Water softener and dish washing machine
By designing the diffusion mechanism in the floppy water heater, the combination of the diversion blades and the diffusion cone portion has improved the solubility efficiency of salt particles, solved the problem of low salt solubility efficiency of existing floppy water heater, and significantly improved salt. Solubility rate and experience.
Patent Information
- Application Number
- CN202420437713.3
- Authority / Receiving Office
- CN · China
- Patent Type
- Utility models(China)
- Current Assignee / Owner
- Filing Date
- 2024-03-07
- Publication Date
- 2025-01-28
- Estimated Expiration
- 2034-03-07
AI Technical Summary
When there is too much salt addition, the salt dissolution efficiency of existing water softeners is poor, resulting in a large difference between the brine concentration detection and the actual concentration, which increases the frequency and risk of salt addition.
Design a kind of watercraft, including the shell, funnel and diffusion mechanism. One end of the funnel corresponds to the salt port, and the other end has a salt pores connecting to the salt mouth and salt cavity. The diffusion agencies include rotating shafts, diversion blades, and diffusion cone parts. The diversion blades rotate along the Zhou direction of the rotary shaft. The salt particles are scattered through the diffusion cone to a farther position from the salt hole axis to avoid accumulation to form salt blocks.
By increasing the initial speed and diffusion uniformity of salt particles, the dissolution rate of salt particles is significantly improved, the risk of the frequency of salt and salt stacking is reduced, and the experience is increased.
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Abstract
Description
Technical Field
[0001] The present application relates to the technical field of kitchenware, and in particular to a water softener and a dishwasher. Background Art
[0002] At present, dishwashers are often equipped with water softeners to soften water. The softened water is passed into the inner tank of the dishwasher for cleaning, which can not only improve the cleaning effect, but also reduce the probability of scaling in the inner tank. The water softener usually absorbs calcium and magnesium ions in the water through the internal resin, thereby reducing the hardness of the water. When the resin adsorption reaches saturation, it is necessary to replace the calcium and magnesium ions adsorbed by the resin with salt water to restore the adsorption capacity of the resin.
[0003] In the traditional structure, the water softener has high requirements for the amount of salt added to the internal salt chamber. If less salt is added, less calcium and magnesium ions can be replaced, causing the resin to reach saturation again in a shorter time, making the salt addition operation frequent. If too much salt is added, due to the slow dissolution rate of salt, the added salt is easy to accumulate into blocks, resulting in a large difference between the detected salt water concentration and the actual achievable concentration, which will cause the salt shortage indicator in the water softener to be always on, and there is a risk of users adding more salt, which reduces the user experience. Utility Model Content
[0004] Based on this, it is necessary to provide a water softener and a dishwasher to solve the problem that when too much salt is added to the existing water softener, the salt dissolution efficiency is poor.
[0005] The present application provides a water softener, which includes a shell, a funnel and a diffusion mechanism, wherein the shell is provided with a salt cavity and a salt inlet connected to the salt cavity; the funnel is arranged in the salt cavity, and one end of the funnel is arranged corresponding to the salt inlet and connected to the shell, and the other end is provided with a salt drop hole connected to the salt inlet and the salt cavity; the diffusion mechanism includes a rotating shaft, a guide blade and a diffusion cone, wherein the guide blade is arranged on a side of the diffusion cone close to the salt drop hole, and the guide blade and the diffusion cone are both connected to the rotating shaft and rotatably connected to the inner wall of the salt cavity through the rotating shaft; wherein the guide blade and the salt drop hole are arranged correspondingly, and the cross-section of the diffusion cone gradually increases along the axial direction of the rotating shaft and in the direction from the salt inlet to the salt drop hole.
[0006] In one embodiment, the water softener further comprises a sleeve, which is sleeved on the peripheral side of the guide blade and cooperates with the guide blade along the circumferential direction of the rotating shaft, and one end of the sleeve is connected to the funnel, and the other end is spaced apart from the diffusion cone. It can be understood that such a configuration effectively ensures the initial velocity of the salt particles, thereby improving the dissolution effect of the salt particles.
[0007] In one embodiment, the inner diameter of the salt drop hole is smaller than the inner diameter of the sleeve. It is understandable that such a configuration prevents the salt particles from directly falling and accumulating from the gap between the guide vane and the sleeve, thereby further improving the dissolution rate of the salt particles.
[0008] In one embodiment, the funnel and the sleeve are an integrally formed structure. It is understandable that such a configuration can improve the connection strength between the funnel and the sleeve, and can reduce the assembly steps of the funnel and the sleeve, thereby shortening the assembly time.
[0009] In one embodiment, the water softener further comprises a driving mechanism, which is connected to the housing and is in driving connection with the rotating shaft. It is understandable that such a configuration can further increase the rotation speed of the guide vanes and the diffusion cone, and accelerate the dissolution of the salt particles.
[0010] In one embodiment, the driving mechanism includes a driving motor, a driving shaft and a first bevel gear, wherein the driving motor is arranged outside the salt chamber and connected to the housing, and the driving motor is connected to the first bevel gear via the driving shaft; the rotating shaft is provided with a second bevel gear corresponding to the first bevel gear, and the first bevel gear and the second bevel gear are matched in transmission. It can be understood that, with such a configuration, the driving mechanism and the diffusion mechanism are simple to match as a whole, which can not only ensure the diffusion effect of the diffusion mechanism on the salt particles, but also reduce the transmission cost.
[0011] In one embodiment, the water softener further includes a stirring disk, which is rotatably connected to the inner wall of the salt chamber; the diffusion mechanism further includes a toggle rod, which is connected to the circumference of the rotating shaft, and with the rotation of the rotating shaft, the rotating shaft can drive the toggle rod to rotate along the circumference of the rotating shaft, so that the toggle rod can toggle the stirring disk to rotate. It can be understood that such a configuration can accelerate the dissolution rate of salt particles in the salt chamber and reduce the rotation cost of the stirring disk.
[0012] In one embodiment, the number of the stirring discs is multiple, and the multiple stirring discs are arranged at intervals around the diffusion mechanism. It can be understood that such an arrangement can further accelerate the dissolution rate of the salt particles.
[0013] In one embodiment, the salt drop hole, the guide vane, the diffusion cone and the rotating shaft are coaxially arranged. It can be understood that such an arrangement can further improve the uniformity of salt particle diffusion.
[0014] The present application also provides a dishwasher, which includes the water softener described in any one of the above embodiments.
[0015] Compared with the prior art, the water softener and dishwasher provided by the present application, when salt particles are added to the water softener, the salt particles can slide down the funnel onto the guide blades, and the guide blades begin to rotate along the circumference of the rotating shaft due to the impact of the falling salt particles. It can be understood that the rotation of the guide blades can have a better separation effect on the salt particles, ensuring that the salt particles can slide to the diffusion cone in a relatively uniform distribution state, and making the salt particles have a certain initial velocity of circular motion, and finally, the salt particles are scattered through the conical surface of the diffusion cone. In this way, the salt particles can diffuse to a position farther from the axis of the salt drop hole, avoiding the salt particles from accumulating directly below the salt drop hole to form salt blocks, thereby effectively ensuring the solubility of the salt particles and greatly improving the dissolution rate of the salt particles. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
[0016] In order to more clearly illustrate the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present application or the conventional technology, the drawings required for use in the embodiments or the conventional technology descriptions are briefly introduced below. Obviously, the drawings described below are only some embodiments of the present application. For ordinary technicians in this field, other drawings can be obtained based on these drawings without creative work.
[0017] Figure 1 A schematic diagram of the structure of a water softener according to an embodiment of the present application;
[0018] Figure 2 A cross-sectional view of a water softener according to an embodiment of the present application;
[0019] Figure 3 A schematic diagram of the cooperation between the driving mechanism and the diffusion mechanism of an embodiment provided in the present application;
[0020] Figure 4 A cross-sectional view of a diffusion mechanism according to an embodiment of the present application.
[0021] The symbols in the figure mean the following:
[0022] 100, water softener; 10, housing; 101, salt chamber; 102, salt inlet; 103, resin chamber; 20, funnel; 201, salt drop hole; 30, diffusion mechanism; 31, rotating shaft; 32, guide blade; 33, diffusion cone; 34, second bevel gear; 35, toggle lever; 36, guide cone; 40, sleeve; 50, driving mechanism; 51, driving motor; 52, driving shaft; 53, first bevel gear; 60, stirring plate. DETAILED DESCRIPTION
[0023] In order to make the above-mentioned purposes, features and advantages of the present application more obvious and easy to understand, the specific implementation methods of the present application are described in detail below in conjunction with the accompanying drawings. In the following description, many specific details are set forth to facilitate a full understanding of the present application. However, the present application can be implemented in many other ways different from those described herein, and those skilled in the art can make similar improvements without violating the connotation of the present application, so the present application is not limited by the specific embodiments disclosed below.
[0024] It should be noted that when a component is referred to as being "fixed to" or "disposed on" another component, it may be directly on the other component or there may also be a central component. When a component is considered to be "connected to" another component, it may be directly connected to the other component or there may be a central component at the same time. The terms "vertical", "horizontal", "upper", "lower", "left", "right" and similar expressions used in the specification of this application are for illustrative purposes only and do not represent the only implementation method.
[0025] In addition, the terms "first" and "second" are used for descriptive purposes only and should not be understood as indicating or implying relative importance or implicitly indicating the number of the indicated technical features. Therefore, the features defined as "first" and "second" may explicitly or implicitly include at least one of the features. In the description of this application, the meaning of "plurality" is at least two, such as two, three, etc., unless otherwise clearly and specifically defined.
[0026] In the present application, unless otherwise clearly specified and limited, a first feature being “above” or “below” a second feature may mean that the first feature is directly in contact with the second feature, or the first feature and the second feature are in contact indirectly through an intermediate medium. Moreover, a first feature being “above”, “above”, or “above” a second feature may mean that the first feature is directly above or obliquely above the second feature, or simply means that the first feature is higher in level than the second feature. A first feature being “below”, “below”, or “below” a second feature may mean that the first feature is directly below or obliquely below the second feature, or simply means that the first feature is lower in level than the second feature.
[0027] Unless otherwise defined, all technical and scientific terms used in the specification of this application have the same meaning as those commonly understood by those skilled in the art to which this application belongs. The terms used in the specification of this application are only for the purpose of describing specific embodiments and are not intended to limit this application. The term "and / or" used in the specification of this application includes any and all combinations of one or more related listed items.
[0028] At present, dishwashers are often equipped with water softeners to soften water. The softened water is passed into the inner tank of the dishwasher for cleaning, which can not only improve the cleaning effect, but also reduce the probability of scaling in the inner tank. The water softener usually absorbs calcium and magnesium ions in the water through the internal resin, thereby reducing the hardness of the water. When the resin adsorption reaches saturation, it is necessary to replace the calcium and magnesium ions adsorbed by the resin with salt water to restore the adsorption capacity of the resin.
[0029] In the traditional structure, the water softener has high requirements for the amount of salt added to the internal salt chamber. If less salt is added, less calcium and magnesium ions can be replaced, causing the resin to reach saturation again in a shorter time, making the salt addition operation frequent. If too much salt is added, due to the slow dissolution rate of salt, the added salt is easy to accumulate into blocks, resulting in a large difference between the detected salt water concentration and the actual achievable concentration, which will cause the salt shortage indicator in the water softener to be always on, and there is a risk of users adding more salt, which reduces the user experience.
[0030] See also Figure 1-Figure 4 In order to solve the problem that the dissolution efficiency of salt is poor when too much salt is added to the existing water softener, the present application provides a water softener 100. The water softener 100 is used in a dishwasher to soften the water for cleaning the inner tank of the dishwasher. Of course, the water softener 100 can also be used in other equipment that requires softened water, such as boilers.
[0031] Specifically, the water softener 100 includes a housing 10, which is provided with a resin chamber 103, a salt chamber 101, and a salt inlet 102 connected to the salt chamber 101. Figure 1 , Figure 1 The schematic diagram of the structure of the water softener 100 provided in the present application after the shell 10 is made transparent is used to clearly show the internal structure of the shell 10. The water softener 100 injects salt into the salt chamber 101 through the salt inlet 102, so that a salt water mixed medium is formed in the salt chamber 101, and the sodium ions in the salt water can be replaced with the calcium and magnesium ions adsorbed by the resin in the resin chamber 103, thereby restoring the adsorption function of the resin, thereby achieving softening of the water in the resin chamber 103.
[0032] Furthermore, the water softener 100 also includes a funnel 20 and a diffusion mechanism 30. The funnel 20 is arranged in the salt chamber 101, and one end of the funnel 20 is arranged corresponding to the salt inlet 102 and connected to the housing 10, and the other end is provided with a salt drop hole 201 connecting the salt inlet 102 and the salt chamber 101. The diffusion mechanism 30 includes a rotating shaft 31, a guide blade 32 and a diffusion cone 33, the guide blade 32 is arranged on one side of the diffusion cone 33 close to the salt drop hole 201, and the guide blade 32 and the diffusion cone 33 are both connected to the rotating shaft 31, and are rotatably connected to the inner wall of the salt chamber 101 through the rotating shaft 31. Among them, the guide blade 32 and the salt drop hole 201 are arranged correspondingly, and the cross section of the diffusion cone 33 gradually increases along the axial direction of the rotating shaft 31 and from the salt inlet 102 to the salt drop hole 201.
[0033] When salt particles are added to the water softener 100, the salt particles can slide down the funnel 20 onto the guide blades 32. Under the impact of the falling salt particles, the guide blades 32 begin to rotate along the circumference of the rotating shaft 31. It can be understood that the rotation of the guide blades 32 can have a good separation effect on the salt particles, ensuring that the salt particles can slide to the diffusion cone 33 in a relatively uniform distribution state, and making the salt particles have a certain initial velocity of circular motion. Finally, the salt particles are scattered through the conical surface of the diffusion cone 33. In this way, the salt particles can diffuse to a position farther from the axis of the salt drop hole 201, avoiding the salt particles from accumulating directly below the salt drop hole 201 to form salt blocks, thereby effectively ensuring the solubility of the salt particles and greatly improving the dissolution rate of the salt particles.
[0034] In order to further increase the initial velocity of the salt particles so as to make the salt particles disperse farther, in one embodiment, Figure 2 and Figure 3 As shown, the water softener 100 further includes a driving mechanism 50, which is connected to the housing 10 and is in transmission connection with the rotating shaft 31. The driving mechanism 50 can drive the rotating shaft 31 to rotate at a higher speed, thereby further increasing the rotation speed of the guide blades 32 and the diffusion cone 33, and accelerating the dissolution of salt particles.
[0035] Specifically, in one embodiment, the driving mechanism 50 includes a driving motor 51, a driving shaft 52, and a first bevel gear 53. The driving motor 51 is disposed outside the salt chamber 101 and connected to the housing 10, and the driving motor 51 is connected to the first bevel gear 53 via the driving shaft 52. The rotating shaft 31 is provided with a second bevel gear 34 corresponding to the first bevel gear 53, and the first bevel gear 53 and the second bevel gear 34 are in transmission cooperation.
[0036] The driving motor 51 drives the driving shaft 52 and the first bevel gear 53 to rotate, and the first bevel gear 53 and the second bevel gear 34 are meshed to realize the rotation of the second bevel gear 34 and the rotating shaft 31. In this way, the driving mechanism 50 and the diffusion mechanism 30 are simple to match as a whole, which can not only ensure the diffusion effect of the diffusion mechanism 30 on the salt particles, but also reduce the transmission cost. The speed of the driving motor 51 can be controlled according to actual needs to adjust the rotation rate of the rotating shaft 31, the guide vane 32 and the diffusion cone 33.
[0037] In one embodiment, the second bevel gear 34 , the rotating shaft 31 , the conical portion and the guide vane 32 are an integrally formed structure to improve the overall structural strength and the operating reliability of the device.
[0038] However, it is not limited thereto. In other embodiments, the second bevel gear 34, the rotating shaft 31, the conical portion and the guide vane 32 may also be separate structures and fixedly connected by welding or other methods.
[0039] In order to prevent the salt particles from falling to the guide blades 32 and being directly knocked away by the guide blades 32 when the speed of the guide blades 32 is too high, in one embodiment, Figure 2-Figure 4 As shown, the water softener 100 also includes a sleeve 40, which is sleeved on the circumferential side of the guide blade 32 and cooperates with the guide blade 32 along the circumferential direction of the rotating shaft 31, and one end of the sleeve 40 is connected to the funnel 20, and the other end is spaced apart from the diffusion cone 33.
[0040] It is understandable that the sleeve 40 can limit the movement of the salt particles, thereby ensuring that the salt particles can slide smoothly through the preset path formed by the guide blades 32, thereby effectively ensuring the initial velocity of the salt particles, thereby improving the dissolution effect of the salt particles.
[0041] Specifically, in one embodiment, the funnel 20 and the sleeve 40 are integrally formed, so that the connection strength between the funnel 20 and the sleeve 40 can be improved, and the assembly steps of the funnel 20 and the sleeve 40 can be reduced, thereby shortening the assembly time.
[0042] Of course, in other embodiments, the funnel 20 and the sleeve 40 may also be separate structures and fixedly connected by welding or the like.
[0043] Furthermore, in one embodiment, the inner diameter of the salt drop hole 201 is smaller than the inner diameter of the sleeve 40. In this way, it can be ensured that the salt particles falling from the salt drop hole 201 onto the guide blade 32 can better move along the preset path formed by the guide blade 32, avoiding the direct accumulation of salt particles from the gap between the guide blade 32 and the sleeve 40, thereby further improving the dissolution rate of the salt particles.
[0044] Furthermore, in one embodiment, the salt drop hole 201, the guide blade 32, the diffusion cone 33 and the rotating shaft 31 are coaxially arranged, so that the uniformity of the diffusion of the salt particles can be further improved.
[0045] In one embodiment, the diffusion mechanism 30 further includes a guide cone 36, which is connected to one end of the guide blade 32 close to the salt drop hole 201. The guide cone 36 can better divert the salt particles and improve the uniformity of the distribution of the salt particles on the guide blade 32.
[0046] In one embodiment, if Figure 1 and Figure 2 As shown, the water softener 100 further includes a stirring disk 60, which is rotatably connected to the inner wall of the salt chamber 101. The diffusion mechanism 30 further includes a toggle rod 35, which is connected to the circumference of the rotating shaft 31, and with the rotation of the rotating shaft 31, the rotating shaft 31 can drive the toggle rod 35 to rotate along the circumference of the rotating shaft 31, so that the toggle rod 35 can toggle the stirring disk 60 to rotate.
[0047] The rotation of the stirring disk 60 can accelerate the dissolution rate of the salt particles in the salt chamber 101. In addition, the driving force for the rotation of the stirring disk 60 comes from the rotating shaft 31 and the toggle rod 35, that is, there is no need to separately set a mechanism for controlling the rotation of the stirring disk 60, thereby reducing the rotation cost of the stirring disk 60.
[0048] Furthermore, in one embodiment, there are a plurality of stirring discs 60, and the plurality of stirring discs 60 are disposed at intervals around the diffusion mechanism 30. In this way, the dissolution rate of the salt particles can be further accelerated.
[0049] Specifically, the number of the stirring discs 60 can be two, three, four or more, etc., as long as they can be rotated in coordination with the toggle rod 35. In this application, four stirring discs 60 are preferably provided.
[0050] The present application also provides a dishwasher, which includes the water softener 100 described in any one of the above embodiments.
[0051] The technical features of the above-described embodiments may be arbitrarily combined. To make the description concise, not all possible combinations of the technical features in the above-described embodiments are described. However, as long as there is no contradiction in the combination of these technical features, they should be considered to be within the scope of this specification.
[0052] The above-described embodiments only express several implementation methods of the present application, and the descriptions thereof are relatively specific and detailed, but they cannot be understood as limiting the scope of the patent application. It should be pointed out that, for a person of ordinary skill in the art, several variations and improvements can be made without departing from the concept of the present application, and these all belong to the protection scope of the present application. Therefore, the scope of patent protection of the present application shall be subject to the attached claims.
Claims
1. A water softener, characterized in that: The invention comprises a shell (10), a funnel (20) and a diffusion mechanism (30); the shell (10) is provided with a salt chamber (101) and a salt inlet (102) connected to the salt chamber (101); The funnel (20) is arranged in the salt chamber (101), and one end of the funnel (20) is arranged corresponding to the salt inlet (102) and connected to the housing (10), and the other end is provided with a salt drop hole (201) connecting the salt inlet (102) and the salt chamber (101); The diffusion mechanism (30) comprises a rotating shaft (31), a guide blade (32) and a diffusion cone (33), wherein the guide blade (32) is arranged on a side of the diffusion cone (33) close to the salt falling hole (201), and the guide blade (32) and the diffusion cone (33) are both connected to the rotating shaft (31), and are rotatably connected to the inner wall of the salt chamber (101) through the rotating shaft (31); The guide blades (32) and the salt drop holes (201) are arranged correspondingly, and along the axial direction of the rotating shaft (31) and in the direction from the salt inlet (102) to the salt drop holes (201), the cross section of the diffusion cone (33) gradually increases.
2. The water softener according to claim 1, characterized in that: The water softener further comprises a sleeve (40), the sleeve (40) being sleeved on the circumferential side of the guide blade (32) and being movably matched with the guide blade (32) along the circumferential direction of the rotating shaft (31), and one end of the sleeve (40) being connected to the funnel (20) and the other end being spaced apart from the diffusion cone (33).
3. The water softener according to claim 2, characterized in that: The inner diameter of the salt drop hole (201) is smaller than the inner diameter of the sleeve (40).
4. The water softener according to claim 2, characterized in that: The funnel (20) and the sleeve (40) are an integrally formed structure.
5. The water softener according to claim 1, characterized in that: The water softener further comprises a driving mechanism (50), wherein the driving mechanism (50) is connected to the housing (10) and is transmission-connected to the rotating shaft (31).
6. The water softener according to claim 5, characterized in that: The driving mechanism (50) comprises a driving motor (51), a driving shaft (52) and a first bevel gear (53); the driving motor (51) is arranged outside the salt chamber (101) and connected to the housing (10); and the driving motor (51) is connected to the first bevel gear (53) via the driving shaft (52); The rotating shaft (31) is provided with a second bevel gear (34) corresponding to the first bevel gear (53), and the first bevel gear (53) and the second bevel gear (34) are in transmission cooperation.
7. The water softener according to claim 1, characterized in that: The water softener further comprises a stirring disk (60), wherein the stirring disk (60) is rotatably connected to the inner wall of the salt chamber (101); The diffusion mechanism (30) further comprises a toggle rod (35), wherein the toggle rod (35) is connected to the circumferential side of the rotating shaft (31), and as the rotating shaft (31) rotates, the rotating shaft (31) can drive the toggle rod (35) to rotate along the circumferential direction of the rotating shaft (31), so that the toggle rod (35) can toggle the stirring disc (60) to rotate.
8. The water softener according to claim 7, characterized in that: The number of the stirring discs (60) is plural, and the plurality of stirring discs (60) are arranged at intervals on the circumference of the diffusion mechanism (30).
9. The water softener according to claim 1, characterized in that: The salt drop hole (201), the guide blade (32), the diffusion cone (33) and the rotating shaft (31) are coaxially arranged.
10. A dishwasher, characterized in that: It comprises a water softener as described in any one of claims 1 to 9.