KR20170036435A

KR20170036435A - Apparatus for sterilizing nursing bottle

Info

Publication number: KR20170036435A
Application number: KR1020150135593A
Authority: KR
Inventors: 김재조
Original assignee: 서울바이오시스 주식회사
Priority date: 2015-09-24
Filing date: 2015-09-24
Publication date: 2017-04-03

Abstract

Disclosed is an apparatus for sterilizing a nursing bottle. The disclosed apparatus comprises: a housing having an accommodating space therein and forming an inlet hole to enter a nursing bottle in the accommodating space in one side; a tray installed in the accommodating space to hold the nursing bottle; a holding unit for fixing the nursing bottle to the tray so that an inlet of the nursing bottle faces the tray; and a light emitting unit which is installed in the tray and irradiates ultraviolet rays toward the inside of the nursing bottle fixed by holding unit.

Description

{APPARATUS FOR STERILIZING NURSING BOTTLE}

The present invention relates to a bottle sterilizing apparatus, and more particularly, to a bottle sterilizing apparatus for sterilizing and disinfecting a bottle used for infants and young children.

Infants and toddlers, infants, toddlers, toddlers, and toys should always be disinfected before or after use, since infants are generally immune.

In particular, disinfection of the bottle was done by sterilizing the baby goods for a certain period of time and drying it naturally after the disinfecting water. However, it is a safety problem that the water to be blown can be burned out, It is accompanied by the problem of longevity.

In addition, at the time of disinfecting the hot water as described above, environmental hormones are generated in a bottle made of plastic, which also poses a danger of adversely affecting the health of infants.

As another method of disinfecting the bottle, there is known a method of using a sterilizer that generates steam to sterilize baby goods by the steam.

However, such a steam sterilizing type disinfection apparatus has a troublesome and inconvenient problem that it is necessary to replenish the water for obtaining steam inside the sterilizer every time before disinfection.

As another method of disinfecting the bottle, there is a method of using an ultraviolet sterilizer that sterilizes infant products using ultraviolet rays.

A conventional ultraviolet sterilizer used for sterilizing a bottle is generally provided with a UV lamp inside the case provided for storing the bottle, and a method of irradiating ultraviolet rays to the outside of the bottle accommodated in the case Sterilize the bottle.

However, since most of the bottles are made of a plastic material having a low ultraviolet transmittance, when the bottle is sterilized using the conventional ultraviolet sterilizer as described above, only the disinfection of the outer surface of the bottle is achieved, The sterilization disinfection of the inside of the bottle is hardly performed and the efficiency of disinfection is very low.

It is an object of the present invention to provide a feeding bottle sterilizing apparatus which can easily and conveniently perform sterilization treatment inside a bottle.

A bottle feeding apparatus according to the present invention comprises: a housing having a receiving space formed therein and having a feeding port for feeding and discharging a feeding bottle into and out of the receiving space; A tray installed in the accommodating space to receive a bottle; A mount for fixing the bottle to the tray such that the bottle inlet faces the tray; And a light emitting unit installed in the tray and irradiating ultraviolet rays toward the inside of the bottle fixed by the mounting portion.

The mounting portion may include a first mounting portion protruding from the tray and having a predetermined width; And a second mounting portion protruding from the tray, the second mounting portion being formed to have a greater width than the first mounting portion to receive the first mounting portion therein.

The first mounting portion may also be coupled with the bottle inlet to fix the bottle to the tray; The second mounting portion preferably engages with an inlet of a bottle having an inlet width larger than that of the bottle coupled to the first mounting portion, thereby fixing the bottle to the tray.

It is preferable that hooks hooking to the inside of the bottle inlet are formed at the end portions of the first mounting portion and the second mounting portion, respectively.

It is preferable that the mounting portion includes at least one of a polymethyl methacrylate resin and a fluoropolymer resin material having a high ultraviolet transmittance.

Preferably, the tray is installed in the housing so that the tray can be drawn into or drawn out from the accommodation space through the inlet.

The light emitting unit may further include: a substrate mounted on the tray; An LED chip mounted on the substrate and emitting ultraviolet rays; An optical member for diffusing the ultraviolet ray emitted from the LED chip toward the inside of the bottle placed in the tray; And a support member for fixing the optical member to the substrate.

The supporting member is formed in a hollow cylindrical shape and is coupled to the substrate such that an LED chip is positioned inside the hollow, and is formed so as to have a step on an inner peripheral surface thereof; It is preferable that the optical member is seated on the step of the support member and coupled with the support member.

It is preferable that the light emitting unit further includes a reflecting member for reflecting ultraviolet light emitted from the LED chip toward the optical member.

It is also preferable that the light emitting unit emits ultraviolet rays having a peak wavelength within 200 to 280 nm.

According to the bottle feeding apparatus of the present invention, it is possible to effectively sterilize the inner surface of the feeding bottle, which is highly required for sterilization, so that the efficiency of disinfecting the feeding bottle closely related to the health of infants and toddlers can be achieved.

In addition, since the present invention can easily and conveniently perform a sterilization operation on various kinds of bottles having different widths, the sterilization process for bottles is highly efficient and highly compatible.

1 is a perspective view illustrating a bottle feeding apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 2 is a perspective view showing a tray pull-out state of the bottle feeding apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention. FIG.
FIG. 3 and FIG. 4 are cross-sectional views illustrating cross-sections of a tray and a mounting portion according to an embodiment of the present invention.
5 is a cross-sectional view illustrating a light emitting unit according to an embodiment of the present invention.
6 and 7 are views showing the operation of the bottle feeding apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Hereinafter, an embodiment of a bottle feeding apparatus according to the present invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings. For convenience of explanation, the thicknesses of the lines and the sizes of the components shown in the drawings may be exaggerated for clarity and convenience of explanation. In addition, the terms described below are defined in consideration of the functions of the present invention, which may vary depending on the intention or custom of the user, the operator. Therefore, definitions of these terms should be made based on the contents throughout this specification.

FIG. 1 is a perspective view illustrating a bottle feeding apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a perspective view illustrating a feeding state of a feeding bottle of a feeding bottle sterilizing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention. 3 and 4 are cross-sectional views illustrating a tray and a mounting portion according to an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 5 is a cross-sectional view illustrating a light emitting unit according to an embodiment of the present invention.

1 to 3, a bottle feeding apparatus 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a housing 110, a tray 120, a mounting portion 130, and a light emitting unit 140 do.

The housing 110 constitutes the main body of the bottle feeding apparatus 100 according to the present embodiment, and a storage space for accommodating the bottle 1 is formed inside the housing 110.

At one side of the housing 110, more specifically, at the front surface of the housing 110, a charging port (not shown) for inserting the bottle 1 into and out of the receiving space is formed.

A door 115 for opening and closing the inlet may be provided on the front side of the housing 110 where the inlet is formed.

The tray 120 is detachably coupled to the housing 110 and installed in the receiving space. The bottle 120 can be mounted on the tray 120.

In this embodiment, the tray 120 is illustrated as being slidably coupled to the housing 110 in the forward and backward directions.

The tray 120 detachably coupled to the housing 110 can be drawn into the receiving space from the outside or drawn out from the receiving space through the inlet.

In addition, the tray 120 may be formed in a grill shape so that water flowing out from the bottle 1 held on the tray 120 can be dropped without being concentrated around the tray 120 and the bottle 1.

The mounting portion 130 fixes the bottle 1 to the tray 120 so that the inlet of the bottle 1 faces the tray 120. [ The mounting portion 130 may include a first mounting portion 131 and a second mounting portion 135.

The first mounting portion 131 is formed to protrude upward in the tray 120 and has a width corresponding to a predetermined width, more specifically, an inlet width of the bottle 1.

The first mounting portion 131 is formed in a ring shape corresponding to the shape of the inlet of the bottle 1 and is inserted into the inlet of the bottle 1 to be inserted therein to fix the bottle 1 to the tray 120 .

3 and 4, the second mounting part 135 is installed on the tray 120 so as to protrude upward, and includes a first mounting part 131 for receiving the first mounting part 131 therein, (See Fig. 4) having a width greater than the width of the bottle 131, more specifically an inlet of a width larger than the bottle 1 mounted on the first mounting portion 131, .

The second mounting portion 135 is also formed in a ring shape corresponding to the shape of the inlet of the bottle 2 and is inserted into the inlet of the bottle 2 to be inserted therein to fix the bottle 2 to the tray 120 .

Hooks 132 and 136 that are hooked to the inside of the bottles 1 and 2 may be formed at the ends of the first and second receiving portions 131 and 135, The coupling between the first mounting part 131 and the bottle 1 or the coupling between the second mounting part 135 and the bottle 2 is made through the engagement between the first mounting part 131 and the inside of the inlet of the bottle 1, .

At this time, each of the first mounting portion 131 and the second mounting portion 135 can be elastically moved in the left-right direction so that the engagement and disengagement between the hooks 132, 136 and the bottle 1 (1,2) Or the like.

The mounting unit 130 may be provided on the upper part of the tray 120 and a plurality of two or more bottles may be spaced apart from each other by a predetermined distance, ).

In this embodiment, the first and second receiving portions 131 and 135 and the two receiving portions 131 and 135 are provided. However, the present invention is not limited to this, And three or more types of cradles may be provided depending on the type of the cradle.

On the other hand, the mounting portion 130 is preferably made of a transparent material having a high ultraviolet transmittance. According to the present embodiment, the mounting portion 130 may include at least one of a polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) resin and a fluoropolymer resin material having a high ultraviolet transmittance. In addition, the mounting portion 130 may include a flexible material having a high ultraviolet transmittance.

Since the ultraviolet light emitted from the light emitting unit 140 is transmitted through the mounting portion 130 because the mounting portion 130 formed of such a material has a high ultraviolet transmittance and can transmit the ultraviolet light emitted from the light emitting unit 140 at a high rate, It is possible to effectively irradiate the inside of the bottle (1, 2) without being affected by the presence of the bottle (1, 2), thereby improving the effect of sterilization of the bottle (1, 2) using ultraviolet rays.

3 and 5, the light emitting unit 140 is installed in the tray 120 so as to be disposed in an area surrounded by the mounting part 130, and the bottle 1 To the inside thereof.

According to the present embodiment, the light emitting unit 140 may include a plurality of light emitting units 140 corresponding to the number of the mounting units 130, and may include a substrate 141, an LED chip 143, Member 147 as shown in FIG.

The substrate 141 corresponds to a structure on which the LED chip 143 is mounted and is installed in the tray 120 so as to be disposed inside a region surrounded by the mounting portion 130.

The LED chip 143 is provided on the substrate 141 and emits ultraviolet rays. The LED chip 143 irradiates the ultraviolet ray whose peak wavelength is between 200 and 280 nm toward the bottle 1 through the optical member 145 to be described later.

Among ultraviolet rays, ultraviolet rays having a peak wavelength of 240 to 280 nm, particularly ultraviolet rays having a peak wavelength at 275 nm, are excellent in sterilizing effect.

In the present embodiment, it is exemplified that the LED chip 143 emits ultraviolet rays having a peak wavelength at 275 nm. By the action of the LED chip 143 thus provided, the sterilizing action can be actively performed inside the bottle .

The optical member 145 is provided to diffuse the ultraviolet light emitted from the LED chip 143 toward the inside of the bottle 1 held in the tray 120.

According to the present embodiment, the optical member 145 includes a lens for diffusing ultraviolet light incident from the LED chip 143, and is installed to cover the LED chip 143 from above.

The optical member 145 allows ultraviolet rays to be diffused toward the inside of the bottle 1 held on the tray 120 by passing the ultraviolet rays emitted from the LED chip 143 so as to expand its irradiation angle, It is possible to protect the LED chip 143 from moisture and to protect the LED chip 143 from impact so that the moisture flowing out from the bottle 1 can not penetrate into the LED chip 143. [

The support member 147 is provided to fix the optical member 145 to the substrate 141. In this embodiment, the support member 147 is formed in a hollow cylindrical shape, and is configured to be coupled to the substrate 141 such that the LED chip 143 is positioned inside the hollow.

A step 148 is formed on the inner circumferential surface of the support member 147 and the optical member 145 is engaged with the support member 147 in such a manner as to be seated on the step 148 of the support member 147.

The side wall of the supporting member 147 is formed on the outer side of the optical member 145 with the LED chip 143 and the optical member 145. [ A surrounding structure for surrounding the member 145 is achieved.

The light emitting unit 140 of the present embodiment may further include a reflection member 149 that reflects the ultraviolet light emitted from the LED chip 143 toward the optical member 145.

The reflective member 149 may be formed by coating aluminum on the inner circumferential surface of the support member 147 with a high reflectance of ultraviolet light. In addition to aluminum, various other materials having high reflectance of ultraviolet light may be used as a coating material.

6 and 7 are views showing the operation of the bottle feeding apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Hereinafter, the operation and effect of the bottle feeding apparatus according to the present embodiment will be described with reference to FIGS. 1 to 7. FIG.

In order to sterilize a bottle using the bottle sterilizing apparatus 100 according to the present embodiment as shown in FIG. 1, the tray 120 installed in the accommodation space is inserted into the inlet port The bottle 1 is inserted into the tray 120 so that the inlet of the bottle 1 faces the tray 120. The bottle 120 is then pulled out to the outside of the housing 110, .

4, the inlet of the bottle 2 is joined to the second mounting portion 135 instead of the first mounting portion 131, so that the bottle 2 is inserted into the bottle 2, Can be fixed to the tray 120, so that it is possible to effectively fix various kinds of bottles having different widths of the inlets in a sterilizable state.

5 and 6, after the tray 120 to which the bottle 1 is fixed is drawn into the receiving space through the inlet, the door 115 is closed, And the light emitting unit 140 is operated to irradiate the inside of the bottle 1 or 2 with ultraviolet rays.

Generally, a widely used bottle 1 is formed of a material having a low ultraviolet transmittance such as polypropylene.

Therefore, when the bottle 1 is sterilized by irradiating ultraviolet rays from the outside of the bottle 1, only the sterilization of the outside of the bottle 1 is performed, and the inside of the bottle 1, The sterilization of the liver is almost impossible.

The light emitting unit 140 is located in the inner region surrounded by the mounting portion 130 inserted inside the bottle 1 and the light emitting unit 140 positioned inside the inlet of the bottle 1, The inside of the bottle 1 is irradiated with ultraviolet rays, so that sterilization of the inside of the bottle 1 can be effectively performed. This is explained in more detail below.

When the bottle 1 is fixed in a state where the first mounting portion 131 or the second mounting portion 135 is inserted into the inlet of the bottle 1, The unit 140 is positioned inside the bottle 1 through the open mouth of the bottle 1.

When the ultraviolet rays are emitted toward the upper direction by the LED chip 143 in this state, the ultraviolet rays emitted in this way are irradiated toward the inside of the bottle 1, actively causing the sterilizing action on the inner surface of the bottle 1 do.

At this time, the irradiation angle of the ultraviolet ray emitted by the LED chip 143 can be further expanded while passing through the optical member 145, so that the ultraviolet rays irradiated toward the inside of the bottle 1 can pass through the inner surface of the bottle 1 The sterilization action of the entire inner surface of the bottle 1 can be actively generated.

Since the mounting portion 130 is formed of a material having a high ultraviolet transmittance, the ultraviolet rays irradiated toward the inside of the bottle 1 can be passed at a high rate. Therefore, sterilization of the bottle portion 1 at the connection portion with the mounting portion 130 7, even when the bottle 2 is coupled to the second mounting part 135, ultraviolet rays can be transmitted through the first mounting part 131 and the second mounting part 135 135 and sterilization of the inside of the bottle 2 can be effectively performed.

As described above, the bottle feeding apparatus 100 according to the present embodiment can effectively sterilize the entire inner surface of the bottle, which is highly sterilized, so that the efficiency of disinfecting the feeding bottle closely related to the health of infants and toddlers can be improved have.

In addition, since the bottle feeding apparatus 100 of the present embodiment can easily and conveniently perform the sterilization operation for various kinds of feeding bottles having different widths of the inlet, the sterilization treatment for the feeding bottle is performed with high efficiency, have.

While the present invention has been particularly shown and described with reference to exemplary embodiments thereof, it will be understood by those of ordinary skill in the art that various changes in form and details may be made therein without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as defined by the appended claims. I will understand. Accordingly, the true scope of protection of the present invention should be defined by the following claims.

1,2: Bottle
100: bottle sterilizer
110: Housing
115: Door
120: Tray
130:
131: first mounting portion
132, 136: hook
135: second mounting portion
140: Light emitting unit
141: substrate
143: LED chip
145: optical member
147: support member
148:
149: reflective member

Claims

A housing having a receiving space formed therein and having a receiving port formed at one side thereof for allowing a bottle to enter and exit the receiving space;
A tray installed in the accommodation space to receive a bottle;
A mount for fixing the bottle to the tray such that the bottle inlet faces the tray; And
And a light emitting unit installed in the tray and irradiating ultraviolet rays toward the inside of the bottle fixed by the mounting portion.

The apparatus according to claim 1,
A first mounting part protruding from the tray and having a predetermined width; And
And a second mounting part protruding from the tray and formed to have a greater width than the first mounting part to receive the first mounting part therein.

3. The method of claim 2,
The first mounting portion being coupled to the bottle inlet to fix the bottle to the tray;
Wherein the second mounting portion is engaged with an inlet of a bottle having an inlet width larger than that of the bottle connected to the first mounting portion to fix the bottle to the tray.

3. The method of claim 2,
Wherein a hook is formed on an end portion of the first mounting portion and an end portion of the second mounting portion so as to hook the inside of the bottle inlet.

The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the mounting portion includes at least one of a polymethyl methacrylate resin and a fluoropolymer resin material having a high ultraviolet transmittance.

The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the tray is installed in the housing such that the tray can be drawn into or drawn out from the accommodation space through the inlet.

The light emitting device according to claim 1,
A substrate installed in the tray;
An LED chip mounted on the substrate and emitting ultraviolet rays;
An optical member for diffusing the ultraviolet ray emitted from the LED chip toward the inside of the bottle placed in the tray; And
And a support member for fixing the optical member to the substrate.

8. The method of claim 7,
Wherein the support member is formed in a hollow cylindrical shape and is coupled to the substrate such that the LED chip is positioned inside the hollow and is formed so as to have a step on the inner peripheral surface thereof;
Wherein the optical member is seated on the step of the support member and is engaged with the support member.

8. The method of claim 7,
Wherein the light emitting unit further comprises a reflecting member for reflecting ultraviolet light emitted from the LED chip toward the optical member.

The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the light emitting unit emits ultraviolet rays having a peak wavelength within a range of 200 to 280 nm.