Intelligent cat litter box
By introducing a odor cleaner into the smart cat litter box and spraying the odor spray into the toilet area and the toilet storage compartment, the problem of inability to effectively remove the odor of the cat litter box in the existing technology is solved, and efficient odor cleansing and optimized user experience is achieved.
Patent Information
- Application Number
- CN202421794228.8
- Authority / Receiving Office
- CN · China
- Patent Type
- Utility models(China)
- Current Assignee / Owner
- Filing Date
- 2024-07-26
- Publication Date
- 2025-06-03
- Estimated Expiration
- 2034-07-26
AI Technical Summary
When cleaning pet cat litter box, the prior art cannot effectively remove the odor in the toilet storage compartment, and the deodorizing device for automatically cleaning the cat litter box has a great impact on the toilet area and affects pet health.
A smart cat litter box is designed, which contains a odor cleaner. The odor cleansing spray is sprayed into the toilet area and toilet storage chamber through the nozzle, and sprays it in a targeted manner according to the control logic, so as to effectively clean the odor and avoid affecting the health of the pet.
It realizes efficient odor cleaning of the toilet warehouse, avoids the impact of the deodorizer on the toilet area, improves the user experience, and ensures the health of the pet.
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Abstract
Description
Technical Field
[0001] The utility model relates to the technical field of pet equipment, in particular to an intelligent cat litter box. Background Art
[0002] The cat litter box of the utility model generally refers to a device for collecting excreta of pets such as cats and dogs. When the cat litter is contaminated by the excreta of pets, it will agglomerate into blocks. The operation of cleaning the cat litter includes separating the clean cat litter from the contaminated agglomerated cat litter, discarding the agglomerated cat litter, and recycling the clean cat litter for reuse; it also includes replacing all the used cat litter when the amount of clean cat litter is insufficient or the time is too long.
[0003] The workload of the cat litter cleaning operation is large, and the user experience of manual cleaning of cat litter is poor. There are some cat litter boxes on the market that automatically clean the cat litter, which reduces the workload of manual cleaning. Although the used agglomerated cat litter is separated into the feces collection bin, the recycled cat litter still has the smell of excreta remaining. The solution in the prior art is to place a solid air freshener in the cat litter bin and use the volatilization characteristics of the solid air freshener to reduce the influence of the smell.
[0004] However, the disadvantages of this method are as follows: First, placing the air freshener in the cat litter bin occupies the space in the bin. Second, the abrupt air freshener in the toilet space is likely to attract the attention of pets, causing pets to often get close to smell and even lick it, which is not good for the health of pets. In addition, the feces collection bin is the main source of the smell. Although automatic cat litter boxes generally include a feces collection bin sealing device, when cleaning the process, the collection bin has to be opened, and the smell will inevitably spread. Since the feces collection bin is a space for storing excreta, it is not operable to use an air freshener to remove the smell. Therefore, there is no solution for deodorizing the feces collection bin in the prior art. Summary of the Utility Model
[0005] In view of the above-mentioned disadvantages of the prior art, the purpose of the utility model is to provide an intelligent cat litter box, including: a base, a cat litter bin, a driving motor, a control module and an odor purifier; a feces collection bin is arranged inside the base, and the feces collection bin includes an opening; the cat litter bin is fixed on the base through a bracket and is located above the feces collection bin; the inside of the cat litter bin includes a toilet area; a filter screen and an inner wall are arranged on one side above the toilet area, and the inner wall and the inner side of the outer wall of the cat litter bin enclose a separation bin; driven mechanisms are also arranged on both sides of the outer wall; the control module can send start and stop instructions to the driving motor according to a preset program; when the driving motor starts, it can drive the cat litter bin to rotate in a first direction and a second direction through the driven mechanisms, so that the cat litter bin can be switched between a first position and a second position; the odor purifier includes a first nozzle, and the first nozzle passes through the outer wall and extends into the toilet area.
[0006] Preferably, in the above intelligent cat litter box, the odor purifier further includes a second nozzle, and the second nozzle extends into the feces collection bin.
[0007] The intelligent cat litter box of the present invention avoids the influence of the odor removal device in the prior art on the toilet area, and can spray the spray targeted according to the control logic, so as to purify the odor more efficiently. Finally, according to the preferred embodiment, the feces collection bin can also be deodorized, and the cleaning of the collection bin will not be affected at all, so it has high practical value. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
[0008] Figure 1 is a perspective view of an embodiment of the present invention;
[0009] Figure 2 is Figure 1 a schematic diagram of the internal structure of the embodiment from the first perspective after removing the outer shell;
[0010] Figure 3 is Figure 1 a perspective view of the cat litter bin in the embodiment;
[0011] Figure 4 is a cross-sectional view of the cat litter bin when it is in the first position;
[0012] Figure 5 is a cross-sectional view of the cat litter bin when it is in the second position;
[0013] Figure 6 is Figure 1 a schematic diagram of the internal structure of the embodiment from the second perspective after removing the outer shell;
[0014] Figure 7 is a cross-sectional view along the longitudinal direction of the odor purifier. DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE EMBODIMENTS
[0015] The following specific examples illustrate the embodiments of the present invention. Those skilled in the art can easily understand other advantages and effects of the present invention from the content disclosed in this specification. The present invention can also be implemented or applied through other different specific embodiments, and various details in this specification can also be modified or changed based on different viewpoints and applications without departing from the spirit of the present invention.
[0016] Please refer to the attached drawings below. It should be noted that the illustrations provided in this embodiment only schematically illustrate the basic concept of the present utility model. Therefore, only the components related to the present utility model are shown in the drawings, rather than being drawn according to the number, shape, and size of the components in actual implementation. The type, quantity, and proportion of each component in actual implementation can be arbitrarily changed, and the component layout type may also be more complex. Unless otherwise specified, the words indicating directions such as "up", "down", "left", and "right" used in the text are referenced from the perspective of the observer of the drawings.
[0017] Figure 1 The following shows a perspective view of an embodiment of the present utility model. Figure 2 is Figure 1 a schematic internal structure diagram of the embodiment after removing the outer shell. The intelligent cat litter box of the present utility model includes a base 1, and a cat litter bin 2 is fixed on the base 1 through a bracket 3. A feces collection bin 4 is arranged inside the base 1. Among them, the cat litter bin 2 is the pet toilet area. The entire cat litter bin 2 is encapsulated by an outer shell 5. In addition, a drive motor and a control module 7 are also encapsulated inside the outer shell 5. An exit for the pet to enter and exit is also provided on the outer shell 5. The following combines Figures 2 to 4 to detail the structure and working principle of the present utility model.
[0018] Figure 3 The following shows a perspective view of the cat litter bin 2 in the first embodiment. Figure 4 and 5 is a cross-sectional view of the cat litter box, where Figure 4 the cat litter bin 2 is in the first position, Figure 5 and in the figure the cat litter bin is in the second position. The cat litter bin 2 includes a bin outer wall 21, and an internal space forms a toilet area 22. Clean cat litter is placed at the bottom of the toilet area 22. A filter screen 23 and an inner wall 24 are arranged on one side above the toilet area 22. Driven mechanisms 25 and 26 are also arranged on both sides of the outer wall 21. The driven mechanisms are connected to the drive motor. Under the action of the drive motor, the entire cat litter bin 2 is driven to rotate clockwise or counterclockwise (with Figure 4 as a reference), that is, it switches between the first position and the second position. Among them, the connection method between the drive motor and the driven mechanisms 25 and 26 is prior art and not the inventive point of the present utility model, so it will not be elaborated here. The inner wall 24 and the inner side of the outer wall 21 enclose a separation bin 27.
[0019] When the cat litter bin 2 is in the first position, the toilet area 22 is at the bottom, and the bottom is cat litter, so the pet can go to the toilet normally. After the pet has finished using the toilet, when the cleaning operation is required, the specific process is: the driving motor drives the cat litter bin 2 to rotate counterclockwise through the driven mechanisms 25 and 26. In this process, the used cat litter in the toilet area 22 slides to the separation bin 27 under the action of gravity, wherein the contaminated aggregated cat litter is in block shape and is blocked by the filter screen, while the uncontaminated clean cat litter is still in small granular form, so that it can enter the separation bin 27 through the filter screen, thus completing the separation of the aggregated cat litter and the clean cat litter. At any time, the cat litter bin 2 continues to rotate counterclockwise to reach the second position, and in this process, the aggregated cat litter blocks above the filter screen fall into the feces collection bin 4 from the opening 41 under the action of gravity. When the cat litter bin 2 rotates clockwise, in the process of resetting from the second position to the first position, the clean cat litter is returned to the toilet area 2 from the separation bin through the filter screen under the action of gravity for the next use.
[0020] The intelligent cat litter box of the utility model is also provided with a deodorizer 6, such as Figure 6 As shown. The deodorizer 6 is preferably a spray type deodorizer, which includes a liquid filling port 61. The deodorizer 6 can be enclosed in the shell 5, or can be arranged outside the shell 5. If it is enclosed in the shell 5 and is a liquid-fillable deodorizer, a liquid filling port should be opened on the shell 5 to communicate with the deodorizer liquid filling port 61, so as to facilitate the addition of deodorizer.
[0021] The deodorizer 6 also includes a first nozzle 62, which extends through the outer wall 21 into the toilet area 22, so that the deodorizing spray can be sprayed into the toilet area 22. The deodorizer 6 is electrically connected to the control module 7, so that the deodorizer 6 can spray according to the control logic set in the control module 7. The electrical connection between the deodorizer 6 and the control module 7 belongs to the prior art and is not the innovation of the present utility model, so it will not be described in detail.
[0022] Preferably, in this embodiment, the odor purifier 6 further includes a second nozzle 63, and the second nozzle 63 extends into the inner wall of the feces collecting bin 4, so that the odor purifier 6 can also spray odor-purifying spray into the feces collecting bin 4 to further improve odor pollution.
[0023] In order to avoid accidents caused by pets entering the litter box during the cleaning process, the above solution can be further optimized: that is, during the cleaning process, when the gravity sensor senses that the increase in the weight of the litter box exceeds Ts, or the smart camera detects that the cat has entered the litter box again, a signal D is immediately sent to the control module 7, and the control module 7 immediately stops the cleaning program.
[0024] Compared with the existing solid fragrance method, the odor eliminator 6 has the following advantages: First, the nozzle can be more concealed, and it will have basically no impact on the toilet area in the litter box 2. Second, the spray can be sprayed targeted according to the control logic, so as to eliminate odors more efficiently. Finally, according to the preferred embodiment, the feces collection bin can also be deodorized without affecting the cleaning of the collection bin at all. Therefore, the utility model solves various defects of the prior art and has high practical value.
[0025] The above embodiments are only illustrative of the principles and effects of the present invention, and are not intended to limit the present invention. Any person familiar with this technology can modify or change the above embodiments without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention. Therefore, all equivalent modifications or changes made by those with ordinary knowledge in the technical field without departing from the spirit and technical idea disclosed by the present invention should still be covered by the claims of the present invention.
Claims
1. A smart cat litter box, characterized in that: include: Base, cat litter bin, drive motor, control module and odor purifier; A feces collecting bin is arranged in the base, and the feces collecting bin includes an opening; The cat litter bin is fixed to the base through a bracket and is located above the feces collection bin; The cat litter bin includes a toilet area; a filter screen and an inner wall are arranged on one side above the toilet area, and the inner wall and the inner side of the outer wall of the cat litter bin form a separation bin; driven mechanisms are also arranged on both sides of the outer wall; the control module can send start and stop instructions to the drive motor according to a preset program; when the drive motor is started, the driven mechanism can drive the cat litter bin to rotate in the first direction and the second direction, so that the cat litter bin can switch between the first position and the second position; The deodorizer includes a first nozzle, and the first nozzle extends into the toilet area through the outer wall.
2. The smart cat litter box according to claim 1, characterized in that: The deodorizer also includes a second nozzle, which extends into the feces collection bin.