Ultrasonic cleaning machine for Chinese prickly ash

By leveraging the combined action of the ultrasonic cleaner's transmission, water supply, and image recognition components, non-contact cleaning of Sichuan peppercorns is achieved, solving the problems of easily ruptured oil glands and low automation levels, thus improving cleaning efficiency and automation.

CN224007715UActive Publication Date: 2026-03-20XINMA ZHONGFU FOOD TECHNOLOGY (SICHUAN) CO LTD
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Authority / Receiving Office
CN · China
Patent Type
Utility models(China)
Current Assignee / Owner
Filing Date
2025-04-16
Publication Date
2026-03-20

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Technical Problem

Existing fruit and vegetable washing machines are prone to rupturing the oil glands of Sichuan peppercorns, and have a low degree of automation, requiring a lot of manual intervention in the washing process.

Method used

An ultrasonic cleaner is used, which combines a conveyor, a water supply, an image recognition, and a controller. It uses a non-contact ultrasonic cleaning method, which uses water flow to float impurities and the image recognition component to automatically control the cleaning process, reducing manual intervention.

Benefits of technology

It reduces the risk of rupture of the oil glands in Sichuan peppercorns, increases the degree of automation, reduces labor intensity, and achieves efficient Sichuan peppercorn cleaning.

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Abstract

The ultrasonic cleaning machine comprises a cleaning pool, a conveying assembly, a water supply assembly, an ultrasonic assembly, an image recognition assembly and a controller, an overflow opening is formed in the upper portion of one side wall of the cleaning pool in the conveying direction of Chinese prickly ash, the water supply assembly is arranged on the side opposite to the overflow opening, and the conveying assembly comprises a conveying belt; a plurality of material baskets suitable for containing peppers are arranged on the conveying belt at intervals in the conveying direction of the peppers, a plurality of meshes are formed in the side walls of the material baskets, the bearing section of the conveying belt is located in the cleaning pool, the material baskets located on the bearing section are located below the water surface of the cleaning pool, and the return stroke section of the conveying belt is located outside the cleaning pool. The ultrasonic assembly is suitable for cleaning the Chinese prickly ash in the cleaning pool, the image recognition assembly is suitable for judging whether impurities float on the water surface or not, damage to the Chinese prickly ash is small, the risk of oil gland rupture is reduced, manual intervention of multiple links is reduced, and the automation degree is improved.
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Description

TECHNICAL FIELD

[0001] The utility model relates to agricultural equipment technical field, concretely relates to a zanthoxylum bungeanum ultrasonic cleaning machine. BACKGROUND

[0002] Zanthoxylum bungeanum is the deciduous shrub or small arbor of zanthoxylum bungeanum, generally 3~5m high, branch slender with thorn, zanthoxylum bungeanum is the fruit of zanthoxylum bungeanum, the protrusions on the surface of zanthoxylum bungeanum fruit are like grain or granular, these protrusions are oil glands, and the oil glands contain many volatile aromatic oils, which are the source of the unique flavor of zanthoxylum bungeanum, zanthoxylum bungeanum can be used to make zanthoxylum bungeanum essential oil, zanthoxylum bungeanum oil and zanthoxylum bungeanum sauce etc., and the purchased zanthoxylum bungeanum contains dust, leaves and thorn impurities, and needs to be cleaned before making zanthoxylum bungeanum products, the commonly used fruit and vegetable cleaning machine mainly has bubble cleaning machine, drum cleaning machine and vibrating screen cleaning machine etc., however, due to the fact that the oil glands of zanthoxylum bungeanum are relatively fragile, the existing fruit and vegetable cleaning machine can easily cause the oil glands to break, resulting in the loss of aromatic oils in the oil glands, and the multiple links in the cleaning process all need manual control, and the degree of automation is low. SUMMARY

[0003] The utility model provides a zanthoxylum bungeanum ultrasonic cleaning machine, can solve above -mentioned technical problem.

[0004] The utility model discloses a zanthoxylum bungeanum ultrasonic cleaning machine, can solve above -mentioned technical problem.

[0005] A zanthoxylum bungeanum ultrasonic cleaning machine, including cleaning pool, conveying assembly, water supply component, ultrasonic wave subassembly, image recognition subassembly and controller,

[0006] The overflow port is set up in the upper portion of the side wall of the conveying direction of zanthoxylum bungeanum, the water supply component is arranged at the side opposite to the overflow port, so as to continuously supply water to the cleaning pool, the conveying assembly includes a conveying belt, a plurality of baskets suitable for placing zanthoxylum bungeanum are arranged at intervals on the conveying belt along the transmission direction of zanthoxylum bungeanum, a plurality of mesh holes are arranged on the side wall of the basket, the bearing section of the conveying belt is located in the cleaning pool, the basket located in the bearing section is located below the water surface of the cleaning pool, the return section of the conveying belt is located outside the cleaning pool, the ultrasonic wave subassembly is suitable for cleaning zanthoxylum bungeanum located in the cleaning pool, the image recognition subassembly is suitable for determining whether the water surface has floating impurities, the input end of the controller is connected with the image recognition subassembly, and the output end of the controller is electrically connected with the conveying assembly and the ultrasonic wave subassembly respectively.

[0007] Further, the water supply component includes a water pump and a filter device, the water inlet end of the filter device is communicated with the overflow port, the water outlet end of the filter device is communicated with the water inlet end of the water pump, and the water outlet end of the water pump is connected to the cleaning pool through a water supply pipe.

[0008] Further, the image recognition assembly comprises a camera module and a convolutional neural network module connected with each other, the camera module is suitable for taking pictures of the cleaning pool, and the convolutional neural network module is suitable for judging whether there is floating matter on the water surface.

[0009] Further, the camera module comprises an industrial camera.

[0010] Further, the industrial camera is suspended above the water surface of the cleaning pool.

[0011] Further, a feeding assembly is further included, the feeding assembly comprises a hopper, the hopper is suspended above the conveying belt, an electric valve is arranged at a discharging port of the hopper, and the electric valve is electrically connected with an output end of the controller.

[0012] Compared with the prior art, the utility model has the following advantages and beneficial effects:

[0013] A kind of pepper ultrasonic cleaning machine, including cleaning pool, conveying assembly, water supply assembly, ultrasonic assembly, image recognition assembly and controller, when working, conveying assembly is conveyed to the cleaning pool with the basket loaded with to-be-cleaned pepper under the action of controller, at this time, conveying assembly pauses, ultrasonic assembly is cleaned to the pepper in the cleaning pool, dust, leaf and thorn float on water surface under the action of water buoyancy, and pepper is located at the bottom of basket, water supply assembly continuously supplies water to the cleaning pool, and floating impurities are discharged from overflow port with water flow, while, image recognition assembly identifies whether there is floating matter on water surface, and sends signal to controller when identifying that there is no floating impurities on water surface, conveying assembly takes away cleaned pepper from the cleaning pool under the action of controller, and basket is reversed and unloaded with conveying belt to the end of bearing section, and the utility model discloses ultrasonic cleaning is a kind of non-contact cleaning mode, and it is little to damage pepper, reduces the risk of oil gland rupture, reduces artificial intervention in multiple links, improves the degree of automation, and reduces labor intensity. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS

[0014] The drawings described herein are used to provide further understanding of the embodiments of the utility model, and form part of the present application, and do not constitute limitation to the embodiments of the utility model. In the drawings:

[0015] Figure 1 It is the structure diagram of a kind of pepper ultrasonic cleaning machine of the embodiments of the utility model.

[0016] Mark and corresponding component name in drawing:

[0017] 10-cleaning pool, 11-overflow port, 12-cleaning pool water inlet, 13-ultrasonic assembly;

[0018] 20-conveying belt, 21-basket.

[0019] 30 - water pump, 31 - filtering device;

[0020] 40 - image recognition assembly, 41 - controller;

[0021] 50 - hopper, 51 - electric valve;

[0022] 60 - collecting basket. DETAILED DESCRIPTION

[0023] In order to make the purpose, technical scheme and advantages of the utility model more clearly, the utility model is further described in detail below by combining with examples and drawings, the schematic implementation mode of the utility model and its description are only used for explaining the utility model, and do not serve as the limitation of the utility model.

[0024] EMBODIMENT

[0025] Please refer to Figure 1 A Chinese pricklyash ultrasonic cleaning machine, including cleaning pool 10, conveying assembly, water supply assembly, overflow 11, image recognition assembly 40 and controller 41, the upper portion of the side wall of cleaning pool 10 along the conveying direction of Chinese pricklyash is provided with overflow 11, water supply assembly is set up at the opposite side of overflow 11, to be suitable for the continuous water supply to cleaning pool 10, to maintain the water level in cleaning pool 10, the water outlet of water supply group can be provided with electric valve 51, for remote control, here, water supply assembly is set up at the opposite side of overflow 11, water flow will flow from water supply port to overflow 11, forms a natural water flow direction, is favorable to the impurity floating on the water surface from overflow 11 discharge, preferably, the water outlet of water supply assembly is located at the opposite side of overflow 11 and is located below overflow 11, for example, the water outlet height of water supply assembly is lower than the bottom of basket 21, namely the water outlet of water supply assembly is set up at the lower position of cleaning pool 10, overflow 11 is set up at the higher position, forms from the water flow of top to bottom, can better drive the impurity to float upwards, makes it more easily be carried to overflow 11 by water flow and discharge.

[0026] Conveying assembly includes conveying belt 20, and conveying belt 20 is provided with a plurality of baskets 21 suitable for placing Chinese pricklyash at intervals along the conveying direction of Chinese pricklyash, and a plurality of mesh holes are formed in the side wall of basket 21 and are used to discharge the moisture in basket 21, the carrying section of conveying belt 20 is located in cleaning pool 10, and the basket 21 located at the carrying section is located below the liquid level of cleaning pool 10, the return section of conveying belt 20 is located outside cleaning pool 10, and the end of conveying belt 20 is provided with collecting basket 6021, and collecting basket 6021 is suitable for receiving Chinese pricklyash after cleaning.

[0027] The overflow ports 11 are suitable for cleaning the Zanthoxylum bungeanum in the cleaning pool 10, the number of the overflow ports 11 can be multiple, ensuring that the material baskets 21 in the cleaning pool 10 can be uniformly affected by the ultrasonic waves, the overflow ports 11 can be arranged at the bottom or the sidewall of the cleaning pool 10, and the utility model is not limited to this.

[0028] The image recognition assembly is suitable for determining whether the water surface is floating with impurities, for example, the image recognition assembly 40 comprises a camera module and a convolutional neural network module connected with each other, the camera module is suitable for photographing the cleaning pool 10, and the convolutional neural network module is suitable for determining whether the water surface is floating with impurities, it should be noted that the convolutional neural network is a deep learning model, which is widely used in image recognition and classification tasks, and the core functions thereof include feature extraction and classification, the convolutional neural network module can learn the features of the floating objects by inputting a large number of artificially labeled picture data of the water surface with floating objects and the water surface without floating objects, the convolutional neural network module can extract features and classify the input image frames, can learn the features of the floating objects, and thus determine whether the water surface is floating with impurities, and the improvement and optimization of the computer program are not involved, preferably, the camera module comprises an industrial camera, and a high-resolution and low-noise industrial camera, such as a Basler, an AVT or the like, can be selected, the industrial camera is suspended above the cleaning pool 10 and faces the water surface of the cleaning pool 10, and the acquired image is clearer.

[0029] The input end of the controller 41 is in communication connection with the image transmission assembly, for example, communication connection or wireless communication connection, and the utility model is not limited, and the output end of the controller 41 is electrically connected with the transmission assembly and the overflow ports 11 respectively.

[0030] An ultrasonic cleaning machine for Zanthoxylum bungeanum comprises a cleaning pool 10, a transmission assembly, a water supply assembly, overflow ports 11, an image recognition assembly 40 and a controller 41, when working, under the action of the controller 41, the transmission assembly transmits the material basket 21 containing Zanthoxylum bungeanum to be cleaned into the cleaning pool 10, at this time, the transmission assembly is paused, the overflow ports 11 clean the Zanthoxylum bungeanum in the cleaning pool 10, dust, leaves and thorns float on the water surface under the action of the water buoyancy, and the Zanthoxylum bungeanum is located at the bottom of the material basket 21, the water supply assembly continuously supplies water into the cleaning pool 10, and the floating impurities are discharged from the overflow ports 11 along with the water flow, at the same time, the image recognition assembly 40 identifies whether the water surface is floating with impurities, and sends a signal to the controller 41 when it is identified that the water surface is not floating with impurities, under the action of the controller 41, the transmission assembly takes the cleaned Zanthoxylum bungeanum away from the cleaning pool 10, the material basket 21 is flipped and unloaded at the end of the running of the transmission belt 20 to the bearing section, the ultrasonic cleaning of the utility model is a non-contact cleaning mode, which has small damage to Zanthoxylum bungeanum, reduces the risk of oil gland rupture, reduces manual intervention in multiple links, improves the degree of automation, and reduces the labor intensity.

[0031] In another embodiment, the water supply assembly comprises a water pump 30 and a filter device 31, the water inlet end of the filter device 31 is communicated with the overflow port 11, the water outlet end of the filter device 31 is communicated with the water inlet end of the water pump 30, and the water outlet end of the water pump 30 is connected to the cleaning tank 10 through a water supply pipe, so that the water can be recycled, water resources are saved, and the filter device 31 is a prior art which will not be described here.

[0032] In another embodiment, a feeding assembly is further included, the feeding assembly comprises a hopper 50, the hopper 50 is suspended above the conveying belt 20, an electric valve 51 is arranged at the discharging port of the hopper 50, and the electric valve 51 is electrically connected with the output end of the controller 41, so that automatic feeding can be realized, the labor intensity of workers is further reduced, and automation is improved.

[0033] The above specific embodiments further specifically describe the purposes, technical schemes and beneficial effects of the utility model, and it should be understood that the above description is only a specific embodiment of the utility model and is not used to limit the protection scope of the utility model, and any modification, equivalent replacement, improvement and the like within the spirit and principle of the utility model should be included in the protection scope of the utility model.

Claims

1. A pepper ultrasonic cleaning machine, characterized in that, Includes a cleaning tank, conveying assembly, water supply assembly, ultrasonic assembly, image recognition assembly, and controller. An overflow outlet is provided on the upper part of one side wall of the cleaning tank along the conveying direction of the peppercorns. The water supply component is located on the side opposite the overflow outlet to continuously supply water to the cleaning tank. The conveying component includes a conveyor belt with multiple baskets for placing peppercorns spaced apart along the conveying direction of the peppercorns. The side walls of the baskets have several mesh openings. The carrying section of the conveyor belt is located inside the cleaning tank, and the baskets located in the carrying section are below the water surface of the cleaning tank. The return section of the conveyor belt is located outside the cleaning tank. The ultrasonic component is suitable for cleaning the peppercorns located in the cleaning tank. The image recognition component is suitable for determining whether there are floating impurities on the water surface. The input terminal of the controller is communicatively connected to the image recognition component, and the output terminal of the controller is electrically connected to the conveying component and the ultrasonic component, respectively.

2. The ultrasonic cleaning machine for Sichuan peppercorns according to claim 1, characterized in that, The water supply assembly includes a water pump and a filter device. The inlet of the filter device is connected to the overflow port, and the outlet of the filter device is connected to the inlet of the water pump. The outlet of the water pump is connected to the cleaning tank through a water supply pipe.

3. The ultrasonic cleaning machine for Sichuan peppercorns according to claim 1, characterized in that, The image recognition component includes an interconnected camera module and a convolutional neural network module. The camera module is adapted to capture images of the cleaning pool, and the convolutional neural network module is adapted to determine whether there are floating objects on the water surface.

4. The ultrasonic cleaning machine for Sichuan pepper according to claim 3, characterized in that, The camera module includes an industrial camera.

5. The ultrasonic cleaning machine for Sichuan pepper according to claim 4, characterized in that, The industrial camera is suspended above the cleaning tank and faces the water surface.

6. The ultrasonic cleaning machine for Sichuan pepper according to claim 5, characterized in that, It also includes a feeding assembly, which includes a hopper suspended above the conveyor belt. An electric valve is provided at the discharge port of the hopper, and the electric valve is electrically connected to the output terminal of the controller.