阅读说明：本技术 宠物喂食器 (Pet feeder ) 是由 阳涛 陈健纯 陈敏 周正钧 廖业杨 其他发明人请求不公开姓名 于 2021-09-01 设计创作，主要内容包括：本发明具体涉及一种宠物喂食器。本发明旨在解决现有宠物喂食器的宠物粮大量积聚在出粮孔附近的技术问题。为此目的,本发明提供了一种宠物喂食器,宠物喂食器包括：储粮桶；出粮通道,出粮通道的一端与储粮桶连通；食盘,与储粮桶的另一端连通,食盘设置有下倾导向部,下倾导向部向远离壳体组件的方向延伸并连接有喂粮槽。本发明的宠物喂食器通过出粮通道与下倾导向部的配合,使储粮桶内的宠物粮能够到达距离出粮孔较远的喂粮槽处,以此减少宠物粮大量积聚在出粮孔附近的现象。(The invention particularly relates to a pet feeder. The invention aims to solve the technical problem that a large amount of pet food of the existing pet feeder is accumulated near the food outlet. To this end, the present invention provides a pet food dispensing device comprising: a grain storage barrel; one end of the grain outlet channel is communicated with the grain storage barrel; the food tray is communicated with the other end of the grain storage barrel and is provided with a declination guide part, and the declination guide part extends towards the direction far away from the shell assembly and is connected with a grain feeding groove. The pet feeder has the advantages that the pet food in the food storage barrel can reach the food feeding groove far away from the food outlet hole through the matching of the food outlet channel and the declined guide part, so that the phenomenon that a large amount of pet food is accumulated near the food outlet hole is reduced.)

1. A pet food dispensing device, comprising:

a grain storage barrel;

one end of the grain outlet channel is communicated with the grain storage barrel;

and the food tray is communicated with the other end of the grain storage barrel and is provided with a declination guide part, and the declination guide part extends towards the direction far away from the shell assembly and is connected with a grain feeding groove.

2. The pet feeder of claim 1, wherein the feeding trough is lower than the declined guide, the tray further comprising a transition slope connecting the declined guide and the feeding trough, the declination angle of the transition slope being greater than the declination angle of the declination guide.

3. The pet feeder of claim 1, wherein the declination angle formed between the declined guide and the horizontal plane is in a range of 15 ° to 40 °.

4. The pet feeder of claim 1, further comprising a base provided with a tray seat for placing the tray, wherein a weighing sensor is connected between the tray seat and the base, and the tray seat is displaced up and down under the pressure of the tray and acts on the weighing sensor.

5. The pet feeder of claim 4, further comprising a housing assembly, wherein the housing assembly comprises a rear housing and a front housing, the rear housing is disposed on the base, the front housing is clamped to the rear housing and encloses a containing space with the rear housing for containing the grain storage barrel, and a grain outlet is disposed at the bottom of the front housing.

6. The pet feeder of claim 5, wherein the rear housing comprises a C-shaped half-barrel structure, the C-shaped half-barrel structure is provided with arc-shaped enclosing plates circumferentially distributed along the notch, and the front housing is clamped with the C-shaped half-barrel structure and the arc-shaped enclosing plates respectively.

7. The pet feeder as claimed in claim 6, wherein a grain distribution assembly is arranged at the bottom of the grain storage barrel, the C-shaped half barrel structure and the arc-shaped enclosing plate enclose a supporting structure of the grain distribution assembly, a declination pipe penetrating through the supporting structure is communicated between the grain distribution assembly and the grain outlet hole, and the grain outlet channel is formed inside the declination pipe.

8. The pet feeder of claim 7, wherein the grain distribution assembly comprises a grain distribution bin arranged at the bottom of the grain storage barrel, a grain falling opening communicated with the grain storage barrel and the grain distribution bin is formed in the top of the grain distribution bin, and grain distribution holes communicated with the grain distribution bin and the grain outlet channel are formed in the bottom of the grain distribution bin.

9. The pet feeder of claim 8, wherein the food dispensing assembly further comprises a driving device and a rotating disc in transmission connection with the driving device, a plurality of flexible impellers are arranged on the periphery of the rotating disc and are located in the food dispensing bin and distributed at intervals, and the flexible impellers divide the food dispensing bin into a plurality of retractable food dispensing slots.

10. The pet feeder of claim 9, wherein the flexible impellers comprise a ladder-shaped space structure, and two adjacent flexible impellers can be deformed to two sides under the extrusion of pet food to enlarge the food distribution groove.

11. The pet feeder of claim 5, further comprising a cover assembly, wherein an elastic pressing assembly is disposed at a top of the cover assembly, and side ends of the elastic pressing assembly are telescopically extended to a side wall of the cover assembly and are engaged with the housing assembly.

12. The pet feeder of claim 11, wherein the cover assembly is provided at a top thereof with a boss-shaped handle, two opposite sidewalls of the boss-shaped handle form two holding members, and at least one of the holding members is connected with a slide fastener extending out of the sidewalls of the cover assembly through an elastic member.

13. The pet feeder of claim 5, wherein the housing assembly further comprises a set of correlation sensors disposed therein, the set of correlation sensors emitting signals through the storage barrel at a specified height, the storage barrel being configured as a transparent storage barrel.

Technical Field

The invention relates to the technical field of pet appliances, in particular to a pet feeder.

Background

This section provides background information related to the present disclosure only and is not necessarily prior art.

With the expansion of pet market and the rapid expansion of pet-raising people, the problem of the pet owner on the trouble of pet clothes and residents during pet raising is solved, and the urgent need of the majority of pet owners is met. The pet feeder is an important part of the basic needs of pets, and is gradually favored by broad pet owners.

The pet feeder can feed pets regularly and quantitatively, and provides convenience for pet owners. However, the pet food dispensing device has the following disadvantages: after the pet feeder goes out the grain, most pet grain is concentrated and is distributed in feeding the bowl and be close to the region of going out the grain mouth, and the pet often need extend the head to the grain mouth department of storing up grain bucket below and just can eat pet grain. In addition, if the pet food is piled up and caked at the food outlet, the phenomenon of blocking the food channel can also occur, so that the condition of unsmooth food outlet occurs, and finally the pet can not eat the pet food.

Disclosure of Invention

The invention aims to solve the technical problem that a large amount of pet food is accumulated near the food outlet at least to a certain extent.

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides a pet food dispensing device, comprising: a grain storage barrel; one end of the grain outlet channel is communicated with the grain storage barrel; the food tray is communicated with the other end of the grain storage barrel and is provided with a declination guide part, and the declination guide part extends towards the direction far away from the shell assembly and is connected with a grain feeding groove.

The pet feeder has the advantages that the pet food in the food storage barrel can reach the food feeding groove far away from the food outlet hole through the matching of the food outlet channel and the declined guide part, so that the phenomenon that a large amount of pet food is accumulated at the food outlet is reduced, the feeding experience and the safety and reliability of the pet feeder are improved, better service can be brought to pet owners, and the pet feeder can help the pet owners to feed pets better and more safely.

In addition, the pet feeder according to the present invention may further have the following additional features:

according to one embodiment of the invention, the grain feeding groove is lower than the declination guide part, the food tray further comprises a transition slope connecting the declination guide part and the grain feeding groove, and the declination angle of the transition slope is larger than that of the declination guide part.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, a declination angle formed between the declination guide and a horizontal plane ranges from 15 to 40 °.

According to one embodiment of the invention, the pet feeder further comprises a base, the base is provided with a tray seat for placing the tray, a weighing sensor is connected between the tray seat and the base, and the tray seat is vertically displaced under the pressure of the tray and acts on the weighing sensor.

According to one embodiment of the invention, the pet feeder further comprises a shell assembly, the shell assembly comprises a rear shell and a front shell, the rear shell is arranged on the base, the front shell is clamped on the rear shell and encloses a containing space for containing the grain storage barrel with the rear shell, and the bottom of the front shell is provided with a grain outlet.

According to one embodiment of the invention, the rear shell is arranged into a C-shaped half barrel structure, the notch of the C-shaped half barrel structure is provided with arc-shaped enclosing plates distributed along the circumferential direction, and the front shell is respectively clamped with the C-shaped half barrel structure and the arc-shaped enclosing plates.

According to one embodiment of the invention, the bottom of the grain storage barrel is provided with the grain distribution assembly, the C-shaped semi-barrel-shaped structure and the arc-shaped surrounding plate enclose the supporting structure of the grain distribution assembly, a declination pipe penetrating through the supporting structure is communicated between the grain distribution assembly and the grain outlet hole, and a grain outlet channel is formed inside the declination pipe.

According to one embodiment of the invention, the grain distribution assembly comprises a grain distribution bin arranged at the bottom of the grain storage barrel, a grain falling opening communicated with the grain storage barrel and the grain distribution bin is arranged at the top of the grain distribution bin, and grain distribution holes communicated with the grain distribution bin and the grain outlet channel are arranged at the bottom of the grain distribution bin.

According to one embodiment of the invention, the grain distribution assembly comprises a driving device and a rotary disc in transmission connection with the driving device, a plurality of flexible impellers are arranged on the periphery of the rotary disc and are positioned in the grain distribution bin and distributed at intervals, and the flexible impellers divide the grain distribution bin into a plurality of telescopic grain distribution grooves.

According to one embodiment of the invention, the flexible impellers comprise a ladder-shaped space structure, and two adjacent flexible impellers can deform towards two sides under the extrusion of pet food to enlarge the food distribution groove.

According to one embodiment of the invention, the pet feeder further comprises a cover body assembly, wherein the top of the cover body assembly is provided with an elastic pressing assembly, and the side end of the elastic pressing assembly can be telescopically extended to the side wall of the cover body assembly and matched with the shell body assembly.

According to one embodiment of the invention, the top of the cover assembly is provided with a boss-like handle, two opposite side walls of the boss-like handle form two holding pieces, and at least one holding piece is connected with a sliding buckle extending out of the side walls of the cover assembly through an elastic element.

According to one embodiment of the invention, the shell component is also internally provided with a group of correlation sensors which transmit signals through the grain storage barrel at a specified height, and the grain storage barrel is arranged to be a transparent grain storage barrel.

Drawings

Various other advantages and benefits will become apparent to those of ordinary skill in the art upon reading the following detailed description of the preferred embodiments. The drawings are only for purposes of illustrating the preferred embodiments and are not to be construed as limiting the invention. Also, like reference numerals are used to refer to like parts throughout the drawings. In the drawings:

FIG. 1 is a schematic view of an assembly structure of a pet food dispensing device according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 2 is a schematic view of the pet food dispensing device shown in fig. 1 in a disassembled structure;

fig. 3 is a sectional view of the pet food dispensing device shown in fig. 1;

FIG. 4 is a schematic view of a base and a plate of the present invention in a disassembled configuration;

FIG. 5 is a top view of a serving tray base according to one embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 6 is an assembly view of a tray base and tray according to another embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 7 is a schematic view of a construction of a serving tray according to one embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 8 is a schematic view of a disassembled structure of a housing assembly of the pet food dispensing device shown in fig. 1;

FIG. 9 is a cross-sectional view of the housing assembly of FIG. 8;

fig. 10 is a partial cross-sectional view of a housing assembly of the pet food dispensing device of fig. 1;

FIG. 11 is a schematic view of an assembly structure of the grain storage barrel and the grain distribution component according to one embodiment of the invention;

fig. 12 is a schematic view of the disassembled structure of the grain storage barrel and the grain distribution component shown in fig. 11;

FIG. 13 is a top view of the assembly of the grain storage barrel and the grain distribution assembly shown in FIG. 12;

FIG. 14 is a cross-sectional view of a cover assembly in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 15 is a schematic view of a disassembled structure of the cover assembly according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Wherein the reference numbers are as follows:

100. a pet feeder;

10. a base; 11. a support pillar; 12. a weighing sensor;

20. a housing assembly; 201. grain outlet holes; 202. a correlation sensor; 21. a rear housing; 211. an arc coaming; 212. a through hole; 213. buckling positions of the inclined planes; 214. a clamping hole; 215. a hook; 22. a front housing; 221. buckling; 222. a clamping block; 23. a down dip tube; 231. a grain outlet channel;

30. a grain storage barrel; 301. a limiting groove;

40. a food tray; 41. a declination guide part; 42. a grain feeding groove; 43. a transition slope; 431. a transition table; 44. a service plate seat; 441. an induction support;

50. a cover assembly; 51. an upper cover; 511. a boss-shaped handle; 52. a lower cover; 53. a grip member; 54. an elastic element; 55. a sliding buckle; 56. a desiccant cover; 57. a seal ring;

60. a grain distributing component; 601. grain distribution; 6011. a grain outlet; 6012. grain distributing holes; 602. a grain distributing groove; 61. a gear set; 611. a drive shaft; 612. a drive shaft; 62. a turntable; 621. a flexible impeller; 63. a partition plate; 64. limiting grain and brushing; 65. the impeller is stirred.

Detailed Description

Exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure will be described in more detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings. While exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure are shown in the drawings, it should be understood that the present disclosure may be embodied in various forms and should not be limited to the embodiments set forth herein. Rather, these embodiments are provided so that this disclosure will be thorough and complete, and will fully convey the scope of the disclosure to those skilled in the art. It should be noted that the pet food dispensing device with a barrel-shaped structure is only a preferred embodiment of the present invention, and is not a limitation to the protection scope of the present invention.

It is to be understood that the terminology used herein is for the purpose of describing particular example embodiments only, and is not intended to be limiting. As used herein, the singular forms "a", "an" and "the" may be intended to include the plural forms as well, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise. The terms "comprising," "including," and "having" are inclusive and therefore specify the presence of stated features, elements, and/or components, but do not preclude the presence or addition of one or more other features, elements, components, and/or groups thereof.

In the description of the present invention, unless otherwise explicitly specified or limited, the terms "disposed" and "connected" are to be construed broadly, e.g., as meaning a fixed connection, a detachable connection, or an integral connection; may be directly connected or indirectly connected through an intermediate. The specific meanings of the above terms in the present invention can be understood by those skilled in the art according to specific situations.

Furthermore, the terms "first" and "second" are used for descriptive purposes only and are not to be construed as indicating or implying relative importance or implicitly indicating the number of technical features indicated. Thus, a feature defined as "first" or "second" may explicitly or implicitly include one or more of that feature. In the description of the present invention, "a plurality" means at least two, e.g., two, three, etc., unless specifically limited otherwise.

For convenience of description, spatially relative terms, such as "forward", "aft", "circumferential", "peripheral", "top", "end", "outer", "bottom", "upper", "lower", "side", "inner", and the like, may be used herein to describe one element or feature's relationship to another element or feature as illustrated in the figures. This spatially relative relationship is intended to encompass different orientations of the mechanism in use or operation in addition to the orientation depicted in the figures. For example, if the mechanism in the figures is turned over, elements described as "below" or "beneath" other elements or features would then be oriented "above" or "over" the other elements or features. Thus, the example term "below … …" can include both an orientation of above and below. The mechanism may be otherwise oriented (rotated 90 degrees or at other orientations) and the spatially relative descriptors used herein interpreted accordingly.

As shown in fig. 1, 2 and 3, an embodiment of the present invention provides a pet food dispenser 100, where the pet food dispenser 100 includes a base 10, a housing assembly 20, a food storage barrel 30 and a food tray 40, the housing assembly 20 is disposed on the base 10, a food outlet 201 is disposed at the bottom of the housing assembly 20, the food storage barrel 30 is disposed inside the housing assembly 20, a food distribution assembly 60 is disposed at the bottom of the food storage barrel 30, a food outlet 231 communicating the food distribution assembly 60 with the food outlet 201 is disposed between the food storage barrel 30 and the housing assembly 20, one end of the food outlet 231 is communicated with the food storage barrel 30, the food tray 40 is disposed on the base 10, the food tray 40 is communicated with the other end of the food storage barrel 30, the food tray 40 is provided with a declination guide 41 cooperating with the food outlet 231 and the food outlet 201, and the declination guide 41 extends in a direction away from the housing assembly 20 and is connected with a food trough 42.

In this embodiment, the food outlet 231 may be a downward-inclined food outlet inclined toward the direction of the food tray 40, and the pet food dispenser 100 of the present invention enables the pet food in the food storage barrel 30 to reach the food feeding groove 42 far away from the food outlet 201 through the cooperation between the food outlet 231 and the downward-inclined guide portion 41, so as to reduce the phenomenon that a large amount of pet food is accumulated near the food outlet 201. The feeding experience and the safety and the reliability of the pet feeder 100 are improved, better service can be brought to pet owners, and the pet owners can be helped to raise pets better and more safely.

In the using process of the pet feeder 100, when the pet food in the food storage barrel 30 falls down after passing through the food distribution component 60 under the action of self gravity, the food outlet channel 231 between the food storage barrel 30 and the housing component 20 guides the pet food in a downward inclined direction, so that the pet food has a horizontal speed at the food outlet 201, the pet food can move in a direction far away from the food outlet 201 by using the horizontal speed, so that the pet food can fall on the downward inclined guide part 41 at a position far away from the food outlet 201, the downward inclined guide part 41 guides the pet food for the second time, the food can roll down at a far end far away from the food outlet 201 on the downward inclined guide part 41 until the pet food rolls down to the food inlet 42 far away from the housing component 20 on the downward inclined guide part 41, at the moment, the pet food can be fed in the food inlet 42, thereby reducing the phenomenon that the pet food is accumulated in a large amount and blocks the food outlet 201 below the food outlet 201, and the phenomenon that the pet needs to stretch the head to the food outlet 201 for feeding is reduced.

The feeding groove 42 of the embodiment of the application is used for containing pet food, has a certain depth, can be arranged in a spherical groove structure or a rectangular groove structure, the declination guide part 41 is used as the transition between the food outlet hole 201 and the feeding groove 42, and the height gradually decreases from the position of the food outlet hole 201 to the position of the feeding groove 42, so that the height difference between the food outlet hole 201 and the feeding groove 42 is compensated. In order to achieve the effect that the pet food can roll down into the food feeding groove 42, the declination angle a formed between the declination guide part 41 of the food tray 40 and the horizontal plane is designed to be between 15 and 40 degrees, and the declination angle of the declination guide part 41 provided by the embodiment of the application is moderate, so that the impact force when the pet food rolls down to the food feeding groove 42 through the declination guide part 41 is reduced.

As shown in fig. 4 and 5, according to the embodiment of the present invention, a transition slope 43 with a relatively steep gradient is disposed between the downward-inclined guide portion 41 and the feeding groove 42, and the downward inclination angle of the transition slope 43 is greater than that of the downward-inclined guide portion 41, so that a significant vertical boundary difference is formed between the inclined channel and the feeding groove 42 through the transition slope 43, so that the pet food is flushed into the feeding groove 42 along the downward-inclined guide portion 41 and the transition slope 43 under the action of its own gravity and falling speed until the feeding groove 42 is fully stacked and then slowly stacked to the discharging hole 201 along the downward-inclined guide portion 41, which can greatly increase the discharging amount and reduce the risk of blocking the discharging hole 201 by the pet food.

Meanwhile, the transition slope 43 can also relieve the problem that the length of the food tray 40 is increased due to the fact that the declination guide part 41 is too slow and too long, and the declination guide part 41 can transit to the food feeding groove 42 within a short distance through the transition slope 43 with a large declination angle, so that the overall length of the food tray 40 is reduced, and the space in the length direction occupied by the food tray 40 is reduced.

As shown in fig. 6, the feeding tray 40 provided in the embodiment of the present invention may further include a transition platform 431 disposed between the declination guide portion 41 and the transition slope 43, and at this time, the transition platform 431 may reduce the space occupied by the declination guide portion 41 and the transition slope 43, so as to reduce the space of the feeding trough 42 occupied by the declination guide portion 41 and the transition slope 43, and improve the grain storage capacity of the feeding tray 40.

As shown in fig. 7, the food tray 40 provided in the embodiment of the present invention may further include a declination guide portion 41 directly communicated with the food feeding groove 42, the food feeding groove 42 is provided as an arc surface or a hemispherical surface communicated with the declination guide portion 41, and the arc surface or the hemispherical surface of the food feeding groove 42 forms a transition slope 43, so that not only the smooth circulation between the declination guide portion 41 and the food feeding groove 42 can be improved, but also the food storage capacity of the food tray 40 can be further improved.

As shown in fig. 3, 4 and 5, according to the embodiment of the present invention, the base 10 is provided with a plate seat 44 on which the plate 40 is placed, the plate seat 44 is provided with a declination support part engaged with the declination guide part 41 and a mounting groove engaged with the grain feeding groove 42, the side of the plate seat 44 is provided with a side plate contacting with the base 10 and supporting the plate seat 44 and the plate 40, the side plate on the plate seat 44 encloses an accommodation space below the plate seat 44, and the accommodation space between the declination support part and the base 10 on the plate seat 44 is larger.

As shown in fig. 3, 4 and 5, the embodiment of the present invention further provides that a load cell assembly is disposed in the accommodating space between the declination support portion of the tray seat 44 and the base 10, and the increase and decrease of the pet food in the tray 40 can be accurately recorded by the load cell assembly, so as to determine the food intake of the pet.

Specifically, one end of the tray seat 44 close to the shell assembly 20 is fixedly connected with the base 10, the other end of the tray seat 44 far away from the shell assembly 20 is arranged in a suspension manner, the weighing sensor assembly comprises a weighing sensor 12 and a sensing bracket 441, one end of the weighing sensor 12 is fixedly arranged on the base 10, the other end of the weighing sensor 12 is arranged below the tray seat 44 in a suspension manner, the sensing bracket 441 is arranged at the bottom of the suspension portion of the tray seat 44, the suspension portion of the tray seat 44 is connected with the weighing sensor 12 through the sensing bracket 441, the suspension portion of the tray seat 44 is vertically displaced under the action of the tray 40 and the pet food, the tray seat 44 pushes and pulls the weighing sensor 12 in the vertical displacement process, and the weighing sensor 12 determines increase and decrease of the pet food in the tray 40 according to the pushing and pulling force of the tray seat 44.

Further, in the case that the pet food dispensing device 100 provides food for a plurality of pets, in order to determine the food intake of each pet, the inner wall of the front case 22 is further provided with a control board and a camera, an image of the pet is captured by the camera and transmitted to the control board, and the control board determines the food intake of which pet is specific according to the image of the pet and the increase and decrease of the pet food.

As shown in fig. 8, 9 and 10, according to the embodiment of the present invention, the housing assembly 20 includes a rear housing 21 and a front housing 22, the rear housing 21 is disposed on the base 10, the front housing 22 is fastened to the rear housing 21 and encloses a receiving space for receiving the grain storage barrel 30 with the rear housing 21, and the grain outlet 201 is disposed at the bottom of the front housing 22.

In this embodiment, the case component 20 is the largest component among the components of the pet feeding device 100, and the pet feeding device 100 is assembled and fastened together with the front case 22 and the rear case 21 after the other components are assembled, therefore, when the front case 22 and the rear case 21 of the pet feeding device 100 are assembled, in order to reduce the problem that the front case 22 and the rear case 21 of the feeding device are too cumbersome and inconvenient to operate in the assembling process, the embodiment of the present application proposes that the front case 22 and the rear case 21 are pre-assembled and pre-positioned in a clamping manner, and then fastened by fasteners such as screws, so as to improve the overall structural stability and the structural reliability of the case component 20.

Specifically, backshell 21 demountable installation carries out prepositioning installation to the support column 11 of base 10 through the mode of joint to backshell 21 before, and in fastening preceding shell 22 and backshell 21 through the fastener, can reduce preceding shell 22 and backshell 21 and appear not hard up phenomenon at the in-process that fastens to this assembly efficiency who improves preceding shell 22 and backshell 21.

As shown in fig. 8, 9 and 10, the rear shell 21 is configured as a C-shaped half-barrel structure, an arc coaming 211 circumferentially distributed along the notch is disposed at the notch of the C-shaped half-barrel structure, and the front shell 22 is respectively connected with the C-shaped half-barrel structure and the arc coaming 211 in a clamping manner.

In this embodiment, adopt joint spare such as detachable elasticity knot subassembly to preposition between preceding shell 22 and the backshell 21, then fasten through fasteners such as screw, accomplish the fixed connection between preceding shell 22 and the backshell 21 after the location and the tight process of clamp to preceding shell 22 and backshell 21. Through the double connection that C type half barrel-shaped structure and arc bounding wall 211 gone on preceding shell 22, can improve joint strength and connection stability between preceding shell 22 and the backshell 21, the top of arc bounding wall 211 still be provided with preceding shell 22's inner wall complex structure of turning up, through arc bounding wall 211 turn up the flange structure improve with preceding shell 22's area of contact, reduce the too big phenomenon of local atress appearance between backshell 21 and the preceding shell 22.

Specifically, a plurality of clamping holes 214 are formed in two sides of the notch of the rear shell 21, a plurality of upward bent buckles 221 which are matched with the plurality of clamping holes 214 on the rear shell 21 one by one are arranged at corresponding positions of the front shell 22, when the front shell 22 and the rear shell 21 are assembled, the front shell 22 is pushed towards the rear shell 21, the plurality of buckles 221 on the front shell 22 are installed into the plurality of clamping holes 214 of the rear shell 21 in parallel, then the front shell 22 is pushed upwards, the plurality of buckles 221 are hooked on the plurality of clamping holes 214 along the front-back direction, and therefore front-back limiting between the front shell 22 and the rear shell 21 is completed.

Further, the arc-shaped enclosing plate 211 of the rear shell 21 is provided with a plurality of hooks 215 extending downward and facing the rear shell 21, a plurality of latches 222 respectively engaged with the plurality of hooks 215 of the rear shell 21 are arranged at corresponding positions of the front shell 22, and during the process of pushing the front shell 22 upward, the plurality of latches 222 on the front shell 22 are respectively latched to the plurality of hooks 215 of the rear shell 21, so as to limit the relative movement between the front shell 22 and the rear shell 21 in the up-down direction. The hook 215 is an elastic hook, and when the front housing 22 is pushed upwards, the latch 222 on the front housing 22 pushes the elastic hook to deform, so that the latch 222 and the elastic hook are latched together, and the front housing 22 and the rear housing 21 are elastically limited in the vertical direction.

When the front shell 22 and the rear shell 21 need to be disassembled, the top of the front shell 22 is pushed downwards to enable the latch block 222 to push the latch hook 215 to deform and release the latch block 222, so that the upper and lower limiting between the front shell 22 and the rear shell 21 can be completed, then the top of the front shell 22 is pushed downwards continuously to enable the latch 221 on the rear shell 21 to be aligned with the latch hole 214 on the front shell 22, then the front shell 22 is pulled towards the direction far away from the rear shell 21 to complete the separation of the front shell 22 and the rear shell 21, and the disassembly and assembly efficiency of the shell assembly 20 is greatly facilitated.

As shown in fig. 8, 9 and 10, the C-shaped half-barrel structure and the arc-shaped enclosing plate 211 enclose a supporting structure of the grain separating assembly 60, a declination pipe 23 penetrating through the supporting structure is communicated between the grain separating assembly 60 and the grain outlet 201, and a grain outlet channel 231 is formed inside the declination pipe 23.

In this embodiment, in order to realize the purpose of supporting the grain storage barrel 30 and the grain distribution assembly 60 by the housing assembly 20, the embodiment of the present application proposes to provide the arc-shaped enclosing plate 211 at the notch of the rear housing 21, the supporting structure of the grain distribution assembly 60 is enclosed by the arc-shaped enclosing plate 211 and the rear housing 21, meanwhile, an accommodating space for installing the down dip pipe 23 can be provided between the grain outlet 201 of the grain distribution assembly 60 and the front housing 22, the embodiment of the present application proposes that the grain distribution assembly 60 comprises the grain distribution bin 601 arranged at the bottom of the grain storage barrel 30 and having a conical structure, at this time, a large installation gap is provided between the grain outlet 201 of the grain distribution bin 601 and the front housing 22, and in order to support the grain distribution bin 601 of the grain distribution assembly 60, the embodiment of the present application proposes a conical structure in which the bottom of the arc-shaped enclosing plate 211 is arranged to extend towards the direction of the grain distribution bin 601.

The bottom of grain distribution bin 601 is provided with grain distribution hole 6012, the bottom of front shell 22 is provided with the bottom plate that extends to grain distribution bin 601's direction and is located the oblique below of grain distribution hole 6012, be provided with the grain outlet 201 that is located the oblique below of grain distribution hole 6012 on the bottom plate, grain distribution hole 6012 and grain outlet 201 can select to be flat mouthful of structure, downtilt pipe 23 sets up to the flat tubular construction who communicates grain distribution hole 6012 and grain outlet 201, downtilt pipe 23 of flat tubular construction has reduced the shared inner space of housing assembly 20 of downtilt pipe 23 under the prerequisite of guaranteeing grain outlet efficiency. Further, the declination pipe 23 is detachably connected with the grain distribution bin 601 and the front shell 22, and the arc-shaped enclosing plate 211 is provided with a through hole 212, so that the declination pipe 23 can conveniently communicate the grain distribution hole 6012 of the grain distribution bin 601 with the grain outlet hole 201 of the front shell 22 in a mode of penetrating through the arc-shaped enclosing plate 211.

As shown in fig. 11, 12 and 13, the grain distribution assembly 60 further includes a driving device and a rotating disc 62 in transmission connection with the driving device, a plurality of flexible impellers 621 are arranged around the rotating disc 62 and distributed at intervals, and a plurality of retractable grain distribution grooves 602 are partitioned between the flexible impellers 621.

In this embodiment, the driving device includes a driving motor and a transmission assembly disposed at a driving end of the driving motor, the transmission assembly may include a gear set 61 and a transmission shaft 612, the transmission shaft 612 is connected to the driving shaft 611, the rotating disc 62 is disposed at the driving shaft 611, and the driving motor drives the rotating disc 62 to rotate through the gear set 61, the transmission shaft 612 and the driving shaft 611, so as to convey the pet food falling to the food distribution groove 602 among the plurality of flexible impellers 621 to a position corresponding to the food outlet channel 231.

A plurality of flexible impeller 621 of this application embodiment can satisfy the accurate minute grain of share and the different requirements of large granule pet grain to the grain dead slot simultaneously: accurate minute grain of branch needs less branch grain groove 602 in a small part, large granule pet grain then needs great branch grain groove 602, the embodiment of this application has provided and has set up flexible impeller 621 into flexible structure, and set up more flexible impeller 621 in the periphery of carousel 62, with this volume that divides grain groove 602 between two adjacent flexible impeller 621 that reduces, with this satisfy the accurate demand of dividing grain to less branch grain groove 602 in a small part, and simultaneously, drop to dividing grain groove 602 department when large granule pet grain, two adjacent flexible impeller 621 can be to the both sides deformation under the extrusion of large granule pet grain and enlarge the volume that single divides grain groove 602 in a small part, with this demand that satisfies large granule pet grain to great branch grain groove 602.

According to the embodiment of the present invention, the number of the impellers in the embodiment of the present invention includes, but is not limited to, 4, and the volume of the single food distribution groove 602 can be adjusted by adjusting the number and the height of the impellers, so as to achieve the purpose of adjusting the single food falling amount of the pet food dispensing device 100. For example, the flexible impellers 621 comprise a ladder-shaped space structure, a rectangular space structure or a triangular space structure, and the flexible impellers 621 are arranged into the ladder-shaped space structure, so that the two adjacent flexible impellers 621 can form the grain distribution groove 602 in a funnel shape with a large upper part and a small lower part, and the flexible impellers 621 have good deformation capacity, so that the grain distribution groove 602 can be telescopic.

According to the embodiment of the invention, the grain distribution assembly 60 further comprises a grain distribution bin 601 arranged at the bottom of the grain storage barrel 30, the rotary table 62 and the plurality of flexible impellers 621 are arranged on the grain distribution bin 601, the plurality of flexible impellers 621 divide the grain distribution bin 601 into the plurality of telescopic grain distribution grooves 602, the plurality of flexible impellers 621 are in airtight contact with the inner wall of the grain distribution bin 601, pet grains cannot enter an airtight space formed between the plurality of flexible impellers 621 and the inner wall of the grain distribution bin 601, a partition 63 is arranged between the grain distribution bin 601 and the grain storage barrel 30, the partition 63 is provided with a grain dropping opening 6011 communicating the grain storage barrel 30 and the grain distribution grooves 602, and the bottom of the grain distribution bin 601 is provided with a grain distribution hole 6012 communicating the grain distribution grooves 602 and the grain outlet channel 231.

In this embodiment, the driving motor and the gear set 61 of the grain distribution assembly 60 are both disposed outside the grain distribution bin 601, and a portion of the transmission shaft 612 connected to the gear set 61 extends into the grain distribution bin 601 and is connected to the driving shaft 611, so as to reduce the phenomenon that the driving motor and the gear set 61 occupy the internal space of the grain distribution bin 601. The grain distributing hole 6011 arranged at the top of the grain distributing bin 601 and the grain distributing hole 6012 arranged at the bottom of the grain distributing bin 601 are distributed in a staggered mode, pet grains falling from the grain distributing hole 6011 can only be fully supplemented to one grain distributing groove 602 in the grain distributing bin 601 once, the filled grain distributing groove 602 rotates downwards to the grain distributing hole 6012 under the driving of a driving device of the grain distributing assembly 60, and then the filled grain distributing groove 602 falls into the food tray 40 from the grain distributing hole 6012, so that the purpose of small-part accurate grain discharging is achieved.

Further, the part of the driving shaft 611 of the grain distribution component 60 extending to the grain storage barrel 30 is also provided with a stirring impeller 65, when a user places pet food in the food storage barrel 30 and the pet feeder 100 is powered on, the driving motor of the food distribution assembly 60 drives the transmission assembly to rotate, the transmission assembly drives the stirring impeller 65 and the flexible impeller 621 to rotate at the same time through the driving shaft 611, the stirring impeller 65 can stir the pet food from the food storage barrel 30 into the food distribution bin 601 through the food outlet 6011 and the flexible impeller 621 rotates under the driving of the driving shaft 611, when the grain distribution groove 602 filled with pet food rotates to the grain distribution hole 6012 of the grain distribution bin 601, pet food originally stored in the area of the food dividing groove 602 flows out of the food dividing hole 6012 and drops into the food tray 40 through the food outlet channel 231, therefore, the pet food is output in portions by an intermittent food output mode, and the food output quantity can be more accurate.

When a product is standby or stopped, the flexible impeller 621 rotates to the grain distribution hole 6012 of the grain distribution bin 601 to completely block the grain distribution hole 6012, so that the grain distribution hole 6012 of the grain distribution bin 601 is sealed, then the flexible impeller 621 stops at the grain distribution hole 6012 to seal the grain distribution bin 601, and insects and ants are prevented from entering the grain distribution bin 601.

The grain dropping opening 6011 of the grain distribution bin 601 is further provided with a grain limiting brush 64 extending into the grain distribution bin 601, the two sides of the grain dropping opening 6011 of the grain distribution bin 601 are provided with the grain limiting brushes 64, after pet grains enter the grain distribution bin 601, the pet grains can be firstly accumulated in a grain distribution groove 602 in a non-impeller area, after the grain distribution groove 602 is fully filled with the pet grains, the pet grains can be accumulated above a flexible impeller 621, and therefore when each grain distribution groove 602 is rotationally divided into grain distribution holes 6012, more pet grains than design components can drop to the tray 40 to cause too much grain discharge. When the embodiment of this application sets up limit grain brush 64 through grain dropping opening 6011 department, when flexible impeller 621 drove pet grain rotatory, limit grain brush 64 can scrape the unnecessary pet grain in branch grain groove 602 top to next branch grain groove 602 to this share of guaranteeing the pet grain that every share was sent out is the same size, accomplishes the purpose of accurate play grain with this.

According to the embodiment of the invention, the inner wall of the rear shell 21 is provided with a mounting table at a position corresponding to the arc-shaped enclosing plate 211, the side wall of the mounting table is configured to match the outer profile of the grain storage barrel 30, the mounting table and the arc-shaped enclosing plate 211 are provided with two corresponding correlation sensors 202, the mounting table and the arc-shaped enclosing plate 211 are provided with assembly grooves of the correlation sensors 202, the correlation sensors 202 are firstly mounted in a limiting cylinder, and the limiting cylinder is buckled on the mounting table and the assembly grooves of the arc-shaped enclosing plate 211 through two buckles.

The function of the opposite-emitting sensor 202 is to receive the infrared rays emitted by the other sensor through one sensor to judge whether pet food is left in the food storage barrel 30 or not so as to remind a user of adding food in time. Store up grain bucket 30 and adopt transparent material to make, it is enough when the pet grain in storing up grain bucket 30, the height of pet grain is higher than the position of correlation sensor 202, at this moment, infrared signal can not be accepted to correlation sensor 202, the controller can judge that the pet grain is sufficient, when the height of the pet grain in storing up grain bucket 30 is less than correlation sensor 202, infrared signal can be received to correlation sensor 202, the procedure judges that pet feeder 100 is short of grain, and give this partial information passback and remind the user in time to add grain for the APP terminal.

As shown in fig. 14 and 15, according to the embodiment of the present invention, the pet food dispensing device 100 further comprises a cover assembly 50, wherein an elastic pressing assembly is disposed on the top of the cover assembly 50, the side end of the elastic pressing assembly is telescopically extended to the side wall of the cover assembly 50 and is engaged with the housing assembly 20, a boss-shaped handle 511 is disposed on the top of the cover assembly 50, two opposite side walls of the boss-shaped handle 511 form two holding pieces 53, and at least one of the holding pieces 53 is connected to a sliding buckle 55 extending out of the side wall of the cover assembly 50 through an elastic element 54.

In the embodiment, the cover assembly 50 is composed of a lower cover 52, an upper cover 51, a holding member 53, an elastic element 54 and a sliding button 55, and when the user covers the cover 51 and covers the cover assembly 50, the user can directly pinch the two holding members 53 of the cover assembly 50 with one hand and place the cover assembly at the opening of the housing assembly 20. One way is to press the holding member 53 in advance to make the two sliding fasteners 55 shrink toward the inside of the cover assembly 50, and then place the cover assembly 50 at the opening of the housing assembly 20, and then release the holding member 53 to achieve the purpose of covering the cover assembly 50 on the pet feeding device 100. Alternatively, the cover assembly 50 may be directly pressed to the opening of the housing assembly 20 without pressing the holding member 53, and the inclined surface of the sliding buckle 55 will contract and slide inward after contacting the inclined surface buckling position 213 at the opening of the housing assembly 20 until the sliding buckle 55 is buckled with the inclined surface buckling position 213 at the opening.

When the cover assembly 50 needs to be taken out, the sliding buckle 55 can be retracted into the cover assembly 50 by pressing the holding piece 53 with one hand, so that the purpose of separating the sliding buckle 55 from the buckling position of the shell assembly 20 is achieved, and then the cover assembly 50 can be taken out from the shell assembly 20.

As shown in fig. 15, the holding member 53, the elastic element 54 and the sliding buckle 55 constitute an elastic pressing assembly, the holding member 53 and the sliding buckle 55 are fastened by screws or buckle positions, one end of the sliding buckle 55 is a buckle position matched with the inclined buckle position at the opening of the housing assembly 20, the other end of the sliding buckle 55 is a mounting column for mounting the elastic element 54, the elastic element 54 is mounted on the two mounting columns of the sliding buckle 55, and the upper cover 51 and the lower cover 52 of the cover assembly 50 are both provided with a limit rib of the elastic element 54 and a limit rib of the sliding buckle 55. The inclined plane is buckled the inner wall setting that position protrusion casing subassembly 20 was detained, detains the position in order to make storage grain bucket 30 avoid the inclined plane, clearance fit between storage grain bucket 30 and the casing subassembly 20, and the opening part of storing up grain bucket 30 is provided with the flanging structure, shelters from the clearance of storing up between grain bucket 30 and the casing subassembly 20 through the flanging structure, and the flanging structure is provided with detains position complex spacing groove 301 with the inclined plane.

The cover body assembly 50 comprises a groove position arranged on the side surface of the lower cover 52, a circle of elastic sealing ring 57 is arranged at the groove position, the elastic sealing ring 57 is arranged to be an elastic sealing ring 57 with a V-shaped structure, the upper end of the elastic sealing ring 57 is inclined towards two sides separately, and the lower end of the elastic sealing ring 57 is converged together, so when the cover body assembly 50 is placed on the grain storage barrel 30, because the lower end of the elastic sealing ring 57 is smaller, the lower end of the cover body assembly 50 can enter the grain storage barrel 30 easily, in the pressing-down process of the cover body assembly 50, the inclined surface of the elastic sealing ring 57 is contacted with the upper edge of the grain storage barrel 30 gradually, the inclined surface of the cover body assembly 50 is buckled to the inclined surface of the shell body assembly 20 through a loose buckle 55, and a tight buckle position is reached, and the sealing of the grain storage barrel 30 is reached.

Lid subassembly 50 is still including setting up in the drier lid 56 of the inner wall of lower cover 52, drier lid 56 and the cooperation of storing up grain bucket 30, drier lid 56 joint to the bottom inner wall of lower cover 50, and form the drying space between the lower cover 52, can hold the drier in the drying space, and drier lid 56 is provided with a plurality of drying holes that communicate storage grain bucket 30 and drier, the steam in the storage grain bucket 30 can get into drying space and desiccant reaction through a plurality of drying holes, be used for carrying out drying process to the pet grain that stores up in the grain bucket 30.

It is understood that the combination structure of the elastic pressing member as the holder 53, the elastic member 54 and the sliding button 55 is only a preferred embodiment of the present application and is not limited to the protection scope of the elastic pressing member, for example, embodiments of the present application also propose that the sliding button 55 of the elastic pressing member is provided as a magnetic member, the inner wall of the housing member 20 is provided with a magnetic sheet cooperating with the sliding button 55, or the end of the sliding button 55 of the elastic pressing member is provided as a flexible pad which is pressed to the inner wall of the housing member 20. Through setting up slip knot 55 as magnetic element or flexible pad to need not set up the inclined plane at the inner wall of casing subassembly 20 and detain the position, with this clearance that reduces between storage grain bucket 30 and the casing subassembly 20, the opening part of storage grain bucket 30 is provided with the structure of turning up the hem.

The above description is only for the preferred embodiment of the present application, but the scope of the present application is not limited thereto, and any changes or substitutions that can be easily conceived by those skilled in the art within the technical scope of the present application should be covered within the scope of the present application. Therefore, the protection scope of the present application shall be subject to the protection scope of the claims.