TWM592223U - Water fountain - Google Patents

Abstract

A drinking water device suitable for drinking water for pets. The drinking water device includes a housing unit and a pump unit. The housing unit has a water storage tank and a feeding tank spaced apart, and at least one water supply hole and at least one return hole connecting the water storage tank and the feeding tank, the at least one return hole is used for returning the water of the feeding tank to The water storage tank. The pump unit is installed in the housing unit, and communicates with the water storage tank and the at least one water supply hole, and is used to pump the water of the water storage tank to the at least one water supply hole and inject into the feeding tank. The pump unit is used to pump water to the feeding tank, and then the design of the at least one return hole is used to discharge the water from the feeding tank back to the water storage tank to maintain the water in the feeding tank to be replenished to a certain amount.

Description

Drinking water device

The present invention relates to a drinking water device, especially a drinking water device for pets.

When keeping pets, in order to ensure the health of pets, one of the items that need to be paid attention to is to provide sufficient clean water and food for pets.

In general, the owner puts clean water in a container placed in a fixed position, and in order to avoid pets drinking too much water at one time and overturning the container when drinking water, the water in the container flows to the ground in large quantities. Usually the water is placed in a shallow dish or bowl. When a pet is thirsty, it will come to the shallow dish or bowl to drink water by itself.

However, due to the limited water capacity of the shallow dish or bowl, when the water in the shallow dish or bowl is exhausted, but the owner cannot add water immediately, the pet will often be in a state of no water to drink, in addition to causing In addition to the good habit of drinking plenty of water, pets can easily cause pets to lack water.

Therefore, the purpose of the present invention is to provide a drinking water device that can overcome at least the shortcomings of the prior art.

Therefore, the new drinking water device is suitable for drinking water for pets. The drinking water device includes a housing unit and a pump unit.

The housing unit has a water storage tank and a feeding tank spaced apart, and at least one water supply hole and at least one return hole connecting the water storage tank and the feeding tank, the at least one return hole is used for returning the water of the feeding tank to The water storage tank.

The pump unit is installed in the housing unit, and communicates with the water storage tank and the at least one water supply hole, and is used to pump the water of the water storage tank to the at least one water supply hole and inject into the feeding tank.

The effect of the present invention is to use the design of the at least one return hole to discharge the water pumped by the pump unit to the feeding tank back to the water storage tank, so that the feeding tank can be maintained at a certain amount of water at any time.

Before the present invention is described in detail, it should be noted that in the following description, similar elements are denoted by the same number.

Referring to FIGS. 1 and 3, a first embodiment of the novel drinking device is suitable for drinking water for a pet. The drinking device includes a housing unit 10 and a pump unit 3 attached to the housing unit 10.

The housing unit 10 includes a base 1 having a substantially cubic shape and a water storage tank 11, and an outer cover group 2 detachably covering the top side of the base 1.

The outer cover group 2 includes a stack of filters 22 covering the top side of the base 1, a stack of outer covers 21 covering the top side of the filter 22, and a shunt 23 mounted on the outer cover 21. The upper cover 21 includes a cover body portion 211 having a substantially square shape, and a connecting pipe portion 212 extending from the cover body portion 211 to the water storage tank 11. The cover body 211 has a top surface 213 with a feeding tank 214 spaced apart from the water storage tank 11 for holding water, and has a water supply hole 216 penetrating up and down to connect the water storage tank 11 and the feeding tank 214 And a plurality of return holes 217 spaced and spaced around the water supply hole 216. The water supply hole 216 is located in the center of the top surface 213 and communicates with the connecting pipe portion 212. The return holes 217 are used for returning the water from the feeding tank 214 to the water storage tank 11.

The filter 22 includes a supporting shell 221 detachably overlapping the top side of the base 1 to cover the water storage tank 11, and a ring-shaped filter 222 detachably disposed on the top side of the supporting shell 221. . The supporting shell 221 has a generally square shape in plan view, for the lid body portion 211 of the upper cover 21 to be stacked downward, and has a sleeve hole 223 penetrating up and down through which the connecting tube portion 212 of the upper cover 21 is inserted, and Four discharge holes 224 are connected through the water storage tank 11 up and down and spaced around the sleeve hole 223. The filter sheet 222 is interposed between the upper cover 21 and the supporting shell 221, and is located below the return holes 217, and can be used to filter water from the return holes 217 of the upper cover 21. The water filtered by the filter sheet 222 will be discharged into the water storage tank 11 through the discharge holes 224 downward.

The flow divider 23 includes a water supply pipe portion 231 detachably connected to the water supply hole 216 and communicating with the connecting pipe portion 212, and a flow distribution head 232 connected to the top of the water supply pipe portion 231 . The shunt head 232 has a flower shape with a plurality of petals in plan view, and has a plurality of shunt holes 233 that can distribute the water led from the water supply pipe part 231 to the rim at an equal angle and be discharged .

The pump unit 3 includes a pump 31 installed on the base 1 and located in the water storage tank 11, and a filter provided in a pumping port of the pump 31 to filter the water extracted by the pump 31 Cotton 32, and a wire 33 that is electrically connected to the pump 31 and extends out of the base 1 to connect a power source (not shown). The pump 31 is connected to the connecting pipe part 212 connected to the upper cover 21, and can be used to pump the water of the water storage tank 11 into the connecting pipe part 212, and is shunted out through the diverter 23 and injected into the feeding tank 214.

The operation mode of this embodiment is that after the pump 31 is energized, the pump 31 will suck the water of the water storage tank 11 through the filter cotton 32 and pump the water to the connecting pipe portion 212 and the diverter Device 23, and is discharged from the diverter head 232 of the diverter 23 and injected downward into the feeding trough 214 of the upper cover 21 for pets to drink water. When the water level of the feeding trough 214 is higher than the height of the return holes 217, the water located in the feeding trough 214 will be discharged from the return holes 217 and filtered by the filter 222 to the water storage tank 11 downward. In this embodiment, the amount of water injected into the feeding tank 214 from the diverter head 232 per unit time is greater than the amount of water discharged from the return holes 217 back to the water storage tank 11 per unit time; therefore, the feeding tank 214 can maintain There is a certain amount of water for pets to drink.

4 and 5, in another variation of this embodiment, the diverter head 232 of the diverter 23 can have a single water outlet 234 for the water pumped from the pump 31 to resemble an annular water curtain普通入该 fed槽214。 The general injection tank 214. It should be noted that, in this embodiment, it is also possible to omit that the flow divider 23 is not inserted in the water supply hole 216, and the water flows directly from the water supply hole 216.

Referring to FIGS. 6 and 8, a second embodiment of the present drinking water device is similar to the first embodiment, except that the structural design of the outer cover group 2 also includes a mounting on the base 1. Control unit 4. For convenience of description, the following will only describe the differences between the embodiments.

In the second embodiment, the outer cover group 2 does not include the shunt 23 (FIG. 1 ), the cover body portion 211 of the upper cover 21 is directly covered on the top side of the base 1, and the connecting tube portion 212 It is provided on the bottom surface of the lid portion 211 adjacent to the peripheral edge portion. The top surface 213 of the cover body portion 211 is concavely provided with the feeding groove 214, and the cover body portion 211 further has a protrusion extending upward from the central area of the top surface 213 into the feeding groove 214 and defining a top and bottom around The protruding ring portion 218 penetrating through the feed tank 214 and the return hole 217 of the water storage tank 11 has a plurality of water supply holes 216 penetrating through the periphery of the top surface 213 and communicating the feed tank 214 and the connecting pipe portion 212. The filter 22 is detachably installed in the central area of the bottom surface of the upper cover 21, and is located directly under the return hole 217.

With this design, when the water in the feeding trough 214 is full to the top edge of the protruding ring portion 218, the water will overflow from the return hole 217 and be filtered through the filter 22, and then discharged to the bottom The water storage tank 11.

The control unit 4 includes a sensing module 41 disposed in the water storage tank 11 and capable of generating a sensing signal corresponding to the water level of the water storage tank 11, and a control module 42 connected to the sensing module 41 with a signal. A signal is connected to the control module 42 and a warning module 43 exposed on the outer surface of the base 1 is embedded. The sensing module 41 includes a magnetic floating element 411 that can float in water and a magnetic field, and a magnetic field sensing element 412 that can sense the change of the magnetic field generated by the floating element 411 and correspondingly generate a sensing signal.

When the control module 42 analyzes the sensing signal and determines that the water level in the water storage tank 11 is lower than a critical low water level value, it controls the pump unit 3 to be powered off to stop operation, and controls the warning module 43 to issue a It can be used to remind the owner of the warning message, which can be bright light, image and/or sound. In this embodiment, the warning message is indicated in the form of a light. The owner can know that the water in the water storage tank 11 has reached a low water level according to the warning message, and the water storage tank 11 needs to be replenished with water.

In other variations of this embodiment, in addition to sensing the change in the magnetic field, the sensing module 41 can also sense the water level in other ways. For example: use the light emitter installed on the bottom of the base 1 to irradiate the water surface, and then use the principle of total reflection to measure the length of the light travel path in the water to convert the water level height; or use the bottom of the base 1 to measure The supersonic wave transmitter produces supersonic waves facing the water surface, and uses the speed difference of the supersonic waves in water and air to convert the water level height. Since there are many types of the sensing module 41 for sensing the level of the water level, the implementation is not limited to the above specific embodiments.

9 to 11, a third embodiment of the new drinking water device is similar to the second embodiment, except that the third embodiment does not include the control unit 4 (see FIG. 8 ), and the The number of water supply holes 216 is one. The base 1 is a polygonal transparent base, and the pump unit 3 is located at a corner of the bottom side of the base 1 and has the wire 33 electrically connected to the power source.

In summary, the present drinking water device uses the design of the pump unit 3 to inject the water located in the water storage tank 11 upward into the feeding tank 214; after that, the water located in the feeding tank 214 can pass through the backflow again The hole 217 is discharged back to the water storage tank 11 so that the water storage tank 11 can previously contain a relatively large amount of water, and the water of the feeding tank 214 can also be maintained at a certain amount of water. And so it can really achieve the purpose of new cost.

However, the above are only examples of the new model. When the scope of the new model cannot be limited by this, any simple equivalent changes and modifications made according to the patent application scope and patent specification content of the new model are still regarded as Within the scope of this new patent.

10: Shell unit 1: Base 11: Water storage tank 2: outer cover group 21: upper cover 211: Cover body 212: Connecting pipe 213: top surface 214: Feeding trough 216: Water supply hole 217: return hole 218: convex ring 22: filter 221: Support shell 222: filter 223: Set hole 224: Drain hole 23: Shunt 231: Water Supply Department 232: Shunt head 233: shunt hole 234: Outlet 3: Pump unit 31: Pump 32: filter cotton 33: wire 4: control unit 41: Sensing module 411: floating element 412: magnetic field sensing element 42: control module 43: Warning module

Other features and functions of the present invention will be clearly presented in the embodiments with reference to the drawings, in which: FIG. 1 is a perspective view illustrating a first embodiment of the novel drinking water device; 2 is an incomplete exploded perspective view illustrating the first embodiment, and a part of a base is omitted for a pump unit to be exposed; 3 is a side sectional view illustrating the structure of the first embodiment; 4 is a perspective view illustrating another variation of the shunt of the first embodiment; FIG. 5 is an incomplete exploded perspective view illustrating the variation of the first embodiment, and a part of the base is omitted for the pump unit to be exposed; 6 is a perspective view illustrating a second embodiment of the novel drinking water device; 7 is an exploded perspective view illustrating the second embodiment; 8 is a side sectional view illustrating the structure of the second embodiment; 9 is a perspective view illustrating a third embodiment of the novel drinking water device; 10 is a perspective view of the third embodiment from another perspective; and FIG. 11 is a schematic cross-sectional view illustrating the third embodiment cut along the section line Ⅷ-Ⅷ of FIG. 9.

10: Shell unit

1: Base

11: Water storage tank

2: outer cover group

21: upper cover

211: Cover body

212: Connecting pipe

213: top surface

214: Feeding trough

216: Water supply hole

217: return hole

22: filter

221: Support shell

222: filter

223: Set hole

224: Drain hole

23: Shunt

231: Water Supply Department

232: Shunt head

233: shunt hole

3: Pump unit

31: Pump

32: filter cotton

33: wire

Claims (10)

A drinking water device suitable for drinking water for pets. The drinking water device includes: A housing unit having a water storage tank and a feeding tank spaced apart, and at least one water supply hole and at least one return hole connecting the water storage tank and the feeding tank, the at least one return hole is used for returning water from the feeding tank To the water storage tank; and A pump unit is installed in the housing unit and communicates with the water storage tank and the at least one water supply hole, and is used to pump the water of the water storage tank to the at least one water supply hole and inject into the feeding tank. The drinking water device according to claim 1, wherein the housing unit includes a base with the water storage tank, and an outer cover group detachably covered on the base, the outer cover group includes a base located in the water storage tank The upper part is provided with the feeding trough, the at least one water supply hole and the at least one return hole upper cover, and a filter installed on the upper cover and used for filtering water flowing into the water storage tank from the at least one return hole. The drinking water device according to claim 2, wherein the upper cover of the outer cover group includes a cover body portion having the feeding trough, the at least one water supply hole and the at least one return hole, and a cover body portion from the cover body portion The water storage tank extends and connects the at least one water supply hole and the connecting pipe portion of the pump unit. The drinking water device according to claim 3, wherein the filter of the outer cover group includes a supporting shell placed on the top side of the base and for the cover body portion of the upper cover to be superposed thereon, and a sandwich A filter piece for filtering water flowing out of the at least one return hole between the support shell and the cover body part, the support shell has a set of set holes set in the connecting pipe part, and a plurality of A return hole communicates and is used to discharge the water filtered by the filter to the discharge hole of the water storage tank. The drinking water device according to claim 4, wherein the outer cover group further includes a shunt detachably connected to the upper cover of the outer cover group, the shunt includes a at least one inserted in the cover body A water supply hole and a water supply pipe portion communicating with the connecting pipe portion, and a diverter head connected to the top of the water supply pipe portion and used for flowing out the water from the water supply pipe portion. The drinking water device according to claim 3, wherein the upper cover of the outer cover group is provided on the top side of the base, the filter is located between the at least one return hole and the water storage tank, and is detachably installed on The bottom side of the upper cover. The drinking water device according to claim 3, wherein the pump unit includes a pump installed between the base and the outer cover group and connecting the connecting pipe portion of the upper cover and the water storage tank, and a pump connected to the A filter cotton that is pumped and used to filter the water flowing into the pump from the water storage tank. The drinking water device according to any one of claims 1 to 4, further comprising a control unit provided on the base, the control unit includes a sensing module for generating a pair of sensing signals corresponding to the water level of the water storage tank , And a control module that controls the pump unit to be powered off when a signal is connected to the sensing module and can analyze the sensing signal to determine that the water level of the water storage tank is lower than a low water level value. The drinking water device of claim 8, wherein the sensing module of the control unit includes a magnetic floating element for floating in the water of the water storage tank, and a magnetic field change that can sense the floating element And corresponding to the magnetic field sensing element that generates the sensing signal. The drinking water device according to claim 9, wherein the control unit further includes a warning module embedded and exposed on the base, the warning module signal is connected to the control module, and the pump is controlled by the control module When the pump unit is powered off, it is simultaneously controlled to emit light.

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