Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Mobile cleaning robot cleaning head
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Application No.: US16662548Application Date: 2019-10-24
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Publication No.: US10966587B2Publication Date: 2021-04-06
- Inventor: William Farmer , Thomas P. Schregardus , Eric Burbank
- Applicant: iRobot Corporation
- Applicant Address: US MA Bedford
- Assignee: iRobot Corporation
- Current Assignee: iRobot Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US MA Bedford
- Agency: Schwegman Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.
- Main IPC: A47L11/40
- IPC: A47L11/40 ; A47L9/04 ; A47L9/28 ; A47L9/22 ; A47L9/00 ; A47L9/06 ; A47L9/12

Abstract:
This document describes a mobile cleaning robot that includes a chassis that supports a drive system, a debris collection volume; and a cleaning head formed to complete a bottom of the robot. The cleaning head includes a frame for affixing the cleaning head to the chassis, a monolithic housing having an interior cavity, a suspension linkage movably suspending the monolithic housing from the frame, the suspension linkage being configured to lift the monolithic housing, a diaphragm formed of a flexible material and mated to the monolithic housing, a rigid duct mated the frame to form a pneumatic path between the monolithic housing and the rigid duct through the diaphragm, and cleaning extractors disposed in the interior cavity of the monolithic housing.
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