 100 may include a sediment filter 110, a line carbon filter 120, a membrane filter 130, and a post-carbon filter 140 as a core part for purifying water. The sediment filter 110 filters relatively large particles, foreign matter, and the like in the water to be filtered and primarily filters them. The water having passed through the sediment filter 110 is subjected to removal treatment of residual chlorine or volatile organic substances in the line carbon filter 120 and then to the membrane filter 130. In the membrane filter 130, heavy metals, ionic substances, microorganisms and the like contained in water are removed. The water that has passed through the membrane filter 130 enters the after-carbon filter 140 to remove odors and the like, is stored in the water storage tank 200, and is stored. The purified water stored in the water storage tank 200 is discharged to the outside by an open operation of a discharge button (not shown) installed in the discharge port 300 and is consumed by the user.

Although the above four filters are used in the embodiment of the present invention, the present invention is not limited to this, and other filters may be added or some of the filters may be omitted if necessary, and the filter unit 100 itself May have a completely different configuration. Therefore, in the present invention, the filter unit 100 may use any kind of filters that can be installed in the water purifier.

The purified water from the filter unit 100 is stored in the reservoir tank 200. A purified water supply pipe is connected to the water storage tank 200, and purified water purified from the filter unit 100 flows into the water storage tank 200 through a purified water supply pipe. In the embodiment of the present invention, an example of the water tank 200-type water purifier that is stored in the water storage tank 200 via the filter unit 100 and then discharged is described. However, after filtering in the filter unit 100, The present invention can be similarly applied to a direct water type water purifier which directly discharges the water.

The outlet (300) is filtered by the filter unit (100) to discharge the purified water to be consumed by the user.

The discharge amount measuring sensor 350 is provided on the side of the discharge port 300 and measures the discharge amount of the purified water discharged to the outside through the discharge port 300.

The daily water intake amount database 500 is a database (DB) in which daily water intakes consumed for one day are accumulated and stored in advance for each registered user ID. And accumulates and updates the daily water intake amount for each user ID individually. The daily water intake per user ID is reset to 0 ml after 24 hours.

The daily water intake amount database 500 may include a flash memory, a CF card, an SD card (Secure Digital Card), an SM card (Smart Media Card), an MMC card (Multi-Media Card) A memory stick, or the like, as a module capable of inputting / outputting information, or may be provided in a separate device.

The input unit 600 receives the ID of the user who requested the discharge of the purified water. For example, if the first user desires to drink purified water, he or she selects his or her ID from the user ID list displayed on the display window 700, and then presses the purified water discharge button.

For home use or small-sized users, the user can easily input a member into the water purifier to display only the user ID (name) and the data on the discharge amount of purified purified water in the display window 700. Allow it to reset after a day. People who sleep late at night or change day and night in their daily lives can change their life time. Because of various situations, the setting is made freely. Also, if you enter the amount of water you want to use, you can make it come out as much. In addition, time and date can be displayed on the display window 700 of the water purifier in addition to the data of the discharge amount.

The database updating unit 400 cumulatively updates the amount of purified water measured by the emission amount measuring sensor 350 to the daily water intake amount of the user ID. For example, if a first user drinks 200 ml of water at 10 am and 150 ml of purified water at 2 pm, the first user's daily water intake until 2 pm is cumulatively updated to 350 ml, And stored in the intake amount database 500. If the first user drank 300 ml of purified water again at 3 pm, the daily water uptake until 3 o'clock would be 650 ml. Likewise, if the second user drank 500 ml of water at 7:00 am and 200 ml of purified water at 1:00 pm on the water purifier, the daily water intake of the second user at 1:00 pm is 700 ml, and the daily water intake database 500 ).

The display window 700 displays the water intake per day for each user ID. Thus, users can individually know in real time the amount of water they consume through the water purifier during the day. For reference, the display window 700 may be implemented as an LCD, an LED panel, or the like, and may also be implemented as a touch screen panel. When implemented as a touch screen panel, the input unit 600 and the display window 700 may be implemented in one touch screen panel.

Therefore, the data of drinking by the people who use the water purifier per day or the amount of drinking by the family and the data of the day are displayed on the display window 700 provided in the water purifier in real time, have. Employees, such as a company or company, an office fitness gym, an athletic facility, or a water purifier with data for membership management can be further enhanced in self-management.

In addition, the emission amount of the purified water can be basically displayed on the display window 700 without selecting a user ID (name). The display of the emission amount can be displayed in real time to indicate how much the current purified water is being discharged.

For example, even if the water cup or the human hand is under the discharge port when the discharge button for releasing the purified water is released, even if the discharge of the purified water is stopped, the amount of the purified water discharged is not reset unless the hand is removed from the water purifier inlet, Can be displayed in real time so that the user can finely control the image while watching the emission amount.

When the water cup or the human hand is completely exhausted near the outlet, the discharge of the purified water is stopped, and the indication of the discharge amount displayed on the display window is initialized. However, before the initialization is performed, the indication of the discharge amount for a while (for example, one second) may blink and initialization may be performed. For reference, in order to detect water cups or human hands near the outlet, a sensor should be provided to sense objects near the outlet.

In the display window 700, a discharge amount selection icon such as 50ml, 100ml, or 200ml is displayed so that when the user selects a specific discharge selection icon, the selected amount of water is discharged. Therefore, the user can precisely follow the amount of water according to the recipe when cooking, and so on.

On the other hand, in addition to the daily water intake, each person can display the daily water intake to be consumed during the day on the display window 700.

For this purpose, the daily water intake database 500 is allocated and stored with a daily water recommended amount recommended for one day for each user ID, and the display window 700 is set to 1 You can display the amount of water intake per day by subtracting daily water intake.

For example, if a first user is healthy, drinking 2 liters of water per day on a weight basis, if the recommended daily dose of water is set at 2 liters, then the first user would only drink 750 ml of water per day by 2 pm As shown in FIG. 3, the daily intake of water is shown as 1,250 ml per day by subtracting the water intake per day from the recommended daily amount of water. Thus, the first user needs to drink more 1,250 ml of water in the future I know.

Therefore, if you use a hospital or hospital room, you can find out how much water is replenished by the patient, and if you add an alarm function, supplementary time or medication time or alarm function may be useful. In many places, just let it work by default so you can see how much water you have, and you can see how much data you've spent on the cup.

On the other hand, in many companies and people, it is possible to put an identification tag on the bottom of the cup by inserting a sensor that can be recognized on the bottom of the water purifier and make it possible to discharge the amount of purified water immediately . If you tag the bottom of your personal cup, you can use it to see the data in many companies and offices even if you do not register it in the water purifier. Will be described in detail with reference to Fig.

FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating an example of reading the ID tag attached to the cup according to the embodiment of the present invention to determine the amount of purified water discharged. FIG.

A water purifier according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a filter unit 100 having a plurality of filters for purifying water and an outlet 300 for discharging purified purified water to the outside, An identification tag reader 810, an identification tag updater 800 and an identification tag reader 820 in addition to the emission measurement sensor 350 and the display window 700 without a database.

The identification tag reading unit 810 reads the identification tag attached to the bottom surface of the cup and reads the user ID and the daily water intake. The cup 300 is mounted on the flange plate 801 at the lower end of the outlet 300 so that the purified water discharged from the outlet 300 is caught by the cup.

On the inside or the surface of the flange plate 801, an identification tag reading unit 810 is provided, and an identification tag is attached to the bottom of the cup. Such an identification tag may be an NFC tag, an RFID tag, or the like. The identification tag attached to the bottom of the cup records the user ID and information on the daily water intake of the user for one day. The identification tag reading section 810 reads the identification tag attached to the bottom surface of the cup and reads the user ID and the daily water intake amount.

The identification tag updating unit 800 updates the amount of water discharged from the purified water measured by the emission amount measuring sensor 350 to the daily water amount read out from the identification tag. For example, assuming that the information recorded in the identification tag read through the identification tag reading unit 810 is information of 'first user ID' and '750 ml water intake', 250 ml of purified water is discharged into the cup , The 1-liter daily water intake is updated to reflect the addition of the previous 750 ml and the currently discharged 250 m.

The identification tag recording section 820 records the updated daily water intake amount in the identification tag. For example, a 1-liter daily water intake updated to the first user ID is recorded in an identification tag attached to the bottom of the cup. Therefore, if you take the cup and later drink water again, a liter of 1-day water intake is read and updated on the basis of it.

On the other hand, you can receive data for a month about how much each user ate each month through USB memory or smartphone application. Will be described in detail with reference to FIG.

FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating an example of a water purifier for notifying a water intake amount of one month according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The water purifier according to the embodiment of the present invention includes a filter unit 100 having a plurality of filters for purifying water and an outlet 300 for discharging purified purified water to the outside, The monthly water intake amount database 910, and the communication unit 920 in addition to the database 500, the emission measurement sensor 350, the input unit 600, the database update unit 400, and the display window 700.

The monthly water intake amount database 910 stores the monthly water intake amount accumulated for one month by accumulating the daily water intake amount consumed during one day. The database update unit 400 updates the daily water intake amount stored in the daily water intake amount database 500 by one day and updates the daily water intake amount during the day before the reset update to the monthly water intake amount database 910 ). For example, assuming that the monthly water intake of the first user ID is 62 liters by August 30, if the first user ID's water intake per day is 2 liters at 24 o'clock on August 31, The daily water intake on the 31st day is added to the 62 liters in the monthly water intake database 910, and the monthly water intake is 64 liters. For reference, the daily water intake of the first user ID stored in the daily water intake amount database 500 is initialized to 0 liters.

The communication unit 920 transmits the monthly water intake amount to the mobile communication terminal of the user registered in advance. For example, when August 31 has elapsed, a first user having a first user ID for a month in August transmits 64 liters of water intake to a mobile communication terminal such as a smart phone having a first user ID . Thus, the user can know the amount of water he or she has ingested for a month.

Although the present invention has been described with reference to the accompanying drawings and the preferred embodiments described above, the present invention is not limited thereto but is limited by the claims of utility model registration described later. Accordingly, those skilled in the art will appreciate that various modifications, additions and substitutions are possible, without departing from the scope and spirit of the following claims.

100: water purifier
200: Reservoir tank
300: outlet
350: Emission measuring sensor
400: DB update unit
500: Daily water intake database
600:
700: display window

Claims

1. A water purifier including a filter portion having a plurality of filters for purifying water and an outlet for discharging purified purified water to the outside,
A daily water intake amount database in which a daily water intake amount that is consumed for one day by a pre-registered user ID is cumulatively stored;
A discharge amount measuring sensor for measuring the discharge amount of the purified water discharged to the outside through the discharge port;
An input unit for receiving an ID of a user requesting the discharge of purified water;
A database updating unit for cumulatively updating the amount of purified water measured by the emission measuring sensor to a daily water intake amount of the user ID; And
A display window for displaying the daily water intake per user;
.

The method of claim 1, wherein the daily water intake amount database comprises:
A daily recommended amount of water recommended to be consumed per day by the user ID is allocated and stored,
Wherein the display window indicates the remaining amount of water intake per day by subtracting the daily water intake amount from the recommended daily water amount after the discharge of the purified water.

The water purifier according to claim 1,
An identification tag reader for reading the identification tag attached to the bottom surface of the cup and reading the user ID and the water intake per day;
An identification tag updating unit for updating the amount of purified water measured by the emission measuring sensor to a daily water intake read out from the identification tag; And
An identification tag recording unit for recording the updated one-day water intake amount in the identification tag;
.

The water purifier according to claim 1,
A monthly water intake database that stores the monthly water intake for one month by accumulating the daily water intake per day; And
And a communication unit for transmitting the monthly water intake amount to a mobile communication terminal of a user registered in advance,
Wherein the database updating unit updates the daily water intake amount stored in the daily water intake amount database by one day and cumulatively updates the daily water intake amount consumed during the one day before the reset is updated in the monthly water intake amount database.