Liquid dispenser for animals
AssigneeLG Electronics Inc.
InventorsHyunsun Yoo, Jaehung Chun, Yousook Eun, Joogyeom Kim, Sungkyung Kim, Myongsun Kim
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Abstract
A pet water dispenser may include a water tank having an upper opening, a pump, a water supply pipe connected to the pump to transfer water, and a water supply hole formed in a water supply plate communicating with the water supply pipe. A removable inner assembly may include the pump, the water supply pipe, and the water supply plate, and may further include a wireless power receiver to receive power from a wireless power transmitter, which may include a plurality of partially overlapping coils.
Claims18
A liquid dispenser, comprising:
- a tank having an upper opening;
- a wireless power transmitter having a plurality of transmitting coils that at least partially overlap with each other;
- a pump;
- a pipe connected to the pump to transfer liquid;
- a plate including a hole communicating with the pipe;
- and
- a wireless power receiver having a receiving coil that receives an induced current from the plurality of transmitting coils to power the pump.
A wireless power transmission system, comprising:
- a wireless power transmitter having a plurality of transmitting coils that at least partially overlap with each other in a vertical direction;
- a wireless power receiver having a receiving coil that receives an induced current from the plurality of transmitting coils to power the pump;
- a plurality of shielding layers provided at lateral sides of each of the plurality of coils to fill a vertical space between non-overlapping portions of the coils;
- a sensor to sense a position of the receiving coil relative to the plurality of transmitting coils;
- and,
- a coil combination generator to generate a combination of transmitting coils among the plurality of transmitting coils based on a position sensed by the sensor.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.