CN218792166U

CN218792166U - Water tank and household appliance

Info

Publication number: CN218792166U
Application number: CN202222050773.3U
Authority: CN
Inventors: 朱泽春; 姚颖锋
Original assignee: Joyoung Co Ltd
Current assignee: Joyoung Co Ltd
Priority date: 2022-08-04
Filing date: 2022-08-04
Publication date: 2023-04-07
Anticipated expiration: 2032-08-04

Abstract

The application discloses a water tank and a household appliance, wherein the water tank comprises a tank body and a handle, the handle is rotatably connected with the tank body through a rotating shaft, and one side of the tank body is provided with an installation position for fixing the tank body; the rotating shaft is positioned between the mounting position and a vertical plane where the center of gravity of the water tank is located, or the axis of the rotating shaft is positioned in the vertical plane where the center of gravity of the water tank is located; the household appliance comprises a machine body and the water tank detachably mounted on the machine body, wherein the machine body comprises a main support, and the main support is provided with a plug-in position which is used for being matched with the mounting position to position the water tank. This application is through the position of injecing the pivot to make the water tank in assembling process, the gravity of water tank can produce the lower part that makes the water tank and hold vertical state towards the rotatory moment in installation position one side or messenger's water tank, thereby makes things convenient for the operator to assemble the water tank fast to predetermineeing the mounted position.

Description

Water tank and household appliance

Technical Field

The application belongs to the technical field of household appliances, and particularly relates to a water tank and a household appliance.

Background

A water tank is provided on a body of a home appliance such as a water purifier, a dish washer, a steam cooker, a steam mop, etc. to supply water or steam to a target location. And for the convenience of washing the water tank, current domestic appliance's water tank is mostly detachable structure, generally sets up the grafting position of feed tank installation on domestic appliance's the organism, sets up the grafting structure with this grafting position adaptation on the water tank, need not during the assembly with the help of other auxiliary connection component, directly carry the water tank to organism top and place downwards grafting position can.

In order to realize carrying of water tank in convenient, current water tank design has rotatable handle, and avoid taking place to interfere with domestic appliance's organism after avoiding in order to accomodate and accomodate the handle for the sake of convenience, the handle of current water tank is close to the anterior setting of water tank more, so that can overturn forward when it needs to accomodate in order to carry on the one side at the water tank organism dorsad, this design has made things convenient for accomodating to the handle, but when assembling the water tank to the organism, because the handle position leans on forward relatively, and the whole focus of water tank leans on the back, the holistic gravity of water tank produces the moment of water tank the place ahead slope to the water tank, make the water tank lower part orientation deviate from the one side slope of organism, and inconvenient assemble the grafting position to the organism with the water tank, especially hold under the full water condition in the water tank, the installation of relapse counterpoint brings very big burden for operator's wrist, reduce user experience.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

The application provides a water tank and domestic appliance to solve the technical problem of counterpoint difficulty in the current water tank assembling process.

The technical scheme adopted by the application is as follows:

a water tank comprises a tank body and a handle, wherein the handle is rotatably connected with the tank body through a rotating shaft, and one side of the tank body is provided with an installation position for fixing the tank body; the rotating shaft is located between the installation position and a vertical plane where the center of gravity of the water tank is located, or the axis of the rotating shaft is located in the vertical plane where the center of gravity of the water tank is located.

The water tank also comprises the following additional technical features:

the installation position is provided with an insertion groove, a machine using the water tank is provided with an insertion position matched with the insertion groove, and the insertion groove and the insertion position are inserted in a vertical direction.

The inlet end of the insertion groove is provided with a guide inclined plane, and the guide inclined plane extends towards one side departing from the interior of the box body so as to form a flaring structure at the inlet end of the insertion groove.

The bottom of box is equipped with the mouth of a river, mouth of a river department is equipped with the water valve, the mouth of a river with use the water route interface grafting cooperation of the machine of water tank, just the water route interface department is equipped with and is used for the liftout piece of back-out the water valve.

The application also discloses domestic appliance, including organism and detachably install in the water tank of organism, the water tank is as above the water tank, the organism includes the main support, the main support be equipped with be used for with installation position cooperation is in order to fix a position the grafting position of water tank.

The household appliance further comprises the following additional technical features:

the main support is provided with a guide convex rib extending vertically, one side of the installation position of the box body is provided with a guide groove matched with the guide convex rib, and the top of the guide convex rib is provided with the insertion position.

The inserting position is provided with a baffle plate, and the baffle plate is matched with the stop of the mounting position to limit the movement of the water tank along the horizontal direction; the inserting position is further provided with a reinforcing rib, one end of the reinforcing rib is fixedly connected with the baffle, and the other end of the reinforcing rib is abutted against one side of the mounting position so as to limit the shaking amount of the water tank in the horizontal direction.

The machine body further comprises a base connected with the main support, the base is provided with a waterway interface used for communicating a water port of the box body, at least one of the water port and the waterway interface is provided with an inserting sleeve, and the water port and the waterway interface are matched in an inserting mode through the inserting sleeve.

The water inlet is arranged at the water inlet of the raw water area, the water outlet is arranged at the waste water area, the water channel interface comprises a water inlet used for communicating the water outlet and a waste water outlet used for communicating the waste water inlet.

The outer peripheral face of the base is provided with a guide face, the bottom of the box body is provided with an enclosing barrier, and the enclosing barrier abuts against the guide face when the box body is assembled to the machine body.

Due to the adoption of the technical scheme, the beneficial effects obtained by the application are as follows:

1. the pivot of water tank handle is located between the vertical face at the installation position of box and the focus place of water tank in this application, when assembling the water tank to the predetermined mounted position of organism, the position of the pivot of handle is injectd and is makeed the whole gravity of water tank in the assembling process and can give the water tank and predetermine the rotatory moment of mounted position, thereby during the feasible assembly, the lower part of water tank can support in advance and lean on the subregion of organism, and support each other because between them and support and both had both offset some gravity at the in-process of lapse, make operator's operation more laborsaving, can provide certain direction for the removal of water tank because of supporting each other, make things convenient for the operator to assemble the water tank to predetermineeing mounted position fast, the assembly efficiency is promoted, bad experience such as wrist ache that the counterpoint brought for the operator many times has been reduced.

Or, the axis of the pivot of handle is located the vertical plane at the focus place of water tank in this application, and when assembling the water tank to the predetermined mounted position of organism, the position of the pivot of handle is injectd and is makeed the whole gravity of water tank in the assembling process and can make the water tank keep vertical state, and convenience of customers follows the gravity of water tank and directly assembles the water tank to predetermined mounted position downwards, has avoided the installation of counterpointing many times, has promoted assembly efficiency.

2. As an preferred embodiment of this application, the installation position of water tank is equipped with the inserting groove, the machine that uses the water tank be equipped with the grafting position of inserting groove adaptation, inserting groove and grafting position are pegged graft along vertical direction to avoided the problem of the stress concentration of grafting position department because of the slant is pegged graft and is brought, and can realize the firm installation of water tank through the grafting cooperation, saved other auxiliary connection component, realized the installation of step by step, and is convenient, swift, joyful user experience.

3. As an optimal implementation mode of the application, the water port of the bottom of the box body is provided with a water valve, the water port is in plug-in fit with a waterway interface of a machine using the water tank, a pushing piece used for pushing the water valve is arranged at the waterway interface, the water port of the box body is in plug-in fit with the waterway interface of the machine, higher requirements are provided for the verticality of the water tank during assembly, meanwhile, plug-in connection of the water port of the box body and the waterway interface of the machine further provides guidance for the water tank to be installed, and quick and accurate alignment of the water tank is guaranteed. And the arrangement of the water valve also ensures that the water port at the bottom of the box body is not leaked in the process of transferring the position of the water tank storing water, thereby ensuring the water storage capacity and reducing the cleaning burden on a user due to water leakage.

4. Domestic appliance in this application includes that organism and detachably install in the water tank of organism, the water tank adopt as in this application the water tank, thereby make domestic appliance possess water tank detachable performance, made things convenient for the user to wash the water tank and shift the water tank to the position of easy water receiving with the realization to the retaining of water tank, and the pivot position's of water tank handle injectd in this application, also made things convenient for the user to frequently trade water and the product application of wasing the water tank at domestic appliance this type of needs and realized the rapid Assembly to the water tank, joyful user experience.

5. As an preferred embodiment of this application, domestic appliance's main support is equipped with along the protruding muscle of vertical direction of extending, and the box is equipped with one side of installation position is equipped with the direction recess with the protruding muscle adaptation of direction, and the top of the protruding muscle of direction is equipped with the installation position grafting complex position with the water tank, and the setting of the protruding muscle of direction has not only promoted the structural strength of main support, has promoted the bearing capacity of main support, and the cooperation of the protruding muscle of direction and direction recess can provide the assembly direction at the in-process of water tank assembly moreover, further promotes the agility of the vertical installation of water tank.

6. As an preferred embodiment of this application, the base of organism is equipped with the water route interface that is used for the mouth of a river of intercommunication box, and at least one between mouth of a river and the water route interface is equipped with the grafting sleeve between them, the mouth of a river with the water route interface passes through the grafting sleeve cooperation of pegging graft, the telescopic setting of pegging graft also provides the direction for the assembly of water tank, has promoted the agility of the vertical installation of water tank, also provides the direction of basis for the dismantlement of follow-up water tank, avoids the slant to carry the emergence of the unable unhook smoothly of grafting position and installation position that leads to.

Furthermore, the outer peripheral surface of the base is provided with a guide surface, the bottom of the box body is provided with an enclosure, and the enclosure abuts against the guide surface when the box body is assembled to the machine body. The cooperation of guide surface and enclosing fender not only provides the direction for the dismouting of water tank, encloses the fender moreover and can form the base and shelter from to the uniformity of domestic appliance complete machine outward appearance has been guaranteed.

Drawings

The accompanying drawings, which are included to provide a further understanding of the application and are incorporated in and constitute a part of this application, illustrate embodiment(s) of the application and together with the description serve to explain the application and not to limit the application. In the drawings:

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of one embodiment of a water tank as described herein;

FIG. 2 is a sectional view of the assembly of one embodiment of the water tank and the housing of the present application;

fig. 3 is a schematic view illustrating an assembly process of the water tank and the machine body according to an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 4 is a cross-sectional view of the water tank and the housing assembled in accordance with one embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 5 is an enlarged view of portion A of FIG. 4;

fig. 6 is an assembly view of the water tank and the machine body according to an embodiment of the present application.

Wherein,

1. the water tank, 11. The box body, 111. The inserting groove, 112. The guiding inclined plane, 12. The handle, 13 rotating shafts, 14. The enclosure and 15. The clapboard;

2. the device comprises a main support, 21 guiding convex ribs, 22 inserting positions, 23 baffle plates and 24 reinforcing ribs;

3. base, 31, guide surface.

Detailed Description

In order to more clearly explain the overall concept of the present application, the following detailed description is given by way of example in conjunction with the accompanying drawings.

In the following description, numerous specific details are set forth in order to provide a thorough understanding of the present application, however, the present application may be practiced in other ways than those described herein, and therefore the scope of the present application is not limited by the specific embodiments disclosed below. It should be noted that the embodiments and features of the embodiments may be combined with each other without conflict.

In addition, in the description of the present application, it is to be understood that the terms "top," "bottom," "inner," "outer," "axial," "radial," "circumferential," and the like refer to orientations or positional relationships illustrated in the drawings, which are used for convenience in describing the present application and to simplify the description, and do not indicate or imply that the referenced device or element must have a particular orientation, be constructed and operated in a particular orientation, and thus, are not to be considered limiting of the present application.

In this application, unless expressly stated or limited otherwise, the terms "mounted," "connected," "secured," and the like are to be construed broadly and encompass, for example, both fixed and removable connections or integral parts thereof; the connection can be mechanical connection, electrical connection or communication; they may be directly connected or indirectly connected through intervening media, or may be connected through the use of two elements or the interaction of two elements. The specific meaning of the above terms in the present application can be understood by those of ordinary skill in the art as appropriate.

In this application, unless expressly stated or limited otherwise, the first feature "on" or "under" the second feature may be directly contacting the first and second features or indirectly contacting the first and second features through intervening media. In the description herein, reference to the description of the term "one embodiment," "some embodiments," "an example," "a specific example," or "some examples," etc., means that a particular feature, structure, material, or characteristic described in connection with the embodiment or example is included in at least one embodiment or example of the application. In this specification, the schematic representations of the terms used above are not necessarily intended to refer to the same embodiment or example. Furthermore, the particular features, structures, materials, or characteristics described may be combined in any suitable manner in any one or more embodiments or examples.

As shown in fig. 1 to 6, a water tank comprises a tank body 11 and a handle 12, wherein the handle 12 is rotatably connected with the tank body 11 through a rotating shaft 13, and one side of the tank body 11 is provided with an installation position for fixing the tank body 11; the rotating shaft 13 is located between the installation position and a vertical plane where the center of gravity of the water tank 1 is located, or the axis of the rotating shaft 13 is located in the vertical plane where the center of gravity of the water tank 1 is located.

In this application the centre of gravity of the water tank refers to both the centre of gravity of the water tank itself (in the empty tank state) and also the centre of gravity of the water tank in the state of storing water.

In this application, pivot 13 of handle 12 of water tank 1 is located between the vertical face at the installation position of box 11 and the focus place of water tank 1, when assembling water tank 1 to the predetermined mounted position of organism, the position of pivot 13 of handle 12 is injectd and is made the whole gravity of water tank 1 in the assembling process can give water tank 1 orientation and predetermine the rotatory moment of mounted position, thereby when making the assembly, as shown in fig. 3, the lower part of water tank 1 can support in advance to lean on the subregion of organism, only need continue to place downwards water tank 1 this moment can, support each other at the in-process water tank 1 of downward movement and lean on each other with the organism and both offset some gravity, make operator's operation more laborsaving, can provide certain direction for water tank 1's removal because of supporting each other again, make things convenient for the operator with water tank 1 rapid Assembly to predetermine the mounted position, the assembly efficiency has been promoted, bad experience such as wrist ache that the operator brought for the operator has been reduced many times counterpointed.

Or, the axis of the pivot 13 of handle 12 is located the vertical plane at the focus place of water tank 1 in this application, when assembling water tank 1 to the preset installation position of organism, the position of the pivot 13 of handle 12 is injectd and is made the whole gravity of water tank 1 can make water tank 1 keep vertical state in the assembling process, convenience of customers follows that the gravity of water tank 1 directly assembles water tank 1 to preset installation position downwards, avoided the installation of counterpointing many times, promoted assembly efficiency.

As a preferred embodiment of the present application, as shown in fig. 2, 4 and 5, the installation site is provided with an insertion groove 111, the machine using the water tank 1 is provided with an insertion site 22 adapted to the insertion groove 111, and the insertion groove 111 and the insertion site 22 are inserted in a vertical direction. Therefore, the problem of stress concentration at the splicing position 22 caused by oblique splicing is solved, the water tank 1 can be stably installed through splicing matching, other auxiliary connecting components are omitted, one-step installation is realized, convenience and rapidness are realized, and user experience is enjoyed.

As a preferred example of the present embodiment, as shown in fig. 2 and 5, a partial area of the rear side wall of the box 11 (a side of the box 11 facing the inserting position 22) is recessed toward the inside of the box 11 to form a mounting step between the recessed area and a non-recessed area of the box 11, the non-recessed area of the box 11 extends downward to form the inserting groove 111 with an opening facing downward in cooperation with the mounting step, a partial area of the front side wall of the machine provided with the inserting position 22 (a side of the machine facing the inserting groove 111) is projected toward the box 11 to form a supporting step opposite to the mounting step, and the non-projecting area of the front side wall of the machine extends upward to form the inserting position 22 with an opening facing upward. The design of this embodiment has guaranteed that water tank 1 assembles to corresponding machine after, the back lateral wall of box 11 can hug closely with the preceding lateral wall of machine to avoid appearing great fit clearance between the two and lead to the entering of external impurity etc. and cause the separation to appear between the two to feel.

As another preferred embodiment under the present embodiment, as shown in fig. 5, an inlet end of the insertion slot 111 is provided with a guiding inclined surface 112, the guiding inclined surface 112 extends towards a side away from the inside of the box body 11 to form a flared structure at the inlet end of the insertion slot 111, and the arrangement of the guiding inclined surface 112 and the formation of the flared structure can form a guide for the box body 11 to slide down to the insertion position 22, so that the insertion slot 111 can be conveniently and quickly guided into the insertion position 22, and the assembly efficiency is improved.

As a preferred embodiment of this application, the bottom of box 11 is equipped with the mouth of a river, mouth of a river department is equipped with the water valve, the mouth of a river with use the water route interface grafting cooperation of the machine of water tank 1, just the water route interface department is equipped with and is used for kicking open the ejector member of water valve. The water gap of the box body 11 and the water channel interface of the machine are in a plug-in matching mode, so that higher requirements are provided for the verticality of the water tank 1 during assembly, meanwhile, the plug-in connection of the water gap and the water channel interface further provides guidance for the water tank 1 during assembly, and the water tank 1 is guaranteed to be aligned quickly and accurately. The arrangement of the water valve also ensures that the water port at the bottom of the box body 11 is not leaked in the process of transferring the position of the water tank 1 storing water, thereby ensuring the water storage capacity and reducing the cleaning burden on users due to water leakage.

Furthermore, the box 11 is also provided with a reset element, preferably, the reset element is a spring, when the box 11 is assembled to the machine using the water tank 1, the water valve moves upwards under the action of the pushing element to open the water gap, and when the water tank 1 is lifted and transferred, the water valve resets under the action of the reset element to close the water gap.

The application also discloses domestic appliance, including organism and detachably install in the water tank 1 of organism, water tank 1 is as above water tank 1, the organism includes main support 2, main support 2 be equipped with be used for with installation position cooperation is in order to fix a position the grafting position 22 of water tank 1. It should be noted that the household appliances in the present application include, but are not limited to, water purifiers, dish washers, steam cookers, steam mops, and the like, which are required to be equipped with the water tank 1 to supply water or steam to a target location.

As a preferred embodiment of the present application, as shown in fig. 3 to 5, the main support 2 is provided with a guiding convex rib 21 extending vertically, one side of the installation position of the box body 11 is provided with a guiding groove adapted to the guiding convex rib 21, and the top of the guiding convex rib 21 is provided with the inserting position 22. The setting of the protruding muscle 21 of direction has not only promoted the structural strength of main support 2, has promoted the bearing capacity of main support 2, and the cooperation of the protruding muscle 21 of direction and direction recess can provide the assembly direction at the in-process of 1 assembly of water tank moreover, further promotes the agility of 1 vertical installations of water tank.

Furthermore, as shown in fig. 2, the guiding groove is disposed in the middle of the rear side wall of the box body 11, the guiding rib 21 is disposed in the middle of the front side wall of the main support 2, the box body 11 and the main support 2 are inserted in the middle to realize mutual spacing, and the stability of the box body 11 after installation is ensured.

As a preferred embodiment of the present embodiment, as shown in fig. 5, the inserting position 22 is provided with a baffle 23, and the baffle 23 cooperates with the stop of the installation position to limit the movement of the water tank 1 along the horizontal direction, so as to limit the horizontal direction of the tank body 11 and ensure the stability of the tank body 11 in the horizontal direction after assembly; the inserting position 22 is further provided with a reinforcing rib 24, one end of the reinforcing rib 24 is fixedly connected with the baffle 23, the other end of the reinforcing rib is abutted against one side of the mounting position, so that the shaking amount of the water tank 1 in the horizontal direction is limited, the stability of the assembled tank body 11 is further guaranteed, the accurate mounting of the tank body 11 is realized, and the water gap at the bottom of the tank body 11 can be accurately aligned with the waterway interface of the household appliance.

As a preferred embodiment of the present application, the machine body further includes a base 3 connected to the main support 2, the base 3 is provided with a waterway interface for communicating with a water port of the box body 11, at least one of the water port and the waterway interface is provided with an insertion sleeve, and the water port and the waterway interface are matched with each other through the insertion sleeve in an insertion manner. The arrangement of the inserting sleeve also provides a guide for the assembly of the water tank 1, the vertical installation rapidity of the water tank 1 is improved, the guide of a foundation is provided for the subsequent disassembly of the water tank 1, and the phenomenon that the inserting position 22 and the installation position cannot be smoothly unhooked due to oblique lifting is avoided.

Further, as shown in fig. 3 and 4, the outer peripheral surface of the base 3 is provided with a guiding surface 31, the bottom of the box 11 is provided with a barrier 14, and in a state that the box 11 is assembled to the machine body, the barrier 14 abuts against the guiding surface 31. The cooperation of guide surface 31 and enclosing fender 14 not only provides the direction for the dismouting of water tank 1, encloses fender 14 moreover and can form the base 3 and shelter from to the uniformity of domestic appliance complete machine outward appearance has been guaranteed.

When will water tank 1 is applied to the domestic appliance of requirement relatively higher to quality of water such as purifier, steam rice cooker, as an preferred embodiment of this application, as fig. 2, be equipped with baffle 15 in the box 11, baffle 15 will the inner space of box 11 separates for former water district and waste water district, the mouth of a river is including locating the outlet in former water district and locating the waste water entry in waste water district, the water route interface is including being used for the intercommunication the water inlet of outlet and being used for the intercommunication the waste water export of waste water entry to the function of water tank 1 has been expanded, makes it possess the dual function of raw water deposit and waste water collection, has simplified the global design of the machine of using this water tank 1, makes the integrated nature of complete machine structure higher, and the structure is compacter, helps the miniaturization of complete machine.

Where not mentioned in this application, can be accomplished using or referencing existing technology.

The embodiments in the present specification are described in a progressive manner, and the same and similar parts among the embodiments are referred to each other, and each embodiment focuses on the differences from the other embodiments.

The above description is only an example of the present application and is not intended to limit the present application. Various modifications and changes may occur to those skilled in the art. Any modification, equivalent replacement, improvement, etc. made within the spirit and principle of the present application should be included in the scope of the claims of the present application.

Claims

1. A water tank comprises a tank body and a handle, wherein the handle is rotatably connected with the tank body through a rotating shaft, and the water tank is characterized in that one side of the tank body is provided with an installation position for fixing the tank body; the rotating shaft is located between the installation position and a vertical plane where the center of gravity of the water tank is located, or the axis of the rotating shaft is located in the vertical plane where the center of gravity of the water tank is located.

2. A water tank according to claim 1,

3. A water tank according to claim 2,

4. A water tank according to claim 1,

5. A household appliance comprising a body and a water tank removably mounted to the body, wherein the water tank is as claimed in any one of claims 1 to 4, the body comprising a main support provided with a socket for cooperating with the mounting location to locate the water tank.

6. A household appliance according to claim 5,

7. A household appliance according to claim 6,

the inserting position is provided with a baffle plate, and the baffle plate is matched with the stop of the mounting position to limit the movement of the water tank along the horizontal direction;

the inserting position is further provided with a reinforcing rib, one end of the reinforcing rib is fixedly connected with the baffle, and the other end of the reinforcing rib is abutted against one side of the mounting position so as to limit the shaking amount of the water tank in the horizontal direction.

8. A household appliance according to claim 5,

9. A household appliance according to claim 8,

10. A household appliance according to claim 8,