Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Floating bumper in autonomous cleaning robot
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Application No.: US16689775Application Date: 2019-11-20
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Publication No.: US11213181B2Publication Date: 2022-01-04
- Inventor: Timothy R. Ohm , Erik Amaral , Andrew Deschenes
- 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 ; G05D1/00 ; G05D1/02

Abstract:
An autonomous mobile cleaning robot can include a robot body, a bumper, and a coupling. The robot body can include a displacement sensor. The bumper can be moveably coupled to the body. The coupling can include a displacement limiter associated with the displacement sensor. The displacement limiter can inhibit or limit sensing by the displacement sensor of displacement of the bumper from the robot body caused by forces below a threshold horizontal force value.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210145236A1 FLOATING BUMPER IN AUTONOMOUS CLEANING ROBOT Public/Granted day:2021-05-20
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