WO2004068939A1

WO2004068939A1 - A pet animal house

Info

Publication number: WO2004068939A1
Application number: PCT/KR2003/000246
Authority: WO
Inventors: Jin Soo Park; Byung Soon Choi
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 2003-02-04
Filing date: 2003-02-04
Publication date: 2004-08-19
Anticipated expiration: 2005-08-04
Also published as: AU2003207100A1

Abstract

The present provides a pet doghouse. The pet doghouse has merits in that various bacteria being parasitic on pet dogs are sterilized y adopting an ozone generating unit and hypocaust unit, indoor space is maintained to the comfortable state by removing peculiar odor of the pet dogs, and the pet doghouse can be usefully used to a newborn little dog or a mother dog requiring afterbirth care by providing heat insulating environment.

Description

A PET ANIMAL HOUSE

BACK GROUP OF THE INVENTION

Field of the invention

The present invention relates to a pet doghouse, more particularly, to a

pet doghouse performing sterilization and deodorization functions by adopting

an ozone-generating unit and performing heating function by adopting a

hypocaust unit.

Description of Related Art

Admittedly, people have been raising a pet animal for a long time, and

breeds and population of the pet animal have been greatly on the rise lately.

It can be found often that particularly a pet dog as a pet animal is being

raised in households or people raising the pet animal.

A dog that is an animal having been maintaining a very close

relationship with a human being for a long time has frequently been the

objection of love as a pet dog since the dog well submits to the master and is

clever.

Breeds of the pet dog are selected according to taste of persons raising

the pet dog before raising the pet dog selected as there are various of breeds in

the pet dog that is a pet animal popular to people.

Recently, a pet dog has mostly been grown within the house as the pet that is transformed into the current group residence type by restriction of city life space although it was common that the dog was grown outside by building a separate doghouse outside a room, that is, at one corner of the yard when growing a dog at households having a house in which a yard is constructed in the past.

Conventional types of doghouse (pet dog supplies) provided to the pet dog include tent type, prison bar type and fence type doghouses in most of which a mat consisted of a cushiony material such as somewhat thick cloth (cushion) or sponge is simply laid on the floor inside the doghouse to maintain body temperature of the pet dog and provide with comfort when a pet dog sleeps in the doghouse.

However, it has been more susceptible of cleanliness of the room of the apartment since particular smell of the pet dog itself is generated, and varieties of virus including parvovirus, p.aeruginosa, leptospira, distemper and staphylococcus aureus are infected due to growing of the pet dog inside the house.

Various odors and bacteria float in the corral dwelling space, and those goods are ineffective to the pet dog having lots of hairs though chemical goods of odor removing agent, deodorant or odor proofing agent for a pet dog are available.

Those chemical goods having deodorization and sterilization functions, particularly spray articles are mostly imported from foreign countries, and it runs counter to the environmental friendliness to use the chemical good as the goods are capable of causing allergy to a human body. dog requiring heat insulation or a mother dog requiring afterbirth care since a conventional doghouse simply provides a pet dog with a space only where the pet dog resides.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

It is an object of the present invention to provide with a pet doghouse having sanitary treatment function in which an evil influence is prevented from exerting upon by removing particular odor of the pet dog itself and sterilizing various bacterial parasitic on the house of an animal or the body of the animal.

It is another object of the present invention to provide a pet doghouse usability of which is improved by performing heat insulation function.

In order to achieve the foregoing objects, the present invention provides a pet doghouse comprising doghouse body; an ozone generating unit which is installed at one side of the doghouse body to emit ozone into the inner part of the body; a mat which is installed on the lower part of the doghouse body in such a way that the mat is led in the doghouse body or drawn out from the doghouse body; a hypocaust unit that is installed at the inner part of the bottom of the doghouse body and at the inner part of the mat; a power source for supplying voltage to the ozone generating unit and the hypocaust unit; a control part for controlling action of the ozone generating unit and the hypocaust unit; and an operation part for operating action conditions of the ozone generating unit and the hypocaust unit.

The ozone generating unit comprises an ozone generating unit body comprising a suction pipe for sucking in an external air, and a discharge pipe for ozone generating unit body and fabricated of ceramic; an outer electrode that is formed at the outer part of the dielectric substance; and an inner electrode that is formed at the inner part of the dielectric substance. The hypocaust unit comprises a silicon rubber heater that is a plane heater; and upper and lower aluminum foils that are installed on upper and lower surfaces of the silicon rubber heater.

The pet doghouse further comprises a metallic plate (aroma metal) for emitting a sweet fragrance that is installed at one side of the doghouse body.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS Further objects and advantages of the invention can be more fully understood from the following detailed description taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawing in which: FIG.1 is a perspective view schematically illustrating structure of a pet doghouse according to one embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a cross sectional view taken along a line I - 1 ' of the FIG. 1 ;

FIG. 3 is a cross sectional view taken along a line LI - LT ' of the FIG. 1 ; FIG. 4 is a drawing illustrated by expanding the mark A of the FIG. 3; and FIG. 5 is a cross sectional view taken along a line JH-IH' of the FIG. 1 .

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

The present invention will now be described in detail in connection with preferred embodiments with reference to the accompanying drawings. For several views.

Referring to FIG. 1 to FIG. 5, constitution and operation of a pet doghouse according to one embodiment of the present invention are described more in detail as follows:

As illustrated in FIG. 1 , a pet doghouse according to the present invention is largely consisted of a doghouse body 10, an ozone generating unit 30 which is installed at one side of the doghouse body 10, a mat 50 which is installed on the lower part of the doghouse body 10 in such a way that the mat 50 is led in the doghouse body 10 or drawn out from the doghouse body 10 and a hypocaust unit 70,70' that is installed at the inner part of the bottom 11 of the doghouse body 10 and at the inner part of the mat 50, and further consisted of a power source 90 for supplying voltage, a control part 110 for controlling action of the ozone generating unit 30 and the hypocaust unit 70,70', and an operation part 130 for operating action conditions of the ozone generating unit 30 and the hypocaust unit 70,70'.

As illustrated in FIG. 2, the ozone generating unit 30 comprises an ozone generating unit body 31 comprising an inlet 31a into which an external air is flown, and an outlet 31b which discharges generated ozone, a tubular dielectric substance 33 which is installed inside the ozone generating unit body 31 , an outer electrode 35 that is formed at the outer part of the dielectric substance 33, and an inner electrode 37 that is formed at the inner part of the dielectric substance 33.

The dielectric substance 33 is a ceramic pipe that is precision sintered with Na-Si-Mg oxides using titanium oxide as a principal constituent. produces ozone of high concentration, particularly does not produce impurities such as silicon dioxide such as glass during electric discharge since the dielectric 33 has a high dielectric constant of 200 to 1200 compared to glass tube or quartz tube having a dielectric constant of 3.8 to 9.5 as it is fabricated of such materials.

The symbol 39 not explained in FIG. 2 shows a circuit board in which the inner and outer electrodes 37,35 are circuit connected.

The mat 50 is installed on a mat receiving part 13 of the doghouse body 10 in such a way that the mat 50 is led in the doghouse body or drawn out from the doghouse body, wherein the mat 50 is drawn out from the doghouse body 10 to the outside so that the mat 50 is used at the outside when a pet dog lives outside the doghouse body 10.

The hypocaust unit 70,70' comprises a plane heater, that is, a silicon rubber heater 71 ,71 ' which is interposed between upper and lower aluminum foils 73,73',75,75' as illustrated in FIG. 3, FIG. 4 and FIG. 5.

The upper and lower aluminum foils 73, 73', 75,75' not only maintain heating effect of the silicon rubber heater 71 ,71 ', but also protect the silicon rubber heater 71 ,71 '. The hypocaust unit 70,70' is built in the inner part of the bottom 11 of the doghouse body 10 and the mat 50, and it is preferable to connect a temperature sensing sensor 77,77' for sensing temperature to the silicon rubber heater 71 ,71 ' so that hypocaust is maintained to a certain temperature, and adopt a material like bimetal (not shown in drawings) into the silicon rubber heater 71 ,71 ' so that temperature is prevented from being overheated. materials under the vacuum state after inserting heating wire between two fiber glass silicon rubber using publicly noticed technology so that silicon rubber heater 71 ,71 ' is light weighted and has high strength, flexibility and thermal conductivity.

The symbol 150 in FIG. 1 represents a metal plate for emitting fragrance (hereinafter referred to as "aroma metal"), wherein the aroma metal is made of a material such as titanium, gold, silver, copper and stainless steel as a metal having a property of directly absorbing fragrance through a porous material of a micron (μm) unit.

The aroma metal 150 can be utilized as a trademark by stating a brand name on it.

The principle of action of the pet doghouse that is constructed as in the foregoing is described as follows: First, a user sets temperature of the hypocaust unit 70,70', or sets operation conditions related with ozone generating amount or ozone generating frequency and operation time of the ozone generating unit 30 through the operation part 130.

Then, the ozone generating unit 30 and the hypocaust unit 70,70' act by the set operation conditions to generate ozone to the inside of the doghouse body 10.

Specifically speaking, electric discharge is generated when impressing voltage to the outer and inner electrodes 35,37 between which the dielectric 3 is interposed. That is called as dielectric barrier discharge. Oxygen atoms generated by micro-electric discharge are bonded with discharge space. Therefore, the generated ozone sterilizes varieties of virus being parasitic inside the doghouse body 10 and removes peculiar odor of a pet dog. The ozone-generating unit 30 automatically generates ozone at regular intervals by the operation conditions to sterilize and deodorize the inside of the doghouse body 10 periodically.

Next, voltage is supplied from a power source 90 so that the silicon rubber heater 71 ,71' is heated to perform hypocaust function. In its function, if the temperature sensing sensor 77,77' consistently sends signals to the control part 110 by sensing temperature of the silicon rubber heater 71 ,71 ', the control part 110 consistently sends signals related with power supply cutoff to heat or stop the silicon rubber heater 71 ,71 ' so that heating temperature of the silicon rubber heater 71 ,71' is maintained to a temperature set by a user. Although the temperature sensing sensor 77,77' and the silicon rubber heater 71 ,71' are simultaneously described in the foregoing, it is needless to say that they can be individually acted.

A pet doghouse according to the present invention as described in the foregoing provides merits that pet dogs are grown within the doghouse that is comfortable and clean by adopting an ozone generating unit, thereby effectively removing various bacteria and peculiar odor of a pet dog.

Furthermore, the pet doghouse according to the present invention can be usefully used to a newborn little dog requiring heat insulation or a mother dog requiring afterbirth care using the hypocaust unit. While the invention has been particularly shown and described with skilled in the art that the foregoing and other changes in form and details may be made therein without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention.

Claims

1. A pet doghouse comprising: doghouse body; an ozone generating unit which is installed at one side of the dog house body to emit ozone into the inner part of the body; a mat which is installed on the lower part of the doghouse body in such a way that the mat is led in the doghouse body or drawn out from the doghouse body; a hypocaust unit that is installed at the inner part of the bottom of the doghouse body and at the inner part of the mat; a power source for supplying voltage to the ozone generating unit and the hypocaust unit; a control part for controlling action of the ozone generating unit and the hypocaust unit; and an operation part for operating action conditions of the ozone generating unit and the hypocaust unit.

2. The pet doghouse according to claim 1 , wherein the ozone generating unit comprises an ozone generating unit body comprising a suction pipe for sucking in an external air, and a discharge pipe for discharging ozone generated; a tubular dielectric which is installed inside the ozone generating unit body and fabricated of ceramic; an outer electrode that is formed at the outer part of the dielectric substance; and an inner electrode that is formed at the inner part of the dielectric substance.

3. The pet doghouse according to claim 1 , the hypocaust unit aluminum foils that are installed on upper and lower surfaces of the silicon rubber heater.

4. The pet doghouse according to claim 1 , the pet doghouse further comprises a metallic plate (aroma metal) for emitting a sweet fragrance that is installed at one side of the doghouse body.