Water purification system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10370265-B2
Application number	US-201715665100-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 31, 2017
Priority date	Jan 30, 2015
Publication date	Aug 6, 2019
Grant date	Aug 6, 2019

Abstract

A water purification system includes: a composite filter cartridge including a pretreatment filter cartridge and a filter membrane assembly; a raw water inlet pipe; a pure water outlet pipe; a pretreated water pipe; a booster pump; a water quality detecting device disposed to the raw water inlet pipe and/or the pure water outlet pipe and configured to detect water quality in the raw water inlet pipe and the pure water outlet pipe; and a control device connected to the water quality detecting device and configured to determine service life of the composite filter cartridge and/or judge whether the composite filter cartridge has lost efficacy according to information detected by the water quality detecting device.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A water purification system, comprising:
a composite filter cartridge comprising a pretreatment filter cartridge and a filter membrane assembly inserted into the pretreatment filter cartridge, the composite filter cartridge being provided with a raw water inlet, a pretreated water outlet connected to the pretreatment filter cartridge, a pretreated water inlet connected to the filter membrane assembly, a pure water outlet and a waste water outlet;
a raw water inlet pipe connected to the raw water inlet;
a pure water outlet pipe connected to the pure water outlet;
a waste water outlet pipe connected to the waste water outlet;
a pretreated water pipe connected to the pretreated water outlet and the pretreated water inlet, respectively;
a booster pump connected to the pretreated water pipe;
a first conductivity sensor connected to the raw water inlet pipe and a second conductivity sensor connected to the pure water outlet pipe, wherein each of the first conductivity sensor and the second conductivity sensor is configured to detect a water flow impedance and generate a frequency signal according to the water flow impedance; and
a single chip microcomputer that is electrically connected to the first conductivity sensor and the second conductivity sensor and configured to receive the frequency signals from the first conductivity sensor and the second conductivity sensor, determine a total amount of dissolved solid materials in the water flow according to the frequency signals, and determine a remaining service life of the composite filter cartridge according to the total amount of dissolved solid materials and a predetermined service life of the composite filter cartridge.

2. The water purification system according to claim 1 , further comprising a display device connected to the single chip microcomputer configured to display the remaining service life of the composite filter cartridge.

3. The water purification system according to claim 1 , further comprising a flexible water bag disposed to the pure water outlet pipe.

4. The water purification system according to claim 1 , further comprising a waste water ratio control valve disposed to the waste water outlet pipe and connected to the single chip microcomputer.

5. The water purification system according to claim 1 , wherein the filter membrane assembly comprises a central water collecting pipe, and one selected from the group consisting of a reverse osmosis membrane, an ultrafiltration membrane and a nanofiltration membrane wound upon the central water collecting pipe.

Assignees

• Foshan Shunde Midea Water Dispenser Mfg Co Ltd
• Midea Group Co Ltd

Inventors

• Cai Xuegang
• Liu Lei
• Zhang Xingzhi

Classifications

• C02F1/442

  by nanofiltration · CPC title

• C02F1/441

  by reverse osmosis · CPC title

• B01D61/147

  Microfiltration · CPC title

• B01D61/58

  Multistep processes · CPC title

• C02F1/283

  using coal, charred products, or inorganic mixtures containing them · CPC title