CN210621227U

CN210621227U - Powder feeding device and washing machine using same

Info

Publication number: CN210621227U
Application number: CN201921239087.2U
Authority: CN
Inventors: 李明园; 王小强; 殷立威
Original assignee: Jiangsu Leili Motor Co Ltd
Current assignee: Jiangsu Leili Motor Co Ltd
Priority date: 2019-07-30
Filing date: 2019-07-30
Publication date: 2020-05-26
Anticipated expiration: 2029-07-30

Abstract

The utility model discloses a powder is put in device and is used washing machine of this powder input device, including storing up powder casing, powder stirring unit and powder propelling movement unit, store up the powder casing and have a cavity storage chamber that is used for storing the powder, be provided with out the powder mouth in the bottom in cavity storage chamber. The powder agitating unit includes a rotating shaft disposed in the hollow storage chamber and adapted to rotate with respect to a wall of the hollow storage chamber, and a first link assembly connected to an end of the rotating shaft located outside the hollow storage chamber and adapted to drive the rotating shaft to rotate. The powder pushing unit comprises a pushing plate partially extending into the hollow storage cavity and located at the bottom of the hollow storage cavity, and a second connecting rod assembly connected with the portion, located outside the hollow storage cavity, of the pushing plate and suitable for pushing the pushing plate to translate along the bottom of the hollow storage cavity. The utility model discloses a powder is put in the device and is blockked up out the powder mouth after can preventing the powder caking.

Description

Powder feeding device and washing machine using same

Technical Field

The utility model relates to a technical field is put in to the material, especially relates to a powder is put in device and is used this powder to put in washing machine of device.

Background

The popularization of the use of the full-automatic washing machine has the functions of realizing the automatic washing and water throwing of clothes and gradually extending the function of automatically adding washing powder, because the manual powder adding (washing powder) is put in, one time of powder adding corresponds to one time of washing, the manual powder adding is to manually judge the quantity of clothes according to experience and correspondingly put in the corresponding quantity of washing powder, the randomness is high, and the putting precision is low, so that the multifunctional requirement of the market can not be met gradually.

Particularly, the washing machine with the automatic washing powder feeding function is provided with a storage cavity for storing and storing washing powder, in order to avoid frequent feeding of the washing powder into the storage cavity, the washing powder can be fed once enough for multiple times of washing demands when being fed into the storage cavity, so that the washing powder stored in the storage cavity is likely to be wetted and agglomerated under the influence of weather and the placing environment of the washing machine, the wetted and agglomerated washing powder is likely to block a powder outlet of a washing powder feeding structure, the normal washing powder feeding function of the washing machine is affected, and the feeding amount is inaccurate or even the powder cannot be fed smoothly.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

The utility model aims at providing a device is put in to powder to solve and block up the technical problem who goes out the powder mouth after preventing the powder caking.

The second purpose of the utility model is to provide a washing machine to solve and prevent to block up the technical problem who goes out the powder mouth after the powder caking.

The utility model discloses a powder is put in the device and is realized like this:

a powder delivery device comprising:

the powder storage device comprises a powder storage shell, a powder outlet and a powder outlet, wherein the powder storage shell is provided with a hollow storage cavity for storing powder, and the bottom of the hollow storage cavity is provided with the powder outlet;

a powder stirring unit including a rotating shaft disposed in the hollow storage chamber and adapted to rotate with respect to a wall of the hollow storage chamber, and a first link assembly connected to an end of the rotating shaft located outside the hollow storage chamber and adapted to drive the rotating shaft to rotate;

the powder pushing unit comprises a pushing plate partially extending into the hollow storage cavity and positioned at the bottom of the hollow storage cavity, and a second connecting rod assembly connected with the part, outside the hollow storage cavity, of the pushing plate and suitable for pushing the pushing plate to translate along the bottom of the hollow storage cavity; a powder storage groove which is suitable for being communicated with the powder outlet is arranged on the material pushing plate; the first connecting rod assembly is connected with the material pushing plate, and the second connecting rod assembly is connected with a power assembly, so that the power assembly drives the second connecting rod assembly to drive the material pushing plate to move, and the first connecting rod assembly is driven to move cooperatively.

In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the powder storage housing further has an accommodating chamber; the accommodating cavity and the hollow storage cavity are separated by a baffle plate which is obliquely arranged in the powder storage shell along the height direction of the powder storage shell; and

a gap suitable for the push plate to pass through is formed between the bottom of the baffle plate and the bottom of the inner cavity of the powder storage shell;

the second connecting rod assembly is arranged in the accommodating cavity, the material pushing plate is partially positioned in the accommodating cavity through the gap, and the rest part of the material pushing plate is positioned in the hollow storage cavity.

In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the baffle is inclined relative to the height direction of the powder storage casing so as to be suitable for forming a large port and a small port along the height direction of the powder storage casing, and the large port is located at the top of the powder storage casing far away from the direction of the pushing plate; and

the wall surface of the baffle plate facing the hollow storage cavity is of an arc-shaped structure; and

the powder storage shell and the two outer side walls connected with the two sides of the separation baffle are arc-shaped side walls, and arc-shaped openings of the arc-shaped side walls deviate from the separation baffle.

In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the arc-shaped surface of the circular arc-shaped sidewall is 90 ° to 108 ° relative to an included angle α formed between a tangent line of a highest point of the bottom protrusion of the powder storage casing and the bottom of the powder storage casing.

In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the hollow storage chamber has an L-shaped structure, that is, the hollow storage chamber includes a first chamber adjacent to the accommodating chamber and accommodating the rotating shaft, and a second chamber communicating with the first chamber and located at a side of the first chamber away from the accommodating chamber;

the powder outlet is positioned on the bottom wall of the second chamber; and

the material pushing plate is suitable for being pushed towards the second chamber along the bottom wall of the first chamber so that the powder storage groove in the material pushing plate is communicated with the powder outlet.

In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the second connecting rod assembly includes a second rotating arm and a second swing arm that are hingedly connected; wherein

The second rotating arm is connected with the power assembly, and the second swinging arm is hinged with a push block;

the pushing block is fixedly connected with the side end face, far away from the hollow storage cavity, of the part, located in the containing cavity, of the pushing plate; and

the powder storage groove is positioned at one end of the material pushing plate far away from the pushing block.

In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, a strip-shaped guiding and limiting groove is disposed on the cavity wall of the accommodating cavity along a direction parallel to the material pushing plate;

the first connecting rod component comprises a first rotating arm and a first swinging arm which are connected in a hinged mode; wherein

The first swing arm is hinged with one end of a connecting rod penetrating through the guide limiting groove, and the other end of the connecting rod is fixedly connected with the material pushing plate;

the first rotating arm is hingedly connected to a rotating shaft that passes through a wall of the hollow storage chamber.

In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the powder feeding device further comprises an end cap adapted to cover the top of the powder storage housing; a feeding port suitable for feeding powder into the hollow storage cavity is formed in the end cover; and

a flip cover is arranged at the feeding port and is suitable for opening and closing relative to the feeding port.

In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the powder stirring unit further includes a plurality of rotating blades spaced apart from each other on an outer side wall of the rotating shaft.

The utility model discloses a washing machine realizes like this:

a washing machine comprising: the powder feeding device.

By adopting the technical scheme, the utility model discloses following beneficial effect has: the powder feeding device and the washing machine using the powder feeding device of the utility model can stir the powder in the hollow storage cavity through the powder stirring unit, so that the powder in a caking state can be scattered, thereby preventing the caking powder from blocking the powder outlet; and, right the utility model discloses a powder stirring unit does not need the power supply that the independent design can drive this powder stirring unit operation, but at the in-process that powder propelling movement unit used, directly utilizes powder propelling movement unit to form the drive effect to powder stirring unit, and the structure of holistic powder input device not only can be simplified to such structure, has practiced thrift the energy consumption moreover.

Drawings

Fig. 1 is a schematic perspective view of the powder feeding device of the present invention;

fig. 2 is a schematic perspective view of the powder dispensing device of the present invention (the state after the flip cover is hidden);

fig. 3 is a schematic view of a first viewing angle of the powder feeding device in an explosive state according to the present invention;

fig. 4 is a schematic view of a second viewing angle of the powder feeding device in an explosive state according to the present invention;

fig. 5 is a schematic structural view of the powder feeding device of the present invention in a cross-sectional view;

fig. 6 is a schematic structural diagram of a powder stirring unit of the powder feeding device of the present invention;

fig. 7 is a schematic view of the internal structure of the powder storage casing of the powder stirring apparatus of the present invention;

fig. 8 is a schematic structural view of a powder outlet of a powder storage casing of the powder stirring device of the present invention;

fig. 9 is a schematic cross-sectional structural view of the hollow storage chamber of the powder storage housing of the powder stirring apparatus of the present invention;

fig. 10 is a schematic structural view of a circular arc-shaped side wall surface of a hollow storage chamber of a powder storage housing of the powder stirring device of the present invention;

fig. 11 is a schematic structural diagram of the material pushing plate of the powder storage casing of the powder stirring device of the present invention in the initial state, i.e. under the condition that the powder is not discharged;

fig. 12 is a schematic structural diagram of the material pushing plate of the powder storage casing of the powder stirring device according to the present invention in the final state, i.e. under the condition of powder discharge.

In the figure: the powder storing device comprises a hollow storing cavity 1, a powder outlet 2, a rotating shaft 3, a powder storing shell 4, a rotary vane 5, a material pushing plate 6, a powder storing groove 7, an accommodating cavity 8, a baffle plate 9, a large port 11, a small port 12, an arc-shaped side wall 13, a first cavity 15, a second cavity 16, a second rotating arm 18, a second swinging arm 19, a pushing block 20, a guide limiting groove 21, a first rotating arm 22, a first swinging arm 24, a material feeding port 25, a turnover cover 26, an end cover 28, a transverse part 281, a longitudinal part 282, a slot 29, a speed reducing motor 30, an outer shell 31, a slot hole 32, a through hole 33, a discharge port 35, a flanging 36, an outer edge part 38 and a connecting rod 40.

Detailed Description

In order that the present invention may be more readily and clearly understood, the following detailed description of the present invention is provided in connection with the accompanying drawings.

Example 1:

referring to fig. 1 to 12, the present embodiment provides a powder feeding device, including: store up powder casing 4 and powder stirring unit and powder propelling movement unit.

The powder storage shell 4 is provided with a hollow storage cavity 1 for storing powder, and a powder outlet 2 is arranged at the bottom of the hollow storage cavity 1. The powder stirring unit comprises a rotating shaft 3 disposed in the hollow storage chamber 1 and adapted to rotate relative to the wall of the hollow storage chamber, and a first link assembly connected to an end of the rotating shaft located outside the hollow storage chamber 1 and adapted to drive the rotating shaft 3 to rotate. Here, in view of optimizing the powder stirring and scattering effect of the powder stirring unit, the plurality of rotary vanes 5 are provided at intervals on the outer side wall of the rotating shaft 3, and the rotary vanes 5 may be, for example, but not limited to, a fan-shaped structure, and the rotating shaft 3 may be an integrated structure or a split structure, and this embodiment is not limited in any way. It should be noted that, for the first link assemblies of the present embodiment, two ends in the axial direction of the rotating shaft may be respectively connected with one first link assembly, or only one end in the axial direction of the rotating shaft may be connected with one first link assembly.

The powder pushing unit comprises a material pushing plate 6 partially extending into the hollow storage cavity 1 and positioned at the bottom of the hollow storage cavity 1, and a second connecting rod assembly connected with the part of the material pushing plate 6 positioned outside the hollow storage cavity 1 and suitable for pushing the material pushing plate 6 to translate along the bottom of the hollow storage cavity 1; the powder pushing plate 6 is provided with a powder storage groove 7 which is suitable for being communicated with the powder outlet 2, wherein the powder storage groove 7 has a certain depth, so that the amount of the washing powder entering the powder storage groove 7 can meet a certain requirement, although the powder storage groove 7 is of a through groove type structure in terms of the structure of the powder storage groove 7, namely the bottom of the powder storage groove 7 is open, the powder storage groove 7 is combined with the bottom of the hollow storage cavity 1 (the bottom is specifically the inner cavity wall of the bottom of the hollow storage cavity 1 in the height direction), the solid part of the bottom of the hollow storage cavity 1 except the powder outlet forms a support for the bottom of the powder storage groove 7, and a containing groove which can be used for containing the washing powder is formed by being matched with the enclosing of the powder storage groove 7. When the washing powder stored in the hollow storage cavity 1 is not required to be put in, the powder storage groove 7 on the pushing plate 6 cannot be communicated with the powder outlet 2, at the moment, the washing powder in the hollow storage cavity 1 cannot be discharged from the powder outlet 2, only the powder storage groove 7 along with the pushing plate 6 continuously moves towards the powder outlet 2, and when the powder outlet groove is correspondingly communicated with the powder outlet 2, the washing powder in the powder storage groove 7 can be discharged from the powder outlet 2.

For the driving action of the material pushing plate 6 of the present embodiment in the process of moving along the bottom of the hollow storage cavity 1, the pushing driving of the material pushing plate 6 is realized by the first connecting rod assembly connected to the material pushing plate 6, and the second connecting rod assembly is connected to a power assembly, so that the power assembly drives the second connecting rod assembly to drive the material pushing plate 6 to move, and the first connecting rod assembly is cooperatively driven to move. Such structure makes holistic powder propelling movement unit and powder stirring unit only need set up a power component, realizes the operation of powder propelling movement unit and powder stirring unit in step promptly through same power component, not only can simplify holistic powder and put in the structure of device, has practiced thrift the energy consumption moreover. Alternatively, taking the example that the two rows of the rotary vanes 5 on the rotary shaft 3 are symmetrically arranged along the radial direction of the rotary shaft 3, that is, when viewed from one end of the rotary shaft 3 in the axial direction, there are two symmetrical rotary vanes 5 in the radial direction of the rotary shaft 3, please refer to fig. 11 and 12, where an included angle γ formed between a straight line where a center line of the two symmetrical rotary vanes 5 is located and a plane where the material pushing plate 6 is located is, along with the translational motion of the material pushing plate 6, in two extreme positions, namely, the initial position and the final position of the material pushing plate 6, the angle γ changes within a range of 0 to 180 °, the angle γ changes within a range of 20 to 150 °, the angle γ changes within a range of 80 to 130 °, and the rotary shaft 3 cooperates with the rotary vanes 5 to stir and loosen the powder.

In addition, the powder storage housing 4 of the present embodiment further has an accommodating chamber 8; the accommodating cavity 8 and the hollow storage cavity 1 are separated by a baffle plate 9 which is obliquely arranged in the powder storage shell 4 along the height direction of the powder storage shell 4; and a gap suitable for the material pushing plate 6 to penetrate exists between the bottom of the baffle 9 and the bottom of the inner cavity of the powder storage shell 4. The second connecting rod assembly is arranged in the accommodating cavity 8, and the material pushing plate 6 is partially positioned in the accommodating cavity 8 and the rest part of the material pushing plate 6 is positioned in the hollow storage cavity 1 through a gap. It should be noted that, because the second connecting rod assembly is located in the accommodating cavity 8, in order to facilitate assembling and adjusting the second connecting rod assembly, the side end surface of the accommodating cavity 8 facing the baffle 9 designed in this embodiment is an opening structure, so that the baffle 9, the material pushing plate 6 and the second connecting rod assembly are all assembled and adjusted conveniently through the opening structure.

In more detail, the baffle 9 is inclined with respect to the height direction of the powder storage housing 4 to be suitable for forming a large port 11 and a small port 12 along the height direction of the powder storage housing 4, wherein the large port 11 and the small port 12 are actually "large" and "small", which specifically means that the caliber is different, i.e. the caliber of the large port 11 is larger than that of the small port 12. The large port 11 is located at the top of the powder storage housing 4 in a direction away from the ejector plate 6, i.e. the large port 11 forms a port for feeding powder to the hollow storage chamber 1.

Because cavity storage chamber 1 is used for depositing the powder, consequently, the powder in cavity storage chamber 1 circulates in cavity storage chamber 1, the smooth and easy degree when considering improving the powder and discharging to powder outlet 2 along with scraping wings 6 in cavity storage chamber 1, the baffle 9 that separates of this embodiment design is circular-arc structure towards the wall in cavity storage chamber 1, the circular-arc structure at this place is optional under the circumstances for the arc mouth deviate from cavity storage chamber 1, that is to say, the baffle 9 is the convex circular arc face towards the wall in cavity storage chamber 1. Store up powder casing 4 and two lateral walls that link to each other at the both sides that separate baffle 9 are circular-arc lateral wall 13, and the arc mouth of circular-arc lateral wall 13 deviates from and separates baffle 9, that is to say that the wall that separates baffle 9 towards hollow storage chamber 1 is the convex arc cambered surface for the wall of convex arc cambered surface towards hollow storage chamber 1. Three side cavity walls are arc surfaces in the side cavity walls of four powder bodies stored towards the center of the hollow storage cavity 1, the arc surfaces can effectively reduce the resistance of the powder bodies sliding downwards along the arc surfaces, and therefore the smooth degree of the powder bodies sliding downwards is improved.

In an optional implementation case, an included angle α formed between a tangent line of the arc-shaped surface of the arc-shaped side wall 13 relative to the highest point of the bottom protrusion of the powder storage shell 4 and the bottom of the powder storage shell 4 is in a range of 90-108 degrees, so that the storage amount of the powder in the hollow storage cavity 1 can be increased in the angle range, and the smoothness of the powder flowing in the hollow storage cavity 1 can be improved.

It should be further described that the hollow storage cavity 1 is of an L-shaped structure, that is, the hollow storage cavity 1 includes a first chamber 15 adjacent to the accommodating cavity 8 and accommodating the rotating shaft 3, and a second chamber 16 communicating with the first chamber 15 and located on a side of the first chamber 15 away from the accommodating cavity 8; the powder outlet 2 is located on the bottom wall of the second chamber 16, so that the powder outlet 2 cannot be seen when the top of the powder storage housing 4 overlooks the first chamber 15. The material pushing plate 6 is suitable for being pushed towards the second chamber 16 along the bottom wall of the first chamber 15 so that the powder storage groove 7 on the material pushing plate 6 is communicated with the powder outlet 2. Specifically, a vertical turning part is formed at the position where the first chamber 15 is communicated with the second chamber 16, and when powder discharge through the powder outlet 2 is not needed, the material pushing plate 6 just blocks the turning part, so that the powder in the first chamber 15 cannot flow into the second chamber 16 through the turning part, and the powder cannot be discharged from the powder outlet 2 of the second chamber 16. When the material pushing plate 6 moves towards the second chamber 16 continuously, the powder contained in the powder storage tank 7 is conveyed to the second chamber 16, and when the bottom notch of the powder storage tank 7 is aligned with the powder outlet 2, the powder in the powder storage tank 7 is discharged from the powder outlet 2.

More specifically, the second link assembly employed in the present embodiment includes a second rotating arm 18 and a second swing arm 19 which are hingedly connected; wherein the second rotating arm 18 is connected to the power assembly and the second swing arm 19 is hingedly connected to a push block 20; the pushing block 20 is fixedly connected with the side end face, far away from the hollow storage cavity 1, of the part of the pushing plate 6 located in the accommodating cavity 8, that is, the pushing block 20, the second rotating arm 18 and the second swing arm 19 together form a crank-slider structure, and the second swing arm 19 enables the pushing block 20 to generate translational motion along with the rotation of the second rotating arm 18, and the pushing block is limited in the powder storage shell 4, so that the motion track of the pushing plate 6 connected with the pushing block 20 is limited, and the pushing plate 6 generates translational motion along the bottom of the inner cavity of the powder storage shell 4. It should be noted here that the powder storage groove 7 is located at an end of the material pushing plate 6 away from the pushing block 20. The second rotating arm 18 is connected to a power assembly, so that the power assembly can drive the second rotating arm 18 to rotate, and here, the power assembly may be that the speed reduction motor 30 is directly connected to the second rotating arm 18, or the speed reduction motor is connected to the second rotating arm 18 through a pulley structure, for this reason, this embodiment is only a simple speed reduction motor 30 as an example in conjunction with the drawings.

Secondly, a strip-shaped guide limiting groove 21 is arranged on the cavity wall of the accommodating cavity 8 along the direction parallel to the material pushing plate 6, and the length of the guide limiting groove 21 is designed according to the movement length of the material pushing plate 6, that is, the length of the guide limiting groove 21 is not less than the translation distance from the initial state of the material pushing plate 6 to the time when the powder storage groove 7 on the material pushing plate 6 is communicated with the powder outlet 2 of the second cavity 16.

The first link assembly includes a first rotating arm 22 and a first swing arm 24 hingedly connected; wherein, the first swing arm 24 is hinged with one end of a connecting rod 40 which passes through the guide limit groove 21, and the other end of the connecting rod 40 is fixedly connected with the material pushing plate 6; the first rotating arm 22 is hingedly connected to the rotating shaft 3 which passes through the wall of the hollow storage chamber 1. That is, the guide limiting groove 21 serves as a transition between the material pushing plate 6 and the first swing arm 24 of the first link assembly, and the first swing arm 24, the first rotating arm 22 and the rotating shaft 3 together form a crank-slider structure. When the first swing arm 24 moves with the material pushing plate 6 under the action of the connecting rod, the first rotating arm 22 drives the rotating shaft 3 to rotate, so as to achieve the stirring and scattering effect of the rotating shaft 3 on the powder in the hollow storage cavity 1.

Furthermore, the powder dispensing device of this embodiment further includes an end cap 28 adapted to cover the top of the powder storage housing 4; a feeding port 25 suitable for feeding powder into the hollow storage cavity 1 is arranged on the end cover 28; and a flip cap 26 adapted to open and close with respect to the dispensing opening 25 is provided at the dispensing opening 25. The flap 26 may here be hinged on one side to the dispensing opening 25, which facilitates opening and closing of the flap 26 relative to the dispensing opening 25 for the addition of powder to the hollow storage chamber 1, and which covers the dispensing opening 25 to prevent foreign bodies from entering the hollow storage chamber 1 when no addition of powder is required.

Since the side end surface of the receiving chamber 8 facing the baffle 9 is designed to be open for the convenience of assembling and adjusting the second connecting rod assembly, in combination with the open structure, the end cover 28 of the present embodiment may be alternatively designed to have an inverted L-shaped structure, such that the transverse portion 281 of the end cover 28 partially covers the top of the powder storage housing 4, and the longitudinal portion 282 of the end cover 28 covers the open structure.

In addition, optionally, an outer casing 31 is further sleeved outside the powder storage casing 4 in the embodiment, where the outer casing 31 is suitable for being directly sleeved and connected with the powder storage casing 4, and the outer casing 31 is also provided with a slot hole 32 corresponding to the guide limiting groove 21, a through hole 33 suitable for the rotation shaft 3 to pass through, and a discharge port 35 corresponding to the powder outlet 2 and suitable for powder discharge, that is, the first rotating arm 22 and the first swing arm 24 are located outside the outer casing 31. The main function of the outer housing 31 is to facilitate the fixation between the end cap 28 and the outer housing 31 to fix the end cap 28 relative to the powder storage housing 4. By way of detailed example, the transverse portion 281 of the end cap 28 is provided with a slot 29 adapted to engage with the flange 36 at the top of the powder storage casing 4 and the outer casing 31, and the longitudinal portion 282 of the end cap 28 is adapted to engage with the outer edge 38 of the outer casing 31 toward the side end of the longitudinal portion 282 of the end cap 28 by means of a fastening means such as, but not limited to, a bolt.

In order to facilitate observation of the amount of powder in the hollow storage chamber 1, the powder storage case 4 and the outer case 31 of the present embodiment may be made of transparent materials so as to facilitate visual observation of the remaining amount of powder. Of course, the present embodiment is not limited to this, and a photosensitive sensor may be used to detect the remaining amount of the powder in the hollow storage chamber 1.

Example 2:

the present embodiment provides a washing machine using the powder dispensing device of embodiment 1 on the basis of the powder dispensing device of embodiment 1.

The above embodiments, further detailed description of the objects, technical solutions and advantages of the present invention, it should be understood that the above embodiments are only examples of the present invention, and are not intended to limit the present invention, and any modifications, equivalent substitutions, improvements, etc. made within the spirit and principle of the present invention should be included in the scope of the present invention.

In the description of the present invention, it is to be understood that the terms indicating orientation or positional relationship are based on the orientation or positional relationship shown in the drawings, and are only for convenience of description and simplification of description, and do not indicate or imply that the equipment or elements referred to must have a specific orientation, be constructed and operated in a specific orientation, and thus, should not be construed as limiting the present invention.

In the present invention, unless otherwise expressly stated or limited, the terms "mounted," "connected," and "fixed" are to be construed broadly and may, for example, be fixedly connected, detachably connected, or integrally formed; can be mechanically or electrically connected; either directly or indirectly through intervening media, either internally or in any other relationship. The specific meaning of the above terms in the present invention can be understood according to specific situations by those skilled in the art.

In the description of the present invention, it should be noted that the terms "center", "upper", "lower", "left", "right", "vertical", "horizontal", "inner", "outer", and the like indicate the position or positional relationship based on the position or positional relationship shown in the drawings, or the position or positional relationship which is usually placed when the product of the present invention is used, and are only for convenience of description and simplification of the description, but do not indicate or imply that the device or element referred to must have a specific position, be constructed and operated in a specific orientation, and thus, should not be construed as limiting the present invention. Furthermore, the terms "first," "second," "third," and the like are used solely to distinguish one from another and are not to be construed as indicating or implying relative importance.

Furthermore, the terms "horizontal", "vertical", "overhang" and the like do not imply that the components are required to be absolutely horizontal or overhang, but may be slightly inclined. For example, "horizontal" merely means that the direction is more horizontal than "vertical" and does not mean that the structure must be perfectly horizontal, but may be slightly inclined.

In the present disclosure, unless otherwise expressly stated or limited, the first feature may comprise both the first and second features directly contacting each other, and also may comprise the first and second features not being directly contacting each other but being in contact with each other by means of further features between them. Also, the first feature being above, on or above the second feature includes the first feature being directly above and obliquely above the second feature, or merely means that the first feature is at a higher level than the second feature. A first feature that underlies, and underlies a second feature includes a first feature that is directly under and obliquely under a second feature, or simply means that the first feature is at a lesser level than the second feature.

Claims

1. A powder delivery device, comprising:

2. The powder delivery device of claim 1, wherein the powder storage housing further comprises a receiving chamber; the accommodating cavity and the hollow storage cavity are separated by a baffle plate which is obliquely arranged in the powder storage shell along the height direction of the powder storage shell; and

3. The powder delivery device of claim 2, wherein the baffle is inclined with respect to the height direction of the powder storage housing so as to be adapted to form a large port and a small port along the height direction of the powder storage housing, and the large port is located at the top of the powder storage housing in the direction away from the pusher plate; and

4. The powder delivery device of claim 3, wherein an included angle α formed between a tangent line of the arc-shaped surface of the arc-shaped side wall relative to the highest point of the protrusion at the bottom of the powder storage housing and the bottom of the powder storage housing is in a range of 90 ° to 108 °.

5. The powder delivery device of claim 2, wherein the hollow storage chamber is of an L-shaped configuration, that is, the hollow storage chamber comprises a first chamber adjacent to the accommodating chamber and accommodating the rotating shaft, and a second chamber communicating with the first chamber and located on a side of the first chamber away from the accommodating chamber;

the powder outlet is positioned on the bottom wall of the second chamber; and

6. The powder delivery device according to any of claims 2 to 5, wherein the second linkage assembly comprises a second rotating arm and a second swing arm hingedly connected; wherein

7. The powder feeding device according to any one of claims 2 to 5, wherein a strip-shaped guide limiting groove is formed in the cavity wall of the accommodating cavity in a direction parallel to the material pushing plate;

8. The powder delivery device of claim 1, further comprising an end cap adapted to fit over the top of the powder storage housing; a feeding port suitable for feeding powder into the hollow storage cavity is formed in the end cover; and

9. The powder delivery device of claim 1, wherein the powder stirring unit further comprises a plurality of rotating blades spaced apart from each other on an outer side wall of the rotating shaft.

10. A washing machine, characterized by comprising: a powder delivery device as claimed in any one of claims 1 to 9.