The present invention relates to the field of personal and household sanitation device, and more particularly to an excrement automatic cleaning apparatus without need of undressing and dressing which is designed for the mobility disabled person.
Currently put into the market is an excrement and urine automatic disposal system, which is designed for the mobility disabled person and serves to automatically dispose excrement and urine of the mobility disabled person, and which generally comprises an excrement and urine automatic disposal apparatus and a toilet cooperating with the excrement and urine automatic disposal apparatus. The excrement and urine automatic disposal apparatus is generally provided with an evacuation barrel, a negative pressure device, a hot water device, a hot air device and a control device. The evacuation barrel accommodates excrement and urine discharged from the human body. The toilet is generally provided with an excrement collecting area, an excrement and urine discharging port, a hot water inlet pipe and a hot air inlet pipe. The excrement collecting area is further provided with an excrement and urine discharging port which is connected with an excrement and urine discharging duct. The evacuation barrel is connected with the excrement and urine discharging duct via the negative pressure device, for drawing the excrement and urine into the evacuation barrel by negative pressure. The hot water inlet pipe is connected with the hot water device via a hot water pipe, for flushing the excrement and urine place of the user. The hot air inlet pipe is connected with the hot air device via a hot air pipe, for drying the excrement and urine place of the user. The control device further comprises an interactive interface which is provided with an ON/OFF switch. In particular, the control device may further be provided with a remote controller for switching ON/OFF.
However, in the existing excrement and urine automatic disposal apparatus, once the mobility disabled person completes excrement and urine, a relatively large amount of hot water is required for washing, the moisture volatilizes relatively slowly, and it consumes more energy. In addition, at predetermined time or when the excrement and urine container reaches a certain capacity, it is generally necessary to remove the excrement and urine container from the disposal apparatus, dump in the bathroom, and flush with water. In this process, the caregiver may catch sight of the excrement and urine with eyes, smell the excrement and urine with noses, and wash the evacuation barrel manually with cleaning tools.
In addition, the existing toilets for cooperating with the excrement and urine automatic disposal apparatus have a common feature in that, when the mobility disabled person needs defecation, it is necessary for the user to have a self-care ability or a caregiver to install various toilets as mentioned above to the excrement and urine discharging place; and when the defecation is complete, it is also necessary for the caregiver to remove the toilets. It is impossible to automatically and intelligently complete the process of discharging the excrement and urine as well as sanitary disposal after the defecation without help from others. Especially due to the operation mode, material and structure of the existing toilet, it can not keep contact with the human body for a long time, and can only be removed from the excrement and urine discharging place by means of a mechanical transmission means or manually by the caregiver. It is relatively inconvenient for use.
In view of this, the inventors have studied the structure of the existing excrement and urine automatic disposal system in depth, and thereby accomplished the present application.
It is an object of the present invention to provide an excrement automatic cleaning apparatus without need of undressing and dressing. The toilet can be worn on a user for a long time. The user does not need any help from others during defecation, and the sanitary disposal after the defecation is simple. The advantages of lie in that there is no need of undressing and dressing the toilet and it is convenient, simple and comfortable to use.
The following solutions are proposed in the present invention to achieve the above objects.
An excrement automatic cleaning apparatus without need of undressing and dressing comprises a fully automatic disposal apparatus and a toilet. The toilet is provided with an excrement collecting area, an excrement and urine discharging port, a hot water inlet pipe and a hot air inlet pipe, which cooperate with the fully automatic disposal apparatus. The fully automatic disposal apparatus comprises a housing, and an evacuation barrel, a negative pressure device, a hot water device, a hot air device and a control device in the housing. The evacuation barrel is connected with the excrement and urine discharging port of the toilet via the excrement and urine discharging duct. The control device is connected with the negative pressure device, the hot water device and the hot air device, respectively. The negative pressure device, the hot water device and the hot air device are connected with the evacuation barrel, the hot water inlet pipe and the hot air inlet pipe, respectively. The fully automatic disposal apparatus is further provided with a packing device which is connected with the evacuation barrel and can seal and pack the excrement, urine and waste water. The toilet is self-adapting pants made of a soft facing material. The excrement collecting area is arranged at the crotch of the self-adapting pants and made of a soft and water-proof material. The fully automatic disposal apparatus is further provided with a positive pressure device which can inflate the self-adapting pants so that the excrement collecting area of the self-adapting pants is expanded to form a discharging space.
The housing comprises a rear chamber and a front chamber which are arranged in a high/low manner. The evacuation barrel, the packing device and the control device are arranged in the rear chamber. The evacuation barrel and the packing device are arranged in an up/down manner. The control device is arranged at a side of the evacuation barrel, the front chamber contains a negative pressure device, a hot air device and a hot water device which are arranged sequentially from left to right. The outlets of an inlet pipe, a hot air output pipe and a hot water output pipe, which correspond to the evacuation barrel, the hot air device and the hot water device, extend from the same neighboring position of the housing.
The evacuation barrel is provided with an inlet pipe, a negative pressure pipe and an outlet pipe for communicating with the excrement and urine discharging duct, the negative pressure device and the packing device, the outlet pipe is arranged at the bottom of the evacuation barrel, the outlets of the inlet pipe and the negative pressure pipe are arranged in a staggered manner, and the outlet of the negative pressure pipe is higher than the outlet of the inlet pipe.
The evacuation barrel is further provided with an evacuation barrel control valve at the outlet pipe, and the evacuation barrel control valve is connected with the control device.
The evacuation barrel is provided with a hot water pipe for communicating with the hot water device, and the outlet of the hot water pipe is located above the inlet pipe.
The packing device comprises a packing bag and a packing bag accommodating case for accommodating the packing bag, the packing bag accommodating case is located below the evacuation barrel, the packing bag is provided with a mouth for connecting with the evacuation barrel, and the mouth is provided with a tightening belt for sealing this mouth.
The hot water device comprises a water tank and a water heating device which are arranged in an up/down manner, the water tank is provided with a water inlet for feeding water at the upper portion, and the water tank is provided with supporting bars for supporting the water tank at the bottom.
The control device comprises a primary controller, a data acquisition module connected with an input terminal of the primary controller and a driver output module connected with an output terminal of the primary controller.
The control device further comprises an interactive unit connected with the primary controller, which comprises a liquid crystal display module and a key input module.
The housing is provided with road wheels for facilitating the housing to move around at the bottom.
With the above-mentioned solutions, the excrement automatic cleaning apparatus without need of undressing and dressing the present invention has the following beneficial effects, as compared with the existing excrement and urine automatic disposal system.
Firstly, after the excrement and urine is flushed to the evacuation barrel, the excrement, urine and waste water in the evacuation barrel can be sealed and packed into a packing bag by the packing device. The caregiver only needs to throw the packed waste into a dustbin, and does not have to directly contact the excrement and urine, which can largely improve working conditions of the caregiver and facilitate carrying out the nursing services.
Secondly, by using self-adapting pants made of a soft facing material as the toilet, and designing appropriately the self-adapting pants, such a toilet in the form of pants not only has various functions of the existing toilet, but also is soft and comfortable, so that it can be worn on a user for a long time, and substantially make no difference from the ordinary pants in comfort, wearing process and changing time. During excrement and urine, the user does not need help from others to dress and undress the toilet, and can start the excrement disposal apparatus at any time by himself to defecate, so that it is very convenient for use.
Thirdly, the self-adapting pants are further provided with a positive pressure device, which can inflate the self-adapting pants, so that the excrement collecting area of the self-adapting pants is expanded to form a discharging space. As a result, the negative pressure device can smoothly draw the waste into the evacuation barrel, which also improves the comfort of the user during a defecation process.
To further elucidate the solutions of the present invention, the present invention will hereinafter be set forth in detail by reference to the specific embodiments.
As shown in
The fully automatic disposal apparatus comprises a housing, as well as an evacuation barrel 1, a negative pressure device 2, a hot water device 3, a hot air device 4, a packing device 5, a positive pressure device 7 and a control device 6 in the housing.
The housing comprises a rear chamber 100 and a front chamber 200 which are arranged in a high/low manner. The evacuation barrel 1, the packing device 5 and the control device 6 are arranged in the rear chamber 100. As shown in
The evacuation barrel 1, as shown in
A vacuum pump in the negative pressure device 2 is connected with the negative pressure pipe 14 in the evacuation barrel 1, so that a negative pressure is produced in the evacuation barrel 1 to draw the excrement and urine discharged by the human body from the inlet pipe 13 into the evacuation barrel 1. In order to avoid the excrement and urine in the inlet pipe 13 is directly drawn into the negative pressure device 2, the outlets of the inlet pipe 13 and the negative pressure pipe 14 are arranged in a staggered manner, and the outlet of the negative pressure pipe 14 is located at a position higher than that of the outlet of the inlet pipe 13. As shown in
The packing device 5, as shown in
The hot water device 3 is connected with the hot water inlet pipe of the self-adapting pants 9 via the hot water output pipe. The water flow for flushing the user's excrement and urine place can be produced in the hot water device 3. After the water flow from the hot water device 3 flushes the user's excrement and urine place, it is directly passed by the inlet pipe 13 into the evacuation barrel 1 via the excrement and urine discharging duct 92 between the evacuation barrel 1 and the self-adapting pants 9. In particular, the hot water device 3 comprises a water tank 31, a water heating device 32 and a hot water pump 33 which are arranged in an up/down manner. As shown in
The hot air device 4 comprises an air heating device 41 and a hot air pump 42. The hot air pump 42 is connected with the hot water inlet pipe of the self-adapting pants 9 via a hot air output pipe. By means of the pressure provided by the hot air pump 41, an air flow is produced in the hot air output pipe and the hot water inlet pipe for drying the user's excrement and urine place. After drying the user's excrement and urine place, the air flow is discharged via the negative pressure device 2.
As shown in
The control device 6 is connected with the negative pressure device 2, the hot water device 3, the hot air device 4 and the positive pressure device 7, and controls the cooperation among them, i.e., controls the operating order of these devices. In particular, as shown in
The data acquisition module 62 may be divided into temperature, water level and pressure sampling circuit units. The temperature sampling comprises sampling the temperature of water in the hot water device 3 and sampling the temperature of air flow in the hot air device 4, the water level sampling comprises sampling level of water in the water tank 31 of the hot water device 3, and the pressure sampling comprises negative pressure sampling in the negative pressure device 2 and positive pressure sampling in the positive pressure device 7. The data acquisition module 62 may further comprise an alarm unit, which issues an alarm signal to correct the user's operation, so as to improve the safety performance of the apparatus.
The interactive unit 64 is connected with the primary control module 61, and especially comprises a key input module and a liquid crystal display module, which may enable to set and modify the apparatus control parameters, set the operation mode, display the current operation status, and provide manual control buttons or the like. The interactive unit 64 may further use a LCD display with a touch screen, and may be further provided with a speech function module. In addition, it is also possible to provide a remote control unit, to start and stop the whole excrement automatic cleaning apparatus wirelessly.
It is inevitable that there is excrement smell in the fully automatic disposal apparatus. In order to reduce such smell and improve cleanliness of air, according to the present invention, the fully automatic disposal apparatus is further provided with an air refreshing device 8 which is connected with the control device 6. The air refreshing device not only refreshes the air in the cleaning apparatus, but also serves to sterilize the air within the cleaning apparatus.
In this way, the excrement automatic cleaning apparatus without need of undressing and dressing of the present invention performs the following procedures in a sequential and cycling manner under control of the control device 6. According to the saving principle, the procedures are mainly divided into two types: an excrement and urine disposal which requires flushing and a urine disposal which does not require flushing. In the excrement and urine disposal which requires flushing, as shown in
In the present invention, after the user completes excrement, the caregiver only needs to open the housing, tighten the tightening belt 512 of the packing bag 51, disassemble the mouth 510 and put it into a dustbin, and does not have to directly contact the excrement and urine. Therefore, the present invention can largely improve working conditions of the caregiver during cleaning up the evacuation barrel 1 and facilitate carrying out the nursing services. Besides, during drying with hot air, moisture produced in the self-adapting pants 9 is drawn by the negative pressure device 2 into the evacuation barrel 1, which decreases the time for drying. In addition, the moisture is substantially not removed through the human body, and this provides the passage for discharging the moisture, thus saving energy and increasing the comfort for the human body. In addition, the final pressure relief action of the positive pressure device 7 improves the comfort of wearing and usage for the user. Thus the present invention has the advantages that there is no need of undressing and dressing, convenient, simple and comfortable to use.
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The crotch of the pant body 91 near the excrement and urine discharging port is covered with a waterproof soft facing layer (e.g. a waterproof nanometer facing material, or the waterproof and air-permeable film SUPER-TEX developed by GUFC in German, a silicone sheet, or a latex sheet), which constitutes a waterproof excrement collecting area 911. The excrement collecting area 911 is provided at the bottom with an excrement and urine discharging port which is provided with a pipe connector 912 made of a soft material like silicone or latex. The pipe connector 912 is very soft, comfortable and less sensible when being contact with the human body. The pipe connector substantially has no effect on the human body. The pipe connector may be formed in a shape of circle, ellipse, polygon, or the like.
The excrement and urine discharging duct 92 is a thick hose made of a soft material like silicone, latex, or the like. The thick hose may be connected with the self-adapting pants 9 for a long time, and is soft, comfortable and less sensible when being contact with the human body. The thick hose substantially has no effect on the human body. The inlet end of the excrement and urine discharging duct 92 is provided with another quick connector 921 corresponding to the pipe connector 912 at the excrement and urine discharging port. The pipe connector 912 may be quickly fastened with the quick connector 921, so that the excrement and urine discharging port communicates with the evacuation barrel 1 of the fully automatic disposal apparatus 100 via the excrement and urine discharging duct 92.
The pant body 91 is further provided with an inflating pipe 93, a hot water inlet pipe (including a urine spray pipe 94 and an excrement spray pipe 95), and a hot air inlet pipe (including a urine hot air pipe 96 and an excrement hot air pipe 97). The inflating pipe 93, the urine spray pipe 94, the excrement spray pipe 95, the urine hot air pipe 96 and the excrement hot air pipe 97 are thin hoses made of a soft material like silicone, latex or the like.
An end of the inflating pipe 93 is located in the pant body 91, and the other end is formed by extending the nozzle of the pant body 91 to the outside of the pant body 91 and is connected with the air outlet of the positive pressure device 7 via a pipe. During use, the pant body 91 is inflated by the inflating pipe 93, so that the excrement collecting area 911 is expanded and falls to form a discharging space for excrement and urine.
The outlet ends of the urine spray pipe 94, the excrement spray pipe 95, the urine hot air pipe 96 and the excrement hot air pipe 97 extend to respective positions in the pant body 91 (corresponding to the position of the excrement port or corresponding to the position of the urine excrement port). The inlet ends of the urine spray pipe 94 and the excrement spray pipe 95 are formed by extending from the nozzle of the pant body 91 to the outside of the pant body 91 and are connected with the hot water device 3 via a pipe. The inlet ends of the urine hot air pipe 96 and the excrement hot air pipe 97 are formed by extending from the nozzle of the pant body 91 to the outside of the pant body 91 and are connected with the hot air device 4 via a pipe.
The inflating pipe 93, the urine spray pipe 94 and the urine hot air pipe 96 are fixedly arranged in the front piece of the pant body 91. The excrement spray pipe 95 and the excrement hot air pipe 97 are fixedly arranged in the rear piece of the pant body 91. It is also possible to arrange interlayers in the front piece and the rear piece of the pant body 91, and then arrange the inflating pipe 93, the urine spray pipe 94, the excrement spray pipe 95, the urine hot air pipe 96 and the excrement hot air pipe 97 in respective interlayers.
It is noted that various pipes in the present invention can be formed by silicone, latex, or the like, and a quick connector may be further arranged between the pipe and the self-adapting pants 9 to improve convenience during assembly and disassembly.
The embodiments described above and the accompanying drawings do not intend to limit the form and style of the product according to the present invention, and the skilled in the art can make appropriate changes or modifications to the present invention without departing from the scope thereof.
Number | Date | Country | Kind |
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201010217657.5 | Jun 2010 | CN | national |
Filing Document | Filing Date | Country | Kind | 371c Date |
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PCT/CN2011/076003 | 6/21/2011 | WO | 00 | 5/29/2012 |