CN119896174A

CN119896174A - An intelligent pet toilet

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Publication number: CN119896174A
Application number: CN202510323118.6A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 施其球
Original assignee: Hefei Cat Intelligent Manufacturing Co ltd
Current assignee: Hefei Cat Intelligent Manufacturing Co ltd
Priority date: 2025-03-19
Filing date: 2025-03-19
Publication date: 2025-04-29

Abstract

The invention discloses an intelligent pet toilet in the technical field of pet supplies, which comprises a support, wherein a bin body and a driving assembly for driving the bin body to rotate on the support are arranged on the support, a drain outlet is arranged on the side wall of the bin body, a discharge outlet is arranged at the bottom of the support, a photoelectric sensor and a controller are arranged on the support, the photoelectric sensor comprises a transmitting end and a detecting end which are respectively positioned at two sides of the bin body, and a plurality of holes are formed in the side wall of the bin body.

Description

Intelligent pet toilet

Technical Field

The invention relates to the technical field of pet supplies, in particular to an intelligent pet toilet.

Background

The pet toilet is a special excrement tool for pets, is used for providing convenient places for the pets, is convenient for owners to intensively process pet excrement, is widely popularized along with popularization of pet feeding and improvement of household environmental sanitation requirements of people, and is gradually introduced into automatic design for improving convenience and sanitation of the pet toilet, for example, a motor drives a basin bin filled with excrement to rotate to a preset position, a discharge port of the basin bin faces downwards, the excrement in the basin bin is moved out of the discharge port by utilizing the action of gravity, so that automatic cleaning is realized, however, equipment lacks facilities for accurately positioning the basin bin, the motor drives the basin bin to rotate after the pets are detected to move out of the basin bin, if the basin bin rotates according to the preset distance, the basin bin cannot accurately reach the preset position to discharge the excrement when an automatic cleaning program is executed, even the basin bin can cross the preset position, the problem of incomplete cleaning or equipment failure is caused, inconvenience and the increase of maintenance cost are brought to users.

Disclosure of Invention

The invention aims to provide an intelligent pet toilet, which aims to solve the problems that the equipment provided in the background technology lacks a facility for accurately positioning a basin bin, and the distance of a motor driving the basin bin to rotate after detecting that a pet moves out of the basin bin is fixed, so that the basin bin can not accurately reach a preset position to discharge excrement and urine, and even can cross the preset position.

The intelligent pet toilet comprises a support, wherein the support is provided with a bin body and a driving assembly for driving the bin body to rotate on the support;

a drain outlet is arranged on the side wall of the bin body, and a discharge outlet is arranged at the bottom of the support;

The support is provided with a photoelectric sensor and a controller, the photoelectric sensor comprises a transmitting end and a detecting end which are respectively positioned at two sides of the bin body, the side wall of the bin body is provided with a plurality of openings, and the openings are used for allowing light beams transmitted by the transmitting end to pass through the bin body and irradiate on the detecting end; the controller is used for controlling the driving assembly to work when the photoelectric sensor detects that the pet goes out of the bin body, and the controller is also used for controlling the driving assembly to stop working when the photoelectric sensor detects that the bin body rotates to a preset position, so that the sewage drain is aligned with the discharge port to perform defecation or reset the bin body.

Preferably, the bin body is communicated with a water supply assembly, and the controller is used for controlling the water supply assembly to flush the bin body when the photoelectric sensor detects that the excrement is discharged from the sewage outlet.

Preferably, the bin body is internally provided with a partition plate, the partition plate divides the inner cavity of the bin body into a garbage cavity and a discharge cavity, the garbage cavity and the discharge cavity are distributed up and down, the garbage cavity is communicated with a sewage outlet, a filter screen is arranged in the discharge cavity, the inner cavity of the discharge cavity is divided into a placing cavity and a temporary storage cavity by the filter screen, and an opening for communicating the placing cavity with the garbage cavity is formed in the partition plate.

Preferably, the garbage cavity is internally provided with a garbage bag sleeved on the opening, and the garbage cavity is hinged with a pressing plate for pressing an inlet of the garbage bag.

Preferably, a baffle is detachably arranged in the placing cavity, and the baffle is used for separating the placing cavity from the temporary storage cavity.

Preferably, the support comprises a base and two brackets detachably arranged on the base, and the photoelectric sensor, the controller and the driving assembly are arranged on the brackets.

Preferably, one side of each bracket, which is close to the other side, is provided with an arc-shaped supporting seat, and the driving assembly comprises driving equipment, a driving gear arranged on an output shaft of the driving equipment, a bearing and an arc-shaped rack;

the two bearings are respectively supported by the two supporting seats, and the arc-shaped racks are arranged on the side wall of the bin body and meshed with the driving gear.

Preferably, a cleaning assembly is arranged at the bottom of the support seat so as to receive the excrement discharged by the discharge port.

Preferably, the cleaning component comprises a collecting box which is detachably arranged at the bottom of the support, a water inlet is formed in one side of the collecting box, a water outlet is formed in the other side of the collecting box, the bottom of an inner cavity of the collecting box is inclined from the water inlet to the water outlet, and a crushing component is arranged in the collecting box.

Preferably, the bottom of the support is detachably provided with a roller.

Compared with the prior art, the invention has the beneficial effects that:

1. The light beams emitted by the emitting end of the photoelectric sensor can irradiate the detecting end through the plurality of holes arranged above the side wall of the bin body, and the controller can accurately judge the position of the bin body during movement through the holes arranged at different positions, so that the control accuracy is improved, the condition that the bin body is out of position or not in place is avoided, the normal discharge of excrement is ensured, and the normal operation of the pet toilet is ensured;

2. The bearing is held through the supporting seat, the bin body is installed between two brackets, no fixed connection exists between the two brackets and the bin body, so that the bin body can be directly taken down from the two brackets upwards, no electrical equipment exists on the bin body, the bin body is conveniently cleaned, the electrical equipment is concentrated in the bracket, the whole volume of the equipment is reduced, the base and the bracket can be detached, and the bracket is only required to be taken down for maintenance during maintenance, and the maintenance is also more convenient due to the small size of the bracket.

Drawings

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of the intelligent pet litter box of the invention;

FIG. 2 is a schematic view of the connection structure of the support and the roller;

FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram of the connection structure between the support and the photoelectric sensor according to the present invention;

FIG. 4 is a schematic cross-sectional view of the cartridge body of the present invention;

FIG. 5 is a schematic view of the connection structure of the bin body and the baffle plate of the invention;

FIG. 6 is a schematic diagram of the connection structure of the bin body and the filter screen;

FIG. 7 is a schematic view of the connection structure of the support and cleaning assembly of the present invention;

FIG. 8 is a schematic view of a cleaning assembly according to the present invention;

FIG. 9 is a schematic view of the connection structure of the base and the bracket according to the present invention;

FIG. 10 is a schematic view of a connection structure between a bracket and a support base according to the present invention;

FIG. 11 is a schematic diagram of the connection structure of the bracket and the controller according to the present invention.

1, A support, 101, a base, 102, a bracket, 2, a bin body, 201, a garbage cavity, 202, a discharge cavity, 2021, a placement cavity, 2022, a temporary storage cavity, 3, a water supply assembly, 4, a roller, 5, an opening, 6, a discharge port, 7, a driving device, 8, a photoelectric sensor, 9, a drain outlet, 10, a cover plate, 11, a partition plate, 12, a filter screen, 13, a baffle plate, 14, an opening, 15, a pressing plate, 16, an arc-shaped rack, 17, a bearing, 18, a cleaning assembly, 181, a collecting box, 182, a crushing assembly, 19, a driving gear, 20, a support seat, 21 and a controller.

Detailed Description

The following description of the embodiments of the present invention will be made clearly and completely with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which it is apparent that the embodiments described are only some embodiments of the present invention, but not all embodiments. All other embodiments, which can be made by those skilled in the art based on the embodiments of the invention without making any inventive effort, are intended to be within the scope of the invention.

Example 1

Referring to fig. 1, 2, 3 and 4, an intelligent pet toilet comprises a support 1, a bin body 2 is rotatably arranged on the support 1, a driving component is arranged on the support 1 and used for driving the bin body 2 to rotate on the support 1, a drain outlet 9 is formed in the arc-shaped side wall of the bin body 2 (the drain outlet 9 is positioned at the left top of the bin body 2 as shown in fig. 3 and 4), a drain outlet 6 is formed in the bottom of the support 1, a photoelectric sensor 8 and a controller 21 (such as a single chip microcomputer of a PLC) are arranged on the support 1, the photoelectric sensor 8 comprises a transmitting end and a detecting end, the transmitting end and the detecting end are respectively positioned on two sides of the bin body 2 (the transmitting end and the detecting end are respectively positioned on the front side and the rear side of the bin body 2 as shown in fig. 3), a plurality of holes 5 are formed in the two side walls of the bin body 2, light beams emitted by the transmitting end penetrate through the bin body 2 to irradiate the detecting end, and in turn, and in the process of rotating the bin body 2, the plurality of holes 5 pass through the photoelectric sensor 8.

It should be noted that, the four openings 5 are respectively marked as a first opening, a second opening, a third opening and a fourth opening according to the clockwise direction (the clockwise direction is shown in fig. 1 and 3), the first opening, the second opening and the third opening are all located below the side wall of the bin body 2, the first opening is located on the right side of the second opening, the third opening is located on the left side of the second opening, and the fourth opening is located above the side wall of the bin body 2 and near the drain 9; when the bin body 2 is arranged, the photoelectric sensor 8 corresponds to a second opening, when a pet enters the interior of the bin body 2 and goes to a toilet, the light beam of the emitting end irradiated to the detecting end is blocked, the controller 21 receives information that the pet enters the interior of the bin body 2, when the pet moves out of the bin body 2, the light beam of the emitting end is irradiated to the detecting end again through the second opening, the controller 21 controls the driving component to work, the bin body 2 is driven to rotate anticlockwise, the emitting end and the second opening are staggered, the light beam generated by the emitting end is blocked by the side wall of the bin body 2 until the emitting end is aligned with the fourth opening (the third opening plays a transitional effect), the light beam of the emitting end irradiates to the detecting end through the fourth opening, the controller 21 controls the driving component to stop working after receiving the information, the bin body 2 stops rotating, the drain outlet 9 is aligned downwards with the drain outlet 6, excrement in the bin body is discharged through the drain outlet 9 and the drain outlet 6 under the action of gravity, after the bin body 2 stays for a preset time (generally stays for 3 seconds), the controller 21 controls the bin body to rotate reversely to move in the opposite direction to the second opening (after the bin body moves in the clockwise direction), the controller 21 controls the driving assembly to stop working, so that the bin body 2 is reset.

It should be noted that the support 1 may be directly placed on the toilet bowl so that the excrement discharged from the discharge port 6 falls directly into the toilet bowl, and the support 1 may be placed above other collecting devices, so that the excrement discharged from the discharge port 6 is collected by the collecting devices.

In this embodiment, as a further optimized scheme, referring to fig. 1 and 3, the bin body 2 is communicated with a water supply assembly 3, the water supply assembly 3 comprises a water supply pipe and an electromagnetic valve arranged on the water supply pipe, the water supply pipe is communicated with external water supply equipment, when cat litter is not filled in the bin body 2 (the pet litter box can also be used as a dog litter box at this time), when the pet litter box is completely put on the inside of the bin body 2, the bin body 2 rotates, so that the excrement can shield a light beam emitted by an emitting end passing through the hole 5 when the excrement is discharged out of the bin body 2 through the drain hole 9, the excrement can be detected when the excrement passes through the drain hole 9 of the bin body 2, at this time, the controller 21 can control the electromagnetic valve to be opened, water is supplied to the inside of the bin body 2 through the water supply pipe, and the pet litter box is used for flushing the inside of the bin body 2.

In this embodiment, as a further optimized solution, referring to fig. 4, 5 and 6, a partition board 11 is installed in the inner cavity of the bin body 2, the partition board 11 is in an L shape, the partition board 11 divides the inner cavity of the bin body 2 into a garbage cavity 201 and a discharge cavity 202, the garbage cavity 201 and the discharge cavity 202 are distributed up and down, the garbage cavity 201 is communicated with the sewage drain 9, a filter screen 12 is arranged in the inner cavity of the discharge cavity 202, the filter screen 12 divides the inner cavity of the discharge cavity 202 into a placement cavity 2021 and a temporary storage cavity 2022, the placement cavity 2021 is located at the outer side of the temporary storage cavity 2022 (as shown in fig. 4, the placement cavity 2021 is located at the right side of the temporary storage cavity 2022), the temporary storage cavity 2022 is located below the garbage cavity 201, cat litter is installed in the placement cavity 2021, an opening 14 is formed in the side wall of the partition board 11, and the placement cavity 2021 is communicated with the garbage cavity 201 through the opening 14; when the cat finishes the toilet in the holding cavity 2021, the bin body 2 rotates anticlockwise, so that cat litter passes through the filter screen 12 and enters the temporary storage cavity 2022 for temporary storage, and faeces are blocked by the filter screen 12, when the bin body 2 continues to rotate and the drain outlet 9 faces downwards (at this time, the baffle 11 limits the cat litter in the temporary storage cavity 2022), the faeces enter the garbage cavity 201 from the opening 14 and are then discharged from the drain outlet 9 and the discharge outlet 6, and after the bin body 2 is reset, the cat litter flows back into the inner cavity of the holding cavity 2021 from the temporary storage cavity 2022.

It should be noted that, when the controller 21 controls the driving assembly to work and the bin body 2 cleaned with faeces rotates clockwise in the process of using cat litter inside the placing cavity 2021 of the bin body 2, the bin body 2 rotates until the emitting end of the photoelectric sensor 8 aligns with the first opening, then the controller 21 controls the driving assembly to work and the bin body 2 rotates anticlockwise until the emitting end of the photoelectric sensor 8 aligns with the second opening, at this time, the bin body 2 is reset, and the emitting end aligns with the first opening by controlling the rotation of the bin body 2, so that cat litter entering the temporary storage cavity 2022 can completely reflux inside the placing cavity 2021.

In this embodiment, as a further optimized scheme, referring to fig. 4, a garbage bag is sleeved on the opening 14, and is positioned at the inner side of the garbage cavity 201 for collecting the excrement discharged from the opening 14, so that the excrement discharged from the bin body 2 can also be collected by using the garbage bag, a pressing plate 15 is hinged in the inner cavity of the garbage cavity 201, the pressing plate 15 is used for pressing the inlet of the garbage bag, when the bin body 2 rotates anticlockwise to discharge the excrement, the pressing plate 15 rotates under the action of gravity and does not contact with the partition plate 11, the pressing of the garbage bag is released, the excrement normally enters the garbage bag, and when the bin body 2 rotates clockwise to reset, the pressing plate 15 rotates under the action of gravity to press and seal the upper opening of the garbage bag again, so as to prevent odor from escaping.

It should be noted that, referring to fig. 4, a cover plate 10 is mounted on the left side wall of the bin 2 in a clamping manner, and when the garbage bag is used to collect the excrement, the drain outlet 9 is covered by the cover plate 10.

In this embodiment, as a further optimized solution, referring to fig. 4 and 5, a baffle 13 (e.g. a clamping manner) is detachably disposed in the inner cavity of the placement cavity 2021, and the placement cavity 2021 is separated from the temporary storage cavity 2022 by using the baffle 13, so that when the bin body 2 rotates anticlockwise, cat litter in the placement cavity 2021 can be discharged through the opening 14, so that the cat litter replacement is more convenient.

In this embodiment, as a further optimized solution, referring to fig. 1,2, 3, 5, 9, 10 and 11, the support 1 includes a base 101 and two supports 102, slots are formed on two side walls of the support 1, and the two supports 102 are respectively inserted into the two slots (the supports 102 and the slots are connected by clamping); the two brackets 102 are provided with supporting seats 20 on one side close to each other, the supporting seats 20 are arc-shaped (semicircular), the driving assembly comprises driving equipment 7 (such as a motor), a driving gear 19 arranged on an output shaft of the driving equipment 7, a bearing 17 and an arc-shaped rack 16, the two bearings 17 are respectively arranged on two side walls of the bin body 2, the two bearings 17 are respectively supported by the two supporting seats 20, the arc-shaped rack 16 is arranged on the side walls of the bin body 2, the arc-shaped rack 16 and the bearing 17 are concentric, the arc-shaped rack 16 is positioned above the driving gear 19 and meshed with each other, the photoelectric sensor 8, the controller 21 and the driving equipment 7 of the driving assembly are arranged in the brackets 102 (the brackets 102 are formed by clamping two parts of a shell and a shell cover), the bearing 17 is supported by the supporting seats 20, the bin body 2 is arranged between the two brackets 102, the two brackets 102 and the bin body 2 are not fixedly connected, the bin body 2 can be directly and upwards taken down from the two brackets 102, any equipment is not arranged on the bin body 2, the bin body 2 is convenient to clean, the photoelectric sensor 8, the controller 21 and the driving equipment 7 of the driving assembly are clamped by the brackets 102, the whole body 102 is required to be overhauled, the size of the brackets 102 is reduced, and the whole size of the electric sensor 102 is required to be overhauled, and the whole size is reduced when the brackets 102 are required to be overhauled, the repair of the return factory is also more convenient.

In this embodiment, as a further optimized scheme, the bottom of the support 1 is detachably provided with the roller 4 (for example, the roller 4 is fixed on the support 1 through bolts), and the pet toilet is convenient to move by installing the roller 4 at the bottom of the support 1.

Example 2

As a further optimized solution of the embodiment 1, referring to fig. 6,7 and 8, the bottom of the support 1 is provided with a cleaning assembly 18, the cleaning assembly 18 includes a collecting box 181, the collecting box 181 is open above, the collecting box 181 is detachably provided at the bottom of the support 1 (such as a clamping connection or a screw fixation), one side of the collecting box 181 is provided with a water inlet, the water inlet is provided with an electromagnetic valve, the water inlet is connected with an external water pipe, the other side of the collecting box 181 is provided with a water outlet, the water outlet can be connected with a toilet, the bottom of the inner cavity of the collecting box 181 is inclined from the water inlet to the water outlet, so that the feces inside the collecting box 181 can move to the water outlet conveniently, a crushing assembly 182 is provided in the inner cavity of the collecting box 181, the crushing assembly 182 is located at the water outlet of the collecting box 181, the crushing assembly 182 includes a motor and a blade mounted on the output shaft of the motor, after the controller 21 receives the feces and discharges the feces inside the collecting box 181, the controller 21 controls the electromagnetic valve of the water inlet to be opened, so that the water is flushed into the inside the collecting box 181, the feces which falls into the inside the collecting box 181 and is discharged from the water outlet, and the feces is also controlled by the controller 21 to reduce the volume of the feces when the feces is discharged from the water outlet.

It should be noted that, when the cleaning assembly 18 is used, the pet litter box does not use a garbage bag to collect feces.

Although embodiments of the present invention have been shown and described, it will be understood by those skilled in the art that various changes, modifications, substitutions and alterations can be made therein without departing from the principles and spirit of the invention, the scope of which is defined in the appended claims and their equivalents.

Claims

1. An intelligent pet toilet, characterized in that it comprises: a support (1), on which a bin body (2) and a driving assembly for driving the bin body (2) to rotate on the support (1) are arranged;

A sewage outlet (9) is provided on the side wall of the bin body (2), and a discharge outlet (6) is provided at the bottom of the support (1);

The support (1) is provided with a photoelectric sensor (8) and a controller (21), wherein the photoelectric sensor (8) comprises a transmitting end and a detecting end respectively located on both sides of the warehouse body (2), and a plurality of openings (5) are provided on the side wall of the warehouse body (2), wherein the openings (5) are used for allowing a light beam emitted by the transmitting end to pass through the warehouse body (2) and illuminate the detecting end; the controller (21) is used for controlling the driving component to work when the photoelectric sensor (8) detects that the pet has gone out of the warehouse body (2), and the controller (21) is also used for controlling the driving component to stop working when the photoelectric sensor (8) detects that the warehouse body (2) has rotated to a predetermined position, so that the sewage outlet (9) is aligned with the discharge outlet (6) for defecation or the warehouse body (2) is reset.

2. An intelligent pet toilet according to claim 1, characterized in that: the bin body (2) is connected to a water supply component (3), and the controller (21) is used to control the water supply component (3) to flush the bin body (2) when the photoelectric sensor (8) detects that feces is discharged from the sewage outlet (9).

3. An intelligent pet toilet according to claim 1, characterized in that: a partition (11) is provided in the warehouse body (2), and the partition (11) divides the inner cavity of the warehouse body (2) into a garbage cavity (201) and a discharge cavity (202), the garbage cavity (201) and the discharge cavity (202) are distributed up and down, the garbage cavity (201) is connected with the sewage outlet (9), and a filter net (12) is provided in the discharge cavity (202), and the filter net (12) divides the inner cavity of the discharge cavity (202) into a placement cavity (2021) and a temporary storage cavity (2022), and an opening (14) is provided on the partition (11) for connecting the placement cavity (2021) and the garbage cavity (201).

4. An intelligent pet toilet according to claim 3, characterized in that: a garbage bag for being put on the opening (14) is provided in the garbage chamber (201), and a pressure plate (15) for pressing the inlet of the garbage bag is hinged in the garbage chamber (201).

5. An intelligent pet toilet according to claim 3, characterized in that a baffle (13) is detachably provided in the placement cavity (2021), and the baffle (13) is used to separate the placement cavity (2021) from the temporary storage cavity (2022).

6. An intelligent pet toilet according to claim 1, characterized in that: the support (1) includes a base (101) and two brackets (102) detachably arranged on the base (101), and the photoelectric sensor (8), controller (21) and drive assembly are all arranged on the bracket (102).

7. An intelligent pet toilet according to claim 6, characterized in that: an arc-shaped support seat (20) is provided on the side where the two brackets (102) are close to each other, and the driving assembly comprises a driving device (7), a driving gear (19) provided on the output shaft of the driving device (7), a bearing (17) and an arc-shaped rack (16);

There are two bearings (17) which are respectively arranged on both sides of the bin body (2); the two bearings (17) are respectively supported by two support seats (20); the arc-shaped rack (16) is arranged on the side wall of the bin body (2) and meshes with the driving gear (19).

8. An intelligent pet toilet according to claim 1, characterized in that a cleaning component (18) is provided at the bottom of the support (1) to receive feces discharged from the discharge port (6).

9. An intelligent pet toilet according to claim 8, characterized in that: the cleaning component (18) includes a collection box (181) detachably arranged at the bottom of the support (1), a water inlet is arranged on one side of the collection box (181), and a water outlet is arranged on the other side of the collection box (181), the bottom of the inner cavity of the collection box (181) is inclined from the water inlet to the water outlet, and a crushing component (182) is arranged in the collection box (181).

10. An intelligent pet toilet according to claim 1, characterized in that: a roller (4) is detachably provided at the bottom of the support (1).