Automated portable pet toilet
OwnerKihachiro Kakutainventor
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Abstract
A portable electromechanical apparatus for easily and hygienically managing and disposing of pet wastes. The apparatus contains separate solid and liquid waste collectors and containers, located beneath a platform. A waste receiving member is provided upon the platform upon which a pet's solid waste is deposited. Electronic circuitry detects the presence of a pet and judges whether excretion has taken place, whereupon the waste receiving member, bearing the excrement, is moved off the platform and into a solid waste receptacle. A mechanism for automatically opening the solid waste receptacle is provided.
Claims34
Automated pet toilet apparatus comprising:
- a platform;
- a first circuit for detecting the presence of a pet upon said platform;
- a second circuit for determining whether said pet has deposited solid excreta upon said apparatus;
- a third circuit for determining whether said pet has deposited liquid waste upon said apparatus;
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- a waste receiving member for conveying said solid excreta to a receptacle.
The invention of 1 wherein said first circuit for detecting the presence of a pet upon said platform comprises an infrared sensor.
A method of using automated pet toilet apparatus comprising the steps of:
- a) providing a platform;
- b) detecting the presence of a pet upon the platform;
- c) determining whether the pet has deposited solid excreta upon the apparatus;
- d) determining whether the pet has deposited liquid waste upon the apparatus;
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- e) conveying the solid excreta to a receptacle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.