Autonomous floor-cleaning robot
    102.
    发明专利
    Autonomous floor-cleaning robot 有权
    自动地面清洁机器人

    公开(公告)号:JP2012125652A

    公开(公告)日:2012-07-05

    申请号:JP2012085697

    申请日:2012-04-04

    Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an autonomous cleaning robot that is designed and configured to optimize the cleaning capability and efficiency of its cleaning mechanisms.SOLUTION: The autonomous floor-cleaning robot comprises: wheels connected to a motor drive to maneuver the robot on a floor surface; a controller for controlling the motor drive to maneuver the robot in proximity to an obstacle encountered during cleaning; a housing for defining a periphery edge of the housing formed so that the robot can rotate freely when most approaching the obstacle; a cleaning head arranged in a position to engage with the floor surface outside the periphery of the housing; and a side brush extending beyond the peripheral edge of the housing for sweeping debris on the floor surface to an estimated course of the cleaning head. The controller of the autonomous floor-cleaning robot controls the motor drive so that the robot moves automatically along a wall part in a direction in which the side brush is arranged adjacently to the wall part.

    Abstract translation: 要解决的问题:提供一种被设计和配置以优化其清洁机构的清洁能力和效率的自主清洁机器人。 解决方案:自动地板清洁机器人包括:连接到电动机驱动器的车轮,以在地板表面上操纵机器人; 控制器,用于控制电机驱动器以使机器人靠近清洁期间遇到的障碍物; 用于限定壳体的外围边缘的壳体,其形成为使得当最接近障碍物时机器人可以自由旋转; 清洁头,其布置在与所述壳体的外围外部的所述地板表面接合的位置; 以及侧刷延伸超过外壳的周边边缘,用于将地板表面上的碎屑扫除到清洁头的估计过程。 自动地板清洁机器人的控制器控制电机驱动器,使得机器人沿着侧壁沿壁部分相对于壁部分布置的方向自动地移动。 版权所有(C)2012,JPO&INPIT

    COMPACT AUTONOMOUS COVERAGE ROBOT
    103.
    发明专利

    公开(公告)号:JP2012110725A

    公开(公告)日:2012-06-14

    申请号:JP2011269540

    申请日:2011-12-09

    Applicant: IROBOT CORP

    Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an autonomous coverage robot having a chassis having a rectangular forward portion and a semi-circular shaped rearward portion, and can maneuver so as to bring the rectangular section flush with a wall corner or wall edge, with a cleaning mechanism extending into the wall corner or wall edge.SOLUTION: The compact autonomous coverage robot includes: a bumper movable in response to a bump in a direction of travel and in a direction perpendicular to the direction of travel; a proximity sensor in the bumper; bump sensors each configured to detect movement of the bumper; a drive system including right and left differentially driven drive wheels; a free wheel along a transverse axis parallel to the drive axis; and a cleaning assembly including a roller brush, the bumper is disposed about three sides of the cleaning assembly, the cleaning assembly cantilevered above the cleaning surface forward of the free wheel, and the proximity sensor and the multi-directional bump sensors each arranged to detect a wall parallel to a lateral side of the chassis when the robot turns about the drive axis.

    Autonomous cleaning apparatus
    104.
    发明专利
    Autonomous cleaning apparatus 有权
    自动清洗装置

    公开(公告)号:JP2012045433A

    公开(公告)日:2012-03-08

    申请号:JP2011268794

    申请日:2011-12-08

    Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an autonomous cleaning apparatus capable of controlling an operational mode, moving pattern or action that the unit agilely detects a collision with debris on a floor, or an object to be cleaned, and so responds to the detected debris that the unit operates upon "dirtier" areas.SOLUTION: The autonomous cleaning apparatus includes a drive system for moving the unit, a brush assembly for sweeping up the debris on the floor toward a cleaning route of the unit, a debris sensor for detecting the collision with the debris swept up by the brush assembly to generate a debris signal and a controller in response to the debris signal to control the drive system. The debris sensor inside the cleaning route is placed on a line extending in a direction that the debris are swept up by the brush assembly.

    Abstract translation: 要解决的问题:提供一种能够控制单元敏感地检测与地板上的碎屑或待清洁物体的碰撞的操作模式,移动模式或动作的自主清洁装置,并且因此响应于 检测到该单元在“较脏”区域运行的碎片。 解决方案:自主清洁设备包括用于移动该单元的驱动系统,用于将地板上的碎屑扫过该单元的清洁路线的刷组件,用于检测与被扫过的碎屑的碰撞的碎屑传感器 刷组件产生碎片信号和控制器响应于碎片信号来控制驱动系统。 清洁路线内的碎屑传感器被放置在沿着刷子组件将碎屑扫过的方向延伸的线上。 版权所有(C)2012,JPO&INPIT

    Debris sensor and method for operating cleaning apparatus
    107.
    发明专利
    Debris sensor and method for operating cleaning apparatus 有权
    DEBRIS传感器和操作清洁装置的方法

    公开(公告)号:JP2009254914A

    公开(公告)日:2009-11-05

    申请号:JP2009187312

    申请日:2009-08-12

    Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a debris sensor, responding on instantaneously sensing a collision of a debris.
    SOLUTION: The debris sensor for a cleaning apparatus includes a piezoelectric sensor element located adjacent to a cleaning path of the cleaning apparatus and adapted to generate a first signal indicating a collision with the debris in response to a collision with the debris, and a processor for processing the first signal and generating a second signal indicating the characteristic of the debris which the cleaning apparatus encounters, wherein the processor changes an operation mode of the cleaning apparatus to a spot coverage mode taking a region including debris as an object by controlling the motion of the cleaning apparatus according to a spiral moving pattern having a changing radius of rotation.
    COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT

    Abstract translation: 要解决的问题:提供一种碎片传感器,用于瞬时感测碎片的碰撞。 解决方案:用于清洁设备的碎片传感器包括位于清洁设备的清洁路径附近的压电传感器元件,并适于响应于与碎屑的碰撞而产生指示与碎屑碰撞的第一信号,以及 处理器,用于处理第一信号并产生指示清洁设备遇到的碎片的特性的第二信号,其中处理器将清洁设备的操作模式改变为点覆盖模式,通过控制将包括碎片的区域作为对象 根据具有变化的旋转半径的螺旋移动图案的清洁装置的运动。 版权所有(C)2010,JPO&INPIT

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